How their young minds work.......

My little GCs have a tiny back garden. When they come here, they often say they want to go out into my park.

I have a "curly staircase"! Apparently it is like the ones in a castle. (25 year old house, carpeted stairs, not a turret in sight.)

Oh, and the bidet on the en suite is a "little bath".

How lovely.

they do make you wonder sometimes.

Slightly off topic. Apparently DGS #2 has decided his other nannie is 'big nannie' odd as she is 5' 1" and 8st and I'm 5' 5" and ** stn (+size)

Not quite on thread but can anyone tell me why I am the one to be jumped on and pounded but Granddad is the one for sitting quietly for cuddles? Yes, I get cuddles but the rough stuff too.

Before the afternoons started to get dark, we used to take DGS to the park after school to play football. One afternoon we were joined by another little boy who asked if he could play and I heard him say "your gran's really good at football" (Lionel Messe with a dodgy hip, me!). "She's not bad" says my eight year old, "but she's better at cakes"! Know your place!

I think children soon work out who can be jumped on and who can't Nonnie.

My DGS used to ask me to "move the table grandma and fight me".

I had to have a kind of wrestling match on the rug which ended by him sitting on me and pinning my arms over my head. I had to pretend to be conquered and unable to move, but only after a certain length of fighting time !

My two DGC's idea of an exciting treat is being 'allowed' to use the 'secret' door.

The upstairs of our house is accessed by two quite separate staircases, each accessing two bedrooms, but there is a door between two of the bedrooms so that you can go from one side to the other. For sound insulation, and because the door is rarely used there is a thick curtain covering each side of the door.

DGC only discovered recently that there was a door behind the curtain and that it means they can run up one staircase, through the secret door to run down the other staircase, through all the living rooms then up the staircase....... in a never ending circle.

That sounds brilliant fun ! We had four tiny rooms downstairs , but had a bit of renovations resulting in four becoming two , but still four doors , visiting GC love to do the run around hoping Oh or myself will be hiding behind one door to catch them

That sounds huge fun Flickety

Gilly

My 3 year old grandson lives in Blackheath so is familiar with the London skyline that can be seen from the heath. One day he pointed to the tall Canada Square building and told me it was a bit scary. I asked why and he said it's because of the wolf that lives at the top. It took me awhile to work out that he was thinking of Canary Wharf (wolf). Easy mistake!

A friend's little girl, who had one nan who had died and the other one in Devon, asked one day 'is Devon next to Heaven?' Maybe it is!

DD told me the other day that she had put several slices of cucumber on two yr old DGS's plate. He said "they look like stairs" and then proceeded to walk two pieces of bread up the stairs and jump them off the top.
Following a few goes of that, the two pieces of bread began arguing with each other about who's turn it was to jump next!

I love a toddlers perspective on the world.

I love the fact that toddlers will actually eat pukeumber cucumber, because I wont!

I'm right with you on cucumber phoenix

GS2 who is almost 2 desperately wants to help me doing crosswords, but he's finding the fact that he doesn't know any letters a bit of a handicap! He's very good at pointing out the blank squares though

Deedaa you hate cucumber, your GS2 want's to help you with crosswords (ergo, you do them!) I love both of you!

DS1 used to spend some of his pocket money on a cucumber which he then proceeded to nibble as we went round the market on a Saturday morning. GS3, his nephew, was also obsessed with cucumber.

DD started a new job not far from home and phoned to say she had pick GS up from school and they would be home in a couple of minutes. GD3, very much a mum's girl, stood at the window waiting so we started counting and by the time we counted to ten DD was pulling up in the driveway. Now every time GD misses her mother she says "let's count and mummy will come home."

Took my Gdaughter shopping and we bought a whole fish complete with head an tail. When I went into the kitchen it had disappeared. I went searching for the dog, who I thought was the culprit. Then I heard my Gdaughter singing. She was cuddling the fish, wrapped in a dolls blanket.

Aww they all sound lovely. Its great their wee perspectives on life and how they learn. My GS aged 3 has learned/been taught by his Dad the structure of jokes but not the content eg Knock Knock? Who`s there? Me! etc We all laugh and laugh but not actually at the joke. Oh well. Its a start!
I noticed that he also tells me to put on my "story glasses" when he wants me to read to him.
My other GS aged 17months politely always waves and says "bye bye" loudly as he leaves the room. This at least alerts me to his escaping!

I was straining peas through a sieve and asked my 3 year old granddaughter if she knew what it was called. She looked and suggested, "a flour net?"

When my daughter was two, I asked if she wanted to "run on ahead"? She turned round and asked "who's head?". Also when she was the same age my mother said "Hasn't she got lovely sturdy legs", my daughter said crossly "granny I haven't got dirty legs!"