http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/KanningKidSpeak_Blog.html While my sister, Jenny, and I were young, my mother kept a journal to remember the silly or cute things we said. We came to know and refer to said journal profoundly as, “The Book.”<br/>“Oh, that’s one for ‘The Book’!” we’d say following a silly situation as we grew old enough to appreciate the fun memories therein.<br/>Soon after our eldest daughter, Ainsley, began speaking, Mom gave us a very special gift… a blank “Book” of our own to record the silly and cute things that our kids would say.<br/>Living so far from my family, I often shoot off quick emails chronicling such entertaining episodes. Recently, I realized that it might just be easier to maintain and share them in a running blog. (Also available as an RSS feed, FYI!) Granted, we realize that some of the humor/significance of these accounts may be effectively lost in (cyber)translation.<br/>Enjoy!!! iWeb 3.0.1 http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/KanningKidSpeak_Blog_files/P1000503GrpEditFinal1.jpg http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/KanningKidSpeak_Blog.html http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/Entries/2010/6/21_With_a_Song_in_My_uh_Heart....html 5598ebeb-487f-44ab-8e20-15a48bd79698 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:18:11 -0500 (Lauren, 4)<br/>[Out of the blue, while getting ready for bed…]<br/>Lauren: “Hey Daddy… guess what song I’m burping!” http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/Entries/2010/6/21_Conversational_Ainsley....html 9e10309d-4a4d-470a-9e26-6a359e1e88c4 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:15:31 -0500 (Ainsley, 6)<br/>[Casual phrases Ainsley used in conversation this morning…]<br/>“Yeah… That’s the ticket!”<br/>“Ooooh, good eye!”<br/>“You don’t see that everyday!” http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/Entries/2010/6/14_Sick_with_Patriotism....html 4e449521-f1b0-4f0e-8c76-9cb5b64289f6 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:14:41 -0500 (Lauren, 4)<br/>[Lauren woke up in the middle of the night in pain while going potty. After helping her in the bathroom, we explained that we’d go see the doctor in the morning because we think she has an infection; that “her potty is sick,” and that it is called a “UTI.”]<br/>[Returning to her room, Lauren walked right up to her sister’s bed, where Ainsley was also now awake.]<br/>Lauren [with furrowed brow, appropriate for delivering bad news]: “Ainsley… I have a USA.” http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/Entries/2010/6/12_More_Food_For_Thought....html 366c3e69-e6c7-422b-a344-f745d5aa9354 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:13:57 -0500 (Lauren, 4)<br/>[At the dinner table, Ainsley had just finished praying before we ate.]<br/>Lauren: “Oh, I have some stuff I’d like to pray for, too!”<br/>Todd: “OK, Sweetie… now you can pray…”<br/>Lauren: “Dear God, thank you for our lungs… and thank you for our food… and thank you for Legos… and thank you for our brains… and please help our brains to think about good things and not bad things that might give us bad dreams.” http://www.kanningweb.com/Site/KanningKidSpeak_Blog/Entries/2010/6/9_Luck_of_the_Fall....html 196a9595-16c4-4fef-97c1-f947ba1ea0e6 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:12:52 -0500 (Lauren, 4)<br/>[Lauren and Harrison were playing upstairs. Lauren was heard falling over and bonking her head…]<br/>Lauren [half-whining, to herself]: “Oooooooooooh… this is not my lucky day.”