Happy Heart

As a photographer, I have been given the gift of being able to see light.
However, with words, its a whole different story!

On the other hand, my two beautiful children have had me smiling and laughing endearingly on many occasions with their little quotes. I find their innocence, honesty and the way they think and see the world to be so raw, true and just simply inspiring! I have been keeping notes of my childrens quotes for months now and late last year I asked a few friends if they had any quotes from their own children that they could add.

Please feel free to join in and send through any gorgeous little things the children in your life have said. I intend to update this page as often as the quotes come in and need your help to keep it going strong.

There are some things only children can see and say. My Happy Heart page is dedicated to all of the special little ones in our lives .

Enjoy! Karen x

"Mummy, I want to keep you."
Ethan, aged 3

Ethan: Mummy, how old are you?
Me: I'm 36 Honey.
Ethan: NO! Thats too old! You are going to die soon! Pick another number!
Me: Ummm, how about 21...?
Ethan: NO! Thats too old too! You have to be 1 teen or 2 teen or 4 teen!
Me: Ok, I'll be sweet 16. How old do you think Pop's is?
Ethan: Pops is 910!
Ethan, aged 4

"Mummy, I can't sleep anymore, I don't have any dreams left..."
Annaliese, aged 6

"No, I’m not going to give you a kiss Mummy, I don’t want to catch your headache!"
Emma, aged 3

"No Mummy! There can’t be boy ladybugs!!! Only LADY ladybugs!"
Madison, aged 4

"Is it raining because the house wants to have a shower?"
Holly, aged 3

"I'm turning 6 tomorrow! I've never been 6 before!"
Annaliese, aged 5 and 364 days

"Daddy when you die does that mean you will be extinct?"
Evan, aged 5

"Dad, why are you going backwards?" When the traffic in the lanes
either side of us were traveling fast and we were stopped.
Lily, aged 5

"Daddy put your seat belt on! You will fall off the car!"
Oliver, aged 3

"Goodbye chippies..... Hello Jelly!"
Ethan, aged 3

"Mummy, patience is boring!"
Annaliese, aged 3

Ouch! I think I broke my tongue bone!
Samuel, aged 4

Mum: Sarah! You are not listening!
Sarah: Well, sometimes my ears dont work when their batteries have died!
Sarah, aged 5

"Mummy if there is a fire at the house when we aren’t home will Shiloh (our dog) call 000?"
Annaliese, aged 5

"I hate myself in that shirt!"
Sophie, aged 4

"Excuse me Mummy...I love you." (Awww – another heart breaker!)
Annaliese, aged 3

"Daddy is cranky today, is that what the Glen 20 is for? To spray him with?"
Ben, aged 4

"I don’t like this day! I’m never doing this day again!"
Brooke, aged 4

"Chippies... Where are you?"
Ethan, aged 2

"Daddy, what does this cream do?" Says Charlie holding anti-wrinkle cream. "It makes you look younger" I replied.
"Daddy, can you put some on now so I can see what you looked like when you were five?"
Charlie, aged 6

Mum: Harry is your tummy feeling better now? Harry: Yes Mum, it has been watching TV so it feels much better now.
Harry, aged 3

"Dad, when I'm asleep my brain crawls out of my head and sleeps at the end of my bed under the blanket where it is more comfortable. In the morning it crawls back into my head and I wake up. Did you know that?"
Abbey

"Mum, do they have the internet in heaven?"
Marc, aged 4

"Daddy, I drank too much water!... and now I am sea sick!"
Jack, aged 5

Happy Heart Stories

Lia: Mum can you google when Vincent Van Gogh died? Me: here you go it says he died in 1890 Lia: can we go there? Me: Where? Lia: To 1890... Me: not yet, but I think some people are working on that!
Lia, aged 5

I was taking my daughter to the shops to buy her some new undies. We were just about to walk out the door and she asks "Mummy, should I bring my bum with me?"
Luca, aged 3

I had to go to the dentist to have a filling done and explained to my daughter Amy that my tooth had a hole in it and I had to get it fixed. Amy says to me "Mummy, how did you get a hole in your tooth? Have you been eating glass?"
Amy, aged 5

My son came up to me while I was reading on the lounge. He saw a freckle I have on the side of my knee and had a close look then ran away. 2 seconds later he came back with a baby wipe and started to try to wipe my freckle off my leg saying "oh no!" as he couldnt wipe it away!
Lesley and Rhys, aged 2

My husband was sleeping in on a Sunday morning, my little man aged 2 took a glass of water from his bedside table and emptied the glass in his Dad's face saying "Here you go Daddy! I have a drink for you!"
Aiden, aged 2

I was walking in a small country town having a look at a few antique stores when a man with two poodles walked towards us. The poodles had just had 'their hair done' and had little pom poms on the top of their heads and on their legs. My son shouts at the top of his lungs "SHEEP!! BAAA!!!" People in the street were in hysterics, the owner of the poodles wasn’t impressed at all!
Ethan, aged 2

Pregnant with my third child have terrible morning sickness and the other day I shared a drink with my eldest Sophie. After she drank it she said to me, "Oh no Mum, now I will be vomiting because you shared your germs with me!"
Sophie, aged 4

My sister said to her daughter, "Abbey! If you do that again I will send you to your room!" Abbey breaks down in tears and says "Oh Mum please don’t send me, I’m not a letter!"
Abbey

I could hear my two year old yelling "Ball! Catch! Ball! Catch!" I went outside to see who was there that would be throwing a ball to him. I looked around and couldn't see anyone, I looked at Ethan and he was looking at the sky... he was trying to catch the moon.
Ethan, aged 2

My daughter said to me when driving in the rain, "Be careful with all the water on the road Mummy cause the car might slip over!"
Skye, aged 4

I had just picked up my daughter from school and was driving home when she told me she needed to go to the toilet in a hurry. I said to her "Why didn't you tell me before we left school, we don't have a toilet in the car now do we!" to which she replied "Well Mummy, maybe you should have bought a campervan!"
Annaliese, aged 5

My lily was a bit naughty at speech therapy so I tried reason. "You know Lily if you learn to talk properly everyone will understand you" "yeh" she replied "it's berry noying when Dad says say it again lil". So I said "See won't it be good when he can understand you. You need to try hard then at talking lessons". "Ok" she muttered, then about a minute later she piped up with "or Dad could get an operation to fix his damn ears!"
Lily, aged 3

We were shopping for our friend's first birthday present and Jazz was asking for this, and asking for that, and I said "No Jazz, Christmas is just around the corner," and she replied "around what corner?"
Jazz, aged 3

My daughter told me that, "Daddy needs a bra because he has boobies like you!!" hehe Can I assure you my husband DOES NOT have boobs!!
Melissa

I had my swimming cossie on the other morning, getting ready for nippers and my 5 year old Jess says to me "Mum how come your boobies are hanging so low?"......not a real confidence builder that is for sure!
Katherine

We were wandering the National Art Gallery and many people had stopped to admire in quiet contemplation a Ron Mueck life like sculpture of the naked pregnant woman. My four year old was also engaged in the moments silence observing intently with serious, curious wonder before blurting out loudly, Oh Mummy, you've got fur like that! The silence dissolved into splutters & even the security guards couldn't contain themselves, leaving a very red faced mummy. I've never taken her to the art gallery with me since.
Olivia, aged 4

My daughter was happily eating her pikelets for morning tea, all was well until the moment she bit her tongue. First of all, she cried with her mouth wide open... As I watched half of her soggy, chewed up pikelet just drop out of her mouth on to the table, I knew what was going to come next. It only took a minute before I heard that questions I was dreading "Mummy, can you kiss my tongue better?" Food and all? I dont think so, thankfully her Daddy was home at the time and I told her that Daddy would be more than happy to kiss her tongue better!
Monique and Bella aged 3