Cutest Things Ever Said

My kids. My life. My memories. Share yours.

1. “Papas don’t fall off.” - my younger daughter as she was swinging me as I lay on the hammock. Funny thing is, she never calls me ‘papa’, always ‘daddy’.

2. My younger daughter has words that we get a kick out of her saying. One of them is ‘things’ which comes out like ‘sins’. Examples: “Mommy and Daddy have their ‘sins’ in their bedroom”…”Daddy has lots of ‘sins’”…”What kind of ‘sins’ do you have?”…”Maybe I’ll get some ‘sins’ for my birthday!”

3. “Mommy, you’re my favorite mommy.” - my older daughter numerous times to my beloved Sarah, who is also my favorite wife.

4. “I’ve got ‘bless you’s’ all over my shirt.” – my younger daughter after she sneezed in her own general direction.

5. “I think he was on ‘CAH-vation’ (for vacation)” – my younger daughter (sensing a pattern yet?)

6. “I think Joppa” – my son after a few rounds of ‘Miracles and Pitfalls’, which is a Bible trivia game. The first question of the night included this town and it was the answer to another question, so when he wasn’t sure, he thought he was on to something with the whole ‘Joppa’ answer thing.

7. “Daddy, do you have a pen?” – OK, this may need an explanation. I had put a date on the calendar for a special Daddy/daughter time with, you guessed it, my younger daughter. She constantly was asking about it, so three weeks or so ahead of time, I made a simple calendar for her so she and I could cross off each day as it passed with anticipation for the coming special excursion. This became part of our bedtime routine. So maybe fifteen times during the evening, starting from when I returned home from work, she would ask me if I had a pen for the ceremonial crossing off of the date on the calendar. Guess you had to be there.

8. It does my heart good to hear my son’s answer to the question, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’. It changes day by day. From ‘creation scientist’ to ‘football player’ to ‘pastor’ to ‘office worker’, he has quite a stable of possibilities and dreams. But then he always adds, “but of course, I also want to be a good husband and daddy.”

9. ‘the pewter’…just in case you ever talk to any of our kids and get the idea that we have stock in an alloy research firm or something. All three of our children have shortened ‘computer’. So when we are ‘working on the pewter’, we are NOT shining up the silverware!

10. Before we took her to the vet to get the official word, we thought our new dog was a Lhasa Apso mix. Insert any combination that comes to mind and we probably heard it…and chuckled.

11. “I fear we’re not going to my Walmart!” – my four year old daughter when running errands in another part of town. She was soon convinced that, yes, other Walmarts do exist.

12. There are many unique/cute things that come out of my wife’s mouth. I’ll limit myself to just this one for now. When talking about ‘being Jesus to people’, she noted that we can be “Jesus with clothes on”. I think she meant ‘skin’ instead of ‘clothes’, but it does sound safe and appropriate, doesn’t it?