A Fun topic...share YOUR Story!

My son has done the same thing! He gets IN MY FACE, his nose almost touching my nose and says, "mommy". I jump! There are so mnay funny stories out there, good for you to add some laughs and smiles.

here is one for you....I had just gotten out of the shower the other day and put my robe on so I could go get my 2 yr old daughter dressed. I sat on the floor to change her diaper. Her foot went up under my robe, she started moving her foot around slowly. She got this weird, confused look on her face, you could see a question mustering. She said, "MOMMY!!! COVER 'DAT UP!!! Put some c'wothes on!" I laughed so hard! She speaks so baby like and to hear that from her, it was great!

Hope you get lots of funny stories and quotes!

W.

My girls both did that. Now my grandaugter does it. I think i remember doing it to my mom. thanks for the laugh and memory. L.

My 5 y/o stepson will "sneak" into the room, make it to daddy's side of the bed, and then whisper really loudly "DADDY"...He'll do that over and over until I actually start shaking my husband to tell him his son wants him, otherwise he wouldn't notice, even though the "whisper" is really loud :)

Yesterday my 4 year old daughter was making a tent in the living room and it kept falling apart and of course she didn't want my help. I gave her some suggestions that she obviously ignored. She looked right at me and said, "Don't worry mommy I am an American, I can fix this problem." I have no idea where this came from but it has encouraged me to be more patriotic.

LOL...

I woke up with such a start when my son (5 at the time) woke me up because we were literally face to face. And I do mean face to face. After I screamed one of those screams (effectively scaring the heck out of him),the kind of scream that one screams if someone is chasing you with an axe,...lol, He explained that he had come to wake me because his stomach hurt but became intrigued < (not his word)with the movement of my eyelids (rem) and the sound of my breathing and wanted to get a closer look!!

Our 2 1/2 year old has always be a good, consistent sleeper. She had been climbing out of her crib at naptime, but she hadn't woken up before us before, and we'd never had a nighttime visitor to our room. Most mornings my husband and I are up a good 2 hours before the kids, but this particular morning was the first Saturday in months that we had the chance to sleep in. The sleep didn't last when I awoke to two hands around my ankles! She had woken up, come in and started climbing up the end of the bed. I guess my ankles were something to hold onto as she climbed....What she didn't know was that was MY fear when I was little...someone grabbing my ankles in the night! :) I have since recovered, and she has learned that she should say, "Wake up, Mommy. The sun is up!"

One night, my husband and I awoke to her trying to join us in bed....what we didn't know is that she had already successfully put her pillow up there and a few of her stuffed animal "friends". She had been working hard!

OK, MAN- did I need that laugh you just gave me. These are not sleep related but fun...

When I was in highschool I took a trip to Vegas with a friend's family. I was holding the 3 year old boy and we walked around the lobby while we were waiting to get checked in. They had a giant statue of David. We stopped to admire it and while I was holding him he pointed up at it and declared as loud as you can imagine... "WOW- look at his PEEPEE!!" I was so embarrassed I thought I would die.

One year I took my neice to Church on Easter Sunday- they called all the kids up to give a sermon they could understand-she was about 5 at the time. When the kids were done and went to find their seats she was clearly lost. I tried to get her attention without disturbing the service but I could see she was getting more and more frantic. Finally she screamed "AUNT R., where are you?" everyone in the entire church laughed as I stood up so she could find me.

I can't wait until my son is old enough to bring me more funny stories to share!

My husband talks in his sleep, but I think nothing of it since he is an adult. So imagine my surprise to walk in on him and my son (a few months old) taking a nap and both are talking in their sleep, taking turns like it’s a conversation. By the time I return with the video camera they both stop. I thought it was the cutest thing. What a trait to inherit.

We got my son a toddler bed after I found him climbing out of the crib and almost broke my neck running across the room to get him before he fell out. I opened my eyes in the middle of the night. I did not know why I did that, but was amazed to find my 18-month son looking at me in the face rocking side to side like he was patiently waiting. I picked him up and put him in the bed with us only to forget the whole thing happened until the next afternoon. I've also woken up by feeling constant tugging at the covers and hearing tiny grunts, only to find my son trying to climb up his dad to get into the bed, so I gave him a hand, poor determined guy.

Thank you for letting us share.

God Bless You

heh heh... A few days ago, while sound asleep on my belly, my two year old snuck up to the bedside and woke me up by doing raspberries on my shoulder...

when my four year old was two, he came into my room, stared at me in my sleep until I woke up, then said, "there's a robot in my room, he's looking at me..." all I could say, under my breath, as I was getting out of bed to find this "robot" was, "I bet he's not nearly as scary as YOU in the middle of the night."
great topic, there are so many nights that come to mind when I saw this one :)

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My 4 yr old does the waking me up thing all the time, especially since the birth of our second son. I'd fall back asleep after nursing the new baby in the wee hours only to be awakened by a hand on my shoulder a face next to mine and a whisper or "Mommy". He also periodically talks/laughs/screams in his sleep. We were out of town once and my husband was sleeping with him in one room (I was with the baby in another). The next morning my husband said the 4 yr old had sat up in bed in the middle of the night said something unintelligible with his eyes wide open and then thrown himself back down on the bed and started snoring. My husband said it was the freakiest thing he'd ever seen. He's had attacks of croup in the night that have given him heart attacks, that horrible noise coming over a staticy monitor is terrible. THe first and only time he's ever thrown up was also in the middle of the night. All over the bed and pillow and wall and himself and his animals and snuggle blanket.

What a great idea. I need that. Your idea made my week. I am going to post a funny story to.

A. M

Yea for the levity. Fun to read your stories. :-)

I remember when one of my step-daughters, generally very sweet during waking hours, started having nightmares. We'd hear her yelling in the middle of the night, and upon checking into it, she would be, still sound asleep, cursing out her older sister about whatever had happened that day. She never remembered it later, but we did recognize her mother's phrasing in her still-asleep profanity outbursts. (I think I was glad it wasn't me she was cursing!)

In later years, after I had just brought my newborn son home, my then 18 mo old daughter had a favorite doll. It was a pretty big one, with very realistic-looking features. I happened to glance at my daughter just as she was dropping the baby doll (hard!) onto its head, and I thought she had somehow gotten hold of her newborn brother. All the adults in the room screamed, "No!" simultaneously until we realized it was indeed, just a doll. Phew!

lol...we called my older son the 'ninja' because of how he did this. My husband and I don't always sleep on the same side of the bed, so my son would freeze at the bottom of the bed and try to figure out which was which before he said anything.

I wrote a column about it, but don't know if I can share or link it here. I'll have to review the rules...

Great idea! Here's (one of) mine:

We adopted all three of our kids at birth. When we were awaiting #2 (in a motel, hundreds of miles from our home), #1, then 2 yrs, discovered how to climb out of his travel crib! My husband and I were beside ourselves; what were we doing getting another child when we could not even handle our first!! Somehow we managed, we put the crib in an extra large closet, a little bedroom to our son, and he could not negotiate both the crib escape and the door knob. He still claims little nooks, including closets, in motel rooms when we travel.

Later, back at home our son finally could make it through the night without us, but we would find him sleeping anywhere from just outside his room, to the bottom of the stairs, to right outside our door (on the bare wood floor).

To this day, age 15, he is a curious sleeper...months curled into the loveseat in the living room, and now his favorite is to nearly empty the linen closet and make a "nest" of blankets, sheets and pillows on the floor in his room.

From that first experience on, we think his independent sleeping is far more important than his ideosyncracies!

H.

Too Funny!!!! I have two children, now 11 and 13 and they still to this day, do this. Just recently my daughter came into my room and like you said, came to my side of the bed!!! I was sound asleep when I wake to see her just standing there not saying a word!!!!! She said she couldn't sleep. I just looked at her and said, "I wasn't having any trouble" go back to bed!!!! Needless to say, once your up, your awake for the rest of the night!! I finally got back to sleep though.
Thanks for lightning the tension with funny stories!!! We usually forget these moments.
S.

well i do have a fun story to share it was a long time ago 1981, my son was 3 years old (he is now 30) i had been cleaning the house we had a 2 bedroom that you could walk all the way around in we had been studing about the second coming at church, well i couldn't find my son anywhere iwalked around and around looking for him i was in a panic thinking oh no the Lord has come and i've been left, but how could that be, i'm saved too. after calling my husband at work i stepped over a suitcase that was in the middle of my son's floor i had probably stepped over 5 times or more you guessed it something said look inside and there he was curled up fast asleep,hewoke up and wondered why mom was crying and hugging him, my now x-husband laughed at me as did i after i calmed down never forgot it though J.

Hi L.. You will enjoy this one. Once my husband and I woke up to the sound of little feet running in the hall. We opened our eyes and saw our three year old daughter run by our room, then run back the other way. Then she did this again. We got up and found her frantically running back and forth "holding herself" in the hallway. Poor thing was so sound asleep she could not find the bathroom. Fortunately, we were able to get her there in time.
My kids finally stopped coming in my room and standing by the bed like that. Turns out I scared them as much when I woke up as they scared me by standing there!

L., my older daughter used to do that. She would get out of bed and just stare at me until I woke up. When she first got a toddler bed she wouldn't leave her room. Then about a month after that she realized that she could get out without our help and that is when her fun began. My husband & I are very heavy sleepers. Our daughter would come into our room and get into bed with us. When there was no room for her to do that, she would fall asleep at the foot of the bed. We didn't realize until the morning that she was in our room. Until one night when I turned over & without meaning to, kicked her off the bed. At the time I felt so bad, now we laugh at it. She was about 2 1/2.

Another story also with my older daughter is that she used to sleepwalk. Normally if I heard her up, I would go & see if she needed help going to the bathroom (she was 4 at the time). One night I heard her crying lightly and i went into her room & asked her what was wrong. She didn't answer, so I asked if she needed to go potty. I got her up and she started walking... to the closet. She pulled down her pants and I grabbed her & ran to the bathroom. We all know what she would have done if I hadn't done that. She does not remember even getting up that night. Afterwards I checked her closet to make sure she hadn't done that before. My husband & I laughed so hard at that one. Thanks for suggesting this.

R. B

Kids as sure to leave you red faced...

Last weekend my husband, four year old daughter and I went out to eat at a fairly new meat and three. Near the end of our meal the owner/cook came out and talked to us about her business. She thanked us, explained her goals and how excited she was and generally went on for a very long time. My husband and I certainly didn’t really mind since it is wonderful listening to people excited about what they are doing. My sweet daughter apparently was tired of the rambling. She suddenly piped up in her little girly voice, right in front of the business owner and said, “Momma, why is she STILL talking?”

We couldn’t help but laugh.

I too have experienced these feelings. My kids always come to my side of the bed too....and I've experienced the throwing up things too.

The most comical things are the talking in the sleep and the sleep walking. One night my husband and I were sitting on the couch watching tv and were heard heavy breathing behind us...it was our daughter. She was apparently sleep walking but I freaked thinking she needed to throw up and screamed at her to get to the bathroom...she went right to her bed and went back to sleep. My son keeps yelling out things in the middle of the night...by the time I get there he is usually finished. But I try to listen to see if there is anything going on in his life that he is not talking about...
Jen

My daughter, who is 15 now, used to sleepwalk & sleeptalk when she was little. Sometimes my husband would be sitting on the couch downstairs late at night watching tv and she would come downstairs and sit on the couch, with her eyes open, and just sit there. He figured out she was still asleep after he would talk to her and she wouldn't make sense on the response. So he would guide her back to bed.

Once she was sleeping over at a friend's/neighbor's house and the mom caught her sleepwalking, holding her blanket and about to head out the front door. It scared her and the sleepovers were always at our house from then on.

What a great idea to share funny stories for a change of pace. =0) I can think of so many, but this one is by far my favorite....... My daughter (who was about to turn 4 at the time) and I were at my mom's house. My mother and I were at the kitchen table chatting and my daughter was running around playing. Well, she spotted a can of Pringles on mom's kitchen counter and was trying to reach them. The whole time mom and I were talking, I was aware of her trying to reach that can. She was standing there on her tippiest of tippy toes and the can was still just out of her reach. Under her breath she muttered, "____@____.com". I stopped talking to mom and abruptly said, "Jenna Grace Cagle, what did you just say!?" She looked at me, still on her tippy toes with her hand out stretched and super wide eyes and said, "Uh.....I love you?" My mother and I laughed until we cried. It was the funniest moment ever! What a smart thinking little girl she was already! =0)

I love this idea! AND I've got a good one!

One night long after the kids were in bed, my husband and I were downstairs watching television - almost our bedtime. While we were sitting there we started hearing water splashing and looked at each other. Then I figured it out and burst into laughter. My husband jumped up to go see what it was when I hollered "NO! Wait!!" Had he continued he would have walked under a waterfall of PEE!! Yep, my middle child had gotten up to use the bathroom and he must have been sleep walking because he went to the landing and pee'd down into the foyer!!! Thank goodness it was a tile floor and easily cleaned. He didn't remember a thing the next day!!

Since then, we've had many close calls with him sleep-pottying!!

Hi L.!
I love this idea!
This is my favorite story to tell:
One evening I was driving home down the country roads with my 4 yr old son (who's now 19). And I pointed to the moon. "Look Alex! The moon is SO FULL!" He then looks at me quizzically and then says..."What did it eat?" haha..
I'm happily married and a full-time working mother of four son 19, daughters, 18,12, 1nd 10.

Great idea! And I know the feeling, my 5 year old just did that to me a few nights ago. Then this morning, he really got me good too. I usually have to wake him up for school so I decided to get in the shower before I woke him. As soon as I walked out of the bathroom, he jumped out behind me and screamed. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. He had hidden beside our dresser and was waiting for me to come out.

Another funny one about my 2 year old. He takes a computer class called Gigglebytes at his daycare one day a week that he absolutely loves, but they always refer to is as just "computer class." A couple of weeks ago I was taking him to school and told him that he was going to have Gigglebytes at school today and he asked "Can I eat it?" He cracks me up every day with the things he says!

This is a good idea. Thanks. I needed a laugh. :)

Here is one of mine. My sister was holding my son at church, who was 2 at the time while I was in the bathroom refilling his sippy cup with water. When I got back everyone around him was laughing and my sister's face was bright red. While I was gone, he stuck his arm down the front of her blouse and yelled, "boobies!" After she told me what happened, I looked at him and said, "Matthew, we don't talk about boobies." So then he yells really loudly, "about boobies!" It was soooo embarrassing!

My sons are 12 and 9. They still do this to me! I told my oldest that he was going to give me a heartattack and why didn't he just wake me up instead of staring at me? He just says that he doesn't like waking me up, that when he stands there, I wake myself up! ARGH!

Oh my gosh that is so funny I was busting up laughing just reading it I have three kids 10,8,3 and they have all done it and it scares the heck out of me. Funny never my husband either. I have actually woken my husband up with a scream before because not only are they staring at you they are like 3 inches away from your face. Wow thanks I needed that laugh today

My daughter is three. She has been stuffy with the fall allergies. One day I watched her in wipe her nose with her sleeve, I asked "Do you need at issue?" She said "No, it's just bless-yous."

2 weeks later she was snuffling & said "Mommy, my nose is stuffing me!" I asked her again, "Do you need a tissue?" She said, "No, It's untied now."

She cracks us up every day.

HI L.,

This is a fun topic. My two kids were soooooo different. My oldest (a boy) would never leave his bed, even after a nap. He would call to you and let you know that he "was up" and waited for you to come and get him. No surprises there. My second (a girl) was a wanderer and I ended up having to leave night lights all over the house because I didn't want her to fall when she was "sneaking" around. She would wake up in the middle of the night, walk all the way around the bed to my husband who would just throw her in the middle between us. I would wake up in the morning after he had gone to work and find her little sleeping face 2 inches from mine! She would scare the ------ out of me. I expected to be in bed alone. If he was already gone, she would just climb on in and make herself at home in his place. I've lost count of the times this would happen. Evidently, she doesn't like to sleep alone. It's funny how kids do the same things even when they have no contact with each other. have a great day! L.

We nicknamed our son (4) Chaos last year.

This is my current cute Chaos story.

We don't listen to normal radio in our house. We've got a mix of songs we like (probably thousands of them) and just play them in the background. On any given day you can find The Beatles playing with Limp Bizkit or Madonna playing with Beethoven.

So I'm listening to George Clinton (and the P-Funk All-Stars) and my son walks in catching me wiggling my booty in rhythm to the music.

Him: Mommy! Daddy said that music is FUNKY. You shouldn't dance to it.
His Dad: I said that music IS Funk... and I like her dancing to it.

lol. Gotta love music appreciation and four year olds.
M.

Fortunately for me, now that our 4-year-old son is potty-trained, he usually wakes his daddy up to take him to the bathroom, but shortly after we moved him into a toddler bed, I opened my eyes in the middle of the night and realized I had gone blind (we have a nightlight in the hall to make it easier to check on the kids). I finally realized that our son was trying to climb into bed with us (I have a nightstand with shelves on my side of the bed) and had put his pillow over my face so he could use both hands to climb aboard!

Another time, I woke up and discovered I was completely paralyzed. I was on my back and when I tried to turn on my left side, I couldn't move. Then I tried to turn on my right side and I still couldn't move. I finally discovered I could sit up and found out I was pinned tightly between my husband and my son. Somehow, he had managed to get most of himself up onto our bed (this was before he could get on the bed easily) and was lying horizontally across our bed (from about the knees up with the rest of him dangling over the side), pushing me over against my husband.

Of course, I've had the "face two inches from mine" experiences, too.

Our two girls (11 years apart; oldest and youngest w/two boys in between) would come into bed with me in the mornings to sleep for a while after Daddy left for work. (I'm a night-owl and slept in). When the older one (and I) would wake up, she'd say, "I'm hungry." I'd ask, "What for?" and she'd say, "Because." LOL

The younger one would say, "I'm hungry." I'd ask, "What for?" She'd say, "I don't know." And I'd say, "Well, who DOES know?" and she'd say, "God".

Now the older one is 31 (with 3 little ones of her own) and the 'baby's 20. Empty nest . . . :'(

Thanks for the memories. My children are grown with babies of their own, but one of mine in particular used to do the same thing. He would stand beside me and lightly tap on my cheek until I would wake up and then he would sweetly and quietly ask what was for breakfast! I would assure him it would be delicious. He would often respond with, "can we have pancakes?" and I think I said "absolutely" to reassure him to go back to sleep! His little face was inches from mine during the encounters... a sweet memory for sure.

J. C.

This is gonna be sooo much fun....umm, which to share. Our preacher at the time would get really into his sermons and get kinda loud, you know! Then there is always the quiet moment just after. That's the moment my son(2 at the time)decided to tell me, "Mama the preacher is too LOUD!) I was speechless, but full of the giggles. Needless to say, the sermon meant nothing to me after that.
On just a sweeter note, he told me just the other day, "Mama, I love you to the moon." Makes it all worth it.
My daughter 2, (loud by nature, i guess)(potty training) thinks everything is nasty dodo. So wherever we maybe, church, target or resturaunt, if she sees a mess or has to go. She will point and say, "Mama, nasty dodo!" Over and over and over again.
These are just tiny parts of the joys of motherhood.
C. mama to Ethan 3 and Abigail 2!

My 18 year that is in college still does that. However, instead of a little "mommy", in his deep voice, "are you alseep". This is only after I'm scared to death as someone is staring at me and now a man standing in my room. He is away at college, so you can imagine my dismay when I see a man in my room as I just recently divorced. So yes, my 9 yr old, 15 yr old and 18 yr old...still scare me to death in the middle of the night. Thanks for sharing.

I have a similar one, actually. My son is a year and a half old now, but a few months back I used to put him up on a little stool-type thing as I was getting ready for his bath. I was bathing with him and I would wash my hair first, then bring him into the tub to finish up and he would stay on the stool until I got him.

Anyway, I had leaned over to rinse my hair under the spigot and when I raised up to get him, he was standing there, leaning over the edge of the tub and staring right at me. I was so startled that I SCREAMED... poor kid fell backward onto his butt and started crying. heheh I felt bad. Scared him more than it did me. ;)

Oh this does sound like fun. And I just love telling my stories of life with my children.
We all been through the potty training time.
I have two wonderful children that I love dearly.
They are now adults their own and have their time with their children.
Well when I started training them it was of course an interesting moment. My son caught on quickly and I had no problem with him. My daughter also was a very fast learner. Well when it came to my daughter training we had to move and everything became a little turned around for awhile.
We moved into a big old farm house. 7 ft. windows, wood trim was cherry and oak down stairs. And the banister for the step was also the same wood. Well we got moved in. And settle.
I notice that my daughter at one year did not care for the steps. I then realize she was scare of heights. The problem was when it came to get her back on track for potty training She had to be brought down stair to the only bathroom in that big old house. No I did not think of bringing her potty upstair at the time. I was still learning about the house and how to put things in the right place. Anyway I had to do this with her for a couple of time. Walking her down stair to go potty.
One night we all went to bed and got to sleep. I do not know what time it was. But suddenly I am hearing a strange sound outside my partly close door. The sound was like someone sliding and coming down hard making a bumping sound. That continue for a little bit. I really was getting afraid to look. But I got out of that bed very afraid to see what it was. I open my door slowly. But it did not make any difference because being and old door in a very old farm house it made a sound like someone with old joints. Anyway I peak slowly around the corner and looked down and seen this little child of my; who is afraid of heights sliding down the stairs and holding on to the railing so she would not fall. I ask her what she was doing? She looked me right straight in the eyes proudly. I am going potty mommy. I had to turn away just a little bit to laugh inside myself.
I then turn to her and said what a very brave little girl you are. And Mommy is proud that you are going to the potty all by yourself.
Children are so much fun and sometimes can just make you laugh and smile. Enjoy them when you can for they grow so fast.
They are our Rainbows and Butterflies of many colors of our life.

Have a great day TODAY
Vicki Witt

I have to say my 3 year old dd does the same thing to me. Will stand there for however long and I'll finally hear a quiet Momma and a poke. We post questions on problems we're having but forget the joys our children bring to us sometimes. So thank you for making this post. My dd also likes to help me around the house when she can and I love the look of accomplishment she gets on her face when she's helped Mommy out. I also have a 3 month old dd and I love when she wakes up in the morning and smiles when she sees me standing above her ready to get her up for the day. For as much work it is having children I wouldn't change being a mom for anything!

We went on vacation last week. My son's favorite new word is "naked" because we always talk to him about being naked during bathtime. Well, a young woman was walking down the beach - in a very skimpy bikini- and my son runs up to her, points at her, looks over at me, and screams at the top of his lungs - "Momma!! NAKED!" I of course went to him and said "HUSH!!" and tried to walk him in the other direction. He pulls himself from me and runs back to following her and said at least 2 more times "Momma!! NAKED NAKED NAKED!!!" The young woman was very embarrassed, as the beach was crowded, and everyone stopped and stared at her. I apologized profusely. However, after all of that, she turns right around a few minutes later and walks back by us again, going back in the direction she came from. This time, my son screams "I see BOOOOOOOBIES". ("Boobies"- thanks to a slip-up by his daddy recently.) I was totally mortified and we rushed him inside. Needless to say, we never saw this woman walk by our part of the beach again. :)

GREAT IDEA!!!
-Ya know how we're supposed to praise our kids on their artwork and their creations? ... and if it's wierd or bad, we're supposed to say, "tell me about it"? Then, we are to lovingly, appreciatively, and maternally, be supportive while we comprehend our child's intense and proud explanation?
-The kids had been to the petting zoo recently and had all learned to milk a cow.
-My son's preschool class made candle holders out of bread dough. Then the teachers plasticized the sculptures.
-My son was so proud of his sculpture. He wouldn't tell me what it was, but he couldn't wait to show it to me! I had prepared myself to show him solid praise with substance. I knew he was having a rough time in preschool.
-I opened the bag and looked at the sculpture and could make no sense of it. It was a rounded blob with finger holes. I studied it hard. The blob didn't get any clearer. I'm sure it didn't help that I was working night shifts at the time.
-His eyes were bright with excitement when I finally asked him to "tell me about it".
-When he responded that it was a "cow's udder", I forgot all parenting skills and lost it. I doubled up in hysterical hard belly laughter. I absolutely couldn't control myself.
-The poor child just stared at me. I have always wondered how much I damaged his self-esteem that day.

Me too.....that is hilarious. I mean its funny afterwards, but at the time it is a heart-pounding! I mean just to open your eyes, in the dark and there is someone just staring at you! My girls have gotten some good laughs out of that one.