Someone’s Vocabulary Is Coming Back To Bite Us
Here’s the scene: we’re eating at Firehouse Subs and Clara becomes fascinated by a family of four sitting in front of a big mural of a firetruck.
CLARA: “That’s a man!”
SHERRY: “That is a man.”
CLARA: “That’s little girl.”
SHERRY: “Yep, and a little girl”
CLARA: “That’s little boy.”
SHERRY: “Uh huh, a little boy too.”
CLARA: “That’s a lady!”
SHERRY: “And yep, that’s a lady”
CLARA: “Lady’s pooping!”
SHERRY: “Uh… uh… yes, that is a firetruck painted on the wall!”
Wish we had a picture of our embarrassed faces to insert here. Just use your imagination…
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Hhahahah kids make for the most awkward moments :) My twin sister nannied a couple years ago to 2 year old twin girls . She would take them on wagon rides around the neighborhood during the day…their favorite thing to do when they passed other walkers was to yell “Help us! Help us!”. My poor sister would just smile at the other people while telling the girls to stop- I’m sure people probably thought my sister was abducting them! So awful! The girls just thought they were the funniest thing and they’d giggle as they kept walking until they got to the next person ;) Hahaha. Needless to say, the wagon rides stopped eventually…
Oh man, that’s hilarious and mortifying!
xo,
s
Haha! I have a few funny stories about when I was little. I was a super early talker too, and I would talk to anyone and everyone. My mom took me to a department store when I was about 2. Apparently the saleslady ooh’ed and aah’ed over me and was saying how cute I was. I looked up at her and said “your teeth are yellow.” My mom said she was mortified and reprimanded me as the lady said, “well, I brush them…”
And my brother once was sitting in the cart at the grocery store. He was probably 2 or 3. He remembers this as does my mom. He said he decided to see what would happen if he said: “My mom steals!” Really loudly. My mom does NOT steal. She said she couldn’t reprimand him because it would look like she was trying to hide evidence of her stealing. So she quietly pinched him and said she immediately felt *horrible* as he started crying. I still think it’s hilarious, as does my brother. My mom still feels bad. (This was 25 years ago.)
I look forward to many more embarrassing Clara stories!
Hahah, two great ones! I love all these stories guys!
xo,
s
these comments are hilarious. are you pottying training her?
We’re definitely talking about what goes on and have a little potty set up, but she’s not quite ready yet.
xo,
s
A few years ago, my family went to Disney World together. While we were waiting in line for a ride, a little boy (maybe 3 or 4 years old) turned to my dad and said “Excuse me sir, but why is your belly so big?”
On the same trip, in line for a different ride, another little boy (probably a bit younger)kept looking at me and smiling and then finally said “You’re SEXY!”
Both times, I laughed so hard I cried!
Our 25 month old just potty trained and we went to the bathroom 4 times during our Vakentine’s lunch on Sunday. 2 successes in a public toilet so I was thrilled. I was not so thrilled when she ran through the restaurant yelling, ‘Daddy, I pooped on the potty!’ Next time we’ll be requesting a table right next to the bathroom.
When I was just learning how to talk, my mom went off for a day with her friends and left me with my dad and his buddies. In the car on the way home, I uttered my first phrase: big f***. Horrified, my mom pointed out the window and said, ‘No baby, big truck. Big TRUCK!’
This reminds me of a story of my older sister when you was on a plane for the first time (maybe 1-2 years old) and starting talking to the passenger next to my mom and her–and said “This my mommy” and then proceeded to point and say… “This my mommy’s boobies” –so hilarious!
My mom must have been morified. And I’m pretty sure it was a flight to Australia, so thats a lot of awkward hours to endure.
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Haha- so funny!
xo,
s
Love these Clara stories!
I was at a seafood restaurant with my sister’s family years ago and my nephew was about three. As the food was arriving at the table, he got so excited, he yelled ‘My daddy’s got crabs!’ at the top of his lungs. So funny!!
I was guilty of not understanding that calling someone “fat” could be insulting. When I was about 5, I was going through a portrait drawing phase. One night we had our neighbors over for dinner and I was excited to have new people in the house to sit for crayon portraits. I was getting ready to start drawing our neighbor’s picture when I casually prefaced with, “Oh, don’t worry…I won’t draw you as fat as you really are.” Needless to say, my mom and I had to have a little chat the next day.
Too funny! All these stories remind me of a good one my papa likes to tell about me. I was about five years old, and my papa was in the Navy. Often times, I would come to work with him. We were in the hallway at his work one day, and a group of Marines walked by, and I VERY LOUDLY asked my papa, “Daddy, are those the ones you say are stupid?” Needless to say, he was not very happy, lol.
Clara. Is. Great.
Hilarious!
I have had some good “poop” conversations with my 3 year old. The most amusing was while skyping with my husband who is deployed. She was chatting him up and out of nowhere she announces “Daddy, I poop!” He laughed and said yes you do. The confirmation led to further discussion. “Daddy, Mommy poops! Daddy Ryan (her little brother) poops! Daddy, do you poop?” Daddy was choking he was laughing so hard ;)
lol I loved reading all these stories!
When my daughter was about 3, she was “tidying” and “organizing” her room with my 9 year-old neice when my neice told her, in Portuguese, to put the clothes on hangers. My daughter yells at me really loudly, in English, “MOMMY!! I NEED A HOOKER!” It was hilarious!!!
Her translations have been priceless.
Another exmaple: she had gone to the cottage with my mom and when she came home she told me she had “fixed a friend” it took me a while to realize that she was translating literally. In Portuguese, one would say “‘arranjei’ a friend” (“i ‘got” a friend”)but that word, unless used in context, means “to fix”. It’s a great way of seeing their mind at work, and I’m always so happy to see her language skills improving
Haha, so cute!
xo,
s
Classic reading all the stories (pays to be late catching up on all the posts!).
My daughter once insisted very loudly over and over again that a (rather butch looking) woman was a ‘man’ and would NOT accept that she was a ‘lady’. NO MUMMY, THAT’S A MAN she kept saying every time I tried to correct her. The woman wasn’t too impressed.
At the moment she is coming back from the toilet and giving anyone within 100 metres a complete rundown of what she (and anyone who accompanied her) did in the toilet. The other day a woman in Target completely lost it when my daughter announced “I did a poo mummy, and it was a MASSIVE one! Daddy only did a wee”.
Oh man, I would’ve lost it too. Hilarious.
-John