Share your toddler's funny mixed-up descriptions to win a gorgeous Little Mouse hamper

[EmilyMumsnet]

When little children begin to expand their horizons, the results are often hilarious and make a surprising amount of sense - mustard tastes "spiky", radiators are "radiheaters". This week we're asking you what funny things your DC has got mixed up about, for a chance to win a Little Mouse hamper.

In The Mouse Who Reached the Sky, Little Mouse sees something red and shiny hanging from a tree and thinks it’s a marble, but Mole is sure it’s a balloon and Rabbit says it’s a ball! Petr Horá?ek perfectly captures the adorable mix-ups children make when they are small, in a charming story to be shared time and time again.

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Share your sweet stories for the chance to win this gorgeous Little Mouse hamper including three Little Mouse books by Petr Horacek, activities, stickers and a signed, limited edition Little Mouse print for your child’s bedroom.

This competition is sponsored by Walker Books, and closes on Tuesday 1 September.

Chocolip rather than chocolate. Yum!

My DS was very pleased with the medal he won at preschool for completing the 'main course' (obstacle course!)

Dd1 hurt her ankle and described it as her 'leg elbow'

A few weeks back dd2 was hopping about shouting, I asked what was wrong and she described her pins and needles as 'crumbs in her foot'

When DD1 was little and went to nursery she was given pineapple as part of her lunch. She told them it tasted too bright.

She's 22 now and the things she used to say still make me smile. Pavements were paper mints, dogs were goggums and snow was bubbles.

My daughter calls a trampoline a jumpaline, which seems much more accurate.
My son calls spaghetti forgetti, and my older son used to call his elbow his armbow
i love toddler language - it makes so much more sense.

My eldest ds (3.5) has heard the word disgusting a few times. He understands what it means and now solemnly declares at most mealtimes (sadly) , mummy, I can't eat this, it has gust in it.

And youngest ds (2) thinks all spiders/insects are called Spider-Man and can often be found shouting Spider-Man randomly staring at the tiniest insect. Beyond cute. I'm never correcting them!

My daughter gets head aches in her knees, her tummy and her 'bow (elbow)... anywhere except her head. As in:

Mummy I have a head ache here and one in my leg :(

When ds had goosebumps he described it as having lots of hard peas on his legs .

He also asked if he could use daddy's medicine...he meant his computer tablet.

Underpants are onion pants in our house :)

My daughter has always referred to Coco Pops as "Poo Poo Pops" after mishearing their name.
Goodness knows what people think we feed her!

Dd1 sometimes does something between a sneeze and what sounds like a bark. She named this a 'snark' and my younger dd2 finds this hilarious.

Also just remembered that the Despicable Me films were referred to as 'Despickle Me' as she couldn't say despicable.

My dd likes to wear her sunshine trousers (shorts) and when asked what she wants for Christmas replied "bubble sprouts" - for making bubbles in the bath!!

My little ones always describe daddies lack of hirsutism as 'baldy hair', it cracks me up.

We like to eat flower cheese (cauliflower cheese). It has stuck!

Oh yes, like sleepyfergus my little boy thinks the past tense of sneeze is 'mummy i snoozed'. cute.

Dd1 who is 3 says:

• hecalopter (helicopter)
• amials (animals)
• at sleep / at wake (asleep / awake)
• busy (dizzy)
• haircutters (hairdressers)

The other day I asked her to go see what daddy was doing and she said "getting rid of his prickles" - he was having a shave.

She also proudly tells people that "mummy bestfeeds my sister" when talking about dd2.

Awww sneezing! My dd says "bless you me" when she sneezes!

Oh and she is rather partial to a green chip (green beans )

Dd likes to ring the 'ding bell' rather than the 'door bell'. She also calls 'love hearts', 'heartbeats', which we all find very sweet!

Just remembered the funny moment when Ds pointed over at the wine stand and shouted 'look that's daddy's juice'!!!

Ds calls automatic doors automagic doors or magic doors. A boomerang is a zoomerang. Dd used to say she had fizzy feet when she had pins and needles. The other day she invented the word minimumised rather than minimize.

My little boy was talking about when we saw Aladdin at the Christmas panto. He mixed up Wishee Washee and Widow Twankey and said 'Mummy, mummy! Remember Winky Wankey!

My son calls his favourite biscuits "jammie Jommers" - yep, you've guessed it "Jammie Dodgers"! The whole family now call them Jammie Jommers.