to be sad I have to correct my son?

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Feeling sad that DS2 is a big boy at big school now :(

He is 4.3 and just started Reception. He has some lovely, cute 'wrong' words which we've not corrected up until now. He speaks beautifully but the odd mistake sounds so cute and once corrected they are gone forever. As he's learning to read I've had to give in and tell him the right words. :(

Tonight we've had to get rid of 'Humbrella' as we're practising U and the picture didn't match the sound

Anyone else pine after the day of cute toddler mistakes? AIBU to miss them?

We still use many of them in our family, but we do know that they are incorrect.
Basgetti, Sainsbies, sasu, lompster, crinimal, blum, helicockter...
Only between ourselves at home, and DD and I on facebook.

My daughter now 5, used to say head fore instead of forehead. This morning in the car she said to me "remember when I was a baby and I used to say head fore" Oh the tears from me!! She only stopped having to think about how to say it last year

Oh yes, we do tend to see lots of lollies on the roads.

DD is 2.3 and has loads of those words- efflant for elephant, pimpolls for plimpsolls
and as 's' seems to be a bit tricky, 'gome' for stone.

Helitokker was one of our favourites - dh and I still use it , whereas Dd stopped using it, oooh about 12 years ago!

I love that my dd says 'i changed my mind up' and 'scania' for lasgne.

Yes,I miss the Tsunamis that used to live in our fridge!

AKA Pepperami!

DS (3.5) loves his "Fwimming lessons" and going to the park to go on the "Fwings"

Even as an arachnophobe, I miss 'Spaba's though

I'm particularly enjoying 'Farmer Christmas' at the moment.

And Boycow instead of Cowboy.

dd 4 spelt bannana today i was so proud when she anounced she could and sounded out n a n a. she aslo loves pretty gracelets and whats some for christimas. im correcting her "f" for the "th" sound as she is struggling to remember "the", its a difficult one they need to recognise just now rather that sound out.

My ds wears a school unicorn to school . I don't have the heart to correct him, its so cute.

Ooh, we see eleplanes (clearly planes with rather long noses!!), wear sliplers and like the colour lellow. Sigh.... will be sad to see these go!

I'm going to miss being called Nunny!! when I pick DD2 up0 from nursery. She can say it all the other times but the excitement knocks it clean out of her brain

And I call the thermometer the 'beep beep's' in front of the doctor with no shame.

My DS2 has speech delay, he is 7 in 2 weeks time, but still has some cute ones - enlevope for envelope, and the best one is 'BEEFRUIT' for beetroot, it's been adopted by everyone in the family, and will never again be called beetroot!

DD had speech delay as a littly, and she still has a problem with one word (she's nearly 13yo!) - mirror is 'moo-rer'.

DS1 used to mispronounce pavement as pavenent, but that disappeared when he was about 2yo. I miss some of DD's ones as well, like millak for milk, and bugger for burger(caused much hilarity), too-el for towel. She was another one who used to say effalent for elephant as well.

We used to have ice mean instead of ice cream - dd stopped saying it months ago but I think it will always stay with me (sobs!)

He also doesn't jump on the trampoline... he tramps on it.

'MUMMY! Can we go tramping?'

My DS (now 4.7) said "Banks" and "Bank you" instead of "Thanks" and "Thank you" until just a few months ago. I know "Banks for that report, by the way" wouldn't really cut it in the grown-up world...but I really wish he still did it.

lol dd calls the trampoline the tramp to look a little hip with her friends

My gorgeous dd made up her own word, Tabod, and it meant I love you, how cute's that?!

DD1 (2.4) does some I love. I will miss woggurts and may even not buy so many when they become yoghurts.

I have not told her that 'tea' does not mean little - ie she knows a teaspoon is a little spoon so she has applied it to all other words and we have a 'tea-cat' and a 'tea-dog' meaning that they are small. I will miss that one.

DD is 5 and still wears a cardidan. I find myself calling them that as well :)

And she used to say head fore instead of forehead. At least I think she says forehead now.

My mum reminded me the other day of how ds, when a toddler, used to ask for 'home meat' if offered anything like a roast.

He meant wafer thin ham

ds2 and I used to have tuddles and tisses, lots of tuddles and tisses.
he is having speech therapy and mastered the c sound during the summer, and was then unable to even say it as tuddles and tisses - even trying to copy me.
he did say the other day "what did I used to call cuddles and kisses mummy?" and when I told him he repeated it.
I miss our tuddles and tisses.

Although, it is better now that the world in general can mainly understand him.

DS constantly talks about a girl at nursery - Ella Bella. I think Ella is a nice name, but thought hre parents were mean to team it with Bella.
Turns out it's Isabella :o

Lovely thread - cockporn has had me and DH ROFL :-)

DS can't say 'v' yet, so we have 'dery' for very. Ketchup is still 'dipdip' which I've occasionally used in grown-up settings, which is a little embarassing .

When he was younger, helicopter was 'heydotdot' and on the subject of 'tramping', he has made up his own word for his trampoline - its a bouncaline - which I think is far more appropriate.

My 2 year old calls an computer an an-cooter