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My boys, aged 4 and almost 3, have come up with a new insult that the rest of us now use. I don't know which of them invented it, but when they wrestle with Daddy they'll point at him and yell, "You're stinky clumpy!" It's so much fun to say, and makes no sense. It's a bit gross, too. So, when we're goofing around and being silly, we all call each other stinky clumpy.
When my daughter was little, she started talking very early and very well. She didn't give us many silly words to work with, but the one she did have that we still use to day is "hippomus-pottomus." Apparently the word hippopotomus was too short for her, so she added another syllable. We still use her version of the word because it's so cute.
Another word my daughter brought into wide circulation throughout the family is "goolie." This was her word for her private parts, but at least when she was very small and said it in public, no one knew what she was talking about.
My youngest son likes to argue with us over the meanings of words. He'll have his own idea of what a word means, and if we try to correct him at all he gets mad. For example, he doesn't say "bottom," he says "body." As in, you sit on your body. It cracks me up when we have people over who don't know what he means, and he'll say something about the person's body, and the person talks about their body, not even suspecting they're actually having a conversation about their rear end.
There are other mispronunciations we still use. Elmo is still Elbow, computer is still pewter, and Baby Jaguar from Go Diego Go is still "Baby Wagwar." The kids don't say those things anymore, but my husband and I are still holding onto them. It's sad to hear the baby talk coming to an end, because it means our babies aren't babies any more. Not that I want to run out and get knocked up again (shudder), but those first years just fly by.
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i drive myself crazy, and i think sometimes people think i'm a little weird because ive adopted some of the things my son says in my normal sentences.
The things i can think of, "dont want it." My husband asks me, "are you thirsty?" i respond with, "dont want it."
"dey do"(which is what thank you sounds like when he says it) so i say "deydo" sometimes when thanking him.
When he says his baby sisters name which is Rylie it sounds like "Why-Wee" so now we call her Wile E. Coyote.
When my son says our dogs name which is Gizmo, he says "Gippo", so now that is the dogs new name. i call him it more than half the time.
When describing something large i say, "big and tall" which my son started. Even when i'm talking to adults i say, "isn't that big and tall?" then i just frown a little. lol
i know i'm not thinking of a bunch, but these are the ones i can remember for now. Great question though!!
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but when my son was about 4 or 5 years old, and we were sitting in a pizzeria waiting for our food, the kids were even crayons to draw on the paper place mats. He started drawing letter shapes and wrote his first word... BIMBO!
BTW, my wife whose first language (nor 2nd for that matter) is not English came up with "shrinkled" too, when she was disappointed with the results of her washing. We have used that one several times since.
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Words she misheard: these have become our standard pronunciation, even around other people, and in a few cases it has become how they say it, too.
Puner (PYOO ner) = Computer
Clocket = Chocolate
Cumber = Cucumber
Words she made up: she makes up words all the time. These are the ones with clear meanings, which she uses all the time. So, of course, we use them too. She also talks about mumprotes and aprotes, but we don't know what they are so we don't use them.
Pine = Tic Tac candy, as in "I want three orange pine." "Sorry, kiddo, I'm out of pine."
Ramadated (RAH mah day ted) = cold and wet, as in "You need a jacket or you'll get all ramadated."
Curnative (cur NAY tiv) diaper = pull up diaper, as in "This is not a curnative diaper, so stop fussing."
Phrases that are always said this way now:
Cozy things = blankie, taggies, pillow, and stuffed cat as a set. Other people have their own cozy things.
Very cozy = having all the cozy things, preferably still in jammies. We are no longer cozy, but very cozy.
Try it, do it, eat it = have a bite of this food. She started saying it that way, and now we do too.
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He has grown out of it now but he used to have trouble with the word yellow. At first it came out yah wo and then it came out lellow and we can’t pass a yellow car on the road without my wife or I commenting on that yah wo car. His mother used to be an EMT and one day we passed a bad accident on the road and there were bodies covered with sheets out in plain view. He was about three at the time and he said, “That was a bad wreck, just look at all of those splattered people.” Now when anything or anybody falls we ask if it splattered. We go to the beach every year and one year I let myself get a bad sunburn and we got some of that blue stuff that you rub on sunburns. He of course had to help rub it on and he named the stuff blue gook and blue gook it has been ever since. I just hope that if I ever have a wreck and get splattered because I have blue gook on my hands that my wife doesn’t bury me in a yah wo casket. Oh, and when we go to MacDonald's now we all order "pink" milkshakes, LOL.
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