Remembering my son as a very young child

[kjfreeze]

He's eleven now, but I wrote down things back then that make me laugh. Just had to share a few.

Our son is learning to rhyme. He can barely speak but his vocabulary seems to be growing by the hour.
Today’s rhyming word is duck.
So here we go.
“Oh, duck . . . Oh, ____.”
Yes, that’s right. You guessed correctly. The word begins with an F.
He says it with excitement too because he’s rhyming.
“Oh, duck . . . Oh, ____.” He also pronounces it with such clarity.
I promise, he didn’t hear it from me or his mother.
“Oh, duck . . . Oh, ____.”
How do you stop it?

Our three-year-old son asked his mom, “What are you doing?”
“I’m reading the paper.” She replied.
“Who are all those people?” The inquiring mind asked.
“It’s the obituary.”
“What’s an obit two terry?”
“They are all people who have recently died.”
“Why are they all smiling?”

My wife loved singing our son to sleep. She had a ton of songs she had memorized. I didn’t. When it was my time to put him to bed, I sing the only songs I knew. One of them goes as follows: “Let me tell you ‘bout a man named Jed. A poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed…”
Another one went like this: “Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana batman.”
And one of my all-time favorites: “It’s a story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls…”

 

[fatman76]

So I work on my own cars when I’m able to. My youngest was about 3 (today is his 13th bday) when my wife’s V8 BMW X5 developed a nasty valve cover leak. I also decided to rebuild the PCV system which is what caused the oil pressure buildup and the subsequent leak.

Well I was in the garage for over two days with the door to the mudroom open. He’d come out and check on me from time to time because he has always liked his dad a lot. I had some bad moments and used some colorful language, it was kind of a bitch job.

Anyway, he was walking up to the Church where he went to preschool a few days later and cool as a cucumber looked up at his mom and said “It’s fvcking cold out here”. Perfect inflection and use.

We couldn’t even be mad it was so cute.

 

[BillCutting4585]

So I work on my own cars when I’m able to. My youngest was about 3 (today is his 13th bday) when my wife’s V8 BMW X5 developed a nasty valve cover leak. I also decided to rebuild the PCV system which is what caused the oil pressure buildup and the subsequent leak.

Well I was in the garage for over two days with the door to the mudroom open. He’d come out and check on me from time to time because he has always liked his dad a lot. I had some bad moments and used some colorful language, it was kind of a bitch job.

Anyway, he was walking up to the Church where he went to preschool a few days later and cool as a cucumber looked up at his mom and said “It’s fvcking cold out here”. Perfect inflection and use.

We couldn’t even be mad it was so cute.

That’s awesome, cute kiddo

 

[BamaFan1137]

So I work on my own cars when I’m able to. My youngest was about 3 (today is his 13th bday) when my wife’s V8 BMW X5 developed a nasty valve cover leak. I also decided to rebuild the PCV system which is what caused the oil pressure buildup and the subsequent leak.

Well I was in the garage for over two days with the door to the mudroom open. He’d come out and check on me from time to time because he has always liked his dad a lot. I had some bad moments and used some colorful language, it was kind of a bitch job.

Anyway, he was walking up to the Church where he went to preschool a few days later and cool as a cucumber looked up at his mom and said “It’s fvcking cold out here”. Perfect inflection and use.

We couldn’t even be mad it was so cute.

Decorating our Christmas tree, my wife asked my daughter (she had turned 4 a few days earlier) how the tree looked. She rubbed her chin, thought for a minute before pointing to a limb and said, "that sumbitch right there doesn't have enough shiny stuff (tinsel) on it!"

As you said, perfect inflection and perfect usage of the words.

I said, "this sumbitch?" And she replied, "yep...that sumbitch."

Not my proudest moment because there was little doubt about where she had picked it up.

 

[BillCutting4585]

Decorating our Christmas tree, my wife asked my daughter (she had turned 4 a few days earlier) how the tree looked. She rubbed her chin, thought for a minute before pointing to a limb and said, "that sumbitch right there doesn't have enough shiny stuff (tinsel) on it!"

As you said, perfect inflection and perfect usage of the words.

I said, "this sumbitch?" And she replied, "yep...that sumbitch."

Not my proudest moment because there was little doubt about where she had picked it up.

Wear that like a badge of honor brotha

 

[BamaFan1137]

Wear that like a badge of honor brotha

It's become a Christmas tradition to point out the sumbitch without enough tinsel. I can't wait to have grandkids!!!

 

[DCandtheUTBand]

My son was not very verbal. He would say "I want that." So no "cute" cursing story to share. He was in speech right up through 4th grade.

However his little brain was active. He started walking around 1 yr and we had an 8 panel play pen we put him in. My daughter learned to climb over it at 3. He lifted it up and crawled under it at 18 months. We had a TV in his room and one in the living room and I would move a portable DVD player between them. This used the color coded 3 wire RCA connectors. Also at 18 months he was moving the player between rooms and playing his videos himself.

One time I went to pick him up from Fathers Day Out and he was sitting there doing nothing while other kids were doing the puzzle of putting pegs in holes. I was concerned but the teacher informed me he had already done it. She said he took the top off of it and put all the pieces in at one time.

We built a Millennium Falcon lego rated age 14 when he was 6.

Today @14 he is a Minecraft Engineer and wants to play the stock market. LOL He is in Scouts and plays soccer so he does get out of the boy cave from time to time. We will resume MMA and church youth group at some point this year.

 

[greyghost14]

My son was about 6 or 7 if I remember correctly and we just got to the hotel room the night before heading over to Universal the next day.
He was rummaging through the desk drawers (because he would see me do it) and came across a black book.
He took it out and abruptly asked, “daddy, what is holly bibble” ?
Needless to say his mother and I broke out laughing real hard.

To this day, he’s now 17 and in about a month he’ll be heading to Parris Island to start basic, we still bring it up and we all get a good laugh.

 

[BillCutting4585]

My son was about 6 or 7 if I remember correctly and we just got to the hotel room the night before heading over to Universal the next day.
He was rummaging through the desk drawers (because he would see me do it) and came across a black book.
He took it out and abruptly asked, “daddy, what is holly bibble” ?
Needless to say his mother and I broke out laughing real hard.

To this day, he’s now 17 and in about a month he’ll be heading to Parris Island to start basic, we still bring it up and we all get a good laugh.

Tell your son thank you for his service and God bless him

 

[greyghost14]

Tell your son thank you for his service and God bless him

Will do, and thank you for your kind words.

 

[BillCutting4585]

Will do, and thank you for your kind words.

Anyone who serves our country is a real hero, my words are the least I can do to show my gratitude for anyone who would put their life on the line to protect our country.

 

[greyghost14]

Anyone who serves our country is a real hero, my words are the least I can do to show my gratitude for anyone who would put their life on the line to protect our country.

Particularly in this current set of events.
Thanks again brother.

 

[BamaFan1137]

My son was about 6 or 7 if I remember correctly and we just got to the hotel room the night before heading over to Universal the next day.
He was rummaging through the desk drawers (because he would see me do it) and came across a black book.
He took it out and abruptly asked, “daddy, what is holly bibble” ?
Needless to say his mother and I broke out laughing real hard.

To this day, he’s now 17 and in about a month he’ll be heading to Parris Island to start basic, we still bring it up and we all get a good laugh.

Haha...my daughter used to refer to American flags as American flag girls. No idea why...never figured it out but now I miss it.