The things they say!

lulu_92

juliedotcom wrote: »

when my niece was around 3 or 4 we were in a queue at Tesco and she gestured to the man in the next line to us who had that line of hair around the side of his head that balding men have and told me very loudly to "Look! That man has grown through his hair!!" mortified doesn't cut it! luckily he just laughed!

It's things like this that make me love kids. I would never have thought that when looking at a balding man!

kingfisherblue

When I was a teenager, we had a couple of Vietnamese boat people join our school (apologies if my terminology is out of date). The girl was in my class and she joined my group of friends. One day, after she had been at school for a few months, she came to me and said that she was sorry that I was very poor. I asked her what she meant. She told me that another girl in our class had told her that I was so poor we couldn't afford an upstairs in our house. I lived in a bungalow.....

Today, my son (the one with Down's Syndrome) decided to write a letter. I am applying for funding from a disability charity for help towards making our back garden suitable for him to grow vegetables. He wanted to write about his veggies. A couple of quotes from his letter, complete with his own spellings and a translation saying what he actually means:

Mustrooms are big strong - mushrooms make you big and strong

Strawberry are made you sticky and sideie I like strawberry - strawberries make you sticky and are slidey (that is, slide out of your fingers, he means when chopped up)

Apples are live in trees - apples grow on trees

Punpkin for Helooween and Cinderelta - he wants to grow pumpkins for Hallowe'en and he is also saying that there was a pumpkin in Cinderella

He has an unusual sentence structure, but I'm proud that he has tried. I could read it all except sideie.

looby1975

aww kingfisher, what a lovely heartfelt letter from your son. Fingers crossed you will be awarded funding for his garden, I really love the apples live in trees section, thats spot on

kingfisherblue

Thanks looby, it is a two stage application process and will be a while before we know if we are successful. If everything goes ahead, my son should be able to start growing his veggies next Spring. Funnily enough, he doesn't eat apples. He was born with a number of digestive conditions including an incomplete oesophagus, which he calls his broken foodpipe, and has feeding difficulties. I'll enjoy his home grown apples though!

thatgirlsam

My son tried to attract the waiters attention in a restaurant by shouting 'SERVANT'


Embarrassing!

CH27

kingfisherblue wrote: »

When I was a teenager, we had a couple of Vietnamese boat people join our school (apologies if my terminology is out of date). The girl was in my class and she joined my group of friends. One day, after she had been at school for a few months, she came to me and said that she was sorry that I was very poor. I asked her what she meant. She told me that another girl in our class had told her that I was so poor we couldn't afford an upstairs in our house. I lived in a bungalow.....

Today, my son (the one with Down's Syndrome) decided to write a letter. I am applying for funding from a disability charity for help towards making our back garden suitable for him to grow vegetables. He wanted to write about his veggies. A couple of quotes from his letter, complete with his own spellings and a translation saying what he actually means:

Mustrooms are big strong - mushrooms make you big and strong

Strawberry are made you sticky and sideie I like strawberry - strawberries make you sticky and are slidey (that is, slide out of your fingers, he means when chopped up)

Apples are live in trees - apples grow on trees

Punpkin for Helooween and Cinderelta - he wants to grow pumpkins for Hallowe'en and he is also saying that there was a pumpkin in Cinderella

He has an unusual sentence structure, but I'm proud that he has tried. I could read it all except sideie.

I do hope you get the funding.

jjj1980

I have a habit of cuddling my 4 year old daughter and saying "aw, my little baby girl". Last week she hugged me back and said:

"Aw my big fat mummy"

pollypenny

When my daughter was about 2 and a half, she peered closely at me before announcing 'You've got teeth all over your mouth just like a dinosaur '.

Fierce mummy!

fireyfirenze

jjj1980 wrote: »

I have a habit of cuddling my 4 year old daughter and saying "aw, my little baby girl". Last week she hugged me back and said:

"Aw my big fat mummy"

this made me really giggle! aw! my niece told me once I couldn't fit in the back of the car between the 2 child seats as my bum was too big. she said it really innocently though

RuthnJasper

kingfisherblue wrote: »

Today, my son (the one with Down's Syndrome) decided to write a letter. I am applying for funding from a disability charity for help towards making our back garden suitable for him to grow vegetables. He wanted to write about his veggies. A couple of quotes from his letter, complete with his own spellings and a translation saying what he actually means:

Mustrooms are big strong - mushrooms make you big and strong

Strawberry are made you sticky and sideie I like strawberry - strawberries make you sticky and are slidey (that is, slide out of your fingers, he means when chopped up)

Apples are live in trees - apples grow on trees

Punpkin for Helooween and Cinderelta - he wants to grow pumpkins for Hallowe'en and he is also saying that there was a pumpkin in Cinderella

He has an unusual sentence structure, but I'm proud that he has tried. I could read it all except sideie.

And the thing about this is... he is absolutely right! Couldn't have come up with better descriptions myself. :T