This giveaway is now closed. The winners are elbarnes, Cynthia, Viv, JC Carley, Lori Haislip, Jessica Fisher, Liz R, Scott and Lisa Moonen, Alicia Williamson, and Myrnie – congratulations!
Welcome to the first of many giveaways all week long! Check back frequently, as there will be multiple giveaways on each day.
I’m doing them a little differently than the usual “gift basket” style – each giveaway is for one prize, and each giveaway is for 48 hours only. So act quickly!
Baby Blues
If you read the comic section of your local newspaper, you’ve most likely seen – and nodded along in agreement with – Baby Blues. This is a hilarious strip depicting the life stage that most of us here at Simple Mom are neck-deep in – parenting littles.
The strip follows the adventures of a mid-30s career couple, Wanda and Darryl MacPherson, and their three kids, Zoe, Hamish, and Wren. Aren’t those the cutest names?
I had the privilege of interviewing the strip’s creators, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. At the end, I’ve got a giveaway for ten copies of their latest anthology, Night Shift. Read on!
The Interview
SM: You don’t have to read Baby Blues long to know that you guys have some first-hand knowledge about the lives of parents with small children. What’s your experience with this lifestyle? I’d love to hear more about your background.
Jerry: About 19 years ago, Rick and I were trying out all kinds of ideas for a new comic strip. Nothing we came up with was any good, but like the John Lennon line, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” real events conspired to create a unexpected opportunity. All the while Rick and I were working on ideas for The Great American Comic Strip, Rick and his wife, Sukey, were busy dealing with their second baby, who was, um… a handful. The more time I spent hearing his stories of parenthood, the clearer it became to me that this was a couple who was dealing with a force much more powerful (and noisier) than themselves. After rejecting the twelfth or thirteenth stupid comic strip premise we’d come up with, I looked at Rick’s unshaven face, pablum-stained t-shirt and wrinkly jeans and said, “Hey. What about a strip about a couple with a new baby?”
SM: Who or what is your inspiration for the characters?
Rick: In the first few years of the strip, before Jerry had kids, a great deal was taken from my family. We both shamelessly exploit our families for gags. Our wives are good sources of gag material, too, suggesting things from time to time. The characters in Baby Blues are composites. Physically, Darryl is a combination of Jerry and me – my glasses, Jerry’s red hair. Wanda is similar to my wife. The house they live in is based on the house where my children spent the first half of their lives in. Any other similarities are purely coincidental (our attorney told us to say that).
SM: What’s a particular Baby Blues strip that you can really relate to from your real life?
Rick: There are too many to list, but I remember the first couple of gags coming directly from our lives. One was how swaddling the baby was like making a burrito. Another was when Darryl and Wanda decided to go out for a walk and realized just as they got outside, they’d left their newborn baby in the house (sleep deprivation and habit are a terrible combination).
Jerry: There are too many to list. When you write a comic strip, there’s a funny idea due every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. If it wasn’t for my family and their willingness to have their every word and action mined for humor, I’d be toast.
SM: What do you love about your jobs as cartoonists?
Rick: The ability to work whenever and wherever I want. And the dress code is pretty good, too.
(Tsh’s addition – This is one of my favorite things about my job here on Simple Mom, too.)
Jerry: I like working alone in a room with little or no contact with the outside world. For me, it was either cartooning or joining a monastery. And I look fat in robes.
SM: Simple Mom readers are mostly parents who long for a little more simplicity in their lives, which is hard to find when you’re raising small children. What advice do you have for the readers about how to simplify their lives and enjoy the parenting years?
Rick: I’m probably not a great one to give advice. I’d say just try to get in as much time as possible doing even the most simple and mundane things with your kids.
Jerry: Save some time for yourselves. Everyone needs their batteries recharged once in a while. It’ll make you a better parent.
Baby Blues
Ten of you will win the latest Baby Blues anthology, Night Shift! Each one retails for $10.99. Here’s how to win.
1. Leave a comment on this post, answering this question – What’s something funny your kid (or a kid in your life) did this past week?
2. To get a second entry – and a second entry on all the giveaways this week – subscribe to the Simple Mom feed and email me the movie quote at the bottom of any post in your feed reader or email inbox (there is only one quote for all the giveaways). Send it to simplemomblog (at) gmail (dot) com, and put the quote directly in the subject line. The body of the email won’t be read. And you only need to email me the quote once in order to get a second entry for all the week’s giveaways.
3. Finally, to get a third entry, post or tweet about this giveaway – if you use the URL of this post, I’ll receive it – no need to email me.
This giveaway will end this Wednesday, January 28 at noon EST. I hope you win!
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The funniest thing my baby did this weekend was… well, she’s only 15 months old. She doesn’t talk yet. We went to the bank to open a new checking account and I stocked up on stuff to keep her entertained and happy. Including snacks, of course.
When we were doing all the paperwork with the bank lady in her office, my daughter started to fuss, in order to keep her quiet, I offered her a cookie. She took one and pointed for another one. She HAS to have one for each hand. LOL
That kept her busy. In a moment of quietness, I looked over at her and said, “Ummm… yummy… that cracker looks good. Can I have some?” I leaned over with my mouth open and she pulled them away and instead pointed over at the cookies peeking out of my bag. I guess it was her way of saying, “Get your own, lady! They’re in your bag. I saw you put them in there.” LOL!
Kids are so funny!
My three-year-old was playing out back and started to cry, so I went out and said, “What’s wrong, honey?” She looked at me as if I were completely daft and told me, “I’m not honey, I’m Nona.” Okay then!
Went to the bank. Busy fingers must be busy, especially when they belong to a 5-year-old. He innocently flicked the switch on a power point just BEGGING to be played with. Some weird alarm went off. 5-year-old cried. Bank manager was more alarmed than the alarm. No-one knew how to switch it off. Our ears still hurt. Not sure whether I can laugh at this one yet. That bank manager sure can’t.
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The funny in our house this week came from our youngest who is 3. I was teaching him how to take his shirt off… he struggled with the long sleeves… trying to figure out how to get his arms out of the long holes. I helped him a bit… And, then he got his arms out and under the shirt to pull it over his head. It got stuck right above his eyes. He shook his head and said in a high voice and accent (have no idea where these came from!), “You wanna take off my hair?”
I LOVE Baby Blues
My son is mostly non-verbal. He’s in speech therapy, and we are learning sign language. He’s started making up his own signs for the REALLY important things he needs to convey. The other day, he was frantically signing to me, something terribly important. Hard to describe, but he was moving his hands around one another. Finally, I figured out he was mimicking how I wind yarn in to balls. I asked him if he wanted some yarn to play with, and his face lit up like it was Christmas morning!! LOL! I just had to giggle. Yarn was important enough for him to make up a new sign
Spookygirl´s last blog post…My kids love the Wii..
I’m almost too embarrassed to say, but I really would like the book! (No shame, clearly) Oldest toddler brought in his toy teapot and offered my departing piano pupil a cuppa. Unsuspecting pupil accepted the kind offer, took a swig from the teapot…
and SHRIEKED; ” That’s not tea – it’s wee!!!”
Told you I was ashamed. The kid did survive. And came back, more to the point!
My 4 yo saw an ad on tv for some super-dooper wonder pens he wanted and asked me to take him to the super-dooper wonder pen shop. I said I did not have enough money to buy the pens, so he added, well we will just go to the money shop first and buy some money!
JanMary, N Ireland´s last blog post…His Laptop
Unfortunately, I don’t have a funny kid story to tell, but I wanted to say how much I enjoyed this post. I had never read this cartoon before but it’s funny stuff – will definitely have to be on the lookout for it!
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My daughter (3) keeps referring to her baby brother’s baptism 2-weeks ago as his “bat-ma-tis-im.” Yesterday, at church, she told her Sunday school teacher that, “Bryson was batmatised just like Jesus was by John the Baptist.” It cracks me up!
Bryssy´s last blog post…Hilarious
My 3 year old Chloe was over at our house this weekend and warned her mother that my 3 month old grandson would throw up on her———- throwing up and spitting up are indistinguishable in the mind of a 3 year old.
My daughter is only 5 months old… she’s been blowing raspberries and the way she scrunches up her face cracks me up.
this past week my sister-in-law gave birth to my kids’ new baby cousin. my daughter asked repeatedly when I was going to have another baby because she’d like a baby…that made me laugh pretty hard because it’s so not going to happen!
Jill H in Michigan´s last blog post…miscellaneous rambling…end of the week edition
We threw a party this weekend, and my three-year-old kept coming upstairs (babysitter was with the kiddos in the basement) to check out the action. On one of her visits, she said she wanted to see what the “boring people” were doing, looked around for about 30 seconds, and headed back downstairs.
I LOVE Baby Blues. It’s the only comic my husband and I are constantly telling the other to read. Also, loved the TV show and wish i could find it on DVD.
My kids are always funny. It’s so hard to remember them all! This week my son took off all his clothes to go outside around our pool- not really approved my mommy. He then proceeds to get the pool skimmer and take it around the pool to try to fish toys out (of course, he had just thrown them into the pool). It was hilarious to watch this little 2 year old naked with a LONG pool skimmer trying to get toys out of the pool.
Ashley´s last blog post…Welcome, Bloggy Giveaways Carnival!
last night my three year old dumped out all of the contents from a wholesale sized box of diapers and made “chairs” for the rest of the family out of the dumped diapers, in which we were all instructed to sit upon and watch a drum show he proceeded to perform for us on the empty box! this cuteness of course was all a tactic to avoid sleeping…. and we’re suckers as he well knows and we watched and thoroughly enjoyed!
My son stuck a dry bean up his nose with out us realizing. He was up all night complaining that “it hurt” but we didn’t know what. We didn’t realize it was there until the next morning when he sneezed and it blew halfway out.
Shalae´s last blog post…Happenings
My 6yo was trying to learn the names of the books of the Old Testament yesterday. Some of those words are very hard for him to say, so when we got to “Ecclesiastes,” it came out sounding just like, “Clean-the-nasties.”
My 8-month-old is more cute than funny right now, so I can’t think of anything. But…My sister just had a baby a couple weeks ago, and her insurance agent came last Monday. She managed to get the house in decent shape before he got there. When my 4 1/2-year-old niece got home from daycare a few hours later, she threw a fit because Mom had cleaned. She whined, “I want my mess back!” and proceeded to drag every toy back out into the living room. Within an hour, the house was trashed again.
My 3 yo son told me that I was a “winner” the other day – not b/c I won a race with him or anything, but b/c I gave him a snack and he was so happy to have it.
Leigh´s last blog post…My New Thing: Letting Go of Guilt
This is only funny NOW. My daughter woke up at 4 this morning crying out, ‘MEOW. MEOW.’ We went in to check on her and she wanted to go check on the kitty next door. She was sure something had happened to him.
Nicole´s last blog post…Everyday…Redeemed
My daughter was playing in the window (where she’s not meant to be) and fell, landed straddled over the radiator. Obviously, this hurt her girlie parts, so she cried and cried. When she stopped crying intensely, she said to me between sobs, “Mummy, you need to kiss my vagina all better.”
Oh my!
Kim´s last blog post…A Walk in the Snow
My 10 month old has learned to growl from her big brother & his dinosaur toys. So now we have this adorable girl crawling all over the house “RRRRAAAAWWWWWRRRRR”ing. If only we had a cat for her to terrorize!
Nicole´s last blog post…Yes we did…
Me: “Hey, get your fingers out of the whipping cream!”
Noah(age 3 and ever the optimist): “Thumbs, Mama? Can I put thumbs?”
Great giveaway! Looking forward to the week to come.
Aimee´s last blog post…Foodie Facebook: Michele
I am a home daycare provider and the funniest thing that happened last week was when I took all the kids to the Observatory for a star program geared for really young kids. Everything was going great, they were learning about the constallation Orion and about the path of the stars when the teacher presented the planet of the day- Venus. Like any good teacher she said, “Can everyone say Venus?” and sure enough, louder than any kid one little boy I watch yells out “PENIS!” Of course all the other moms burst out laughing and even today that little boy really thinks that there is a planet called “Penis”.
Conni´s last blog post…We Have A Winner!!!
we’re in the early stages of potty training our youngest guy – 2 years old. I asked him yesterday morning as I was changing his diaper if he wanted to sit on the potty before I put the new diaper on. He looked at me for a moment, thinking. Then said, “no, tank you, mama” and laid down for me to put his diaper on. It might kill me to have to keep changing diapers, but at least he’s polite, LOL!
theresa´s last blog post…Beware the doghouse…
Scene – breakfast table, weekday morning, 6:20 AM. Me, about to pour bowls of cereal for my 2 girls.
Elder daughter (7): Mommy, Daddy said (sister) isn’t allowed to have Life anymore because she gets milk in it and then she goes to the bathroom and then she won’t eat it.
Younger daughter (4): But I **WANT** Life cereal.
Me: (Younger daughter), how about if I don’t put milk in it today? Remember yesterday you said you wanted milk, and then you said you didn’t want milk but I had already put it in?
Younger daughter: No, no, it’s ok. I just won’t go to the bathroom.
What a joy to read these hilarious stories!
My three-year-old’s Sunday School teacher recently talked about Daniel and the Lions’ Den, so we’ve had many a recent discussion at home about why Daniel was placed there, how God protected him, etc.
The other evening before bed, my son looked up at me and said, “Mommy, if I’m bad, are you gonna throw me into the lions’ den?”
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We just started potty training our son Conner who will turn 3 in May. He has been doing so well going to the potty and I was hopeful on Sunday that he would go to the potty while we were at church. I spoke to my friend Diane (who does nursery during the first service at our church) and asked her if Conner had gone to the bathroom. She said she asked him if he needed to go to the bathroom and he said, “No, I went to the bafroom yesterday.” He wasn’t telling a lie he had gone to the potty the day before and managed to have a dry diaper for 3 hours while we were at church. Yeah!!!
We were at the grocery store and I asked my 5-year-old son what he’d like for an after-school snack this week. He said, “Horseshoes.” I laughed and asked him what he REALLY wanted. “Horseshoes, Mom. I’m serious!” (he’s always “serious”) and he became increasingly frustrated with me. As I was reaching for a jar of peanuts for my husband, he excitedly grabbed a can on a lower shelf and said, “THESE!!”. Ohhhhhh….. CASHEWS. duh!
Well, my baby is only 4 months old, but it appears he’s got a sense of humor already. This past week we were at the dermatologist to have a spot on my son’s upper thigh examined. The dermatologist said it’s nothing to worry about, it’s just a spot that has less pigmentation than the rest of him. We don’t need to treat it or anything… unless he’s going to be sunbathing nude, then he’d need to put some extra sunscreen on it. Hubby and I laughed politely at the dorky joke, but my 4 month-old apparently thought it was hilarious, and let out a belly laugh at just that moment. Needless to say, it cracked all three of us up!
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My 10 month old son loves to say “Da-da” when he is happy. When he is sad and needs me, THEN he says “Mum-mum.” So disappointing, right? Well this week he’s been using “Da-da” as a cuss word! When he gets really upset he throws a fit and screams “Da da da da DA DA da da da…”
I’ll admit, it makes me giggle.
Ooh, I LOVE Baby Blues, and I’d love this book! Hmm…. just one thing that has made me laugh this week?! First one that pops into my mind….. we love popping peanuts out of the shell at our house at our house. My two year old has run around the house on numerous occasions, screaming, “Peanuts”…. only…. it sometimes sounds a LITTLE different than “peanuts.”
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While laying in bed with me while my husband was out of town my son wanted me to “scratch his hair” instead of “rub his hair/head” it cracked me up!
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I always forget my son’s funniest shenanigans! This week his new trick is spinning around in circles until he falls down (he’s 13 months). I can see I have a lot to look forward to when he becomes verbal!
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It seems my kid is always doing something funny! Let’s see, he learned how to say good morning and now he says it all the time no matter the time of day. He decided to clean out my pantry last night and put in this order a bag of chips, bottle of apple and a can of paint into a crock on my kitchen. You might guess how the chips fared. Oh and last night while running around driving his fire engine he turned to say “mom look” and ran right into the tv stand with the truck. Crazy kids they are always making you laugh.
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Yesterday at church, my little man was a “little” wired as we were trying to leave. My husband had taken our 1-mo-old out to the car already and it was my job to corral our 2-yr-old and head him to the door. Well, he was _far_ more interested in running in circles around the remaining people in the foyer…and laughing maniacally. I finally convinced him to chase me (since telling him to stop and follow me wasn’t working – we’re still learning obedience) and he chased me to the other side of the church yelling “I dot you, I dot you!”
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My three year old is still learning the art of the compliment. I got a rather drastic hair cut this week and he still isn’t quite used to it. This morning he woke up and said, ” Mom, you hair doesn’t really look very good. But, it looks pretty good.”
My two-year-old takes off his socks and checks in between his toes to make sure they’re clean. Several times a day. A couple days ago, I caught him checking his one-year-old brother’s toes, too.
Actually it’s been a slow week.. seeing since the fish died.. so no funnies.. but I do love this comic strip.. we often think that Rick and Jerry have a hidden camera in our house!
We were in the midst of potty training our two year old last week….and one day, she went on her potty no problem…as i turned around to help her baby sister with something (i was then going to empty the potty afterward), my 2 yr old started to do the pee-pee dance (we all know it, dont we) and I said, “you better sit or you will have an accident”, and she looked at me and said, “but i can’t, there is still pee in my potty!” She would not go until I emptied the potty and she held on…no accidents! But it was so cute to see the dance! and her facial expression in those couple minutes.
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We were riding back and forth to church this week and my daughter picked up some of my sheet music in the back seat. She’s just started to really ramp up her reading skills and the next thing I know, I hear her voice reciting the lines to Hello Dolly and Memory (I sing in a barbershop chorus). My wife couldn’t quite figure out what was going on at first, but then started singing so my daughter sang along as well. Now when we’re riding back and forth to church, I get a chorus of Hello Dolly. (at least until we get new music again)
Okay, my “baby” is 11! After spending time in the bathroom doing his “business”…he came out exclaiming “Whew, there’s only one place you’re going smell a stink like that! Yep, MY poop!”
(I have a nephew that is one…if I win, the book will go to him
I am trying to potty train my 3 yo and it is not going well. She wants to be a baby and have her diaper changed like her baby sister. Her sister is 9 months old and yesterday I decided that we should “teach” baby sister how to sit on the potty. Big sis wanted to sit on her toilet seat, so I put the baby on the potty trainer right beside the toilet. The toilet trainer plays music when the child pees. So the 3 of us were sitting in the bathroom and all of the sudden the toilet starts to play music. My 9 month old pee’d in the potty and obviously had no idea that she had done so. My 3 year old was so excited for her that she wanted to give her a “treat”. Yes I bribe. And the 3 yo never did go potty!
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I was blow drying my hair on weekend, when my 2 year old daughter wanted me to dry her hair too with the dryer. I explained to her that since she didn’t take a shower, her hair was not wet, so needed no drying.
She immediately pulled on the step stool towards the washroom counter, opened the faucet, and wet her hair with her hands.
this morning my almost-three-year old was looking especially cute during breakfast, and I couldn’t resist kissing him on the forehead. He looked at me and said “Don’t take my sugars this morning Mommy.” I guess I’m over my limit
thanks for the great interview. i LOVE this comic strip too. my youngest was trying to play lightsabers with her 5 yr old brother, except was using the toilet brush (agckkk!) after i got it from her and disinfected her…it was funny. =)
My son is 14 months old, so no cute quotes. He has been scrunching his face and doing forced laugh. It cracks me up, so we’ll do a sort of laughing contest.
I love Baby Blues – it’s probably my favorite comic strip.
My two year old has recently taken to assigning each family member a role in his favorite movies (Shrek and Madagascar) so he’ll walk up to you and say, “I’m Alex mommy. You’re Gloria” and then he’ll say, “Hi Gloria, what are you doing?” or quote the movie with the appropriate lines his character would say. It always cracks me up.
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My son call my stomach. Boing boing. Pushes on it and laughs. Did I mention he was a 10 pounder and my tummy has never been the same.
The funniest thing my almost-two-year-old has done this past week has been, well… being herself. Right now, she’s in a very independent phase… and pretty much wants to do it all, all by herself. When she came into the kitchen with furry crocs (on the wrong feet) and a swimsuit half on (over a dress), I couldn’t help but giggle!
Sarah´s last blog post…Party All Night
This has been my favorite comic strip for quite some time. My kids constantly crack me up. Most recently when my 8yo informed me that we were in big trouble because we hadn’t put a particular box in the fridge. I was concerned we had rotting food somewhere, but he was simply referring to the instructions on the side of the empty box to “refrigerate after opening”. Funny guy!
This is a story from when I was a kid. One day my mom was getting her two children, Erin and Devin, ready for running errands. Devin started throwing a fit and crying. After much coaxing Devin revealed what was the matter. “Why do we always run erins? Why can’t we ever run devins?” From then on we ran erins half the time and devins half the time.
We were waiting in line at Sears to get snow tires along with lots and lots of other people. The lady directly in front of my four year old had on knit pants that were covering the most bodacious booty you’ve ever seen. Next thing I know, those two tiny hands were reaching out and touching it! I didn’t blame her (I had to hold back the urge too)and the poor woman handled getting accosted very well.
Last night I asked my 17-month-0ld “Where’s your tongue?” and she stuck her tongue out and I stuck mine out and we both made funny noises and silly faces! Thanks for the giveaway!
Actually… my youngest tried to help me cook yesterday. Even blogged about it WITH PICS! Fortunately, he doesn’t know how to turn the burner on, but I had a LOT of raw eggs to clean up.
Annette´s last blog post…I step away for just a moment…
My 18 month old enjoyed my husband and my reaction (AH! DISGUSTING) to his finger up his nose so much, he continues to do it daily.
man there are some funny comments!
We took our little family out to dinner before Dad went out of town. My 3 year old (who is not potty trained yet cause she doesn’t want to) asked to go to the bathroom. While in there, I see her diaper is already full and I don’t have a backup one. So I tell her she has to go without anything and just have her pants on. We go back out towards the table and she runs screaming to the waitress “Guess what I don’t have anything on my bum!!!”
Our youngest will be three years old soon, and since he’s quite a “challenging” child, I’m thrilled that he’s still sleeping in his crib for naps and nighttime. When I asked him what he wanted for his upcoming birthday, he promptly replied “I want a bigger bed that don’t have walls!” He’s also said a few times recently “I’m having fun playing at your house today, Mama!”
My 4yo announced yesterday – after I told her that we would not be turning on the television to watch “a show” – that “I’m not gonna play this game anymore where you to tell me I cannot do things.” Hmm.
I love Baby Blues and usually have at least one of their cartoons on my fridge! Thanks for the giveaway and the AWESOME blog (I found it via SouleMama when you did an interview with Amanda last year).
My son is 6 months old and is chewing on EVERYTHING. This morning he was acting bored and I was busy, so I pulled out his (rather small) toy bin. I just kinda dumped all out in front of him and laughed as his eyes lit up. But I laughed harder when he just rolled away and chewed on the table legs.
I love that comic strip! I was heading to my husband’s parents house this past weekend, and decided to take a gravel road (they live in a rural area). I didn’t stop to think about how it had been snowing and blowing for a while. I proceeded to ALMOST get stuck, swerving all over the road due to some snow drifts. My oldest daughter wiped off her brow when we made it through and said *Boy, mommy. That was too close for comfort!*
Funny interview!
Something funny my son did this week – he has watched us give the “look” so many times that now he has started giving stranger’s sideways glances followed by a “No!” when he doesn’t approve of whatever they happen to be doing.
I baby sat my grandsons (3 of them ages 1-4) for three weeks while mommy had baby boy #4. My daughter in law called last week to tell me that the 3 year old is tucking all his shirts into his undies “like Pepere” does! She is not happy with his new ‘style’ and hopes he gets over it quick! It’s amazing what they pick up by just watching you!
All 3 of my children were being watched by my sister on Saturday. They were running around crazy with their younger cousin – driving my sister to the brink. She finally threatened them all with a 5 minute time out.
My 5 year old looked at her and said, ‘What? Only five minutes? That’s not very long.”
“Fine!” My sister retorted, “I’ll give you ten.”
My five year old thought about that and smiled, “yeah, ten minutes is a lot longer.”
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My nearly three-year-old son has been pretending to be a puppy dog for several days now. I thought it was really cute right up until he gave me a big, wet doggy lick from my chin to my temple!
Oddly enough, I have no children in my life – how weird to realize that! I guess I’ll share something I did to my mother when I was little. She was all about having her four children behave in public at all times, and usually we were very good about it. Once though, we were at the grocery store and I started making too much noise while waiting in the check-out line. She reached down and gripped my shoulder – a dead giveaway that my life was in jeopardy if I continued – and instead of cowering like usual, I yelled out “OUCH! You pinched me!” Of course everyone in line stared at her disapprovingly. Makes you want to have kids, doesn’t it?
Moonbeam´s last blog post…Handmade Goodies
This may not be typical funny but makes me laugh anyways: my three year old daughter calls herself “Chinese Girl” because she want to travel to China. When people call her by her real name, she says “No, I’m Chinese Girl”. This strikes me as funny especially because she is African-Canadian and yet calls herself Chinese. Oh, to get inside the head of a three year old!
Thanks for the great giveaway and the great blog! I read every single day and usually end up sharing your ideas with my husband. You’ve helped me get my life in (some semblance of) order. Your blog is my lifeline to sanity!
As far as funny kid story … my 18-month-old son, and our whole household, was sick this weekend, so there wasn’t much funny happening in the past few days. He did, however, decide, for whatever reason, that anytime someone goes downstairs, it’s because we’re doing laundry AND he has to help. Despite being sick and just wanting to veg, I ended up getting most of my backed-up laundry done because he’d pitch a fit if anyone went downstairs and didn’t take a load of laundry AND him with them. And it was just easier to do it than to convince him that you weren’t actually going to do laundry. Now if I could just teach him to cook dinner, he’d be the perfect household helper!
Kati´s last blog post…Snow (a week ago)
I promised my daughter we’d play a game together today. She made a very wrong choice:( So, her consequence was losing the privilege of playing the game today. She told me I was a liar (b/c I will not be playing a game w/ her today). I explained to her Moses and the Israelites being promised the Promise Land, but b/c of their obedience they had to wander in the desert for 40 years before God gave them what He had promised.
This just happened today:) Oh my…have I had quite the morning!!!
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I work at a daycare and they are always doing funny things! My room is 18 mnths to 2 1/2 years. Last week we told one child we wanted to check his diaper, meaning he should come to the diaper table, instead he just turned around where he was playing with toys and stuck his bottom out so we could “check” it. Cracked us up.
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My 22mo has been taught to hum the Star Wars theme song (by the gang of olders who are obsessed with it). It is really cute to hear coming from the carseat behind me as I drive.
I have 3 kids. I think it was Boy #3. He told me (in all seriousness) that his Kinder class went to the Bi-lingual teacher’s room. He said only one girl could understand her when she spoke in Spanish. He looked at this little girl and said, “I didn’t know yoiu came from China.” To which she responded, “I didn’t. I came from Austin.”
I love this little boy! Kim R.
Noah, my best friend’s son is just starting to move about and notice everything that is going on around him. While I was feeding him this weekend, his cousin fell and started to cry. Noah showed incredible concern for his cousin and would not eat or even look at his food until his cousin stopped crying. It was precious!
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We are trying really hard to get our 3yo boy twin potty trained. He has absolutely no interest in it, so a few days ago, my husband left him naked from the waist down all day and filled him full of liquids. He made him sit on the potty numerous times, trying to catch him at the right moment. My 3yo girl twin and I went grocery shopping, and after I had left, my son found the pen I had written my list with sitting on the table. He grabbed it and proceeded to color his entire (um, private) area with the blue pen. When my husband came back into the room and glanced over at him, he saw his son’s you-know-what was bright blue. It was hilarious!
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My 15-month-old daughter does funny things all the time. But the one that came to mind when I read your post is…
Last night as I was changing her diaper before bedtime, she looked me straight in the eye and tooted her little heart out. My husband and I just cracked up – there was just something so purposeful about it.
What a proud moment – already my child understands the humorous power of bodily functions!
Photoqueen´s last blog post…I could get used to this.
What’s something funny your kid (or a kid in your life) did this past week? My 2-year-old HAD to use her new toothbrush the minute she saw it, despite the fact that it wasn’t time to brush her teeth. It won’t be that way in a few years!
We were shopping with my 3 year old daughter and she held up a plain, solid yellow sweater and said (clear as a bell) “Mommy, is this boring enough for you?”
I have four kids and everyday ensues hilarity! I will have to say that my two year old has a new saying and it cracks us up everytime she says it – she’ll come running into a room and scream “Wooka my have!” My one year old just grunts and points, so we love to hear a verbal version, even if it’s just a jumble of words.
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Last week, my 5yr old came in the house yelling “There’s a cat coming in the house!” I immediately yelled No! Don’t let it in! (I’m deathly allergic) When I looked around the corner, I realized the CAT was my 3 yr old son, and my 5 yr old had magically turned in to a cat too!
I decided to share 2 bowls of milk on the floor. They meowed in between licks! It was adorable.
I love when my kids play make-believe and get creative!
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Hmmm funny story… well the other day our 4 yr old was out back playing. He was being especially quiet and I looked out there to find him peeing on the side of the house! I immediately asked why on earth he was peeing outside and he replied “Well that’s what the dog does mom.”
Duh
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Baby blues is often funny however, sometimes it is too realistic to laugh at …. Realism Art or something. We have two picky eaters (who doesn’t) …. the other night for dinner I choose not to give them the soup we were having so I didn’t have to hear the complaints. When I served them the applesauce and biscuits the youngest announced that dinner was “de-wic-ious”.
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Okay, this is kind of embarrassing, but really funny…
The other day, I had a pimple on my forehead. I admit, I’d messed with it, so it was a little red. My son said, “What’s that?” I told him it was a pimple and went on a slight rant that when he hit puberty, I would do whatever it takes to make sure he has clear skin (I’ve battled with it for years).
He climbed up onto his stepstool so he could see himself in the mirror and he tightened his eyes like he was really scrutinizing what he saw. Then he said, “Sometimes I get nipples, but sometimes I don’t.”
“Pimples,” I clarified through giggles, “they’re called pimples, honey.”
The funniest thing my kids did this weekend would be this morning… my 5 year old got up and helped herself to honey for breakfast. Yes, honey. Sticky, gooey honey.
what a funny comic! I’ve never seen it before. love it.
A funny from my son. out of no where my son came up to me and pulled at the side of his mouth and stuck out his tongue. Afterward he said funny face. I have no idea where he learned it from. He is only 2.
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I have a 5 year old and an 8 month old. One day I was watching my 2 year old niece (who is a pistol by the way) and I was loading up the car to go to the gym. As I was putting my niece and son in their carseats my oldest said “Mom, can I please sit in the front because if these two start crying I just don’t think I could handle it!” I started cracking up! He sounded like he was 35!
Well, it’s only funny because he’s safe, but this past week our three year old decided to take our Suburban for a spin. No joking. He’s fine, but I hope he doesn’t drive again for about, oh 12 years.
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I was styling my hair one day this week when my 3 year old came up to me and asked, “Mommy, are you having a bad hair day?” For the sake of his future wife I need to teach him to not mess with a lady having a bad hair day….bring her chocolate instead!
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I just thought of another one! (just to share) When I was pregnant with my 8 month old, I got the much dreaded stretch marks. My 5 year old (who was 4 at the time) was very intrigued with them. He told me I had cracks on my belly. One time, he was playing with our dog (he loved to hold his front paws and make the dog ‘dance’ with him) and he got a little red scratch right on his belly. He came running into the bedroom and lifted his shirt up. He boasted (in such a proud little voice) “Look! I have cracks just like you!!” At least we weren’t in public!
My 9 year old was asking me what my favorite movies were when I was his age and I told him that I watched Jungle Book in the theater and remember loving that movie. He then asked if it was in color and if I only paid a nickel. I am only 37.
Earlier in the weekend he asked me if they had cars when I was a little girl or if we still used horses. Talk about making me feel old in my kids eyes.
I have recently started gardening. My sons, of course, are very interested in everything I do in the garden and love to help me! The other day my boys were playing outside and I noticed that my 3 year old’s shoes were still in the house. I picked them up and walked out the door calling, “Isaac, where are your shoes…” Then I spotted him – barefoot, and barenaked running through the yard. So I added, “And your PANTS? And your UNDERWEAR??” He looked up nonchalantly and said, “Oh, I watered the plants!” Sure enough, he’d had an accident and figured the wet pants and underwear would be great for watering – there they were hanging on two different plants! Such a resourceful little boy!
I am pregnant, so we tell my 2 year old son that “baby” is in my tummy. He is really interested and always comes up, pulls my shirt up and says “baby!” while kissing my tummy. Well lately, when I’m sitting, he will come up, point to my boob and say “baby!” and kiss them before I have a chance to stop him! haha. He does this now all the time in public too!!!. I keep telling him baby is in my tummy, not my boobs!!! … maybe he is confused since my boobs are growing as fast as my tummy is. lol.
My son just turned 1 this week so he’s developing quite the personality. He’s been dancing when he hears music for a while, but this week he started pumping his fist in the air while he’s dancing. Its stinking hilarious! And he’s on beat sometimes too!
My kids decided to get out the bathing suits. It’s snowing outside, and they’re in their bathing suits, “swimming” in the kitchen. My daughter, 2, had managed to get two of her suits on at the same time, at least one of them on backwards. They had the towels out and everything, so they could dry off and warm up after their swim in the kitchen.
My three year nearly flooded the bathroom with all her bath time splashing. As I cleaned it up, I gave her a stern talking to! She then suggested I buy a shamWOW!
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Well, my littlest one (2 and 1/2) attends this little paygroup class. We have a snack and then do an activity. Usually, he doesn’t eat much dinner on Playgroup evenings as he has had many munchies. About a month ago, he wasn’t hungry at dinner so I told my husband the boy had had too many biscuits at playgroup, so he was excused from the table. Now, several weeks later, out of the blue, one day when he was offered something he didn’t much care for, he turned to dad and said:’My ate too many biscuits at Playgroup, my need to be executed’… It was VERY funny, first of all because he pulled this line out of nowhere (he had not been even CLOSE to Playgroup!) because he remembered it was a handy one. Plus, asking to be executed is rather hilarious!
My kids are all teenagers and it is so funny to see the look on their faces as we try to explain what a common phrase means. Like:
“don’t count all your chickens before they hatch” or “don’t cry over spilt milk”.
We all get a kick out of Baby Blues, they have life town to a “tee”.
Robin
I have a 2 year old little girl that can speak pretty well for her age. It always kills me though how she says some things……yogurt is logoat, drink is wink, milk is moak…..there are so many others that just crack me up. I really love this post. I have been a big fan of Baby Blues for quite sometime and haven’t come across too many people that know about it. The comic strip feels like it is pulled straight from our lives at times.
Thanks for this great interview!
Our 12-month-old is fascinated by the phone and spends lots of time with her fist up to her ear saying “hi” – when she hears the phone ring, sees the handset or a cell phone, or even if you mention the word “phone.” The other day I said, “let’s play with your (toy) xylophone,” and she put her fist up to her ear and said, “hi.” That gave me a laugh!
Amy
Unfortunately, no kids yet — so no kids stories yet. However, I did go to school with Rick’s daughter (a year or 2 ahead of her) and stayed at their home occasionally when I was younger and my parents were traveling on business. My family LOVED the comic! My mom used to say how spot on it was with her life as a parent
It’s so cool that everyone can see how talented Rick and Jerry are!
This morning when my husband left for work, our son thought he should go too. He knew that he needed to wear his hat to go outside, but he was just getting out of the bathtub and managed to lose his towel on the way there. So there he was at the door, ready to go… in a hat and his birthday suit! (Unfortunately my camera was in the other room.)
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