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A magical language called Toddlerese

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Sycamoretree · 28/01/2008 21:29

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 .

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Squirdle · 28/01/2008 22:16

Independant DS3 aged 3 wants to do it 'All my byslef' I'm not correcting him, I love his little sayings. We were quite sad when DS2 started saying things properly!!

Squirdle · 28/01/2008 22:17

That should be 'Byself'.....

Sycamoretree · 28/01/2008 22:19

Chuffinora - LOL. Can just hear his little breathless over excited concentraty type of voice.

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Chuffinnora · 28/01/2008 22:20

I'm the same Squirdle. With DD I was always correcting her speech and the teachers commented on her advanced speech when she started school. With DS I just ignore all his "in a mimute" and "Jaddy Dodgers". He will be grown up soon enough.

Smithagain · 28/01/2008 22:22

The first time DD1 saw a trampoline she gasped and said "LOOK Mummy - a bouncy table"

moljam · 28/01/2008 22:25

justremembered one of my sisters used to call squirrels sqwiggles so to this day they are sqwiggles!
and i had a niknik basket(picnic basket)that i apparently used to run away with age 4-5 ish ,packed pair of pants and clothes for my bunny toy but walked to end of road(i was going to get on ferry to see my grandparents)and remembered wasnt allowed to cross roads!

MorocconOil · 28/01/2008 22:26

Squirdle- My 2 DSs always used to say bymine self. I was really sad when they said it properly.

DD has two tenses at the moment, 'aday' the present and 'amorrow' the future. It's so lovely!

hunkermunker · 28/01/2008 22:28

Thanks, Sycamoretree! I remember how tough it was not to be understood when it was something as important and new-feeling as pins and needles!

Doesn't mean I get it right though!

DS1 calls Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doodle-Doodle-Doodle-Doo which makes conversations about the greedy cartoon dog pretty lengthy...!

And DS2 calls candles "cake lights" and mimes blowing when he sees them (he was so excited about his birthday he sang happy birthday to himself before he fell asleep for a straight fortnight...!).

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nobodysfool · 28/01/2008 22:28

My ds says "no-k" as in something is NOT ok.

Jennster · 28/01/2008 22:35

similar to notnowbernard, dd repeated dh saying hot chocolate as hot cockcock

tiredandgrumpy · 28/01/2008 22:36

cockporn. Excellent.

dd says 'lid on' when she wants me to put her hood on.

(keep a note of these in a book. language soon progresses and you forget these little gems)

SaveScrabulous · 28/01/2008 22:37

ds 2.6 sings the following in Baa baa black sheep....

"three tea bags full" and finds himself hilarious....it wouldn't be much wool though would it.

Sycamoretree · 28/01/2008 22:42

Hunkermunker - Jackdaw thread is hilarious. What a triumph though - you got there in the end. Want to hazard a guess what my my DD"s "Dudder" means? (see further back in thread).

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Chuffinnora · 28/01/2008 22:57

I remember DS singing a lovely little song called "a baby bough" whenever he was playing alone when he was about 2o months. DH was so proud that he was so young to have invented a song all by himself.

Turned out he wasn't turning into a little mozart but was singing the "I'm a wriggly worm" song from Peppa Pig

hunkermunker · 28/01/2008 22:57

No idea - "other" maybe? No, doubt it. Hey, you're asking me, who took about six months to work out what my own darling son was saying?!

DS2 was over the moon when I clicked what he meant - and fgs, why didn't I get it sooner?!

girasole · 28/01/2008 23:01

Oooh, just remembered another one, the same Ds2, who's now a very articulate 8 year old, used to sing "Like a demon in the sky" during Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Ds3 has had loads too but the most memorable one was when he asked for porncakes for breakfast. It took a few guesses before I figured out he actually wanted cornflakes .

discoverlife · 28/01/2008 23:11

DS2 kept on saying 'yee-yee' and pointing to the sky, it was his word for 'Helicopter', which he described by sound a rhythmic, yee- yee.

DontCallMeBaby · 28/01/2008 23:14

DD is fast closing on 4 (eek) and has yet to grasp that while the light can be switched on, the dark can't. "I will switch the dark on ..."

Today she presented my mum and I with 'big girl sparkly dresses' and my dad with 'big football dress with footballs on and also sparkles'.

My dad is responsible for another odd one at the moment - she has said 'uller' for 'other', well, always. For her. My dad corrected her a few weeks ago, and now everything is 'UVVER'. Very emphatically. "Can I have a UVVER biscuit?"

hunkermunker · 28/01/2008 23:22

DCMB, DS1 used to say that about switching the dark on - I'd forgotten that! Love it! Makes sense too!

lillee · 28/01/2008 23:22

awwww to all of these, looking forward to my PFB's sayings!

My nephew at the ripe old age of 2 asked me "why is that tree crying" and it was a weeping willow! He was going through a tree hugging phase then too actually

SaveScrabulous · 29/01/2008 09:10

Oh forgot my favourite - ds calls police cars 'peace cars' which I find so cute and appropriate given they are meant to keep the peace.

branflake81 · 29/01/2008 09:39

When I was little I used to try and wash my pins and needles away in the sink. Didn't work!

Kathyis6incheshigh · 29/01/2008 09:51

We were in the car on Sunday coming back from a day out and the sun was setting and there was big streak of bright sky near the earth and dd commented that there wasn't 'very much sky left'. So presumably she must think the sky is what is there in the day, and it goes away at night

Ineedacleaner · 30/01/2008 09:55

DD always called escalators the slippy steps and that has stuck since cause I like it.

I loved the sprinkles for pins and needles aoooo cute.

I always wished I had written down all the cute things dd said cause I have forgotten so many of them now.