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Isn't it great to listen to preschoolers having a conversation? This week we went to the park with friends. I offered to pick up and bring with us a friend since her brother was home sick, and I thought it would be nice to give her mother a break (she is sick too). Anyway, there we are with five 4 year olds climbing the play structure, all while listening to them discuss the illness of the our friend's twin brother.
B: Hi K! How is R doing?
K: He's sick.
M: What does he have? What's wrong with him?
K: He has a tummy flu.
M: What's that?
B: Did he throw up?
K: yes, lots
M: He throw upped?
K: yes, lots & lots
M: Oh No! He THROW UPPED? MOMMY!! Did you know that R throw upped!!??
K: but it's a good thing
M: it is?
K: yes, cause you know, throw upping is a good thing cause it gets rid of the bugs in his tummy
M (genuinely horrified): WHAAAT? He has BUGS in his TUMMY?
B: Hi K! How is R doing?
K: He's sick.
M: What does he have? What's wrong with him?
K: He has a tummy flu.
M: What's that?
B: Did he throw up?
K: yes, lots
M: He throw upped?
K: yes, lots & lots
M: Oh No! He THROW UPPED? MOMMY!! Did you know that R throw upped!!??
K: but it's a good thing
M: it is?
K: yes, cause you know, throw upping is a good thing cause it gets rid of the bugs in his tummy
M (genuinely horrified): WHAAAT? He has BUGS in his TUMMY?
posted by nancy at 11:58 AM
5 Comments:
Oh, god, yes. ALWAYS have to listen in. Once, when Liv was about four, a friend of hers had strep throat and her mom and I were discussing symptoms (yellow dots in the throat).
Later that afternoon, Liv came up to me in tears. Could I just check and make sure that there were no yellow ducks in her throat? She was so scared.
awwwww.
Make sure you write all of these down.
Too Funny. I love how they take things so literally.
Nathan is moving on from that. he can even make a play on words now.
Hugs
I love listening in on the conversations. I keep meaning to bring out my video recorder to catch a few of those, but always seem to forget.
I totally love those conversations! You never know what they're going to take literally, what they're going to think is cool, and what's going to scare the crap out of them.
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