Daddy Days: Another round of kids saying the darndest things

Sometimes kids have a funny way of looking at the world. It can be due to a lack of experience or a misunderstanding, but often the naive yet reasonable way they understand something is amusing.

Here are my most recent top 10 examples of funny kid observations, understandings or misunderstandings.

10. Me: What are you doing? 9-year-old: Playing soccer. Me: But that’s a volleyball. 9-year-old: ([kicks the ball) OK, we’re playing “voccer.”

9. “Why are they called hot dogs instead of cold dogs? They’re cold when you buy them.”

8.  “She asked me if I wanted medium or rare, but I thought she said medium or rear, so I was like, uh, I’ll have the medium.” — 9-year-old after going through a food line at an event.

7. “Hey, look! There’s a horse catcher!” The 4-year-old referring to a cattle trailer being towed behind a pickup.

6. This interaction after the 9-year-old poured his younger brother a bowl of cereal.  4-year-old: That’s way too little. Older brother: How much did you want? 4-year-old: Six pounds. Older brother: You don’t measure a bowl of cereal in pounds. 4-year-old: (Adamantly interrupting) Six or three pounds!

5. “Are you checking the chicken’s fever?” The 4-year-old to my wife when she was using a meat thermometer while cooking chicken.

4. “I’m not crying, my eyes are just soggy.” The 6-year-old describing his eyes when he was allegedly crying.

3. “So, should we call the Fire Department to get the ball down?” The 3-year-old, quite seriously, after getting a ball stuck in a tree.

2. “Hey … milk comes from cows!” The 4-year-old, suddenly blurting out this newfound revelation at the dinner table after seeing a silhouette of a cow on a milk jug.

1. “All those guys have those pants that go over your shoulders.” The 5-year-old in reference to a group of men wearing suspenders.

Harris and his wife live in Pflugerville with their six sons. Please email comments or suggestions for future columns to thoughtsforcaleb@gmail.com.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Daddy Days: Another round of kids saying the darndest things