Scene: At the kitchen table
Who: Mommy and Walter (4)
Background and Conversation: Mommy: “I love you more.”
Walter: “I love you more.”
Mommy: “I love you all the way to the moon and back.”
Walter: “Yeah, well I love you in the space shuttle that goes all the way around the backside of the moon and back.”
-submitted by Kimberly-
Scene: Saying goodnight just before bed.
Who: Mommy and Walter (4)
Background and Conversation:
Mommy: “Hey Walt”
Walter: “Mommy, I know what you are going to say. You are going to say you love me.”
Mommy: “Yep”
Walter: “You always say you love me. You don’t need to tell me again until I forget ..ok?”
Mommy: “Ok..but how will I know when you forget?”
Walter: Looks puzzled.
Next day
Walter: “I didn’t forget yet mommy.”
Next day
Walter: “I forgot mommy.”
-submitted by Kimberly-
Scene: After prayers at bedtime.
Who: Auntie, age 34, and Niece, age 5.
Background and Conversation: Auntie: Goodnight, I love you.
Niece: Are you staying over tonight?
Auntie: Only until mom and dad get home.
Niece: Then where are you going?
Auntie: To my house.
Niece: By yourself?
Auntie: Yes.
Niece: (after a pause) Are you ever going to find a man?
Auntie: (smiling) Of course I will, honey.
Niece: Well, when?
Auntie: (after a long pause) When I graduate from college and get a good job, just like you are going to do. Now, go to sleep.
-submitted by Jessica-
Who: Aiden, 4 year old boy
Background and Conversation: Aiden likes to ask us when something is a bad word and if he’s allowed to say it or not. One thing we’re teaching him is not to say “God” because it can be offensive to people who don’t like the Lord’s name used in vain. He attends a religious based preschool, so he’s always asking us questions about God. One day he asked me if he could talk about the love for God. So I said he could. The next thing out of his mouth was “Oh for the love of God!”
-submitted by Laura-