Overheard at Casa Earth...
The Boy: What's that on your forehead?
Mr Earth: Where?
The Boy: Dere!
Mr Earth: What does it look like?
The Boy: Stripes!
Nomo: Stripes?
(Pause)
Do you mean wrinkles?
(Scrunches forehead)
See, Mummy's got them too. They're called wrinkles, not stripes.
The Boy: Oh. Wrinkles?
Nomo: Yes.
(sound of Nomo snickering)
The Boy: Why you laughing?
Nomo: (some unintelligible comment about "wrinkles" vs "stripes" as I desperately try to stop laughing)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Out of the mouths of babes
I refuse to be labelled! OK, just this once: the Boy
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I love the way kids see the world. And I think stripes sounds better than wrinkles. :)
that's hysterical!!
My kids often admire my impressive stretch mark collection... in many ways, I love their view of me and in other ways, I wish they'd learn to self-censor.
I guess that's why they talk about "earning your stripes"? *grin*
Nice. They always point out the stuff we'd like to ignore, don't they?
Stripes, a kinder, gentler way to look at wrinkles.
;-)
Funny! Made me smile.
I'll definitely take stripes any day!
Funny. It's worse, though, when you see that little puzzled look transmute to horror and pity. My nephew told my mom (when he was about The Boy's age), "Gramma, I can fix your hair. I can make it smaller. I'll use the scissors." He obviously felt such pity for her crazy coarse grownup hair, so different from his soft, bouncy toddler hair ...
I much prefer using the word "stripes" to using "wrinkles". It sounds more like a fashion statement that way. I'm using it from now on! :)
hehehe!
hilarious.They bust us left right and centre and we still love em up.
I just love the way our children use the words they know to say the ones they don't. Stripes is nice. (And this post has me grinning from ear to ear. That will add to my stripe collection for sure...)
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