CTKS

Kids say cute things all the time. Adults forget cute things kids say all the time. I really should get a digital recorder, so I have a record of the hilarity I come across daily.

This particular cute thing came about after the wee ones were "in bed". The living room began to get dark, so we got up to turn on some lights, when suddenly, there was a little person (4*), standing right there in the middle of the room, scaring the...dickens out of us. Looking up at his mom ever so trustingly, though groggily, he held up his tiny finger, and with one word, tried to get himself out of trouble for being out of bed so late: Owie.

Last night, I was helping the above mentioned wee person with his supper. After every few forkfuls, he would hold up his hand in the universal sign of 'stop', telling me "Just a minute". He would then reach down, pick up his blankie, and take a few comforting sniffs, put the blankie back down, and say so very nicely "ok. Some more, please."

Several nights ago, when the whole gang was eating around the small kitchen table, one of us must have pretended we were going to sneak something from his plate. He placed his arms in a protective shield around his plate, and told us "back off, guys. This is my plate!"

* Four in birth order, not age.