If it weren't for kids... (your cute kid stories)

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Not my kid, but the other day I was walking out of the Metro station when I notice a father and his young (maybe 4) son.

The father was walking a little ahead of his son when he turned around and said, "Dylan! Hurry up! Come hold my hand!"

The boy stops, stomps his foot and says, "Dad. Dylan is not my name."

Sighing, the father responds, "G.I. Joe, hurry up. We've got places to go!."

I laughed for the rest of the day.

 

[Rel]

I laughed for the rest of the day.

That would have got me too.

 

[The Shaman]

I'm afraid my daughter is going to grow up thinking her name is Ripley, as we tend to re-enact an alien facehugger grabbing its victim quite a lot: I place my hand on the floor, fingers up and together - she crawls over, and I tell her, "Careful, Ripley, look out for that egg!" and when she taps my fingers I put my hand over her face to a stream of giggles.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My son, 2 1/2 years old, loves Star Wars, even though he hasn't seen anything other than ads on TV and all the marketing on store shelves. One older boy at daycare has seen several of the movies and likes to play Star Wars. We've told my son that Star Wars is for bigger kids.

So, the other day at dinner he says,"One day, when I was bigger and in school, there were bad guys at my school. I had my Star Wars sword and I swinged it at the bad guys!"

His big sister (5 1/2) gets mad because, "He can't tell stories about what he did when he was bigger, since he's still little."

 

[reveal]

My 3 year old son likes to sing the Empire theme song. He loves Darth Vader and sings it when he sees him on-screen or plays with his Darth toy. The other day, he told me he was finished eating and that he was "done done done done d-done done d-done."

 

[der_kluge]

My daughter thinks the color green is called "shrek". I think we've just about got her corrected on that, but it's taken her a while to learn colors. She can almost count to 10 though. She was standing in front of the refrigerator and said "2,4,6,7,8,9". We were thoroughly impressed. She just turned 2 in May.

 

[Rel]

She can almost count to 10 though. She was standing in front of the refrigerator and said "2,4,6,7,8,9". We were thoroughly impressed. She just turned 2 in May.

It gets even better. Samantha the Red (who is 3) has only recently grasped the concept that there are numbers larger than 60. 60 was, to her, the largest conceivable number. As a result, she used to tell my wife and I (usually as we were tucking her into bed) that she loved us "up to the moon 60 times and down from the moon 60 times and up to the sun 60 times and down from the sun 60 times". As a parent I'm occasionally moved to tears at the sweetness of my child and this was one of those times. My wife and I were so struck by this that it has become one of those things we say almost every night when we tuck her into bed.

 

[Chaldfont]

My 3 year old son likes to sing the Empire theme song. He loves Darth Vader and sings it when he sees him on-screen or plays with his Darth toy. The other day, he told me he was finished eating and that he was "done done done done d-done done d-done."

Man that would have made me shoot milk from my nose! My daughter does stuff like this too. I love this age.

Here's Isabel's version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star:

Tinkle, tinkle star!
Whatchu are!
Up up up up up!
Diamond sky!

 

[Hijinks]

see, that's why i couldn't name my son Logan - because everyone who's ever read X-Men wants to name his son Logan

How about Lucas? Is that too sci-fi geeky to name one's son? *looks hopeful that it's not*

 

[reveal]

How about Lucas? Is that too sci-fi geeky to name one's son? *looks hopeful that it's not*

Only if you name him that because you like the name and not because you are some George Lucas fanboi.

And I can't talk, my son's name is Duncan. My wife and I really like the name, me especially since my ancestors are from Scotland. But all my geek friends give me grief about him being named after Duncan McLeod, which he's not. (But we really liked the series. )