Funny Children

I have the best story ever about a little five year old boy with a preoperational brain who can read very well... Tommy, Taylor and I were on our way to visit my sister and her kids. Tommy started up a conversation. He said "Mom, you know that green "magic" tape?" I said yes. (Tommy was referring to regular old scotch tape.) "Well," he said, "It doesn't work." I asked why not. He said that he put some on his finger and waved his finger around while saying "hocus pocus." I knew where this was headed and was trying to keep a strait face. I asked, "what was supposed to happen?" He told me that the package on the tape read "disappearing" and he thought that if he put some on his finger and said the magic words then the tape would disappear. I thought that his logic was the cutest thing ever. I have laughed and laughed about it.

Now a simpler but quite funny and cute story about a sassy three year old girl. Taylor wanted a snack, and she asked her daddy to get her a granola barf. After looking in the pantry, Emmett told her that he couldn't find a granola bar. Taylor replied "Dad, think about it. It's in the second pantry." She was referring to the food storage closet. Emmett turned to me, shaking his head, "Just think about it? Where did that come from?" Children repeat what they hear. Maybe Emmett and I need to be more careful in the ways in which we respond to our children.