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?

Like a pp, my 3yo DS2 has "up teeth" and "down teeth"

Inside out, back to front or just wonky is always referred to as "inside to front" by DS1. DS2 always wants to play on the "conchooter" and won't believe it's called a computer.

Ds1 potty trained pretty early. When he needed a poo he'd say wee-wee bum
Ds2 says 'far mit-mus' for Father Christmas.

I love bee-sits, toedresser and We Need A Poo :o

When DS was little:
Effelunt = Elephant
He once complained that 'Jack bit me with his hand' which was quite cute. Jack was a little terror at his nursery.

2yo DD:
Nik-naks = knickers
Sissa = brother

She also calls my lady garden a 'furry bottom' 5yo DS inspected it as I got out of the shower the other say and told me that 'It rather suits you, Mummy'. Aww.

My DS used to call the Sat Nav the "lefty righty lady"

These are lovely! My heart melted a little bit at 'cuddle me bigly'.

I'm loving over-socks for shoes and down-and-downs for dresses. I also think badgers may have to be called panda mice from now on.

DD also used to be very interested in my lady garden! She reached out to stroke it in the bath, saying 'aww'. She'd just learned how to stroke a cat earlier that day.

"Are we having mockshire puddings today?"

He won't be told they're yorkshire puddings. They aren't mock, I make them myself and everything

I need to write more of DS' little phrases down, I forget them and it makes me sad.

The mockshire puddings have reminded me of another one, by DS last year (aged 6 so not quite a toddler any more!)

-Is that that Yorkshire chocolate I like?
-Yorkshire chocolate?? Do you mean Yorkie?
-NO! Yorkshire chocolate! You know - Yorkshire chocolate! From Yorkshire.

-Oh, no, hang on! I don't mean Yorkshire - I mean Belgium.

He also had a lovely long chat with a taxi driver one day about how he'd been to Turkey with his grandparents and been to the beach and on the steam train, while I sat there getting ever more confused because he's never been to Turkey in his life, and then at the end he suddenly went 'NO! Not Turkey - Swanage.'

DD (18 months) thinks cows say, 'Boo'.

Given that she can't tell horses and cows spare at the moment, she spent the whole Grand National staring at the TV and shouting, 'Boo, boo, boooooo'

DD says the cats are 'Pursing' when she means purring and Squirrels were aptly named 'Scurries' when we went to Center Parcs last year.

Many years ago now, my then small person niece described our hissing cat as "laughing like Dracula"

DD asked DH for a hippo the other day. Not quite the same but she meant Calippo.

When I was little in the 70's I once refused to share a bath with my mother because I didn't like her " seaweed". My mother likes to tell the story at very inappropriate moments.

My dgs told me I misunderheard when he was 3 and I gave him the wrong biscuit.
Dd used to say we lived in a cuddle sack which sounded much nicer than the cul de sac we did live in.

When my brother was little he called horses "snuffies", after Snuffie from Sesame Street

I suppose they both have long noses!

DS1 went on a school trip in his reception year. They went on a double-decker coach. DS didn't know the word double-decker and excitedly told me at the end of the day that the coach was a "bunk bed coach mummy, and I sat on the top bunk!"

DD (4) calls light colours (light blue, light green etc) "morning blue," "morning green," etc. She has a light blue dummy known solely as "Morning Blue," while all other dummies are known as "Other Dummy." Morning Blue is apparently as essential to her as mummy-cuddles and salami.

She also calls doublegees "a dot with a spike," with her pointer finger curled into a hook.
The time she was constipated, she woke up and toddled out "mummy, my poos are spiky!"

(photo of a bastard doublegee for those unfamiliar with the scourge of Australian lawns)

Large headphones = ear muffins

DS flicking through the TV channels came across darts and excitedly shouted to me to come and see the 'rocket arrows'.

My cousin, when she was very young, asked my dad to buy some chocolate ham (sliced beef) to put on her lunchtime sandwich :)

We used to have cheerios for breakfast (also known as wee-wee-ros).

When he had Weetos he got really excited about the choc-choc-wee-wee-ros

Nonie241419 DD does that. She says "you know lots of yesterdays ago" if it was ages ago. Bit confusing because it could be last year or last week!

We eat "strangled eggs" and "gibbits" (biscuits) in our house.

I was telling my DD(2) off for sucking all the toothpaste off her toothbrush and she said "Well I have to because it just turns into liquid, so I have to swallow it." She also loves to make up words and I remember when she had just turned 2 and I asked her what she was doing and she said "Oh nothin' Mom, I'm just pilnkin' plonkin'."

One of mine calls peacocks (and emus, ostrich, basically any large flightless bird) "peapop". It's such a great name I don't know why we don't all adopt it. Best of all though is that her twin sister tries to correct her but can't pronounce the "C" - "No, it's not peapop, it's peatot!"

My 3 yr old calls a (slightly spicy) chicken dish I make, "tummy warmer".
When he is scared, he says he is feeling "notverymuchbrave", which is both adorable and accurate.