Funny Things Kids Say III

I’d Love to, but…
One summer evening, when my brother was about four, a neighbor friend of his came over to play in the yard. The two seemed to be having a good time, but it was soon time for bed and the boy’s dad came to pick him up. “It looks like you two certainly had fun this evening,” my mother observed, “Do you think you’d want to come over again tomorrow and play, Nathan?” He thought for a moment and then shook his head mournfully, “No, I’m planning on running a fever.”

Fish, Mommy?
That same summer my sister was almost two. We were planning on getting some pet fish so my mother and I were in the basement setting up the filtering system and rocks in our tank. My sister watched curiously and asked what we were doing. My mother explained that we were setting up a home for our new fish. My sister’s eyes lit up with revelation and turning, she toddled upstairs to the kitchen. Soon she returned holding our dinner leftovers, wrapped in tin foil–two fillets of orange roughy, “Fish, mommy?”