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Toddler descriptions

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ByTheWishingWell · 18/05/2015 13:15

DD is 20 months old. I'm finding her descriptions of things she doesn't recognise or have words for both adorable and very accurate. Highlights include the grippy spots on the bottom of the feet on her sleep suits being 'sparkly bubbles' and the piece of mustardy sandwich she stole from me tasting 'spiky'.

My absolute favourite though, came when we were out for a walk a couple of weeks ago and saw black lambs prancing around a field. I asked her is she knew what they were, she stared for a moment and happily announced they were dancing cats. Grin

What have your toddlers come out with?

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Plomino · 19/05/2015 23:40

When DS1 was about two , we were having an extension kinda conservatory thing added onto the kitchen , which was closed off from him until the day it was completed . The first day he walked into it , he exclaimed " look ! It's more house ! "

It was forever after known as the Morehouse .

snottagecheese · 19/05/2015 23:42

DD, at about age 3, once sniffed my glass of red wine and declared, 'That smells like it hurts!' Wise words, DD, wise words Grin

snottagecheese · 19/05/2015 23:49

DD also used to call the lawnmower the mownlawrer and binoculars were binocu-lizards.

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snottagecheese · 19/05/2015 23:55

Oh, and the 3-year-old I au paired for as a teenager 100 years ago used to call sparkling water 'l'eau qui pique' (prickly water).

ScorpioMermaid · 20/05/2015 00:03

Brussels are big peas in our house.

my 21 month old DS says "shower" for rain bless him.

weve also had eyebrowns and nail varnish is nail narnish. I keep thinking of them lol I'm used to most of them and they've become normal for us all Grin

mrscee · 20/05/2015 00:04

my 5 year old twins call dandelions pom poms. and their big tpe is their thumby toeSmile

AGnu · 20/05/2015 00:44

We had water-slippers this morning. He meant flippers.

Nickijayne23 · 20/05/2015 00:50

My little one calls hiccups "ear cups" makes me giggle every time...

MerryDickCrack · 20/05/2015 01:04

Ds 2 says spaghetti bongolase. He tells me he "loves you to the death". He calls farts "bum talks". He's very cute.
Ds1 said to me today, when I couldn't work out the answer to his very difficult riddle (what gets wet as it dries?), "i think God forgot to put the batteries in your brain". He's 6 and also very cute.

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 20/05/2015 04:12

My nephew was an avid Thomas The Tank Engine addict and that Scouse bloke who used to narrate it used to talk about the coaches but because of his accent it sounded a bit like 'coachers' with a very soft, flat e.

Foe years and years until he was about 10 my nephew thought a coach was a called a coacher, and he was often heard saying to people 'hurry up, you slow coacher.'

TropicalHorse · 20/05/2015 04:49

My not-quite-two year old DD asks for a "ponyhead" when she wants me to put her hair into a pony tail!

Shetland · 20/05/2015 04:49

We have 'funny water' (sparkling water), 'rainbrella' and 'noisy bit' (motorway)

MrsSandler · 20/05/2015 05:33

Ds used to say Be-bips for crisps, he is now 10 and I still call them that Smile

cantcookshouldntcook · 20/05/2015 06:26

My ds called bi - carbonate of soda "bum sugar" when he had a sore bottomand was in the bath as I put it in his bath for his sore skin when he had chicken pox.Grin

Fairy13 · 20/05/2015 07:10

when DSD was little (4) I used to grab her for a cuddle. When she'd ask why I'd say 'I can't help it, I just love you so much'

From thereon in, if I tried to give her a cuddle she'd say 'stop loving me so much! I don't like it!'

Buttercup27 · 20/05/2015 07:47

When dn was learning the alphabet song she was repeating it after dm. Dm 'V w x y z '
dn 'v double me (w). '
Dm not double me , double you (w) '
'That's what I said double me'

2down1togo · 20/05/2015 08:20

My DD (now 3) used to say 'up me go' when she wanted to go upstairs. Going downstairs then became 'down up me go'
She used to have 2 dummies that she particularly liked, 'dummy pink' and 'dummy white'

She still calls wrinkly fingers after the bath 'eggy fingers' - we still aren't quite sure where this originated from but I assume it's because she thinks it looks like scrambled eggs!!

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 20/05/2015 08:26

Probably not quite in the right frame for this thread, but DS2 (2.7) has taken to saying "Good boy, Mummy!" whenever I do something that makes him happy. Grin
I haven't got around to telling him the difference between boys and girls yet.

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ByTheWishingWell · 20/05/2015 08:38

'Good boy mummy' is lovely. DD excitedly tells me 'well done!' accompanied by enthusiastic clapping for such difficult tasks as flushing the toilet or putting my boots on.

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SevTSnape · 20/05/2015 08:54

"MUM! Why have you got a beard on your bottom?"

So frikkin' funny!

Minkymooks · 20/05/2015 09:01

Loving this thread!

We've had:
Mummy's eyes ( glasses)
Hairy bottom (my bits obviously need a tidy up!)
Toesnails
Too taste ( for anything she didn't like)

Must write them down before I forget

thefifthpanda · 20/05/2015 09:09

We don't have crisps usually, but they appeared on Granny's table at Christmas. It took us a few minutes to work out when DD wondered if she might have some more of the 'Christmas biscuits'.

OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 20/05/2015 09:20

Light rain is 'wispy rain'

Haribo tangfastics are too salty Grin

purplemeggie · 20/05/2015 10:40

Baltimore - "that scouse bloke" is Ringo Starr...

Niklepic · 20/05/2015 11:19

DNephew one day sat down declaring he'd run out of petrol.Grin

Dd is pretty good with speech but says she 'can't like' something rather than doesn't like it. 'I cant like my dinner'. If we go to the supermarket we're going to 'Asda's house' and every morning I get awoken with 'Mummy, help! I'm stuck in cage' as the stairgate at her door is shut. She's a little melodramatic.