My 7 yr old just said "I'm fedex with you being mean Mom"

Years ago I picked up the expression "I'm at my journey's end" meaning "I've had just about enough of ..."

Mrs. Foot has since been using it unsparingly in front of the inch (Who is now nearly a footfoo). The other day he looks up at her and tells her "I'm at the end of my book."

A couple weeks back, my son asked, "Dad, can they send you to Fuji for throwing rocks at a car?"

"Umm... Fuji?"

"Yeah, you know . .. Fuji!"

"You can get in big trouble for that. But I don't have any idea what Fuji you're talking about."

"You know, like jail for kids. Fuji."

"Oh. You mean Juvie."

"Yeah."

My 5 year old niece is trying her hand at t-ball. She is the opposite of the 7 year old. The 7 year old inherited her parent's athleticism. The 5 year old loves dance, dress-up, girly stuff.

So my brother had to try not to laugh when he explained to her she was wearing her "uniform" to practice, not her "outfit."

:rotflol:

We're working on potty training, so we've been talking to the girl about pee-pee and poo-poo.

Also, I've been working with her on using combination words, or two words to describe one object. Getting more specific about how to describe things.

Well, I can see that she is working on these concepts. At breakfast, Mama asked her if she wanted another pancake, and she replied:

"Pancake? Pee-cake! ... Poo-cake."

lol at flintling 2.0!

Ahh... good times, good times...

One of my favorite books:

Everyone Poops.

Inchling had a playdate w/ one of his girlfriends today. Ever the gentleman, he defers to his guest's wishes to play "Let's get married" instead of "Trucks falling from the sky and crushing cars."

As they passed by Mrs. Foot overheard him say defiantly: "No, you'll get the wedding ring AFTER the baby is born."

He probably couldn't remember the words "paternity test."

He was talkin' to his baby momma! :lol:

We have been facing the daunting task of pottytraining LittleFerret. We got a "Once Upon a Potty (for Girls)" DVD (recommended by many friends) and she's been watching it. At the beginning, the viewer is introduced to Prudence, who is the cartoon star of the show, and she then shows you her several parts (eyes to see, a mouth to eat and talk, etc) and the parts identification ends with her facing away from viewer, bending over and grasping ankles to show "a little hole for poo-poo."

LittleFerret has been demonstrating that last part and saying "a little hole for poo-poo."
:headshake

My First Goatse ?!

I have to add on to this. My brother reports that little miss thing is actually very good at t-ball, probably the best on the team (not just proud daddy...he was first team All-Ohio pitcher in HS so he knows of what he speaks) AND she got mostly 98 and 99 percentiles on the last standardized test.

Girl just keeps amazing me more and more. Plus, she's funny!

--not proud at all Aunt!

Other day, MommaFerret got home from work and was sidetracked by LittleFerret while she was trying to unload her purchases from her car. Once MommaFerret got LittleFerret settled down in the living room, she realised that she had left her lunchbox in the car and said from the kitchen "oh, I left my lunchbox in the car." LittleFerret piped up from the living room with "What are you whining about, Mommy?"

I was rolling. :rotflol:

My almost 3 three year old niece gave me a Cellar moment on Sunday. We were all hanging out on my mom and dad's back deck. Ava was going inside for something, and on her way to the door called her sister a dumbhead. She was almost in the house when her mom said "Ava, you know that's not nice and we don't call people names." Ava peeked her head back out and said "OK, bye." She wasn't being a smartass, just acknowledging the admonition, but it was really cute.

Anyway, I busted out laughing because all I heard in my head was a 3 year old saying "kthxbai."