Toddler descriptions

[ByTheWishingWell]

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.

What have your toddlers come out with?

My son refers to my boobs as "milks". That's what they are for, after all!

DD was really into colour names when about 1.8 yo...after Bfing she started telling me what colour the milk was. She would have a feed then say "black milk", or "blue milk" etc. It wasn't until "flowery milk" and "rainbow milk" that I realised she thought the milk was the colour of whatever top I was wearing.

More recently she started complaining that she had beans in her feet..all beans...up and down.

Eventually I realised it was pins and needles.

DS calls the type of beans in the little plastic pots 'bean yoghurt' and brown pasta 'chocolate pasta' (I wish!).

My then 2 year old DD proudly announced (with volume turned up) after visiting the toilet in a restaurant that she had just 'done a poo the size of Big Ben!'. Wonder how many people suddenly went off their lunches..

In our house:

jammy dodgers are jammy jozzlers

Elsa from Frozen is called 'Ellie Go'

My high heels are 'tippy-toe shoes'

And DD1 (5) was talking about the weather and referred, rather poetically, to 'heavenstones' [hailstones].

My favourite, which came from a friend of a friend, is that their DS calls tights 'sockerlypants'

DS1 when he was younger called Winnie the Pooh, Windypooh. We still call 'Winnie that. Hiccups were hippycups and for some reason he called warthogs - possums! They're not even remotely alike?

DS2 calls a trampoline, simply a 'jump' and if he wants you to take a picture of him he asks you to take a 'smile'.

My Sister's husband had a saying (when something wasn't going to happen) that 'that kite won''t fly'. My Dnephew told us (when something was unlikely to happen) that 'that CAT won't fly'.

My DD used to call my breasts "nibbles" when I was breastfeeding her not very keen little brother.
She also used to creep around like a "inja" (ninja) with older brother.
Oh, and sing v loudly, "we wish u a merry Christmas and a happy new ear"!

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My son does the good boy one as well usually to his sister whilst he's patting her on the head

Another one from DD:

Sock-o-puss = octopus

DS is 4. We have sivvy water for fizzy water. And rather less charmingly, tomato period for tomato puree.

Reported for classics, this is a thread that should never die =)

i couldn't get numbers and counting across to my little one for the longest time. She'd instead use 'This one, other one, another one'. It was like one of those ancient cultures that don't have a number concept.

Dd is 4 and ds's favourite past time is asking her to say 'I'm a confused yellow octopus' because she says 'I'm an infused lellow optooctopiss'.

Cruel but funny.

When dd was 2 she would say 'strap out' as the opposite of 'strap in' - as in "strap me out my car seat mummy". It was perfectly logical.

My three-year old thinks that the opposite of upside down is upside up (why not?)
One night he was so tired, he kept saying: my feet are tired, my hands are tired, my head is tired... my trousers are tired, my shirt is tired (we thought it was very cute)

Just read the whole thread - so funny! Can't wait till DD is talking and starts to come out with som of these!

DS can't say 'yes' yet, and so if he wants something has to shout 'No! No!' excitedly. It complicates things somewhat...

DD said, 'Mummy, I am colder than a penguin and a polar bear mixed together in a smoothie!'

My parents had a their kitchen and utility room refitted when DD was a toddler. She called it the New-tility room.
Then she called the one at PILs (which to be fair is a bit of a shrine to the 70s) the Old-tility room.

DD gets mixed up between cocoa (which my MIL insists on calling it instead of saying hot chocolate like everyone else) and coca cola, and announced to everyone at toddler group - cats bum faces all round - that when we're at grandma's house she always drinks coke after her bath before bedtime, and sometimes for breakfast as well.

DD2 calls spinach - "that spinning round thing that I don't like", which caused quite a bit of confusion the first time.

She also called marmalade "marmite for ladies", and then decided that jam must therefore be "marmite for children" - we had a few tantrums over incorrect toast toppings, before we worked out what she meant.

My DH's beard is his "grass" as in "My Daddy has grass on his face".

DD used to call salt & vinegar crisps "tickly crisps". We all still call them that and she's now 10. It was a perfect description.
She also had a "jumpoline" :-)

Ds says 'catch your bless yous' to anyone that sneezes or coughs

Ooh good one. Salt and vinegar crisps are 'spicy lip crisps' in our house.

Last week I picked some fluff off DD's jeans and she said 'what are you goneing Mummy?'

Dd2 (3.3) says its ormin time when she gets up (morning time)
She also calls her pull-ups "pop-ups"
She's starting to outgrow all that now but I have it to look forward to with dd3