livi’s magical sea turtles
My daughter Olivia has a way of making me laugh regardless of what’s going on. Well, tonight we were at a family party for my sister shannon (Happy 16th Shannon!) and Olivia got a blister on the back of her heel. Yes, as you are probably thinking, this was clearly my fault for letting her wear shoes that were too small…ok, get over it, she’ll be fine.
Well on the way home the complaining settles down for about 5 minutes and she remains quiet. I figured she was going to sleep (she falls asleep in the car like 3 days a week as we are often out and about pretty late)…but I was quite wrong. All of a sudden, she yells to me:
“Daddy!”
“What baby, whats the matter?”
“Daddy, if you throw me in the ocean, I’ll ride on a turtle and my blister will be healed. But, only if I can find a turtle.”
Anyway, she was back there dreaming up this hilarious scenario of how to make her blister better. She cracks me up. I’m sure many of you have similar toddler stories :)
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Darrin, Now that is original. LOL. My kids have said some crazy things but that does take the cake. LOL. What a hoot. Grandma and Lacey loved being with her. Lacey said she cracked her up all the time. Grandma did too. It was great. I heard some crazy things when I would call and talk to grandma and Lacey while they were there. I sure wish I could have seen and heard them from Livi herself. I know she is totally beautiful, but I would love to see her and hold her and see for myself. LOL…. Enjoy the loving, crazy, silly, loving things while she is little that you can….
Love, Aunt Amy~
Hi Darrin, I am Michele’s cousin and feel like I know you through her and your site. I loved the turtle story with Olivia – Michele suggested that I tell you a funny story about my 3 year old. We are working on her saying the Lord’s prayer. At the same time we are trying to teach her that some words are not appropriate and that some are a “little more” acceptable. So she decides she is going to start the prayer that day….”Our Father, ….who tooted in Heaven.” It took me a little while and after a lot of laughter to figure out that she was just trying to make what she thought I was saying a little more acceptable. I have to start speaking more clearly to her!!!!hahaha What joy we have to laugh with our children.
OK,I have one that happened about 10 minutes ago. I got out of the shower and my back basically went out. I can move, but barely. I hobbled down the stairs with Genevieve. She was all ready to p/u Emma from swim lessons. I told her that my back was hurting too bad and that it couldn’t move. She comes over and starts patting my back saying, “move, move, move, back”. Then she goes over to the counter where my vitamins are and says, “take u medicine, Mama. You back will move.” 2 year olds are very, very funny AND very, very challenging. Thanks for sharing a funny story.
You should write all her stories down and one day make a book!!! They are great!! I was laughing so much when I read that! She is so cute!
I thought I’d share one – my 3 yo nephew was visiting and his mom and I took him to the pool. He’s not that comfortable with the water so he played near the edge on the step. I swam around in front of him chit chatting and doing some back flips and handstands here and there. He said, “Hey, Why don’t you try to walk on the water like Jesus?” Even the lifeguard had a chuckle on that one!
YES—I ABSOLUTALY BELEIVE THAT YOU MUST WRITE A BOOK SOME DAY.( GONNA BE A BEST SELLER!!!)
I’m laughing so hard right now. I got one from my one of my nephews when he was 3-4 yrs old. He did something he wasn’t supposed to do and his dad was reprimanding him when all of the sudden he told his dad “this is a democracy and i have rights”.
Hey Darren – hope you are sleeping! I should be…
Thought I would share a funny story with you though. Today, the whole sink fell apart in my hand – faucet and knobs – that whole contraption… Well, we were discussing calling our repairman – who happens to be really nice. The boys love to follow him around and talk to him and ask him a million questions…
They remembered one time when Braylon had asked to see one of his tools and he said, “No”. Braylon popped off, “Well you know, the bible says to share!” and came running to tell me. He was probably 3.
I was pretty embarrassed – but he did have a point. : )