OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES the things children say.

My grand daughter says what she thinks and like most 5 year olds is blunt.

I am trying to lose weight & my little "conscience" pipes up with the indisputable remark,

"Grandad Bob, if you're still trying to lose weight why are you always eating?"

Today she put her face right up close to my face studying the thread veins etched onto my ruddy complexion.She announced

"Grandad Bob, you are cracking up"

She could be right!

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When my son was tiny he often mentioned seeing a nail in the sky
It took me a while to realise he equated some phases of the moon with the trimmings from his fingernails

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When I was over at my daughter's this morning my grandson looked at me and asked "why's grandad yellow?". I told him I'd eaten too many bananas!

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When one of my grandsons was young, he kept asking if we could go to Cleddys.
It took quite some time to work out that he wanted to visit his Uncle Eddie.

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Well when my grandson just started talking he called me by my name for a short while, but it came out as "Jam" for some reason!

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I'd just finished planting up a flower bed when a client came in with her 6 yr old daughter. After chatting for a few minutes daughter said 'I'm going to be a gardener when I grow up.'

'Why?'

'Cos you can play in the muck and you don't get shouted at!'

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As a child, when there was something I wanted and Dragon didn't have the money to get it, she'd say "you can have it when Nelson gets his other eye back". Was sitting on the bus when a man hopped on the bus wearing an eye patch. I turned to Dragon and pointed out that as Nelson HAD got his other back, could I now have .... (whatever it was I wanted at the time). Needless to say, Dragon was very embarrassed and apologised profusely to the man in question who took it all in good part.

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Mrs. grumble used to be an admin officer in an infant school and heard a lot of good tales - for example...
Child 1. How many bedrooms does your house have ?
Child 2. Three
Child 1. I wish we had 3 bedrooms, then mum's boyfriend could have his own.

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Coupla thing's 'out of the mouth's of Babes'...

...I have a large beard, (have had ever since I was a biker, way back when)...but, over the year's it's gone white, (for some inexplicable reason)...and a coupla years ago, just before Christmas, my g/daughter, (then age 5), said...

...'Grampa, am I on you're 'nice' list this year...or am I on your 'naughty' one?.

...and a coupla day's before last Christmas I was waiting in the queue in the local chippy when a lass came in with her young daughter...who couldn't take her eye's off me!...

...eventually, she said to her Mum...(in a sorta 'stage whisper')...'Mum, I never knew Santa ate chips!'.

...(gotta love 'em, eh?).

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...needless to say, I've trimmed me beard down a lot but, as I still wear an ear-ring, me next-door-neighbour's Grandson now reckon's I'm a Pirate...can't win, can you?.