The Things Kids Say

I've blogged before about the funny things our kids say and how they've become part of our regular conversation. They've recently added a few more funnies, though only time will tell if these become part of the Graham dialect.

Last night I was going to fix fajitas for supper. Sarah Grace asked what we were going to have for supper so I told her, "Fajitas." She said, "What kind of hitas?" My answer, "Fa."

We're nursing a pretty severe diaper rash on Abby right now and I was going to put some baby powder on her this morning to see if that might help. (It didn't; next step may be letting her roll around naked on a piece of plastic on the floor.) As I finished up with the powder, Sarah Grace took the bottle and said, "Is this her power? Oh no, I got power on me."

Today during church, Lon was preaching about legalism and the Pharisees. As a part of his sermon, he mentioned how the Pharisees abhorred death and everything to do with it. Lainey leaned over to me and whispered, "What does 'horred' mean?" I quickly said, "Abhorred, sweetie. It means they hated it a whole lot." She then said, "Well, how did they bury Jesus in the tomb then?" Not wanting to whisper all through church, I leaned over and told her that I'd tell her later. She said, "No, I want to know now." I quickly and quietly gave her an answer that seemed to satisfy her curiosity.

And one more funny thing that kids say that doesn't involve our kids. Last year at our church camp out, a then 7 year old boy was playing horseshoes with several of the men. Not quite understanding the scoring system and what different things were called, he asked, "So, how much is a hooker worth?" One of the guys said, "Oh, about the same as a ringer." Kind of makes you what kind of church we go to where they talk about "horred" and how much a hooker is worth!