Endearing things DCs say wrongly that you don't correct

[AndSheRose]

As in when they are tiny and learning to speak obv, not revising for Oxbridge entrance exam...

Mine are 'Larf!' for the note that follows 'Sew' in the song Doe a Dear, 'turk-noise' for turquoise, oh and she likes to eat a nice 'cereal bath' every so often. She has recently adapted 'Grandad' to 'Dadgrandad' having noticed I address him as 'Dad'. My Speech Therapist sister used to encourage her very early habit of saying 'moo' when she saw a dog because she found it hilarious, but I drew the line there...

Bit of indulgence for the weekend and I am sick so could use the distraction!

And still haven't corrected 'Uncle Donald's', sounds so much better than asking to go to McDonald's for dinner .

dd calls cloth nappies 'posh puppies'

Not quite the same but my Dd1 is convinced dh has fur on his body not hair, 'why do you have fur daddy?' , I think she suspects he is a chimp.

DS is four and a half, and we have:

'alreadily' (I have alreadily washed my hands'

'Worldpool' (for whirlpool. It's amazing how often this comes up in conversation with DS)

And he still has a Jonathan Ross 'r', which I love.

He starts school tommorow.

I am loving Strawberry Idiots and Cheekywowows - they're just inspired!

My 2.2 year old says "nic nic" for picnic and "loc loc" for yoghurt.

Love this thread!

DD 2.2 says wunny babbit and oboe instead of elbow.

She also says 'No I aren't' and 'No I doesn't'

She calls nipples nibbles and always asks for 'sweetie bix' for breakfast. I hope they all stick I don't want her to grow out of them

My DS2 loved strangled eggs

Dy man ite for dynamite

Uncle geo for uncle liam

Eye plugs for swimming goggles ( dh uses ear plugs at work)

DD had a lot of these, disappearing fast :( my favourites are 'ricespies' (rice krispies - holiday treat) and 'compucumber' for computer. She did a nice line in 'mermalades' (mermaids) a while back, but this is sadly sorted out now; oh and 'rainbow coat', for a rain coat that has some bows on it

New one for DSS (3.4) is yer parties in place of me hearties when pretending to be a pirate.

I also remember when we were small, my younger brother used to say Freddy Milk when he meant Incredible Hulk.

good after instead of look after

Not my dc but I once heard a little one refer to a pomegranate as a granny pomet. So sweet and endearing that me and dc always call them thsi.....

In our house umbrellas are umbrumbellas after being christened so by ds when he was tiny ( he is now 12!)

Dd2 is nearly five and a half and has a slight speech delay.

We get:

Glubs for gloves
Dirdil for gerbil
Hello Titty for Hello Kitty
Bsgetti for Spaghetti
Chunks (as in wet cat food) came out, and still does as c*nts
Emails used to be memails
Lemonade used to be melonade for a while

My DS (20 months) calls wellies "splashbooties". He also counts "wan, too, five, six, five, six, five, six, teeeennnnnnn!"

I adore him.

DS1 (age almost 6) still says tooken instead of taken. DS2 (3 1/2) calls me MummyBunny which isn't wrong, but is endearing. A few months ago DS2 insisted that Buzz Lightyear was called Buzz Lightlitre.

The one which will continue for us is Manky Cheese for Macaroni cheese which DS1 named years ago and has stuck.

I still tell the DC to put 'their feet on' rather than their shoes as that's what I said when I was little.

DD (2) says Skeee-bee for 'excuse me' - Love it

DS (4) has Compinputer (computer) Cue-cim-cumber (cucumber)

Also 'Hehr-bottom' is what he calls a fart! When DD was a baby she had hiccups all the time (which DS, then 2 called 'Hehr-cups') therefore, in his 2 year old logic, noises from the other end became 'heh-bottoms!) That's the term we've adopted in our house for them now .

Need to write these down so I don't forget. DD says:

Chicken yoghurts (nuggets)
Buzz Like Yeah (Lightyear)
Mow controw (remote control)
Rizzackly (exactly)
Up Darnells (McDonalds)

Ha, the Dunjee post reminded me of DS's favourite song - the emu song.

got it after a short while cos he sang a bit of it - let me entert-emu! (R.Williams Esq)

Cardidood... But that has passed "no daddy, not cardidood, cardidun"

DS1 (2.5) says hodilay instead of holiday. And he often refers to himself as a dilly doshage (silly sausage)!

DD:
jumpaline for trampoline
yoghurts instead of nuggets
welly/ wally for willie, usually accompanied by hoots of laughter
snoo me, for excuse me
long yoghurt for a frozen frube
little bot bot for her bum, usually with a dance
barbar for grandad which has stuck for all subsequent grandchildre

oh and wobblelies for wallabies

DS used to say happycopter for helicopter but he's now so ridiculously articulate that the only thing he really gets wrong is "girl". For some reason he can't make that "urrrrl" sound. It comes out as somewhere between "grul" and "gril".

Sorry, that sounds like PFB bragging and I didn't mean it to, it's just that it wasn't so long ago that he said all these cute little things and now he sounds so grown-up and I miss the little toddler things he said :(