Kids Say the Darndest Things

Well,things are always interesting here.  I am so grateful for my basement apartment.  For one thing, it is very nice.  The walls aren't white, like most apartments you rent.  Actually almost every room is a different color.  And as soon as I get organized, I plan to move my bedroom from the only dark room in the apartment (my cave) and switch it with my computer, junk, and if-it-doesn't-have-a-place-throw-it-on-the-floor room. It's horrid. I hate it.  But it's so overwhelming now I don't know where it begin.  I just step over, on and through to get to the computer. Ridiculous right?

But that's not my post.  I think there was once an entire show called "Kids Say the Darndest Things". I just looked, and there was.  It ran from 1952 through 1970, sometimes at the end of another Art Linkletter show, and then as a stand-alone show. For me, that was from the year before I was born until I was 16 or 17.   It was Art Linkletter, asking kids, maybe 4-6 years old, various questions, and their answers were inevitably hilarious.  Later, Bill Cosby brought it back, and I'm enclosing a YouTube link so you can watch. In the beginning, Bill Cosby sets the stage, but wait for it. It goes back in time to Art Linkletter, which most of you won't remember. Some of you might. That's okay. It's still funny.  At the site, there are two of the older  ones in black and white when he is much younger. They are numbered "1 of 2" and "2 of 2".

Art Linkletter, "Kids Say the Darndest Things"

 

All of that to set the stage. My 5 year old grand-daughter came up to me the other day when I was keeping her.  She says, "I'm drinky".  I thought I didn't understand her, so asked her to repeat herself, and she says the same thing.  I realize what she's saying and laugh, and then say, how creative. She's combined what she wants with how she feels. She knows the right word.  Drinky. Funny. (Thirsty and drink =drinky)

Now for this next one, I have photo documentation.  My family (the six of them, my daughter, son-in-law, Brent, Derek and Blake 9 year old twins, and Brandon and Katelyn, 5 year old twins) all went to some kind of outdoor dinosaur museum last night coming back from a one day outing.  Blake had a bat, yes, those winged nocturnal rodents, on his neck, but as soon as he realized it, instead of wanting it off immediately, the first thing he said was, "Get a picture of it!".  Then he was saying, "GET IT OFF!!

Blake with a Bat on his neck

I think that's it for today, folks.  That is life as I see it!