1. One of the funniest things I have seen was when my son was less than a mwezi old. I was at Walmart with my grandma, her husband, my daughter, and my son and my grandma was buying a crib, kitanda cha mtoto mchanga and some accessories for my son's room. While we were inapakia everything into the gari my grandma looked at my sleeping son and said, "Now wewe aren't getting anything else for Christmas." And without missing a beat my son opened his eyes and let out this hysterical cry. We both started laughing, shocked kwa his timing. My grandma proceeded to apologize kwa telling him that she was only joking. Just after the words left her lips, my son stopped crying, shut his eyes, and fell back asleep.
2. One siku when my sister was about 3 au 4 she was in the bathroom with the door closed. Everything seemed normal until my mom heard imba coming from the bathroom. My mom was curious so she walked over to the bathroom and opened the door. There she found my sister standing in front of the toilet singing, "I'm wishing." and then putting her hand to her ear and leaning her ear down to the toliet and singing, "I'm wishing." Then singing, "For the one I upendo to find me." Like the song Snow White sings into the wishing well. Too much Snow White anyone???
3. This story is one that my mom told me about one of her Marafiki who is also a grandma. Her friend as babysitting one of her grandchildren who was about 7-8 months old. While they were sitting on the kitanda cuddling a the baby kept pointing at her grandmothers boobs and so the grandma said, "Boob." The baby repeated her saying, "Boob." This was her first word. The grandma was so embarassed she never told the mom.
4. My Marafiki son had just turned two and they had decided to start teaching him about the different kinds of cars there are. It was funny because everytime he alisema big trucks it sounded like big c***s (slang term for the male reproductive organ). As they were getting out of the car at the store one siku the little boy points at a truck and says in a very loud voice, "I want big trucks." which sounded like, " I want big c***s." Needless to say the parents were very embarassed.
5. About 6 months zamani my daughter was having a really bad night, so we gave her a pack of matunda snacks to cheer her up. She had been crying, but when she saw the matunda snacks she immediantly reached up for them saying,"Pease." which in Shaylie language means please. We gave them to her and as she was eating the last one I said, "All gone." She looks at the bag and says something that resembles, "Ah, f*#k." and bursts into tears. My husband and I laughed about that all night. She has never heard that word before so it must have been just babbling....lol
6. When we were little my family and I were sitting at the meza, jedwali eating dinner. My mom noticed that my sister was taking her peas and pealing the skin off of them. When my mom asked her what she was doing she said, " I don't like the wrappers."
7. One siku when my sister and I were little we were watching a movie with my mom. At the end my sister looked at us and said, "I knew that was going to happen. I must be psycho." She get teased about that one to this day.
8. Here's a good one. My mom was saying that I was getting what I deserved when my daughter was being naughty. I said, "No she's better than I deserve. She's an angel." And my daughter says, "No mommy I'm naughty."
9. Ok, one zaidi about my sister. One night we were sitting at the meza, jedwali eating and my sister got full, so she picked the pancake up off her plate and said, "Does anyone want this? I didn't touch it."
10. About 6 months zamani my daughter put her sekunde set of three words together. We have this children's book that we read to her called Goodnight Moon. As I am kusoma the part where it says, "Goodnight moon." my daughter says, "Night night spoon."
