A magical language called Toddlerese

[Sycamoretree]

So, I just wanted to share with you something that I find utterly charming in my DD 2.5ys. She does have good language for her age, but what makes me melt into gooey mess of motherly love is when she uses her own more limited vocab in very imaginative ways to describe something new that she doesn't yet know the word(s) for, IYSWIM.

Examples: I went in to her after her afternoon nap a month or so ago. She was holding her hand out in a perplexed and slightly upset manner: "mummy, my hand has got sprinkles". Sycamoretree thinks for a minute, then another minute. Looks at DD's hand and the massive imprint of it on her cheek and deduces DD has experienced pins and needles for the first time in her little life - bless!

The other day, when we had a rare break in this miserable weather, the sun was shining brilliantly though our front windows, she came running into the kitchen to tell me the lounge was full of sunny bees. I go into the lounge see a million dust particles dancing in the sunlight - these were her sunny bees! Double bless, IMO .

Oh, they're cute! What a way with words!

Layscales (marks you get from when the bedding when you have been laid on it)

Comfytoast toast that is soft so it's nice to eat

I need to do a wiggle (poo)

it's splashing {raining}

Yum yums (cereal)

Love the sprinkles one lol

aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!so sweet!

Love Comfytoast!

And Sprinkles ... DD1 says her arm/hand /whatever has "gone all wrinkly" when she has pins and needles... took me ages to work it out!

ds2 goes joggelling (running on the spot ) and likes to ride escamators (escalators!)

I still remember the first time I had pins and needles. I didn't know how to describe it - I'd been sitting next to my grandma and she was reading me a story. I got down to get another book and had pins and needles in my foot. I said, to a crowded room of older relatives, "Oh, this is tiring!".

They all laughed and I was sad because I knew they didn't know what I meant, but I didn't have the language to tell them. I must've been two or three at the time, because it was in our old house.

Ah, these are all so lovely - let's have more from everyone please!

rubberduch dd1 used to call escalators-alligators and was most impressed by the alligaters at hairy woof(canary wharf!)
ds2 is 2 but cant get word in edge ways!so hes just started saying lub lou for love you!

rubberduck i mean not rubberduch!does that make me cute because i misspronuonced something

Ah, hunkermunker, bless your now much older cotton socks. I can just see the looks on everyone's faces. I am retrospectively for you that they hadn't got their diploma's in toddlerese.

When I was little I told my mum "I got somefing up my nose mummy". After anxiously checking both nostrils and being unable to find anything, she finally realised that I meant I could smell something.

ds says 'my tummy is wriggling' when he is hungry.

he sees things with his ears too.

Ooo fishie, that reminds me ... when I was teeny tiny and hated some food or another, I clearly remember telling my mum "NO... that makes me wiggle mummy" (presumably squirming with dislike!)

my personal favourite was from 3yr od dd of my friend, who'd spent the afternoon with her Nanny making...

Cockporn

Not quite the same, but had to laugh, when my neice (2yo) replied to "How are you?" with "Bit stressed". Think my sister may have been laying it on a bit thick...

Ah, now DS is just coming up for 18 months so really incomprehensible just now. Lots of words but not entirely sure what most of them are...

E.g. I thought bee-bu was belly button, but it appears to apply to my nipples and a small bump I have on my leg , accompanied by pointing and laughing natch...

ds1 (2.8), walking in the park. The wind is blowing and leaves are blowing along the ground.
'Mama, the leaves are running!'

Early in the morning, it's just getting light: 'Mama, is it night time or light time?'

DS1 loves playing with the sticky trains..

(magnets)

at cockporn!!

LOL again and again Notnowbernard. That is hilarious. Also DD has taken to saying everything is Dudder this and Dudder that. Like tonight, she emptied out the peg bag (don't ask, DH is on economy drive and attempting to dry sheets in sub zero temperatures) and said would I come and play Dudder hopscotch with her. Or she might say, let's go to the Dudder shops. I have absolutely no idea WTF she is on about, but I reckon she doesn't really either

at sprinkles. That is so cute! When my ds2 was little he used to say his legs were fizzy when he had pins and needles. It always made me giggle!

It's definitely a cute age for language development. My DD 2.8 is obsessed with pink. She wants pink bread, pink pudding, pink milk.
The last few days have moved her on from pink to Princes and Princesses. She talks about our family in terms of who's pink or a princess.

She surprised us all earlier by announcing 'Daddy not a princess, Daddy a queen'

LOL at sprinkles. My dd1 is 4 now, but the other day she referred to a stapler as a "snap clicker" and I thought that was apt.

Now fizzy - I reckon that's even more on the button than sprinkles. Way to go Girasole's DS2!

"Who... who... who... who number what I am?" -
DS(2.10) trying to work out how old he was this week.