Just for FUN: Cute things veg*n kids say!
Posted by quintess on Sep 04, 2009 · Member since Feb 2007 · 1036 posts
I've been keeping a list of quotes from my daughter for many years (she's 6 now and has been vegan since birth) and have noticed how much people on FB, etc. are enjoying her sayings. Anyone else want to share fun things kids say? I'll go first with a few:
"That smells disgusting. Is that cigarettes or pigmeat? Or cock-a-doodle doo meat?"
"Tofu is the most delicious crap I've ever tasted." (We were discussing the use and mis-use of the word crap that day, and in context, this had my cousin and I laughing hysterically)
"That looks delicious. Do I have to eat some carrots first, though?"
"That cutie looks like a crusher dumpling. And you're as cute as a rainbow cutie with hearts hanging all over you."
OK, that's enough...what you got??
Cuties, even with those sailor mouths!!!.... Kea went through a stage where she said "stupid" for a couple weeks, (I don't even think I say that,) anyways she would say it out of context, like a term of endearment, she saw a neighbor's dog and said, "ohh cute little stupid" and would sometimes call our dog Midnite, "you're such a little stupid." ((I swear we don't call him that!))) anyways, she finally stopped...oh and shes said "damnit" a couple times too, not recently though! Its funny because even though all kids do it at some point I would be mortified if she said it in public!!!
Have any of you read/heard of Bake & Destroy? It's a blog by this super cute vegetarian, Natalie, and she also has a blog about her son, Teno. She doesn't update it very regularly, but every few months I check it for some giggles. This is one of my favorite posts ever, about having to deal with her toddler's swearing habit: http://tenorules.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/the-swearing/
There's a random marking on 1 of our Jeep tires. My oldest son (who is 6) says "Mommy, did you put a 'v' for vegan on the tire?"
Jess, that was so funny!!!
This part isn't funny. My friend had a heart attack and almost died yesterday. She is only 36 and is a single mother of 4 young kids who happen to be my daughter's best friends. (Yet another reason to go vegan!)
Anyway, they went in and did emergent surgery last night. When I tried to explain this to my daughter, she was really upset. She asked me how they put my friend back together again after surgery. I tried to explain the consept of surgery again, and Caitlin looked relieved and says with awe, "Oh! You mean they don't chop you up like a vegetable." The way she said it was so funny I almost crashed the car laughing.
This part isn't funny. My friend had a heart attack and almost died yesterday. She is only 36 and is a single mother of 4 young kids who happen to be my daughter's best friends. (Yet another reason to go vegan!)
Anyway, they went in and did emergent surgery last night. When I tried to explain this to my daughter, she was really upset. She asked me how they put my friend back together again after surgery. I tried to explain the consept of surgery again, and Caitlin looked relieved and says with awe, "Oh! You mean they don't chop you up like a vegetable." The way she said it was so funny I almost crashed the car laughing.
sorry about your friend! is she ok?
She is fine now. (I guess I should have mentioned that.) She was told she was really lucky to be alve and that she almost died, but that she will be at low risk of having another heart attack once she gets her diabetes under control. She was intructed to eat better, but unforunately it appears that went in one ear and out the other.
I'm SO glad she's doing ok... I'm sure it helped that she wasn't "chopped up like a vegetable"... that'd probably be hard to com back from...
:-)
No, she just had angioplasty with stenting. It's not even technically surgery. The look of relief on my daugter's face when she understood her BF's mom wasn't chopped up was priceless.
glad she is okay!
thought i would chime in with one from today. my 2 1/2 yr old son camden is walking around holding a scrap of paper, saying "circle! circle!". i look at the scrap of paper and it is a torn piece from a Target ad, and he had the piece with the red target logo on there-which is, in fact a circle. it just cracked me up how he puts 2 and 2 together sometimes!
another one from the past-when i was preg. with my now 6 month old son, garren, camden would come up and pat my tummy and say "hey baby!" then, at the store, i was turned around, he patted what he THOUGHT was my bump, but was, in fact, my butt, and said "hey baby!". omg, the other people in the store probably thought i was raising a perv!
My 2 yr old daughter loves to come grocery shopping with me, and gives me a running commentary on everything in the store. What she sees, who she sees, everything. I was in one isle looking at stuff, and she loudly exclaims, "OOOOOHHHHHH, its WATER!" Much to the amusement of those around us I replied, "No honey, its vodka."
a couple of quick convos between river my 3 1/2 year old girly and her dad.
D - "can we watch scary movie riv?"
R - "no"
D - "why not?"
R - "because i'm allergic to scary movies sillyhead"
D - "Want a hotdog Rivy?"
R - "Is it vegetarian hot dog, dad?" (her dad is an omni, but he follows my rules with her diet when she goes to his house :) )
I was having lunch with some family when my cousins 3 year old Aiden sudeenly started exclaiming that he wanted crap to eat. None of us or the waitress could understand what he meant until he said " I want crap, like I had in Baltimore!". What he meant to say was crab, lol. Next time he comes to Baltimore I"m going to get him some vegan crap*!
Also, we went out shopping and he spotted a bowl that had a fair trade sticker on it and was curious. I did my best to explain the economics of fair trade products and sweat shops on a level he could understand. He said he understood and that was that. Now I hear that whereever he goes he will ask " Is this fair? My cousins say people have no idea what hes talking about but then he explains it and rolls his eyes, lol! :>
My friend is holding an audition for his tv show comming up, and river has been begging to be on tv, and pretending that we are on tv all the time. so last night i told her that we were going to go to the audition for the show (mostly to see my friend b/c its been years). She got so danged excited!! she said "We have to pack mom!! what are we going to eat? where are we going to sleep!!?" then my friend came over and she ran up to him, gave him a hug and said "Joseph, i am going be on TV and i am never going to see you again!"
Aw! That is so funny. I hope it goes well!
The 21 month old girl I take care of is vegetarian. Anyway, yesterday during lunch she started saying, "Easy peasy, Amara!" I said, "What's easy peasy?" and she replied, "Amara easy peasy!" I don't know, that just cracked me up.
My 2 yr old daughter loves to come grocery shopping with me, and gives me a running commentary on everything in the store. What she sees, who she sees, everything. I was in one isle looking at stuff, and she loudly exclaims, "OOOOOHHHHHH, its WATER!" Much to the amusement of those around us I replied, "No honey, its vodka."
Haha, this reminds me of an episode from Mad Men that I just saw. Sally Draper makes french toast for her dad and he takes a bite and says, "Uh, Sally, what did you put on this?" and she replies, "Mrs. Butterworth's," grabbing the bottle to show him. He takes a look and says, "No, that's rum." She's like, whoops... but he says it's still good that way :)
My daughter was telling me about her day at daycare one evening and she started to describe what they had for lunch... then she went on to say "but WE don't eat that. GIRLS don't eat meat, right mommy?" hahahaha... of course when she thought about it she said "but madeline eats meat and zoe eats meat and....etc." Poor little thing! I was cracking up so much!
siren, my daughter says that too, that girls don't eat meat. it is cute.
My 23 month old and I were at the park this morning. The park setup has a "window" that looks like it could be a pretend ticket booth, or the kids this morning were using it as a pretend food counter. All the kids were ordering things like "double cheeseburgers" and "sausage mcmuffins" and "french fries" and you get the picture. Amelia asked to play, so I said, "ok what food do you want to eat?" (I didn't comment at all on what the other kids were ordering or talk to her about what she "should" order). She walked up to the counter and said "lentil soup, please." The "cashier" looked at her and then handed her the lentil soup saying "lentil soup coming right up!" For her second course, I swear this is true, she walked up to the counter and said "arugula please." The "cashier" asked "what's arugula?" I told her it was a yummy green vegetable. She made a bit of a weird face at Amelia, but said again "arugula coming right up!"
Amelia is a bit too young to worry what other kids might think of her, but the whole thing was my first glimpse of what the future might hold with our "different" diet. She really likes pizza, so I asked her if she wanted to order pizza on her next trip to the counter and of course she said yes. These kids were young enough too that they were all just having fun, I don't think they thought she was weird...just maybe her food choices.
And speaking of arugula. Amelia ate arugula before she ate spinach. The first time I put spinach on her plate, Amelia pointed to it and said "that's arugula!" I said, "No, that isn't arugula, that's spinach." She contemplated that for a few seconds and then said, "spinach type of arugula" with such authority in her voice that I didn't correct her.
That is SO cute, hopfrog!!
And how cool that Amelia likes arugula! I still barely like it & I'm grown up. ;)
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