From the Mouths of Babes

Art Linkletter had it right:  "Kids Say the Darndest Things," and the kids in the Fieg family are no exception.  

Thanks to Jean Davie Fieg for the suggestion for this article.  Read on for a giggle or two.

Liz Bookhout, maybe four or five years old, came running into the house crying, "Katie isn't doing what she was told to do on the swing.  She's not going backwards and forwards, she's going crookwards!"                                                                                                                                                                                                          At Christmastime, Diana Fieg had either wax or the sound of reindeer bells in her ears when she sang, "Jesus our brother, kind of good...," and "... curly head dolls that toddle and coo, elephant spokes and kiddie cars too."

Her sister, your kindly old editor, sang, "Up on the rooftop, reindeer paws," though, since paws and pause are homophones, I was the only one surprised to find the latter word was the correct one, as I always had an image of reindeer hooves (why didn't I realize they didn't have paws?) pawing at the shingles.

And in keeping with the Christmas theme, 2-year-old Janet Holm McHenry, daughter of Bob and Doris Fieg Holm, used to sing, "Oh, you better watch out, better not cry, Better not pout, I'ma tellin you."  Who exactly were her ancestors...?