Funny things grandchildren come out with

I love that my DGD finds ways of saying words that are hard to get your tongue around hence the conservatory is the consercitory and instructions are inscructions. Somehow the trampoline has become the tramplorine but when I was telling her the story of Moby Dick, suitably sanitised of course, I was explaining how the whale swam round and round the ship to sink it. I said that it was like when you pull the plug out of the bath and....she looked at me very seriously and said, grandma, do you mean a vortex! One of my nieces called shepherds pie deppy die and it is still so named to this day.

My oldest granddaughter at age 3 came home from nursery with a gold star stuck on her top.

My daughter asked what it was for and GD said "Because I'm lovely and special!"

A few years I was telling my gd that when papa and I got married we had no television, washing machine, car and our toilet was out on the landing. She looked at me, pondered a little, then said "Gran in the Roman times". I hasten to add we were married in 1971. To Lucy that was the roman times

After watching Peppa Pig, my 3 year old grandson was rather taken with Mr Skinny Legs the spider.
Excitable, at a family get-together, he raced around the room telling everyone they were Mr Skinny Legs. When he reached me, he stopped, put his head on one side and said: "You don't have skinny legs, Nana!"

Two from Gdd of still under 3, reported with much mirth by nursery staff.

On being asked what she was doing in the play kitchen, ‘I’m having a glass of wine.’

And the raised arm with a loud, ‘Heil Hitler!’ Luckily staff knew she was at the time addicted to The Sound Of Music*, since she was endlessly singing the songs.

*same as her mother at the same age!

I decided to embrace the grey, my ten-year-old GD asked on facetime asked where my hair had gone, it sounded as if I had had it shaved off instead of stopping having it coloured.
She also adores duck and DH had made a Duck leg stew, as usual, she picked it up wrong and asked "Is there any more dog log stew left please?" we now all call it Dog leg.

*too big for stompers.

Our eldest granddaughter, aged about 3 at the time, announced that she was too big Stompers (a sort of movement class) and wanted to go to 'Farty' with her big brother. We eventually worked out that she meant karate.

3 year old GD got new baby sister recently. Parents hadn't decided on name for a couple of days, but when they had, they told GD the name they had picked. She asked "Is it the same baby as yesterday?"

I think our grandchildren are going to have to be very self confident their future will be a minefield.

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One of my grandchildren was running around I thought she might run into the tv and hurt herself. I told her to calm down and stop it. She ran into the dining room to tell her mum she had been told off for running around.
When her mum asked who told her off her reply was its the one with white curly hair and glasses. There was only me and grandad in the room she didn’t want to name me in case I got into trouble. Every time I see her now I say it’s me with the white curly hair and glasses!.

My dgd was a late talker, and even at two years old she spoke very little. She could still be very amusing in the way she communicated:.

One day, a few weeks into potty training, and after rather an unsuccessful day on that score, she suddenly marched over to the empty potty which was sitting on the floor in readiness. She picked it up, went to the door leading into the hall, and signalled that she wanted it opening.
I did as she wanted, then followed behind as she took it up the stairs and into the bathroom.
In there, she signalled to me that she wanted me to open the door of the large airing cupboard. When I did, she put it on the floor in there (where it was usually kept when not needed), very firmly closed the door and announced a heart-felt "bye-bye" to it.

No amount of words could have made it clearer how she felt about the potty at that moment, and the body language that she used in the lead-up to that "bye-bye was just so funny.

Good Morning AussieGran59, I agree with you it would be a lovely to read. I have 3 grandchildren our seven year old doesn’t really talk and we dream of the day he does. Our grandaughter on the other hand who is 3 chats for England she is so funny she announced at two year old she knows the word metamorphosis and proceeded to tell us all what it meant!
I always remember my son when he was about 4 in a cafe. He walked up to the next table and said ‘this morning my nana took her teeth out and cleaned them with her toothbrush’ needless to say Nana who was sitting next to me was mortified ?