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?

DD had roller boots for xmas once with all the protective gear.
she put them on with the hard hat and knee pads and wanted to know where her 'elbow helmets' were

This was a one from my toddler days but I have never lived it down (I am now 34 )

My Nanna brought me up from being a baby and one day I was sat putting my shoes on, She said 'fgs cats you have got them on the wrong feet again' I apparently burst into tears and replied 'But I don't have any other feet'.

I guess its not a description but same kind of thing.

When my brother was little we were in town one day and my dad told him that he didn't have enough money to buy something, brother suggested he just went and got some money from "the computer in the rain" that'll be a cash machine then!

Dd2 describes anything that tastes spicey as "zizzy"!

My two year old calls a bra a booby shirt.
Yesterday, after she finished her babyccino she asked if she could then have my Bigccino!

We have nipple bowls for bras

DS used to call his grandad's moustache a 'mouth beard' and his top teeth were his 'down teeth' and his bottom teeth his 'up teeth'

Not into weird descriptions yet but DS and I were in the bath the other day and he attempted to poke my foof whilst very seriously and very sadly saying 'oh dear mummy' - he obviously felt desperately sad for my lack of penis!

DS (2) calls yoghurt "Lick the lids"

DD (now 11) called bouncy castles "bouncy-leans" and also, as someone up thread said, we drove on a "George carriageway"

Ds used to call his knees his leg elbows

Fairy, my DS is both horrified and highly amused by my fanjo. He either laughs and pokes or points, shrinks back and says "eurgh"

As I mentioned on another thread yesterday, that's an improvement on the time he leaned forward in the shower and bit my fanjo!! Note: it hurt. A lot.

celibavy my friend has a DS (3) and DD 18mo. DS came running in one day, clutching a penis shaped hen party prop shrieking 'mummy mummy! I've found DD's willy!'

Celibacy! That's a weird auto correct!

DD 4 calls trampolines bounceolines. Makes sense to me.

fairy

Wish i'd written them down for my two as they're so cute at the time but very quickly forgotten. Only one that springs to mind is ds' s word for dinosaur aged about 18 months - "Saur-Rex"

DS calls muller corners pudding with jam and he gets pens and pencils rather than pins and needles. When he was very little glasses were "eyes", "eyes on mummy"

'BINKY!' This is 'blinks'; it makes her blink (oranges, citrus fruits.) :)

LOVE 'orange dark'

DS (2) has a slight cold and I said, oh you've got a runny nose haven't you. He replied, "yes I have to keep smelling it" - he meant sniffing but it was very cute as I knew exactly what he meant!

These are great

A headache was 'a tummy ache in my head'.

A radiator was a radiheater.

Looking at flowers in the garden, my dd said her favourite were "don't get me nots" (forget me nots!)

When DD first saw a badger she called it a panda-mouse

DS best one is his favourite dinosaur a 'Rossertaptor' (velociraptor)

DS2 came up with shrinkles, which you get on your hands and feet wen you stay too long in the bath. I still use that one from time to time.

Also "just appeared" for disappeared which was mightily confusing until we sussed it.

Lovely thread!

My five year old used spiky when he was little too, it was to describe wasaabi, I loved it. His latest one was telling the dog to stop splick-lickiting his leg. That is exactly what our lovable slobber lab does.

DD2 referred to DH cutting her toe nails as the toedresser...because a hair dresser cuts hair...

A friend's DD calls dresses her down-and-downs because they go down, and then down...

DD2 also referred to her banana today as a newborn banana, once I'd half peeled it!