Kids say the darndest things.

Since I've been home, I've been babysitting quite regularly. These kids do some rather hilarious things while I am watching them.

I always come home from these adventures with funny stories to tell. I figured I'd just share a couple of the funny ones with all my devoted readers.

Millie:
I'll start off with Millie. Millie is two years old and cute as a button. She doesn't really like babysitters. Millie is in my ward. They are pretty new to the ward and her mom is in YW with the Mia Maids and her dad is the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric. So our families know each other pretty well (with my dad in bishopric, my mom in PEC with them and my sister in YW). Well, Millie's mom had to go and help out at the elementary school for a little while one afternoon so she brought Millie over here (to my house).

Millie and I watched her Barbie movie that she brought over (The Princess and the Pauper) and we just watched that. Usually Millie doesn't like babysitters but that day she was pretty good. During the movie, while the characters were kissing (or about to kiss) she would cover her eyes and tell me how yucky it is. Cute.

She did skin her knees that day and she wouldn't walk (which is pretty understandable and expected for a 2 year old). But during the movie, she leaned over and told me that she could crawl, she just couldn't walk. OBVIOUSLY. She was so silly about it because I'm pretty positive that it would hurt more to crawl on skinned knees than to walk on your legs. The next day we had a ward activity and her parents told me that she kept crawling until she miraculously was healed a couple hours before the activity. So funny.

This past week, we had their whole family over for FHE because we bought lots of dessert at the dessert auction (activity mentioned previously) and so we had to share. Millie LOVES pink. She's convinced that her eyes are pink. You can ask her what color your eyes are or anyone else's and she'll tell you (blue, brown, black, etc) but if you ask her what color her eyes are, she'll say "PINK!!". I guess that's what happens when you have two older brothers...

Charlie:

Charlie is three (and in my sunbeam class!) and his younger sister is 18 months (I think). Well, his mom was my mom's 1st counselor in Relief Society but she was just put in as Young Women's President a couple of weeks ago. But I would babysit them while our moms would go and visit people in the ward.

During late December-early January Charlie and family were in Utah for Charlie's uncle's wedding. I knew about the wedding because my mom is in the know. Well, I babysat these two kids last week and I saw the wedding announcement on the fridge so I asked Charlie about it. He used some cute name to tell me that it was his Uncle ____'s wedding. Then he informed me that his parents were "going to get married on Saturday. Or maybe Wednesday." Cute kid. (His parents have been married for 5 years or so, he just wants to be there for it it seems...)

Sadie:

Sadie is almost three and she is one of my favorite kids to babysit for because both her and her brother (James, 5) are old enough to talk and actually play. There aren't fussy toddlers just playing with adorable little kids. Well, they used to live in our ward like 4 years ago and I would babysit James and baby Sadie. They moved a couple of times since then (up to Stanford for their dad to go to school) but now they're back in our stake (in our neighboring ward) and so I've babysat for them like 4 times in the past 3 weeks.

Anyway, I was over there during the day because their mom had to go to the dentist and we were sitting on their couch which is parallel to their piano and Sadie got off my lap and said "Let's sing songs!" So I said "Okay." But then she wanted me to play the piano. And I did kinda learn how to play the piano for 10 years or so but I wasn't ever very good because I never practiced. I tried to tell Sadie that I didn't know how play the piano. She replied by saying "Sure ya do! I'll teach ya." So then she banged on the keys to show me how to play the piano. When I kept trying to tell her I didn't know how, she kept responding the same way. Eventually, I went over and sat on the piano bench and she got on my lap and started picking our songs for me to play. I (badly) played the right hand of them but luckily, her mom came home soon and Sadie immediately asked her mom "Can you come and sing songs with me?"

Last Friday, I was over at their house again and they were eating their dinner and their mom asked Sadie what kind of sauce she wanted on her spaghetti. Sadie responded by saying, "I was ice cream on my spaghetti." Definitely my kind of girl. Especially since earlier that day, my mom asked me what I wanted for dinner and I said, "ice cream."

They do lots of funny things but those were definitely the funniest. Although, I don't know if you'll will appreciate these stories as much as I did so sorry I'm not a very good story teller.