The Things Kids Do....

[huntr1]

Thats cool that you let you cat wipe his feet on food prep surfaces after he gets out of the litter box

Ok that was cute about timon hitting you for food, but what I find really gross is allowing him on the kitchen counters.

No cats on the kitchen counter or table in my house if I can prevent it.

 

[nomoney]

Chupacabra is from Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico.

maybe it was IN scooby doo....but it's not FROM scooby doo. It's a real folklore from Mexico and Puerto Rico about a "goat killer" killing animals in those places (and others I think)....they were finding animals with two puncture wounds to the neck and all the blood drained.

 

[Masey]

Just last night shortly after bedtime my youngest (8 y/o) little girl called me into her bedroom and said with tears streaming down her face “mommy, I don’t ever want to grow up.” Why, I ask. “Because I don’t ever want to leave you or this house.” Its ok sweet girl, you can grow up and still live with me in this house - “but daddy said I have to go away to college.” Oh, well you can just go to a local college and still live at home, sweety. “Really? Thank you mommy!”

My only regret is that I didn’t get it on video so I could replay it for her when she turns 15 and can’t wait to move out!

 

[Nickel]

Just last night shortly after bedtime my youngest (8 y/o) little girl called me into her bedroom and said with tears streaming down her face “mommy, I don’t ever want to grow up.” Why, I ask. “Because I don’t ever want to leave you or this house.” Its ok sweet girl, you can grow up and still live with me in this house - “but daddy said I have to go away to college.” Oh, well you can just go to a local college and still live at home, sweety. “Really? Thank you mommy!”

My only regret is that I didn’t get it on video so I could replay it for her when she turns 15 and can’t wait to move out!

My four year old told me the other day that his "heart stopped". I asked him why it stopped, and he said "I was thirsty. So I drank some water and it started again".

 

[nomoney]

My 5 year old wanted some left over pizza a week or so ago. I asked him if he wanted it cold or heated up.
He proceeds to tell me "Mom, don't you know that all cold things go to your brain and all warm things go to your tummy?"
I say "no, I had no clue...so does that mean you want it cold or warm? (trying not to laugh).....
boy with this look like duh on his face "mom, I want it warmed up, I don't want my head to blow up"....
me(really trying not to smirk)..."does this mean I have to warm up everything for now on now that you found that out?"
HIM "ya, I think that would be best"....
ME (with a very serious worried look)" but what about kool-aid and ice cream??!"

HIM (with this priceless look like OMG!!! What am I going to do??!! )...(big sigh) "I think I can risk those, I haven't blowed up yet".

 

[rack'm]

My 5 year old wanted some left over pizza a week or so ago. I asked him if he wanted it cold or heated up.
He proceeds to tell me "Mom, don't you know that all cold things go to your brain and all warm things go to your tummy?"
I say "no, I had no clue...so does that mean you want it cold or warm? (trying not to laugh).....
boy with this look like duh on his face "mom, I want it warmed up, I don't want my head to blow up"....
me(really trying not to smirk)..."does this mean I have to warm up everything for now on now that you found that out?"
HIM "ya, I think that would be best"....
ME (with a very serious worried look)" but what about kool-aid and ice cream??!"

HIM (with this priceless look like OMG!!! What am I going to do??!! )...(big sigh) "I think I can risk those, I haven't blowed up yet".

 

[Masey]

My four year old told me the other day that his "heart stopped". I asked him why it stopped, and he said "I was thirsty. So I drank some water and it started again".

I explained to my youngest when she was 4 that once you pick a flower, you have to put it in water to keep it from dying. Later that day I found a paper dixie cup with water in it on her bedroom dresser with two strands of her hair in it that her older sibling had pulled out.

 

[nomoney]

My oldest (7) went fishing a few months ago. One of his cubscout things is to go fishing and be able to name and discuss 4 different types of fish. So afterwards I was talking to him about the types of fish he caught and what they looked like and felt like and how he had to hold them ...etc......

He's going down the list of the different types he had caught....

catfish,small bass, etc....then he stops and is trying really hard to remember what the last one was.....he finally goes "oh! and I caught a sh!tty fish!" I'm like.."a sh!tty fish? Are you sure? I've never heard of that kind"...he's dead serious "ya, it's a sh!tty fish! That's what dad called it." (from the back room I hear hubby)..."for the third time, I said it was a crappy."

 

[Chasey_Lane]

Ok that was cute about timon hitting you for food, but what I find really gross is allowing him on the kitchen counters.

OMG, and I don't sanitize my hands after I touch a door knob, and I handle a gazillion germ-infested papers per day. Not to mention, I sometimes use public restrooms...

 

[nomoney]

OMG, and I don't sanitize my hands after I touch a door knob, and I handle a gazillion germ-infested papers per day. Not to mention, I sometimes use public restrooms...

ahhh...but do you play with cat sh!t before you make dinner?

 

[Chasey_Lane]

ahhh...but do you play with cat sh!t before you make dinner?

If I change the litter box.

 

[PrepH4U]

OMG, and I don't sanitize my hands after I touch a door knob, and I handle a gazillion germ-infested papers per day. Not to mention, I sometimes use public restrooms...

Ok you cannot control the germs from the outside, but you can control the act of spreading litter box germs on your counter. Big difference, but then I really don't care how you maintain your house either. My comment was strictly from the point, that I would not allow it, to each their own I guess. I didn't know I hit a sore spot.

 

[huntr1]

maybe it was IN scooby doo....but it's not FROM scooby doo. It's a real folklore from Mexico and Puerto Rico about a "goat killer" killing animals in those places (and others I think)....they were finding animals with two puncture wounds to the neck and all the blood drained.

Ah. There's the problem. I grew up in P.G. Co. If it didn't happen in America or Europe, involve Americans or Europeans or Blacks, they didn't teach us about it. Therefor, I never heard of the Chupacabra, to the best of my recollection, until I saw it on Scooby Doo as my kids were watching it. Since
hborror was referring to a little kid, I assumed they got it from the same source. Either way, thanks for the info. Now I know it is a real legend. Maybe I can work this into a Cub Scout program somehow.

Got a picture of that shitty fish that I can show my den?

 

[Chasey_Lane]

Ok you cannot control the germs from the outside, but you can control the act of spreading litter box germs on your counter. Big difference, but then I really don't care how you maintain your house either. My comment was strictly from the point, that I would not allow it, to each their own I guess. I didn't know I hit a sore spot.

And...I let the dogs run around inside and get on furniture after they've been walking outside (probably stepping in feces) and rolling around in the dirt where lord knows what lives in it...

 

[nomoney]

Ah. There's the problem. I grew up in P.G. Co. If it didn't happen in America or Europe, involve Americans or Europeans or Blacks, they didn't teach us about it. Therefor, I never heard of the Chupacabra, to the best of my recollection, until I saw it on Scooby Doo as my kids were watching it. Since
hborror was referring to a little kid, I assumed they got it from the same source. Either way, thanks for the info. Now I know it is a real legend. Maybe I can work this into a Cub Scout program somehow.

Got a picture of that shitty fish that I can show my den?

I got to learn all aobut the chupacabra from my ex roomate (she was puerto rican). There's tons of sites with more info if and when you need it.

I got a pic that the 7 year old drew of it it was all catch and release and we didn't have the camera with us that time.

 

[nomoney]

And...I let the dogs run around inside and get on furniture after they've been walking outside (probably stepping in feces) and rolling around in the dirt where lord knows what lives in it...

ahhhh.......but do they walk on your counters? Or do you prepare food on your couch?

 

[Chasey_Lane]

ahhhh.......but do they walk on your counters? Or do you prepare food on your couch?

Of course not; they can't reach the counter. And why would I drag food from the kitchen to the living room?

 

[nomoney]

Of course not; they can't reach the counter. And why would I drag food from the kitchen to the living room?

well then what you're saying about the dog germs doesn't make sense. It has nothing to do with the cat on the counter that was commented on.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

well then what you're saying about the dog germs doesn't make sense. It has nothing to do with the cat on the counter that was commented on.

Sure it does; germs are germs. Dogs walk on the carpet, I lay on the carpet playing with them, I get up open the fridge (germs on handle) I lay something on the counter (germs on counter) and it continues.

There is a thing called 409 and it kills 99.97% of germs and can be used on household surfaces.

 

[PrepH4U]

Sure it does; germs are germs. Dogs walk on the carpet, I lay on the carpet playing with them, I get up open the fridge (germs on handle) I lay something on the counter (germs on counter) and it continues.

There is a thing called 409 and it kills 99.97% of germs and can be used on household surfaces.

Well thats good that you always wipe off the germs & cat hair off your countertops before you start cooking.