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?

Squirrels = squabbies
Lips = Yips (also 'I yuv you', lellow)

We still call the hoover the vacuum scraper though.

We can nearmost say everything properly.

We have a shopping center near us which everyone else calls Mega Mall my daughter calls it Mega Mog.

Oh I'm dreading it too. Between my two we have malloons (balloons), glubs (gloves), picinic, sheepies....

...and scirrels (squirrels)

we had chimbleys till DD1 was around 12 (she knew by then she couldn't say it properly so avoided it in public). And very amusingly, she couldn't say her own name (but heard it correctly) so when she announced "I Feena!" and we replied "Hello Feena" she stomped off in a huff muttering "I not Feena, I FEENA!"

DD1 says piptupoptumus - I heard her trying hipptapoptumus yesterday and asked her about the piptupoptumus and she said ' it can't be piptupoptumus , mummy it has a 'h' letter at the beginning :( But she still has a baby snifter (sister) called Eggy (Ellie)

My daughter takes her impaler when her chest is bad. I haven't the heart to correct her.

Aww, this is all so lovely :)

Funnily enough I started automatically using a few of my old baby words when my son was learning to talk and I had to be corrected LOL!

It was gabbygip (spaghetti) and uppygup (up you get) in particular..... guess I just regressed a bit!!

Oh, I really miss my sister being Aunty Nitty , she just gets called Nic now.

We have likkle, undercrackers (don't ask) and socky doodles left from toddler hood now, he's so verbal everything is pretty much the correct pronunciation and I really miss it

We have glubs instead gloves too.

My favourite one of DS's is hiccy pups instead of hiccups.

we still refer to the laptop as the "ponkewter"....

and we have DD's version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on video..

"Tink-wa, tink-wa, little tar"

notevenasparkler when I was little, I was so convinced that my middle name was Calorine that I told the teacher it was and rfused to spell it any other way when we were learning our names.

She had to check with my parents

Until recently DS (now 4) said "blandad and blandma" as he couldn't pronounce GR...I miss it now. When Blandad and Blandma took him to see the Bluffalo at the theatre, where he sat on a bleen chair, the penny dropped for him and he tried his hardest to get the sound right bless him.

Awww, I love toddler pronunciation.

My fave is hop-sickle for hospital.

My sis still can't say hippopotamus at 21 it's still a hippo-hopanus to her!

Oh and now DD2 wants to put her gressing grown on! (Dressing gown).

dgs is looking forward to a visit from 'Farmer Christmas'[in his tractor no doubt]

Oh and guess why my MN nn is pranma :)

I've had so much stress over DC delayed speech that I must admit to feeling bewildered at you lot. I can't imagine feeling nostalgic for funny pronunciations. Not a luxury for me.

Ds2 says "Ambulope" (envelope) and we have only just lost "Soddages" (Sausages)

DD is 8 and still insists that there are 'naked beans' in a chili con carne!! She used to call her cardigan a cardily.

We had losappeared for disappeared; waballies for wallabies; aminals and cimena and binocleers (that's only recently gone) from our DSs.

We have
ninished (finished)
aunty lala (paula)
kaka (kelly)
asketti nase (spaghetti bolognese)
and daddys favourite snack op op toodles (pot noodle)

DS2 is only 2 I don't want him to learn the real words as DS1 has done!

When i was growing up, my little sister always had 'Hair poo' (shampoo) in the bath.

i made up names for my grandparents and still use them today as well as every other grandchild and great-mgrandchild. I can't imagine calling them nan and grandad. It doesn't seem special enough.