Pre-K Cuteness

Some great quotes from my kiddos:

-- "My brother's the oldest, I'm the middlest, and then my other brother's the youngest."

-- [upon seeing a picture of "Mr. Ryan"] "Oh! It's your very very very cute Daddy!"  When asked WHY he was my "very cute" daddy, the answer was "His very very cute curls."  This from a four-year old curly-head herself.

-- (student:) "You don't live with your Mommy anymore, do you?" (Me:) "No- she lives far away, and I miss her." [student ponders a while, then with the grin of a wonderful new idea:] "I know!  When you grow up, you could marry her!  Then you'll always be together!"  LOLOLOL

-- [upon hearing the likely name of our baby, should she be a girl] "And then when she grows up, I guess you can give her a real name."

-- (Me:) "Remember, never give your name to a stranger on the phone." (Student, laughing hysterically as if I'd just said the funniest thing ever:) "Of course not!  Strangers are only in the FOREST!"

-- [while playing "house"] "Oh no!  The babies are sick!  I think they have RA (rheumatoid arthritis)!! We'd better take them to the doctor!"  [this child's Daddy was recently diagnosed with that disease]

-- [part of a discussion of why I couldn't go to Disney World with her family this summer] "Mr. Ryan could just hold the baby!"

-- "Wealthy.... oooh!  Yike (like) you have yots (lots) of dollars!..." 

-- (discussing a mysterious plant growing in my garden:) "I'll bet it's a killing flower."

-- [while outside, watching a bird flying overhead] (seriously, with no trace of emotion:) "You know, there's a kind of bird that will rip open a child."

-- [on the story of the crucifixion:] "Dat was not nice to kill Jesus.  Dat was not nice at all."  (Sometimes the understatements are harder to take in stride than the crazy things they come up with.)

-- [on the leech sisters of Proverbs 30:15, who are greedy and selfish:] "They need to be born again."

Two isms my kids use:

- "What's us'n gonna do?"  ("What are we going to do?")

- "What that is?"  ("What is that?")

And my current favorite, related to me by a parent:

Parent: "It's hard to obey God sometimes, isn't it?  It's usually easier to sin than do the right thing.  Who do we need to ask for help when we are having a hard time wanting to obey?"

Child: "Ummmm"  (thinks for a while and is totally stumped)

Parent: "Who helps us obey God?"

Child, after thinking for a while again,: "ummmm.... Mrs. Szrama?"

HAHAHAHHA now they're confusing me with the Holy Spirit!!! LOL!