Kids Say The Darndest Things!

My blog is suffering bigtime since I discovered "Facebook". However, I must blog about the cute words of kids before I forget them........

Brenden, my almost 4 year old grandson, was taken to a viewing at a funeral home the other day for his Great-Grandfather Jarman. His mom, Kelly, was hanging back as she doesn't "do bodies". Then she noticed Brenden up by the casket, alone. That wasn't good because with that little precocious child you never know what he will do. Climbing in with great-grandpa could have been an option. So, Kelly goes up to him and picks him up. Here is the conversation: Brenden- "That's Grandpa!" Kelly - "Yes, it is grandpa." B - "He has a hat!" K - "Yes, he does." (his Marine Corp hat was lying on top of him) B - "He has glasses." K - "Yes, he does." B - "He has a mustache." K - "Yes, he has a mustache." Just then his Grandma Ballif comes over and says "Grandpa is sleeping." Brenden pauses, looks at the 'sleeping' grandpa and says "Nah.....he's dead!"

Brenden also announced to his Sunbeam teacher in Primary that he "didn't have anymore grandma's and grandpa's. They are all dead." That came as a surprise to Wayne and I as we feel quite old, but not DEAD yet!

Kori, our 6 year old granddaughter, called on the phone to ask her grandpa if he had a pet dinosaur when he was young. Grandpa replied "Yes, and his name was Dino," to which Kori shrieked in delight to her mother, "Mommy, it's true! Grandpa did have a pet dinosaur." I'm pretty sure it has already been shared in school for show-and-tell so I only hope that grandpa sets her straight before she turns 16 and still believes it!

When our own Jeff was about 4 years old he and his dad were going someplace in the truck and Wayne was telling Jeffrey about his "forebearers." Jeffrey thought this over and said "Daddy, were they real bears?"

Jaime, our resident blonde with a 4.0 grade average through all her schooling years, noticed an "I Voted" sticker on her dads coat when he returned home from the voting place. "Can't dad remember that he voted?" were the words out of this teenagers mouth.

Yes, kids around our house really do say the darndest things!!!