What things have your child(ren) said or done to make you smile?

um, i dont have kids( im not old enough to have em) but there are times when my 2 year old baby sister says don’t cry and sorry.
she sounds and looks sooooo cute and adorable when she says those things and i feel very proud to be her elder sister.

Oh tons & tons & tons (repeat to fade) of stuff. It’s the little things that mean the most though. Just a random hug or a kiss out of the blue is enough to make me melt everytime :¬)

@noelleptc LOLZ i was wondering . . .

My son just did something a few minutes ago. We were counting and rolling up his change and offered him some of our change if he helped us count and roll ours as well. Once we finished rolling all the change and figured out how much he had with what we were giving him from ours, he had about $150 and we had about $120. He asked me what we could get for $270 for the baby. I said, we could get the crib. He then said “Let’s do that. I’ll use my money and you use yours and we’ll get the baby it’s crib”. My eyes watered from it. I thought it was so sweet of him to want to do that.

Instead of buying the crib for the baby, we put all the money in his savings account (minus a few bucks for him to keep in his wallet). :-)

Besides insisting on wearing fancy dresses all the time, she is taking in a second language (one that her daddy taught himself how to speak but no other family member does) like a NASCAR driver to pit row. Not bad for someone who is still “pre-school aged”.

My cousin’s young daughter has just gotten into using leet speak (I.e. LoL; BRB etc) she spent Sunday speaking to everyone in these acronyms & while at dinner last night she asked her dad “daddy could you please pass the BS?” (BBQ sauce) everyone at the table fell out laughing about it. I thought it was too cute & too funny.

When I was little & just barely potty trained to a point I could go to the bathroom alone I went to the restroom only to realize too late that there was no toilet paper – I called for my parents who came running to see what the emergency was – my dad went to get the tp while mom talked to me – when dad came back he motioned as if he was going to toss me the tp roll – I freaked out & yelled out “no don’t throw it dad – my bottom can’t hold onto the seat like yours & moms can” every time my parents tell that story I giggle at how cute I must have been before I became my old self with a bottom that can hold onto the seat with no problem lol.

My brother when he was little used to want to always hang out with me & my friends cause he had a crush on them – he would beg to sit next to them & he’d look at me with these sweet puppy dog eyes asking to take my seat & say “if you let me sit by charity & Sarah I’ll be your bestest friend” even though he annoyed me most times I had to give up my seat just cause he was that cute.

Thanks to everyone for making me smile. These are all the things that remind me to, love them while their little as much as I can, because they don’t stay that way for long. Sometimes they can be so sweet or little monsters depending on the day

@Jenniehowell so funny…...I don’t have any problems holding myself on the potty seat anymore either

I overheard my fiancee’s daughter tell one of her brothers, “I like skinny minnie, she’s always happy and makes dad laugh a lot.” That made my day.

When my youngest son was 4 he spent the whole year figuring out how to be funny. We were sitting waiting while my daughter had her swimming lesson. He told me a joke that was funny and we both laughed. He then proceeded to tell the joke again and again. On the forth repetition he stopped mid-joke and said, “That’s not funny anymore.” That made me laugh and laugh.

When my daughter was 6 she was expanding her vocabulary and spat out this statement:

“This is a titillating walnut!” She’s 13 and we still bug her about that.

My 1 year old runs to me when something scares him. He knows I’ll always sweep him up and hug him. Although I dislike him being frightened, it makes me smile that I’m “that person” for him that he can run to.

When our oldest son was 14 he told us how lucky he was to have normal parents. He said most of his friends were dealing with so much stress and family drama. At that moment he appreciated us (still does).

To hear this was such a relief. We have very little money and the normal stresses of a working class poor family. We did something right though. Makes the heart feel good.

Not my kid, but it was amusing.
I was working the rotisserie ovens yesterday when a little boy, around 6 or 7, came up to the kiosk.
“Why are you cooking those chickens?” he asked.
“So that people can buy them for lunch,” I replied.
“How could you do that to those precious little chickens? ~” he asked. You could hear the tilde in his voice.
I put on my best matter-of-fact grin and replied, “For the money. We are cold, cruel capitalists.”
The boy wandered off, apparently satisfied with the answer. I can only wonder how his parents went about answering the inevitable, “what’s a capitalist?”

He’s only 16 weeks but he makes me beam from ear to ear when he says “ooh oooh ooh aarrr”!

At work a customer was loading her groceries up onto my checkout conveyor belt and her little daughter, aged maybe 5 or 6? wandered along to the till end, where I had started scanning and bagging the groceries which had already reached me. “What’s wrong with your hands?” she asked, (I have to wear support straps on my hands/wrists) well you can’t say arthritis to a little one so I said “it’s being old honey” smiled at her and kept bagging. She went very quiet, her mum wandered along and helped me pack her shopping and we got chatting. Out of nowhere this little hand crept up and tugged on the sleeve of her jacket. “Mum…. will I get sore hands when I’m old?” We both smiled and her mum said “no sweetheart, not everybody gets sore hands”. Again, she went quiet for a few minutes while her Mum and I chatted and bagged, and then up piped this little voice again “well… that lady must have been bad then!” I laughed so hard, her mum laughed too and it kept me smiling all afternoon. Just wonderful, and it still makes me smile :-)

On my son’s first day of school, my mom met him at the bus stop and tried to engage him in some conversation about school.
So how was school? OK, he says.
Did you see any of your friends? Yes, he says.
What did they give you for lunch? A belly ache, he says!!

@dreamer31 glad you got a laugh – here’s another one…

I remember someone telling this story & I’ll repeat it though I can’t recall who
it was.

A high level executive woman with a little girl had just gotten off work & picked up the little girl from school. In the back seat was the executive’s hands free phone headset from the office. The little girl put it on her head & as the mother watched in the rear view mirror she imagined her child following in her footsteps & becoming a successful exec. As she smiled contentedly at the thought of this wonderful life for her child, the daughter piped up & said, “welcome to mcdonald’s would you like fries with that?” At this point the mother realized perhaps she’d swung thru the drive-thru one time too many. LoL

I suppose our kids don’t always follow in our footsteps or become what we dreamed them to be, but unconditional love still keeps us willing to swoop in & squeeze them full of love no matter the day.