Literal-minded kids names for things -

[SoonMeansNever]

3yo DS and I were baking muffins on Sunday, he called flour 'pastry powder'

I don't imagine that one'll stick once he knows the real word, but DH calls quiche 'egg cake', and friends of ours all call raspberry jam 'pink jam' since the kids named it years ago.

Any more?

Squirrels are 'tree cats', cream cheese is 'melty cheese' and my mum's parrot is 'talky bird'.

'arm ankle= wrist, arm knee= elbow' said DS when he was 4

Oh and marmite is 'black thing' - Can I have black thing on toast mummy?

My DS used to call dinosaurs "dino-bones".

We also have flat eggs (fried eggs) and smoking sticks (cigarettes).

My then three year old asked (at full volume) when we were going home to the prison. I'd locked the house and left the cat inside and I was informed that it was now a cat prison not a house.
Needless to say we were in a public place and it was full of busybodies people with good hearing.

We relocated to the uk in january after living overseas for several years and ds (3) was very excited to tell me about grandma having a wetter and a dryer. Meaning a washing machine and a tumble dryer. Also on our recent holiday in France he referred to the bonjourers. Things in our house that are fizzy or spicy or very strong tasting are all 'busy'

I can finally contribute to these threads! Hooray! my 19 mo DTD has had a word explosion over the past 2 weeks. She calls dinosaurs "dino-roars". I cannot tell you how cute I find this.

DS called big bumpy tractor-type tyres "dum-dum tyres" (with the "u" sound from Pudding rather than Dumb), which has stuck. Spicy food is "stingy" (as in sting not stinge)

I'm adopting "orange yawn" - it's brilliant!

if we switch the tv on without the freesat box being on we get a fuzy screen with lots of dots. My dc call that 'bizzybuzz' they giggle for ages after saying it which is really cute. I now think of any white noise type stuff as bizzybuzz.

also, bath water draining in a swirly whirlpool is a swirple.

Every time we go to Ayr, ds thinks it's Sky....

My DD asks me 'un-inside out' something for her

I love the ghost broccoli .

I've remembered some more.

pink fish - salmon
look aftering - looking after

Farts = "empty poos"

DS asked us to 'loud up' the television.

Tricky explaining 'turn it up' when there are no knobs on the set anymore!

Tricky explaining 'turn it up' when there are no knobs on the set anymore!

According to DS1, screwdrivers are for screwing and spanners are for spanning.

One more I forgot: towns have outskirsts, in our house, but DS refers to city centres as the "inskirts".

My DD calls my bra a 'booby-trap'. Cracks me up.

DD1 (now 15) used to call puddings "any else"

I would ask her if she wanted anything else to eat after dinner and she started asking for an any else!

Bounceline -be ause you don't tramp on a trampoline

Oh and the back of his knees are "leg armpits"!

And tappy eggs means boiled eggs - because you tap them with a spoon

My bra is a boob-wrapper. Ds has got it in one

When Ds1 wanted a carry he used to say "up me, up me"

Malted milk biscuits are referred to as 'cow biscuits', and from there we got 'pig biscuits' (for fig biscuits)

The TV remote is the 'motor control'

When DS was small he would politely say 'kumese' (excuse me), and we still use it now