Out of the Mouths of Babes

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Ever wonder what your child thinks of you?

There’s this game going around Facebook where you ask each of your kids a list of questions and see how they compare.  I can’t resist a good time waster challenge, so I got right to it.

Some of the answers made me cringe (1-3), some made me smile (17, 19, and 20) and some just downright confused me (a decent number of Goosie’s answers).

Anyway, here’s what we came up with.  I wonder how their answers will be different in ten years!

Kid’s ages

Magoo: 7

Goosie: 4

1.  What is something your mom always says to you?

Magoo: Can you clean up the room?

Goose: Go outside.  Go outside.  Go outside.

2.  What makes mom happy?

Magoo: When we surprise you and clean up the room and you don’t tell us to.

Goose:  I clean up the whole house.

3.  What makes mom sad?

Magoo:  When we don’t clean up the living room when you say to.

Goose:  That I don’t clean up the house.

4.  How does your mom make you laugh?

Magoo:  When you tickle us.

Goose:  By tickling me

5.  What was your mom like as a child?

Magoo:  Helpful and responsible

Goose:  She likes me

6.  How old is your mom?

Magoo:  37

Goose: 17

7.  How tall is your mom?

Magoo: 6 feet

Goose: 16 feet

8.  What is her favorite thing to do?

Magoo:  Spend time with us and read to us

Goose:  Play with me

9.  What does your mom do when you’re not around?

Magoo:  Read

Goose:  You look for me.  [I love this answer]

10.  If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?

Magoo:  Reading with her kids so much

Goose:  Because if I tell you to play outside, you would get jealous

11.  What is your mom really good at?

Magoo:  Reading

Goose:  Making art with me

12.  What is your mom not very good at?

Magoo:  When someone has to go to another place.  If we have sleepovers you can’t handle it very much.

Goose:  A really, really bad animal

13.  What does your mom do for a job?

Magoo:  Takes care of us

Goose:  Read princess books to me

14.  What is your mom’s favorite food?

Magoo:  Mashed potatoes and gravy and turkey.  Like Thanksgiving

Goose:  Cereal

15.  What makes you proud of your mom?

Magoo:  Tha you are my mom

Goose:  Because I like you

16.  If your mom were a character, who would she be?

Magoo: Cinderella because you help us and Cinderella helps people.  And because you love your family and Cinderella does too.

Goose: Brave

17.  What do you and your mom do together?

Magoo:  Read.  She helps me with my homework.

Goose:  Play games

18.  How are you and your mom the same?

Magoo:  We both like a lot of things.

Goose: Because you are the best mommy in the whole wide world.

19.  How are you and your mom different?

Magoo:  She thinks potty jokes are weird and I think they are funny.

Goose:  Because we read together and have fun.

20.  How do you know your mom loves you?

Magoo:  Because you always say you love us when we get sad or angry.

Goose:  You hug me.

21.  What does your mom like most about your dad?

Magoo:  That he goes to work instead of you and you get to relax and stay here.

Goose:  That you married him.

22.  Where is your mom’s favorite place to go?

Magoo:  Grandma’s house because she likes to see her mother.

Goose:  Walmart with me.  [Side note: There are very few places in the world I detest more than Walmart.  About the only one I can think of is a rundown gas station bathroom in the middle of nowhere with no toilet paper and black sink handles.]

23.  How old was your mom when you were born?

Magoo:  31

Goose: Five-teen

I try not to write too specifically about my kids.  I try to keep their privacy even as I forgo my own.  But these answers just made me smile and think, and I would like to keep them for them to look back on when they are older.

Especially about that comment that I get to just sit around and relax all day.  It was super relaxing today – especially as I was being vomited all over and everyone was asking me for more breakfast as I slipped around in the mess trying to catch the rest of it that was coming at me.  Such serenity.