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?

We call fireworks "bang stars" thanks to Dd

These are my favourite threads in mn.

Cat litter converter - catalytic converter. Dd1 assumed the former cos of the god awful smell!

Autard -cardigan. F knows why dd2 used to call them that.

A-puss. Octopus.

Hanitiser - hand Sanitiser

This is gold

Ahh I commented on the thread months ago about my nephew and his ‘up eggs’ and ‘down eggs’ (boiled vs fried).

My own DD 2.5 has now added ‘jumbled eggs’ to the menu for scrambled.

We also have nonnals for snails, and butbut for rabbit.

We’ve also adopted her slightly weird way of speaking in the style of a wise old crone - she’ll ask you what something is and when you tell her she says ‘oh yes. I know this.’ Or telling you to do something she will say e.g. ‘get me a drink please daddy you must do this’. We use ‘you must do this’ a lot between ourselves now.

Just remembered another one today - a local cafe we still call 'The fireman cafe' after a day I took out DS and my nephew when both aged 3, and DN was dressed as a fireman, and we stopped at that cafe, so it remains the fireman cafe.

Lollipops are poppy-los
Sweets are feeties
Father Christmas is Father frit-mut
Hiccups are hair-cups

Woorow is water
Badabadaas is tomatoes

Still say this even though DS2 is 17 this year x

Oh and viginer for vinegar from DS who is 13 now x

Local family pub place is known as the chicken pub because that is what my daughter called it

My son called a midge fly a mitch today.
Those damn annoying mitches.

My brother used to call them midgetflies

My son gave a massage in daddy’s back that he called “bang the nail in would ya?” So now if I want a massage I just say “please can you bang the nail in would ya?!”

Also when he was a toddler, he called fingers “bingers “. We still refer to washing our bingers years later!!

Sucky pasta = spaghetti
Nins and peedles = pins and needles

We still call scrambled eggs 'scrambled snake' after our 4 year old called it that years ago (from The Gruffalo). He's 15 now!

Another thing we still say is when your fingers get all wrinkly from being in the pool/sea is 'funkly fingers' which our youngest coined years ago.

Empire biscuits= Vampire biscuits 🦹

The barbers is also still The Haircut House

Goosebumps now pointed fur

Dungarees will forever be referred to as jumbereens in this house.

Faffies for daffodils. DD called them this aged about 2 and it's stuck ever since. She's 25 now.

Ours is called The Freddo Shop for the same reason 😂
Mine are 16 and 17 now 😂

My mum's dog Diesel is now called Diesel Dog thanks to my son.

When my eldest was around 2 she called cucumber ‘cubub’ it’s stuck even since 😊

Sausages have remained snausages in our house, kids are now adults. Bananas are still nana’s or naninoo’s. There’s a well known department store that is referred to only as The Lego Shop as that’s where we would go for kids to look at/buy Lego when they were young. Plus a few others, such as some fruits known as a completely different made up name by kids we couldn’t be arsed working on at the time (obviously as they got older they knew the correct names but we all still stick with the old ones). Then there’s a {insert name of kid} chocolate that we named that as the first letter of the chocolate matched the kids name. Everyone in our house still refers to it thusly.

It’s funny as if you are from outside our family you would have no idea what we are talking about with many of these things.