One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
My niece at age 3 would say that her butt burped when she farted!
My niece, at 4 years old (now in high school), Christened whipped-cream-in-a-can “Pie Spray”… it has been Pie Spray throughout the family ever sense.
Our family would get together at my in-laws hunting property. When our daughter was about three she wanted to know where the owl was when I took her to the bathroom. Tokk me a minute to realize she was talking about the outhouse.
When our 3yo is drying off after a bath, we dry her armpits… then her “elbow pits” (the insides of her elbows)… then her “wrist pits” (the insides of her wrists).
My nephew at a very young age called deviled eggs “slidy eggs.” Because they slidy off your plate. The name has passed into the next generation.
My 3 year old son, Greg, spotted the moon in the middle of the day, it had wisps of clouds around it. He pointed and said “Look Mommy, the moon is melting!”
My four year old and I were leisurely walking in a downtown area eating an ice cream cone, when we passed a wig shop( “wigs on mannequin heads” )……. he stopped looked a minute and said , “look mama, at all the mother heads!”😂
My great great grand kids call delived eggs angels eggs
At about 3-4 years old my son loved Mamma Mia (the musical). The knew the song quite well. Except for the line “there’s a fire within my soul” which me mistook for “There’s a Fireman in my soul”. He’s 15 now. We still sing “there’s a fireman in my soul”.
“Those little lanes they have not changed” (line from a favorite hymn ( I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked) — became in my four year old son’s words “those little lambs they have no chairs”
When our son was young, he put together last week and last night with yesterday to call it lasterday.
My (then) four year old son (on the autism spectrum) didn’t know the name for aquarium. His Nana had recently taken him to one. He called it a “fish zoo”. We thought that was pretty clever of him!
My 4 yo grand-daughter became sick while spending the night with us. We rushed her to the bathroom as she continued to throw up. Once she caught her breath she said “grandma, why am I choking on the toilet”. She is 17 now and we still call it “choking on the toilet.”
My daughter called bra straps, “bra handles.”
When she was around two years old, I’d let her help me in the kitchen. Once, while teaching her to crack open eggs, she said she didn’t like “egg slobber” to get on her hands.
“Bra handles” and “egg slobber” have stayed in our vocabulary now for 22 years.
We washed our clothes and the wetter before we put them in the dryer
My daughter used to call goldfish ‘fish cookies’ when she was little. She is 9, we still call them fish cookies LOL
Our 4yo. daughter called French fries “we waas”.
When my daughter was 3 or 4 she called pillowcases pillow bags. Makes sense to me.
Granddaughter was vomiting the first time and she said she was pooping put her mouth
Eggs, Belly or no belly? = Over easy or scrambled
For spanglish peeps, huevito chips = migas
I sang to my daughter at night, and during the holidays she wanted me to sing the “salad song”. I was confused and asked her to sing it, and she did….”salad at night, holy night…”( Silent night).
My nephew called night time as dark time. My brother referred to a ladder as the climber.
My grandson has increased my vocabulary. Once he and his sister had spent the night with me and the next morning he wanted to know when we were putting our ‘up’clothes on. Grilled cheese is not ‘cheese grills’. Colorado is not Avocado and instruction sheets are now constructions.
When my son was little he called R.V’s “Living Trucks”
When my brother was little, he ordered “Boy cheese” at a restaurant because he didn’t want a “Girl cheese” sandwich.
When my son was little and vomited, he said, “I swallowed up!”
When our granddaughter was younger, She ask what that “stadium looking thing” was….it was a stadium.
My 3 year old son named monkey bars “monkey ladders”. Makes sense to me.
My grandson calls bedtime, bednight time and morning wake up time.
My nieces were on an outing with my sister at the ages of 8 and 9. Their names are Elizabeth and Carolyn. They got into a disagreement in the car and finally Carolyn had enough of it and said, “Whatever, Elizabeth.” To this day I can’t say “whatever” without adding “Elizabeth.”
When my kids were little, they called diarrhea “quick poos”!
My niece has autism and called a hair dryer a “hot fan” when she was little. She is 17 now and still says she needs to hot fan her hair.
Other languages have delightful names for things when translated back into English – German is one of the best. “Glove” is “hand shoe,” “skunk” is “stink animal.”
My daughter used to say “yesternight” and “eleventeen.” The first time she had diarrhea, she said, “Mom, my butt threw up,”
My 6 year old used to tell his dad “why don’t you read the destructions”. I still read the destructions 45 years later
My four year old granddaughter referred to her yoga moves as her “Hummitations”. OMMMMMM!
My granddaughter called spaghetti with butter tomatoes noodles.
My 4 year old has coined terms like “red pa squid” (vampire squid) and “trees” (broccoli)
My now 10 year old used to call octopi aquapuses
My 11 year old still says “brickfest” instead of breakfast. And prenzels instead of pretzels. Kids are awesome.
My nephew used to call a 3-tined fork a “THORK” as a 4-tine was called a “FORK”!
My Pastor told this story of a little boy who was singing in church “oh COME ON be faithful” Instead of “Oh come all ye faithful”
My brother used to call mistletoe “rocket feet”. Close enough.
My grandson, when he was about 4, saw a llama for the first time. He said
“Look Mom a sheep giraffe” he is an adult now and still creative and funny.
My grandmother and my mother both had the same last name. My daughters didn’t know “which grandmother” was which…so they renamed them to: Oldiegranny and Neweygranny. If one is old, then the other is new. Perfect.
my son calls pillow cases “pillow sheets”
My daughter called her sleeves “arms throughs.”
My son about 5 needed ‘splinter pliers’ … yes tweezers
My niece at a very young age couldn’t say Grandpa, so she called my Dad Crapaw.
Our dog did somthing gross and disgusting, like dogs sometimes do and my son was so grossed out, he yelled. Thats disgrossting….my new favorite word!
When my daughter was about 4 and we had lived in Ft. Lauderdale for about 9 months, my husband and I were discussing Miami… I said I’d like to visit Miami one day soon. He said he’d like to visit Miami also… My daughter indignantly told him “It’s not your Ami, daddy. It’s mommy’s Ami.” She’s 35 now and any mention of Miami causes giggles in the fam.
We’ve called the vacuum cleaner the” dusta-munga” 30 years since our son was 4. We figured he had the latin roots correct – dust eater