oh that is great. i have so loved ready this thred. i will be adding about my son who is now 4, but typically i cant think of anything of hand. sods law lol.
When my daughter was about 3, and using a public restroom was still a big production, she was off at the mall with her mom one Sunday afternoon. There had been Communion at church that morning. As she was sitting in the stall and mom was waiting for her to finish, all of a sudden the kid piped up, “Body of Christ, given for you! Body of Christ, given for you!” My wife told me later, she could only imagine what the other women in the restroom thought they were doing!!
When my son was about 4, we were getting out of the car one evening after a hard day at work and preschool respectively. All of a sudden he stood beside the car, put his right hand up in the air, and said, “Heil Hitler!” I’m still surprised I didn’t actually go ballistic, but I very calmly asked him where he learned that from. He very cheerfully replied, “Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music!!” Leave it to my son to take one of the most squeaky clean movies of all time and repeat the one thing out of it that would be objectionable. Our biggest worry was that he would repeat it at school and get his friends to start doing it, so I explained what was going on to his teacher so they would understand the situation if it happened. The expression on her face was just priceless.
And one last one, one day all four of us were at the grocery store–son was about 4, daughter was about 7. I was in line to check out with the kids while Mom went to pick up one last item. I lost sight of the kids for a couple moments. They reappeared shortly, beaming and holding a carton of mint chocolate chip ice cream. My daughter said, “Mom told us to give this to you to put it in the cart with the other stuff we’re buying.” I said, “No she didn’t. Go put that back in the freezer where you found it.” She put on her finest Lil’ Miss Innocent expression and said, “How do you know Mom didn’t tell us to get it?” I said, “Because your mom absolutely HATES mint chocolate chip ice cream. Now go put it back.” All the other people in line got a big laugh out of it.