From the mouth of Babes

As I am using my blog in place of a journal for the most part, I want to start remembering some of the things that my kids say and do that make me laugh.
I will start with just a few of the things that Wyatt said as he was just learning to talk that had us rolling. He used F in place of some of his other letters. He called smartees "farties". All of Jimmy's brothers loved that one. We have a creek that we like to walk down to by our house, and he would always say "I want to go to the freak". He loved lollipops during this time, and I had to be very careful to call them lollipops. Every time I heard somebody say sucker I would cringe in fear of what he would call it. Luckily he stuck with lollipop.
McKartnee loves the song Santa Clause is coming to town. She is still singing it every day. She always says "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you Wyatt." I think she seriously thinks that song was written for her brother. It is pretty cute.
Jimmy when he was younger used to always call the National Monument a pencil, because he thought it looked like one. He has told our kids that, and the other day when we were driving into DC, Wyatt said very excitedly " Mom I see it, I see it, I see Pennsylvania."
I dropped my kids off at one of my friends houses last week to have a play date while I ran errands. When I came back McKartnee kept saying "Mom, I scared of the Germans" I kept trying to figure out what she was saying, but that was all that I heard. Finally I said "show mommy". She took me into her friends room and showed me her pet Gerbils.
I love kids and the funny things that they say as they are learning to express themselves. Although I work with them to say things the right way, it always makes me sad when they actually start doing it.