My goal is to be positive, upbeat and happy. I also plan to share this, because we all need to be happy about something. Maybe our marriages are crappy, in trouble, over. We can still found a smile somewhere, and for most of us this is through our children.<P>I am going to post some of the cute things my kids have done and throughout the day I will add stories. <P>Post your stories and lets laugh together.<P>

My 10 year-old son was upset at me because he was restricted off the Nintendo for not putting his backpack, shoes, and other various school stuff away after school. I told him he had broken a rule.<P>He looked at me with his hands on his hips and said "You don't have rules, you just have a lot of ways to get me in trouble!!!"

My 3 year-old daughter wanted to go outside while I was watering the grass. We had somewhere to go so I told her "Don't get wet and don't get in the mud, just play on the patio".<P>I looked out only a few moments latter and she was covered in mud.<P>I asked her how she got so muddy. She said "Well Mommy, it's muddy in the mud".<P>

When my son was about 1 1/2 to 2, he had the habit of holding my face in his hands when he wanted to talk to me. He would want to put his little hands on each of my cheeks, get real close to my face, look me in the eyes before he would say something.<P>One day he came up to me with his hands up int he air so I knew what he wanted. I knelt down, he put his hands on my cheeks, looked me in the eyes and said "Mommy, I have syrup all over my hands". <P>When he tried to remove his hands from my cheeks I was sure he was right.<P>

my son was singing along with a song on the radio. The words said "I wanna see my Savior face-to-face" but Alex thought it said "I wanna see my Savior's tasty face"....<BR>cracked me up! Out of the mouths of babes...

When my son was 4 years old his Sunday School Class was talking about what they wanted to be when they grow up and why. His teacher happened to be the Preacher's Wife.<P>When he was asked he immediately said "I want to be a preacher". Of course she was thrilled and said "Oh really, tell the class why". <P>He said "Because I want to get paid to talk".<P>:0

I know you are wanting cute stuff little kids say, but this is from my 19 year old son just recently and I had to smile. We were talking about something and I was bringing up "what if's" to him...he said, "MOM, if IF was a skiff, we would take a boat ride!!!".<P>Wise beyond years, huh?

This isn't something my kids said or did, but are some short phrases my H and I came up with to describe each of our kids to a T. (in better times, of course)<P>Nathan...9 years old, the baby-he's funny, mischevious, and generally into EVERYTHING. His motto is "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission."<P>Aislinn...my beautiful 10 year old daughter. She's artistice, dreamy and idealistic. Her motto is "Don't worry, be happy." <P>And then there's Daniel. My 13 year son. He's intelligent, perfectionistic, clutzy (13 you know), with a dry sense of humor. His motto is, "We're doomed!"<P>I think those little quips perfectly describe each one. <BR><P>------------------<BR>Blessed be.<BR>****************<BR>Keridwen<P>Keridwen_7@yahoo.com

An acquaintance was dealing with sibling rivelry between her two sons. She sat the older boy down and gave him the typical "If you don't have anything nice to say about your brother, then don't say anything at all" talk.<P>He then replied with a sigh "Well then Mom, I have nothing to say about my brother!"

My 10 yearold son has only lost 8 teeth. We are waiting for him to lose some more so we can start braces.<P>We were talking about this at the table at dinner one night and I voiced my concern that he is so late losing his teeth.<P>He said "Don't worry Mom, ya'll all know I'm a Slow Loser". <P>We all stopped, looked around and couldn't help but to burst out laughing. My 12 year old son jumped all over it and constantly teases him about being a "Slow Loser".

My 5 yearold daughter announced the other day that when she grows up she wants be a "Grown-up".<BR>

My H had a vasectomy when my oldest son was 9. When I picked my son up from school I warned him that he needed to be very quiet when he got home because his daddy had a surgery and needed to sleep. My son of course asked what the surgery was and so wanting to be totally honest with him I told him that he had a surgery to keep us from having any more babies.<P>My son got really mad and said "YOU HAD MY DADDY NEUTERED!!!"

I help teach a kids Bible study at our church.<BR>My favorite:<P>"...and lead us not into temptation,<BR>but deliver us some email."<P><P>------------------<BR>Prayer doesn't change things for you - it changes you for things.<P>

I love the story about the little boy that was at Church and the were singing the song that goes "And He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am his own..." I think it is called "I Walk Through The Garden Alone"<P>The little boy looks puzzled and says to his Mom "Who's Andy?"

This one is kind of long.<P>When my boys were smaller we had the typical problem of who says the prayer, who gets to use the special plate, glass, whatever...Who gets to get in the car first "ME FIRST-ME FIRST" Ya'll know what I'm talking about.<P>We decided to make it a rule that the kids had their "DAY" Even (dates) was for Steven (about 6 years old) and Odd was for Michael (The younger about 4) (no connection intended there ).<P>One Sunday morning (On Michael's Day) my little Michael was having a terrible time. He misbehaved at breakfast, wouldn't get dressed, hit his brother, you name it he did it.<P>Then Steven had enough and decided to hop in the car first. Michael went balistic and hit him with the seatbelt bruising Steven's face while screaming "It's MY DAY".<P>That was the last straw, so my H and decided to punish him by taking away his "Day" away and giving it to Daddy. This was devestating to Michael because his "Day" was very important to him.<P>About halfway through Sunday School we heard Michael screaming from his class. (Not like him at all) I figured he was hurt due to the intensity of his screams and ran to his classroom. I reached the door just as his teacher was coming out the door with a look of horror on her face.<P>She kept saying over and over, "I don't know what happened". Then she said "All I said was that Sunday is the the Lord's Day and he started screaming and then started saying 'No No NO it's my day it's my day, first you give it to Daddy now you want to give it to the Lord!!!'".

Once when our youngest was about 3 years old, he was playing in the neighbourhood park/playground with a bunch of kids a few years older. The mums were all standing around chatting while the kids dug in the dirt and huddled together. Suddenly we heard a lot of fussing in the circle of kids. The kids were yelling "yucks" and "gross". One little boy started jumping up and down screaming "he did it! he did it! He ate the worm!" Well, all the mums immediately looked at me, as my little guy was the only one young enough to do such a thing. Red-faced I headed over to the commotion. <P>I asked him "you didn't really eat a worm did you?" (praying that the answer was no, but of course knowing it wasn't). He looked up at me and said with such a serious face "Oh, no, Mummy! I wouldn't ever eat a worm! I just licked it!"<P>I later figured out that he thought I would be upset to think he HURT the worm by eating it - of course, licking it would be perfectly fine. <BR>

When my son was very young he decided he wanted an imaginary friend, but didn't know how to get one.<P>Then he was very concerned that his imaginary friend, if he could find one wouldn't like him.<P>My middle boy had an imaginary friend that flew around in a Plopbuster (crop duster). He would ask me to take him to the "imaginated toystore to get imaginated toys for his imaginated friend".

Well recently my three year old son broke his arm....he was climbing on the clothes "hampster" and fell off!!! I had to laugh!<P> [img]http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]<p>[This message has been edited by avance (edited February 24, 2000).]

My three year old astounds me with her vocabulary...Her favorite saying is "Hey, I have a really good idea" then tells what ever it is she has on her mind...usualy it is a pretty good idea...<P>Bill<P>------------------<BR>BB<BR>

Ok, Right before my son turned 18 we were in Sunday School class when we heard a bunch of noise and comotion outside our room.<P>Some of the other class members came in and said "We need to pray for the youth pastor and one of the teens, they each just ate a live goldfish!"<P>Guess who the teen was , yep it was son.<P>I never let either of them live it down !<P>ick, my baby ate a live fish!<P>------------------<BR>Just call me - Deb<BR>------------------------<BR>The only day I can do anything about is today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not yet mine.<P>