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.

I've just remembered one of DD1's funnier ones.

Stopped in cafe on way to a weekend away. Talking to DD about swimming at the hotel.

DD (loudly): Mummy, did you remember to bring your tran-kil-asers
Me: sorry?
DD: your tran-kil-isers
DH and I utterly confused (and a little embarrassed)
DD1 (getting frustrated in that way almost 3yos do): your trankilisers, you know you put them in your eyes when we want to go swimming.

Yep. Contact lenses. No idea how she got that one so muddled up!

My DS (2) loves nursery rhymes - his current favourite is 'the Dan Dole Dupe of Dork' (Grand Old Duke of York).

We turn the TV over with a 'mote console'.

And when he woke up one morning with a sore throat he told me his 'voice had gone wrong' !

My youngest granddaughter told her mummy that she loved her more than the window!!!

Forgot we also have a Pingedy-box

(micro wave)

It wasn't 'exactly' a wrong call, though slightly out of context when my son chirped up in nursery that he wouldn't be having any more babies because a man had cut his willy off! ... The nursery staff had a good giggle at that one!

DS at four said thoughtfully "I always feel sorry for Nana - her face is a little bit crushed."

Any drink with bubbles in it is 'fizzily'. I think it's so sweet, I shall be heart-broken when she eventually grows out of her made-up words!

When 4 year old DS spins around or comes off of the roundabout he is 'fizzy' instead of dizzy!

My daughter was thrilled to come home and say she had a place in the Christmas concert - playing the tangerines!

My dd uses made up words to describe how things feel.

She stood on a wonky floorboard in our new house and described it as 'bingally bongally"

We used train toilets the other day which she hated, describing them as too "whirly birly"

My son gets confused with his toes. He call his big to his Toe thumb. x

Nice tea shop: Smallest is asked what she would like to order. Not sure. Would she like a toasted tea cake. Yes, she thinks she would.

Tea cakes arrive. Horrified voice rings out "It's cooked buns!"

Still call them that

For some reason Pilots are Pirates in this house, he can say pilot no bother if you say it slowly together but then runs off shouting he's a pirate, made all the more confusing by the fact pirates are also pirates - hell to pay if you don't understand which 'pirate' game you're playing straight away!

Oh and the hairdryer is a waterdryer - I like this one and he's growing out of it but think it might stick for me

Our little man loves dinosaurs. Just recently he has made the connection with 'saurs' from dinosaurs and 'sore' as in nappy rash resulting in him patting his bottom to let us know about the 'dinosores' that are bothering him! They sound pretty gruesome don't you think?!

Both my little ones have came up with funny things that i will miss very much as they grow older. One of my sons funniest comments was:
"Mummy when i was a baby did i sleep in my own cottage in your room". Presuming he meant a cot as i am pretty sure a cottage wouldn't fit!! So funny.

Tomatoes in our household will forever be known as "Bumatoes" as my toddler used to call them!

DD combines 'something different' and 'something else' to 'different else' e.g. 'can we do different else now please'. Its very cute!

Dd was very excited cos her nursery class was going to doing the "octopus" race at sports day.

Ds loved riding on his dads bombine harvester on the farm and used to love seeing the mixa mensa when we were concreting the yard

Ketchup in our house is also known as matty sauce and milk according to my youngest dd is cow juice

My 2 year old grandson got granddad and uncle rory mixed up and called granddad grory, it has stuck. granddad is now forever more Grory.

My son calls parrots carrots, we have tried correcting him and he then comes out with "pppppp carrot".

When my son wants something else to eat he always says, 'i want a bit more else'!

DS1 when he was 2 one winter looked at a tree that had lost its leaves and said "look, tree broken"

DS2 (3) just kicked up a fuss about going to bed. He shouted "it's not sleepy time! It's sunny time"

My son was sleeping in the tent in the back garden with my husband for the first time last night. He was really excited but then just before he went out he came to give me a big cuddle and whispered "I'm feeling a bit shy about sleeping in the tent" He meant nervous but I thought that was an adorable way of putting it

my kid sister always used to say dont worry in the art attack in this house Clearly she meant artist

My daughter used to call muffins, Muffles :)