when scott arrived in our home 11.5 years ago…the noise level changed.
he cried and cried.
then when he could talk…he never stopped.
and all of that is fine with me.
i am a talker…so it's nice to have someone to talk with me.
one day when he was almost 5, i decided to write down all the questions he asked me.
i did it everyday for two weeks.
i kept a notebook in my purse.
because he asked questions non-stop all day long.
such strange questions.
i found the list of questions yesterday while cleaning.
it's long….but soooo funny.
enjoy.
(oh…also…he was deep into an EAGLES phase…he loved bald eagles!)
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does that sound like any 5 year old you know?
wow.
sweet little scotty…7 years ago already!
how has it been so long?
Hyacinthe - Kaya kamaal likha hai irhsad shaib is k liye meri taraf se mubarkbaad qubool kijiye aur isi tarah ki jankari dete rahiye Allah aap ko shifaye kamil ata farmaye
Rosham - great work! im in complete awe to see this dosinmien of yours n that too so well-etched n honest to the core. Today,i feel proud being an avid n dedicated listener of the songs which are written by someone who has such in-depth knowledge of our literature. you’ve made me a very proud person today!THANKS for doing this.
Nilcilene - Sir, aapne jo likha vo kaafi accha laga Mujhe bhi kahin ek pada hua sheir yaad aaya, kisne likha yeh toh Yaad nahin par alfaz kuch iss tarah ke hain sirf andaze bayan he har baat badal deita harnwiaa duniya mein koi baat, kabhi nayi baat nahin hoti .sir aapke anusaan , sab geetkaar faiz sahab ki chaya mein nahin dhoop mein hain aur dhoop ke tukdon ko apne geeton mein piro kar garmahat ka anand le rahe hain Shabdon ka hamesha ki tarah accha prayog, main aapke jaisa toh nahin likh sakta par aapka likha hua pad toh sakta hun aur jo accha lagey aapki taarif bhi kar sakta hun .Aaapne accha likha isiliye mujhe accha laga, sir aise he accha achha likhte rahiye aur hamein accha accha lagate rahiye all the best
Shelly - Please could you clarify plans for litocoan and operation of the Nursery/Pre-School at the Lytham site for next year.It has been mentioned that it would be brought into the current Junior school building. Will this be in a secure part of the building with controlled access, and will there be secure, private outdoor play provision ?Are there also plans to amend the current policy regarding utilisation of Early Years Vouchers ? Currently at KEQMS these are only applicable for the hours 1-4pm Mon-Fri, which is not particularly helpful for those not looking for daily schooling at that age.
abercrombie españa - Acabo de encontrarme a mí mismo diciendo, yo no sé … Y el más joven les pide tan rápido que apenas llega a la primera pregunta responderé. Me alegra saber que no soy el único ser interrogado por aquí!
Katrina - Ok…So I;ve been reading your blog for 2 days now, and am totally hooked! I love the colors, I love your photography…but most of all I love your stories about your kids! I have 3 kids, 14, 13, 11…. And the 13 and 11 year old are Big question askers…Makes my head hurt! LOL! Now that they’re getting older the questions are getting harder, and somedays I just find myself saying, I dunno…And the youngest asks them so quick you barely get to anwser the first question. Glad to know I’m not the only one being questioned around here!!
OH….and btw! The kids are quietly painting castles today! Thanks for the idea!!
Katie
seleta - I’m trying to think of a word that’s beyond adorable…because that’s what this is!!!
www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmdE7l-CCNVWIRa36k4uPGZBq4UmGCEQjo - I lurk your blog ALL THE TIME, and I wanted to just say that this list (as well as most of your blog, really) has pretty much decided for me that when I have kids, I’m going to stay at home with them. I can’t imagine anyone else answering their questions about life, or forming their memories.
Michelle - Too funny! Thanks for the laugh! I’m going to try this one day.
Diana - wowwwwwwwwwww… i thought it was just my grandkids. LOL! ♥
Sophie - Hillarious! Wow, he really had a fascination with creatures, speed, size and height eh?!
Suzanne - great idea, that was time well spent! So funny!
Jenni - My favorites: “Does Jesus have a skeleton?” and “Why are you ignoring me?”
LOL! How awesome that you wrote them all down.
Jennifer - That is SO cute! What a great idea to write them down to remember. Why are you ignoring me? Too funny!
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - That is hilarious! I always wished I would have taken the time to do something like that. Too cute.
Elisa - It sounds like a 6 year old I know. And I am so guilty of tuning him out- good for you for writing it all down. Whew!
Kit - hahahahahaha!
That was so awesome! I have three boys so we’ve had our share of questions. But seeing them all in one list was so funny!
Great idea, I’m glad you wrote those down!
LOVE your blog, Megan!
Tanya Self - Ours was the same way. Where does God go on vacation? Who is in charge when God is on vacation? He also tends to pair up fighting partners. “If Superman and Batman fought the Incrediable Hulk and Spiderman……”
Tanya H - Oh my word you have the BEST ideas! 🙂 How smart to copy this all down! I love it!
My daughter is almost 5 and is SUCH a chatter box. She too wants to know about pirates and if things are “still real”. 🙂 so funny!
Vera - That is the sweetest, funniest thing I have read in a long time! How awesome that you wrote all those down. And seriously, there were some good questions in there. I’m not sure how I would have answered some of them ha! My 5 year old asked me if pigs have belly buttons, and I had to look it up. My 5 year old also says that God “picks you up and carries you to Heaven” when you die – I LOVE that. How neat that Scott said the same thing.
Christina - That is just plain awesome. So great that you have that! Did you attempt to answer them all at the time! That is a fun and good idea to write all the questions down. I bet at the end of the two weeks you couldn’t believe how many there were!
Talia - I am seriously nearly hyperventialiting reading this list! I’m not sure I’d be able to cope!!
I think it’s so sweet to write all those questions down though- such a good memory!
P.S I don’t know the answer to WAY TO MANY of those questions! I will need my iPhone on hand, and google at the ready when I have a kid!
Nichole - I love the question of “Are bad guys real?”, since we’ve been studying in philosophy that people who do bad things are less ‘real’ and people who do good things are more ‘real’ (and God is the ultimate reality, because he is the ultimate good).
traci in virginia - Oh my goodness…you are soooo good to have written that down! How priceless!
Staci - WOW!!!!! my little guy just turned five and all he seems to want to do is build legos and sing Dancing Queen 🙂 Your Scott is going to do BIG things!!!!!!! I love this list…aren’t you sooo glad you kept a log….mainly to remind yourself you CAN endure through a lot of things 😉
Robyn - im doing this.
hilarious! my son is 4 but this could be his list of questions- happy to see he’s not the only boy doing good guy bad guy… it gets him in to a bit of trouble 😉
a sub teacher said to me recently- “he’s so inquisitive, i love him! he just wants to keep learning”… i thought, wow, that is such a wonderful way to think of his ‘annoying’ non STOP questions and narration all day long! because i don’t know about your son, but my 4 year old often HAS the answer to his question. right or wrong… and usually not in agreement with me!!!!
Heather - Oh my gosh – my husband and I just laughed so hard!! My favorite is “Why are you ignoring me??” Digby is going to be the same way….
Lori - That was extremely entertaining! Loved it! Glad you shared 🙂
Courtney Walsh - I love that!!! hilarious!!!! What a cutie. I LOVE five year old boys! 🙂 (Mine is six and he still jabbers on and on… I kinda love it too.) 🙂
suzka - I love it. We’re right there with stuff like this, too, and I also scribble down their questions and comments. Here’s one I think you might enjoy: on Monday night, the kids and I were talking about Easter. Our six-year-old daughter asked why Jesus was in the tomb for three (versus one, or two, etc.) days. Our eight-year-old son immediately piped up with (and I quote): “there was probably a lot of paperwork involved with resurrection”.
I’m glad just two evenings later that I captured that on the spot. (Where did he get that?) Certainly these records will be priceless as the years unwind.
(Long-time reader, first-time commenter – I think.)
elma - This is such a wonderful post I love it. I think I will write things down from my 7 year old. Our daughter who is 24 when she was a little she would allways stare at the graveyard when we would go to the store and I asked her what she was looking at and she said that she was looking for people who who flying up to heaven but never could see it. I will never forget. Kids are sooo precious.
adrienne - a great laugh for me… over and over! hilarity :)))
Jennifer - I don’t normally comment on your posts but I do read your blog regularly. I did however want to comment on this one. My daughter just turned 3 months old already, and its bittersweet. I cant wait till she grows up to see how successful she’ll be in life, but I want her to stay small forever. I think it was wonderful and a great idea to write down everything. Thank you for sharing your life with us all and your family memories.
Kacey - I love it! Those questions are the best.
Michelle - I was so that child. . . I asked a lot of ‘what if’ questions. . . I remember my mom grounding me from asking ‘what if’ for one day. Love that you wrote them all down.
Sarah@Clover Lane - Now I want to see all your answers? 🙂
I have a noise level changer too…my 4th. Cried and cried and then talks and talks…same pattern!
cynthia - our “why’s” have turned in to “did you know…” and still they are non stop!
Kate - Precious!!! I need to do that notebook thing! Nate is six and cracking me up EVERY day.
jimena - How cute!!
I have a 4.5 year old that talks every minute of every day, and I love it! A year ago he asked “daddy, who is bigger and stronger,you or hulk?
On the other hand, my 10 year old only opens his mouth to say hi.
Juli - You’re a good Momma to write those all down. I think I would’ve been hollering, “I DON’T KNOW!!!” by the time we got to the 4th question. whew. My kids seem to ask a lot of questions too and I find myself only half listening/half answering or chastising them for “interrupting my thinking”! I am ashamed to call myself a homeschooling Mom! LOL!
purejoy - ohmystars! how cute is that? i hope he’s still inquisitive. and not only would it be exhausting to hear all of those questions, but writing them all down must have been really, really tiring!
Julie - Very sweet. How nice that you wrote down all those questions! I have two boys, so I can relate to some of those questions ~ real boy questions, and things my girls would never think of!
Tegan and Tage - So funny! I love it. I think every Friday you should post some of your answers to those. 🙂
Melanie - My son is fixing to turn 16 yrs. old and I forgot how much kids talk. Those were cute but I would have gone crazy answering all of them:) Maybe that is why I only have 1 kid:)
merlin - That brought back sweet memories.
The eldest was five, I was close to delivery date with #2 baby and the questions were relentless and ran the gamut just like your list. All my body and mind longed to do was find a quiet, dark cave somewhere alone and wait out the last days….no, the questions needed answers, they are all important, they never ended.
Thankfully labor came and I had a few silent hours to myself. And one of the blessings of the new baby was that somehow the quantity and complexity of the questions seemed to ebb…or maybe I was just better able to attend to answering them again. Funny, funny, sweet memory.
natalie - ahhhhhh im dying. that is hilarious!!!
Alaina - HILARIOUS! Also so endearing! How I wish I would have kept more information like that on my children. Sigh. BTW- I’m still asking some of those questions!
jess - oh my goodness!!!! i can soooooo relate!!! although you are WWWAAAAYYYYYY more patient then i am!!! by 9:30 this morning i was already going bonkers by my 3 year old’s questions!! i need to start writing them down so that i can get a laugh out of it in a few years….so funny!
Shelley Camba - Meg, I read two of these lists to my class of 7th graders. We laughed HARD! Thanks for sharing the questions!
tara - I have something similar….wish I’d written every.single.thing. down….it does go so fast…
I think I need a nap now after reading all those questions.
Ruth - That was so sweet. love, Love, LOVE the stage of questions!
Sara - This is GREAT!
I especially liked the Mustang Horse question, since they eat my grass occasionally!
Big E - I was able to not laugh out loud until I reached the “penis” part. What’s even funnier is that I just asked Pam the same question last week. (BTW, I’m glad that girls don’t have penis’s)
Keli - This is hilarious! My nearly 3 year old is just beginning to ask a lot of questions and I love the idea of writing down some of the questions, to be able to look back and see what her little mind was thinking.
My favorite, at the end-why are you ignoring me?
Thanks for posting-it was a nice treat:)
Robyn Farmer - Why didn’t you post the answer to all of those questions??? Wow!!! I better do my research before my little one starts to talk.
Tonya - LOL!!! My son recently turned 6 and has been talking non-stop since he was about 20 months old! He talked super well at such an early age and hasn’t stopped yet. I love that you’ve written his questions down! What great memories you’re creating!
tam - Oh this brings back some good memories. My oldest son went through a similar stage when he was 3. I wish I would have written down some of his questions. thanks for sharing.
Heather @ Cookie Mondays - this is so cute! what a good idea.
kathy eller - It is sooo cool that you wrote thsoe down!! WOW
Georgia - HAHA that reminds me of when my brother was 5, and i was 12… i was like Mum!! tell him to shut up please, i cant cant take any more…
He always asked me, – Georgia…. ‘yes’ can a boxer lift a house… ‘No louix’ …. Georgia … ‘Yes’ can a Boxer lift a car .. ‘No Louix..’ Georgia … why cant they lift a house…
Soooooo Annoying, but really funny now to look back on!! haha
xxx
Courtney - That’s so cute! My daughter just turned 5 and I should do something similar for her, but with her, she makes STATEMENTS because, well, I guess she has all the answers 🙂
Heather - my son is just like this. I had to answer about 27 questions just while i was reading this! love it 🙂
Kirsten - That is hysterical, and priceless! My daughter is the same…and she always expects a response…my mindless mommy “umm hmmmm’s” just don’t cut it. Haa! how did you answer some of those????
J.B. Kinrich - Hysterical! Reminds me of my son at that age. He talked nonstop and asked so many questions I used to beg him to stop, just for five minutes. Now he’s 17 and I wish he’d talk more!
Rebekah - My favorite: “Why do I have to do all the work around here???” Ha ha! I should do this. Ginny’s list would be very heavily weighted on the “Can you read me a book?” side. Cute post. 🙂
Annie - This is hilarious! I have a 4 year old who could be his match!!
Messy@Bungalow'56 - I miss those days! My youngest is 7 going on 40 :o)
Dana
amanda fuentes - Cute! I keep records like that of my oldest 2, too. (The baby thankfully does not talk yet!). I have a recurring post on my blog called Conversations with Olivia, she is 4 and really has so doosies! 🙂
Tara @ the cinnamon post - love this…so much like my son…thanks Meg for a morning smile:)
~Tara
shelly - I’m laughing And feeling really ashamed…how great that you thought of writing it all down!!! I find myself getting completely exasperated by my sons’ constant questions! I’m going to have to try and write them down instead 🙂
meaghan - oh. my. goodness!!!!
Krista - I don’t know how you answered all of those questions, or maybe you had “selective” hearing, like I sometimes do! My favorites were – why does Dad look old, why does your skin look old? Oh to be 5 years old!
Lori - HILARIOUS!!! He sounds like a HOOT. So very cute.
I’m wondering if he still talks incessantly…I have a 5-year old boy who is my talker and just wondering if that’s going to last. 🙂
Trish - wow!!! that is so funny 🙂
kristine - omg that’s hilarious! did you answer all those questions? or did he just keep asking new ones that you didn’t have to? i would have to have spent a lot of time on google! that’s so awesome that you wrote them all down.
Audrey - Last fall during wheat harvest my 8 year old wanted to know if my arms got tired when I was young using that big knife to harvest wheat when we lived on a farm. How old does he think that I am???? I have an 8, 6, 4, and almost 2 year old. Most days I love the conversation! Glad to know that mine aren’t the only inquisitive ones!
Julie - Holy Cow! That is alot of questions!!!
Nicole Q. - I love that, I recently read somewhere what the crazy number of questions an average preschooler asks is, wish I could find that. I just remember thinking, “no wonder my brain is fried at the end of a day.” My favorite question Scott asked was, “Does God have a penis?” hilarious
candace - That list is exhausting but adorable. The best were “Why is it my birthday?” “Can a wasp kill a dog?” “Do you think squirrels are sneakier than cheetahs?” the one about sharks he answered himself and the ones about age. Ha!
Marie - That’s adorable! And what a good idea to write this all down! I always think I’ll remember those little gems, but as days turn into years, some of those sweet little memories fade. I may do this for my toddler at some point.
Karina - I have a five-year-old boy now and I can relate to this list! I also have a four-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl – our house is buzzing with similar questions. I am loving their incessant curiosity now – I know it will get damped down or stuffed down later, which is sad. Although it must also be more peaceful, LOL!
brooke - haha! i love it!! this is such an awesome memory to look back on and it reminds me so much of my meghan! sometimes i can barely get a word in just to answer!!
my favorite is “why does dad look so old”! as i recently was asked what it was like when i was little and everything was in black and white!!
Flower Patch Farmgirl - Oh dear. Scott is Calvin. I need to start keeping this list. What a fun thing to look back on! My favorite was “Why don’t libraries have trophies?”
feather - this is such a man list! constantly trying to understand who’s the biggest and strongest creature out there…and then how could that big, strong creature be killed? my boy is five now, and i recognize many of the same kinds of questions! i love that you wrote them all down.
christy - Oh my too funny, you have to save that for his scrapbook.
I love the question when will Nana have a baby !!! that cracks me up
Jane - I’m exhausted just reading the list! So cute!
Erin @ Cultivating Home - My brain hurt trying to imagine all my possible answers to his questions! My son’s only three, so I guess I have one or two years to prepare. How truly wonderful to have such a curious boy!
~Erin
Sheila - Bless your heart Meg! You must have been exhausted every day when he was 5! How sweet!
Cate O'Malley - I can totally relate. My son is 7 now, but I remember reading a statistic when he was 5 that said kids that age ask upwards of 500 questions a day. Having lived through that, I’m fairly certain it’s true.
Kim - I am laughing b/c my daughter recently phased into the “ask a million questions and talk incessantly” stage. I can’t even read all of Scott’s cute questions right now b/c my brain is so full of little girl chatter! I love your idea of writing it down ~ funny memories!