Say Cheese!!

Most of the kiddos I know love having their picture taken!  More so, they like clowning for the camera.  It can be so funny (or frustrating) trying to get them to just give a nice smile!  I like the silly giggles that often occur when I pull out the camera and start snapping pictures.  Silly Billies!

So when you see a nice, posed picture like this one, for example:

you must realize that there were several taken before that, which looked more like this:

And that's just perfectly fine!  We all need to let our sillies out from time to time. 

I love taking pictures, capturing moments.  And I get so many different reactions when I say " Say Cheese!"  

Here are some wonderful examples.

Tongues out!!  

Then there are the wonderful smiles!! 

And then I had a fun surprise!  The funniest, most unexpected face I've ever seen!  I heard a little voice... "Cheese!  Cheese!" I looked down and there she was, desperately wanting me to take her picture. : )

Thought for the day -- enjoy all of your little funny faces!  Give them hugs and kisses and treasure each passing day.  Till next time!  

Kid-isms!

Yes, kids DO say often the darndest things! It's certainly one the fun things I enjoy about being a nanny/childcare worker, hearing some of the ways kids express themselves, and the way they interpret situations and remember events.   I learned early on to write these things down, too!  Amazing that, as amused as I am when the kiddos do say something, I forget what they'd said as the day wears on!
Since I have been writing them down, I have amassed quite a fun collection of tidbits from the kids I've watched over the years.  I thought I'd share them with you - I hope you enjoy them!!
(Kids' names omitted for security)


L: "K-- wore the same pair of underwear all week!"
K: "No I didn't!  That was last month!"

KJ : (practicing Spanish) "Uno, dos, tres, mumble mumblemumble...."
Me: "You got the 'uno, dos, tres' right."
KJ: "No one even taught me that.  I'm part Indian, and Indians speak Spanish, so I just figured it out all by myself!"

Two boys playing army/war ~
L: "Come on, attack!"
K: "I'm not ready!"
L:  "Of course not!  In war, no one is ever ready!"

Girls playing "Doc McStuffins", told me I had a diagnosis and that I needed to drink a glass of water.
Me: "Am I better?"
S: "No, we have to get the diagnosis out."

A boy caught an ant, and I wanted him to let it go again.
Me: "KJ, your ant is sad and lonely.  He misses his family."
KJ: "Oh, no!  L --, my ant is sad and lonely!  You have to help me catch more ants!"

Me: "What is your favorite food?"
KJ: "Sweet foods."
Me: "What foods do you NOT like to eat?"
KJ: "I don't like to eat the food that my brothers like.  If they like to eat it, then I don't like it."

L: "The Seahawks lost to the forty-whiners!  It was so sad!  I had tears in my eyes for five minutes!"

Me: "You should ask Mama to show you pictures of when she was a little girl."

R: "That would be a little bit scary."

Watching Star Wars....

L: "I forget, how does Luke know that Leia is his sister? Don't tell me!" 

Me: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

KJ: "A knight!"

Me: "A knight? Then you'll live in a castle.  Will you have horses and a princess?"

KJ: "No."

Me: "No princess?"

KJ: "Girls are boring."

Leaning over a table with marbles on it to tell me my fortune ...

KJ: "They say.... they say..... You know this fortune thing is fake, right?"

S: (happy) "I'm so excited for when I die, I can go to heaven and see God!  I always wanted to see God!"....(sad) "But I also wanted to go to Disneyland."

Me: "Did you get new shoes?"

R: "Yes, and these are the shoes I wore to the Daddy-Daughter Dance, that hurted my feet."

Me: (Thinking, not saying..) "Welcome to womanhood."

KJ: "This is the order: first, we love God, then we love our family, including you, then we love our friends and the whole world, then we love the TV!" 

Me: "What do you do during the week?"

E: "Nothing."

Me: "Do you play with your ponies?"

E: "No." 

Me: "Do you do crafts?"

E: "No."

Me: "What do you do?"

E: "I give my mom a headache."

That's all this time!  Stay tuned for Kid-isms part 2... maybe in six months...... :)

If you have some fun ones to share with me, I'd love to hear them!