"Your getting on my last Nerd"....

I sat down last night and watched my children argue and bicker and bicker some more..*sigh* oh the days when they were younger and the things that came from their mouths....I started remembering some of the interesting things they came up with when i heard (very loudly) from the back room (AT the top of his lungs) " Heather! Your getting on my last Nerd!!" needless to say, i about peed myself laughing...they still have it!! yep they still have it...

Just a couple more rememberings.....

My Daughter was about 3 years old and my sister Lisa, who is as skinny as a rail..took myself, Heather and her son Nathan to the beach..Everyone had on a bathing suit except me..I had shorts and a tank top on. Heather in all her innocence looked at me and said "Mommy, where is your bathing suit?" I replied that I didnt have one... "why?" well I replied to her offhandedly, "Because I look like a big fat cow".....wait for it....she replied in all her glory ...."Well, why don't you just go buy a big fat cow bathingsuit?" GOD I love my children..

Later, we were sitting on the beach, me in my shorts and tank top and everyone else in bathing suits..this lady walked by in a very small two piece...(that you could NOT see under the rolls of skin) my daughter, my glorious outspoken little girl looked at me and said...(if i ever wanted to be UNDER the sand, this was the time)..."Oh mommy, your not a big fat cow, and mommy,,, that lady is nekkid" OMG..I about died. The lady heard her. but instead of pounding "mommy" into the ground. she laughed and said, and i quote " That baby doesn't have a problem saying what she thinks does she?" To this day..I cringe when my children slip and say things best not said aloud....:)

Once again, Heather had me laughing when she came home from daycare at the age of four clearly upset..."mommy, my friend blakes mommy bumped her head, but shes ok"..I couldn't figure out why she was upset by this if the woman was ok..so I asked...Oh boy...she sat down and said in all the seriousness that she could muster.."Mooommm, did you know that if you bump your head too many times you can lose your remembery...."

My sister has beautiful children..and if i had to say anything about any of them...my niece Elizabeth has the best personality of them all.....except when auntie Mel pissed her off....(that would be me) One day about a year ago I was visiting (and eating the cake jenny had made) I love picking on "Lizzy"...I said "well hello Elizabeth" She looked at me, with fire blazing in her little eyes, put her hands on her hips and stated.."Aunt Menee (she couldnt say Melanie) my name is NOT Eyizabeth! Its YIZZY!!,,My name is Yizzy" (she couldnt say her L's...) Children keep us going....

Stop, take time to "hear" the things your children say..Heck, you may strike it rich one day when you write that book....:)