Things that are now forever named after something your kid said

[Echobelly]

In our household, I make a rice dish sometimes that is named after my son's reaction to it when he was about 3. Knowing he liked rice and sweetcorn, I presented him with this dish that includes both, only for his little face to crumple and him to give an anguished cry of 'MUMMY, WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO IT?!'

So of course, it has ever since been known as 'Mummy why did you do that to it?!' (I've even crossed out the name in the recipe book and written it there). DS is now 11 and actually likes MWDYDTTI these days, although he still leaves the green peppers.

Is there anything that your household now refers to by something memorable one of the kids has said?

The timer on the cooker is now known as the 'doot doot' because that's what my wee one calls it when she races through to the kitchen to point at it frantically when it goes off. My husband and I now call it that as well, as in 'your doot doot is going off'.

We had a washing waSHING 🤣

'Bunnies Way' instead of Bushy Park as we saw bunnies there when she was 2 and that's how she called it ever since, she's almost 5.

We have Square Words....my ds aged 5 "Dad will you teach me some square words?"

Potato waffles are "windows".

I know a lady known as "Nana Windows" the "windows" referring to her glasses.

We have "flat chicken" in our fridge. You know, the sliced stuff for sandwiches!

We have scrumpled eggs instead of scrambled eggs. 😁

Crim - crime
homhom - home
scriddle - signature
tappy tap - kindle/iPad
pointy thing - remote control
thingers - fingers
Mario & the Weegee - Mario & Luigi

Cucumbers were ‘pum pum bumbers’ in our house 🥰

When we first moved in, DD1 (2 YO) was exploring the house. When she got to the master bedroom she was excited to find it had a second door, and she shouted out "There's more door!"

The dressing room has been known as Mordor ever since. 😁

Crackadoms for poppadoms !
DS toddler called them that because of the sound they make when you eat them, we thought it was a much better name, so it's stuck!

Everything liquid is something juice, so tea juice, coffee juice. A friend’s child is to blame. 🤣

I love Mario and the Weegee. Sounds like an Italian-Scottish crime drama in the making. 🤣

J-cloths are called "peefs" because DH picked it up once, smelled it, and cried "peef" in disgust because it reeks.

Smoked hadock = yuk salmon

Special K is "Daddy K", just because my DH likes it for breakfast. That's stuck for us all now. Forever Daddy K in this house.

Testicles - Tesco’s
Phasma - Fanta
Unicorn - dressing gown
Doggies - strawberries

My two have had loads. Too many to remember but one of my favourites was when I taught them the correct words for their genitals. A couple of days later DS1 had managed to splash urine on the toilet seat in a really bizarre place so I asked him how on earth he'd managed to get it there.

'Oh I think it's because when I was weeing I had my....why are those things called again behind my penis? Oh! Yes, my pupils. My pupils were stuck to my leg while I was weeing'

'Your pupils DS?'

'Yeah you know the wrinkly squashy things behind my penis, the pupils'

'Testicles darling. You mean your testicles' 😂

We say Woodmouse instead of woodlouse

Bounceline instead of trampoline

loving this thread! Especially Willy boobies

Cucumberless clouds instead of cumulonimbus. Dd is 12.

not that embarrassing until a science lesson when the teacher asked dd what this cloud was, and she said (very matter of factly) a cucumberless cloud!!!

Ah my eldest won a knex competition at a show when he was about 4 with his brilliantly made 'gigedygar ' (helicopter). He's 26 now but the word has stuck.

We have:

Computer- tooter or peeyooter
Pins and needles - tweedles and needles
Ear wax - ear wack
Batteries - batterines

And probably loads more that we don't even think about and have probably said out loud at inappropriate times

Vote for classics @mnhq!!!!!

"gingerbread mamaman " dt 1 copied dt2s stuttery attempt at gingerbread man and it stuck for a few years. They're 5 now and say it properly and I miss it 😭

Dibby dobber = remote, this is from when I was little (now 30)!
We go to the cinnamon to see a film, DD started this age 18mnths
Humpfish chicken is hunters chicken
Papercots are apricots
Sure there are many more!