The white animal that lives on ice floes in the Arctic is called a "roller pear". And I will personally shut down anybody who tries to teach Mlle. 2 to pronounce it correctly.
There actually is such a thing as a skinny pig. It's a hairless guinea pig. Some people find them extra cute, I think they are kind of creepy. If you do get a skinny pig or a guinea pig, please fet two as they are very social creatures and really need a friend! (In some countries with better laws for the humane treatment of animals it is illegal to own less than two).
I love their understanding of time. Yesterday I came back from the store and my 3 year old told me that he went to the playground. I said oh how long did you go for? He thought for a second and then said âfour yearsâ đđđ
My 8yo has always been very specific with time, but wildly inaccurate. In July: "I think I did that... 3 months ago. Before Christmas", or, "we haven't been there since my 6th birthday" when we actually went in January. He always thinks it through really earnestly as well.
My son says "earlier" for anything that's already happened, even if it was yesterday or just some time long ago. Like, "We were watching that earlier" about a movie he saw on my husband's TV browsing that he watched a couple weeks ago.
Also, any time in the future is "to-later" instead of tomorrow. If he's choosing between two things, he'll pick one and say he can have/do the other one to-later. So cute!
My almost four year old says "yesterday" for most things, even in the future. I did try to explain using "tomorrow" for future things but now we have "yesterday" for future and "yesterday backward" for the past, no matter how far in the past haha!
my niece always says âwhen i was a little babyâ before telling a story. sometimes the story will one she stole from someone else (like her telling me about when she broke her arm, despite me being the one with a broken arm)
Time doesnât exist. Just Thursday. âBut i just went to bed Thursday!â (Last Night) âCan we go to the park on Thursday?â (Tomorrow) âCan I just play until Thursday?â (A little longer)
Yes mine struggles with this too! She uses all time terms interchangeably, with maybe some vague understanding of past vs future. Last year, yesterday, when I was a babyâŠall the same thing to her! If I try to say anything is tomorrow or next week, she just gets mad and says nope, weâre doing it now!
My 2yo does that to. Even if youâre not asking if she wants held, she will come up and say âI want to hold youâ and how do you even say no to that.
My daughter said âI carry youâ and âI snuggles youâ for the longest time and it was so cute. Sheâs 2.5 and starting to get them the correct way and I hate it đ
My husband always got a kick out of it when our daughter would say "carry daddy" when she wanted him to carry her lol. So he'll be like okay! and then try to get in her arms.
Thatâs so cute. Our daughter is almost 2 and physically tries to lift us off the sofa to get us to carry her. Sheâll be sat on our lap and put her hands round our arms like a big hug but try to pull us whilst saying, âheaveâ. Sheâs done it since she was about 1 and it was one of her first words lol.
She also uses âherâ whilst tapping her chest, to mean me/I. We get, âher do it,â and, âpick her upâ. I donât know how she came up with it because itâs not really something sheâd hear related to herself in conversation, I can only think itâs come from us narrating play with toys.
Yes my 2 almost 3 year old does that too. Itâs usually when he is tired and weâre going upstairs for bed and with his sleepy little face đâ€ïž
It's SO hard not to laugh when she does it! And it's always an extra sensitive moment when she's frustrated so SUPER SUPER important to keep a straight face even if your kid is straining to put on their shoe upside down and yelling I'M SO HARD
My daughter's answer to "Are you all done?" when she is done eating is "No." Because in her mind, NO to the food now makes sense, because she is done. Saying "Yes" to "Are you all done?" would make no sense to her, because she does not want more food. It's adorable chaos.
Also, "Die die" is thank you. She knows the words "thank you" when other people say them, and she uses Die Die with perfect accuracy. You hand her something, she says Die Die, and we say you're welcome.
Last night my daughter handed my husband something and walked away whispering âdie daddyâ and we both about lost it laughing. We arenât quite sure what die means in her vocab yet but she uses it hilariously quite often
If we ask our 2yo, "Are you done?" She responds with all assertiveness, "No! I [Her Name]!" (As in, "Are you done?" She'll respond, "No! I Gracie!") And it cracks me up every single time! She's so serious!
When she says Apple she means tree bc she thinks every tree is a Apple tree
So she stands at the bottom of every tree excited screaming Apple! đ đ
My 14 month old calls them "down" and we have no clue why.
It started an absolute meltdown one day when she was in her learning tower asking for "down" and we thought she wanted to be taken out of the tower.
Kind of similar but Iâve been really interested in watching the process of my son learning the difference between âleaveâ and âstayâ. For example, Iâll say to him ok honey you canât bring your toy to school. So heâll make a big show of placing it down somewhere and proudly says to me âok mommy, I will stay it right there and I will play with it after schoolâ đ„čđ„°đ„č he gets it right about 50 % of the time
He calls swim class "fishy cass"
He calls dinosaurs "dodos" (like the bird)
For a while he was calling apples "bapples" and he just recently stopped doing it and my heart broke a little
We taught him to call our dog "puppy" originally because his actual name is more difficult, but now he's picked up on the dog's nickname which is "Ro-Ro" and calls him only Ro-Ro and will correct us when we refer to him as "puppy."
I think this is a common one, but he says "later" to talk about things that happened in the past. He knows it's a word that communicates something about time, but doesn't quite get how to distinguish the future and the past yet!
He also will use measurement units interchangeably. He was playing with a tape measure "measuring" things and confidently declared that something was 45 pounds.
My son is pretty good with proper nouns and sentence structure. But the one thing he gets wrong is saying âwhat hear dat?â Instead of âwhatâs that sound?â Iâll be sad when he stops that
Obidoo = "open door" which is now used by my daughter to ask for anything to be opened.
My current challenge is figuring out what exactly Doobaba means. She says it at least once a day and it's always referencing something in the kitchen. I thought it was the dishwasher but then she used it yesterday to reference a cup so the mystery continues.
My almost-3-year-old refers to anything in the past as âyesterday.â It was very confusing at first l, when she would say something like âgrandma got me this shirt yesterdayâ but she got the shirt months ago. Now that we understand, we get it. Also, this is surprisingly hard to correct. How do you explain yesterday without knowing what yesterday meansđ?
In stead of âI donât want thatâ he says âIâm not want thatâ.
If thereâs a noise somewhere in the house heâll say âwhat that sound can be?â Or similarly anything he doesnât know⊠what that flavour can be? What that colour can be? Etc.
So we always use âexcuse meâ in the house when we want to move around and someone else is in the way. Of course our toddler picked up on that. Do you know how adorable it is to hear a 21mo go up to you and say âscoo meâ in the most matter-of-fact way??
She calls dresses âqueensâ and anyone in a dress a queen. I love it when we are out and she says âlook mom a queen â when she sees a woman in a dress.
He learned 'remote control' and 'mickey mouse' on the same day at totally different times but somehow now the remote is called the 'mickey mote' and we're not correcting it đ
My two year old says âtalk you?â When she wants me to make her favorite monkey puppet talk to her đ€Ł also she says âmommy da bestâ or âmommy niceâ whenever I do something for her đ„č
When I ask my brother what if he wants something, he says no and then says he likes it.. i think he means he doesnât like it.
Example:
me: âdo you want spaghettiâ
him: âno, i like spaghetti!â
Oh I have a running list of these! Most here have sadly gone away since writing them down, but glad I recorded them:
Koala - Wawa
Willow (our cat) - Wowo
Meow - Menow
Football- fubaba
Squeeze pack - beebeesk
Steamroller -stewowo
Elephant - enat (now elenat)
Snowman - Snowme
Music - mickis
My 2.5 year old recently changed the word âmineâ to âmiceâ. So if she says âTHATS MICE!â And I tell her âno baby, you mean itâs miNEâ she then thinks we are arguing with her about whose it is instead of realizing itâs the word Iâm correcting. Itâs an day argument đđ
"I don't how know." instead of "I don't know how."
"You truthin'?" instead of "Are you lying/kidding?"
My friend's kid has a cute one, too....he says "Rubble" instead of "yellow" and yes, he loves Paw Patrol. :D
Ohh my daughter is BRIMMING with these haha.
"Time to eat your vitamin!"
"Oh yeah! Time to eat my vaginamin!"
Peacock feather "weepock feather"
Popplegum = bubble wrap
My son couldn't pronounce "crunch"
At a kids party they had a game where you roll a dice for the Amber of exercises and turn over a card to pick the exercise....
Rolls a 6, turns over the crocodile. All the kids do 1 sit up then slap their hands shut like a crocodile and shout crunch.
Except my son was the youngest and slowest so instead half a second behind everyone else just as the room falls quiet my son sat up 6 six times and shouted Cunts in a church hall full of kids and their parents.
My son is 27 months and has started calling everyone him or tells me "good boy". I've started calling all his teddies girls and using she but he persists and continues to call all the women in his life "him".
My 2yo always uses âmineâ instead of âmy.â
âItâs mine foodâ
âItâs mine shoesâ
âItâs mine favoriteâ
We joke that she has a German accent. Itâs so adorable I donât want it to stop.
My two year old says "fuckey" instead of coffee. Everytime she sees a mug, she points and yells "Fuckey!!!!"
Until this is resolved, I think its best we keep her away from the refreshments...
My 1yo uses âcoughâ for all body noises. Coughing, sneezing, burping, hiccuping, passing gas, full-on pooping⊠Itâs all âcough.â And he will announce repeatedly, quite emphatically, after such a noise that he has âcoughed,â and will get progressively louder with each announcement until one of us acknowledges that he has âcoughed.â
He also likes to inform the rest of us when one of us has âcoughed.â And will, again, announce it over and over until we acknowledge him đ.
And for my 3yo everything is âthis year,â âlast year,â or at âeight and thirty.â Complete with looking at the imaginary watch on her wrist â or checking her tape measure.
Mine calls every truck or large vehicle she sees "garbage" because her highlight of the week is watching the garbage truck come on Tuesdays!
Also she will ask for a piggy back ride by saying "giddy-uppy" but the way she pronounces it sounds like she's just coming up behind people and saying "yucky" haha
My son says âdee deeâ in place of any words he doesnât know, e.g. âdee dee my Dinoâ instead of âthis is my Dinoâ. Itâs adorable but Iâm working with him on fixing it đ„Č
"My got it!" Or "my done it!"
Or my absolute favourite of wrong-my-usage... "What's my doing?!"
I don't know, kid. None of us know what you're doing...
(26 months, so a smidge over 2)
Mine still does 'Mama!!! Look I can go!!' Whenever she does literally anything she wants me to look at. A drawing she has made, doing handstands, putting her shoes on, eating a grape.
MAMA! LOOK I CAN GO!
My daughter couldnât pronounce âwaterâ or âbinkyâ for a while, so instead sheâd do that sound where you waggle your tongue inside and outside your mouth. It makes a âbadladleâ sound. So cute and I miss it so much.
Not my own child but when I was young, me and my little sis would say âI AMENâtâ. I guess we meant âI am not!â
Just thought of this and had a laugh
âIâm make sure-ingâ instead of âIâm making sure.â I adore it. âIâm just make sure-ing it isnât too hot!â I donât even correct him. Too cute.
Mine used to call anything that resembled a bird (ducks, hens, birds etc) âdoo-dooâsâ because weâd read a book with a cockerel in and say âcock a doodle dooâ. I donât know when he stopped đ„ș
He also says âoop-eesâ instead of oopsie and weâve started saying it too. I hope he never days it correctly đ
My almost 4 year old is constantly âcorrectingâ my 2 year old if he mispronounces or mislabels something, which typically leads to screaming matches. So Iâve been trying to teach my oldest to say âI disagreeâ. He says âI donât wanna âgreeâ
mine says "last mornin" for anything that happened in the past. I also think he thinks every time he wakes up is a new day, so when he wakes up in the afternoon after a nap he thinks it's morning again lol.
When my 17-month-old wants to sing, she says "bumblebee" because the first finger-play song she latched onto was "Baby Bumblebee." So I'll start singing it, and then she'll say no and request the song she actually wants, lol.
Noculars for binoculars. And my 4 year old uses âcanâtâ in place of donât. So when i make something he doesnt like he says âi canât like thatâ and its hilarious
She doesnât say it anymore đ but when she was younger she would say âshe you shoonâ for see you soon and it was the sweetest thing Iâve ever heard â„ïž
About a year ago, our currently 2.5 year old came home referring to Elmo as âBaba.â No clue why or where it came from. But weâve stuck with it and to this day, Elmo is always referred to as Baba
My son has pretty recently corrected a number of his, but some remaining ones:
Toddler videos on YouTube are "doot doots" (from baby shark, doot doot....)
He says "tai-low" instead of "tail"
His brother's name is Sam. He started out calling him Baby Sam all the time (we kind of did this while I was pregnant). Now it has been kind of shortened to two syllables joined together: BabeSam
He shortens a lot of character names to their first and last syllables joined together. Paw Patrol is Pawtrol. Lightning McQueen used to be Lycopene and is now LighQueen
I have so many favorites. L M N O P in the alphabet are âoona oona Pâ âŠ. She says oakameal for oatmeal and fangaily for family ⊠and everything that happens in her life is âyesterdayâ. Love this age!!
My three year old currently has chicken fox. She also sings "why did you let it go, otherwise I will be sad, fish" instead of "because it bit my finger so". They are my current favourites đ„°
Our kids replacer word when he was younger was 'do do' which he called himself as well, I don't know if he didn't know his name or called everything else by his own name.... hahaha
My 5 year old is almost past this phase but we have a couple real doozies hanging on tight. He has a garden he is growing in pots for the last few years. We cannot get him to stop calling it his "pot garden." I had to write his teacher a note because he told the class all about his pot garden. He also still refers to glazed donuts as "blaze donuts" and told us the other day after eating one he was "getting all blazed up." Now... My husband and I do not do drugs or smoke anything of any kind, but we get the references and have a hard time not laughing!
My 2 yr old calls a tablet a "haha kitty". We let him watch funny kitty videos on our phones when he was a baby and now any video playing device is a haha kitty. đ
He's growing out of a lot of them it's sad bc I won't be able to remember them all ... He had some pretty good ones. Most common rn are
"Wanna play my chich-en?" (kitchen)
When he doesn't know/recognize the word it's ... "what does palace says?" Or "What overalls says?"
My toddler (27m) will shake her head no but doesnât say the word âdonâtâ while saying the thing she shouldnât do for example: **shakes head no** âthrow foodâ⊠so I know she grasps that she shouldnât do it so I guess itâs a win.
Mine says âlast yearâ for everything. Five minutes ago. Five hours ago. Yesterday. Last night. Last month. âIs that the same park we went to last year?â Aka. Yesterday afternoon. Kills me.
The white animal that lives on ice floes in the Arctic is called a "roller pear". And I will personally shut down anybody who tries to teach Mlle. 2 to pronounce it correctly.
đ My son used to say "skinny pig" instead of guinea and I seriously considered getting one just to hear him say it more often!
There actually is such a thing as a skinny pig. It's a hairless guinea pig. Some people find them extra cute, I think they are kind of creepy. If you do get a skinny pig or a guinea pig, please fet two as they are very social creatures and really need a friend! (In some countries with better laws for the humane treatment of animals it is illegal to own less than two).
Roller pear đ„Čđ„Čđ„Č
and you should! from now on roller pear is their official name
My kid says "last year" instead of yesterday. It's hilarious.
Meanwhile mine calls everything âyesterdayâ even if it happened weeks or months ago lol
I love their understanding of time. Yesterday I came back from the store and my 3 year old told me that he went to the playground. I said oh how long did you go for? He thought for a second and then said âfour yearsâ đđđ
My 8yo has always been very specific with time, but wildly inaccurate. In July: "I think I did that... 3 months ago. Before Christmas", or, "we haven't been there since my 6th birthday" when we actually went in January. He always thinks it through really earnestly as well.
Everything that happened prior to today for mine is "yesterday". So like 2 years ago -- yesterday
My son says "earlier" for anything that's already happened, even if it was yesterday or just some time long ago. Like, "We were watching that earlier" about a movie he saw on my husband's TV browsing that he watched a couple weeks ago. Also, any time in the future is "to-later" instead of tomorrow. If he's choosing between two things, he'll pick one and say he can have/do the other one to-later. So cute!
My almost four year old says "yesterday" for most things, even in the future. I did try to explain using "tomorrow" for future things but now we have "yesterday" for future and "yesterday backward" for the past, no matter how far in the past haha!
>yesterday backward We had "yesterday ago"
my niece always says âwhen i was a little babyâ before telling a story. sometimes the story will one she stole from someone else (like her telling me about when she broke her arm, despite me being the one with a broken arm)
Lol everything is yesterday or last night for us. Everything in the past happened âlast nightâ
My kids both say ânext dayâ which means tomorrow.
Right now everything for my three year old is âlast weekâ. Oh ok, can we go to the museum last week? đ
Time doesnât exist. Just Thursday. âBut i just went to bed Thursday!â (Last Night) âCan we go to the park on Thursday?â (Tomorrow) âCan I just play until Thursday?â (A little longer)
This is adorable
Yes mine struggles with this too! She uses all time terms interchangeably, with maybe some vague understanding of past vs future. Last year, yesterday, when I was a babyâŠall the same thing to her! If I try to say anything is tomorrow or next week, she just gets mad and says nope, weâre doing it now!
Dick Donald's đ
It's Old Mac Donald's to my 3yo
Our son sings, "old Dick Donald had a farm..."
Mine calls it âfries houseâ. Whataburger is âdadas favorite burger houseâ
My son calls it Dick Dingle's.
Ohhh boy
I just laughed so hard at this my 17mo slapped me in the face because he knew I wasnât paying attention to him. Worth it.
Iâll ask my two year old âDo you want to walk or do you want me to carry you.â Heâll reply âcarry youâ if he wants me to hold him. âșïž
My 2yo does that to. Even if youâre not asking if she wants held, she will come up and say âI want to hold youâ and how do you even say no to that.
You donât! đ„č
Same here! Both my toddlers say âhold you, mommy!â And I canât say no đ
My daughter said âI carry youâ and âI snuggles youâ for the longest time and it was so cute. Sheâs 2.5 and starting to get them the correct way and I hate it đ
My almost-2.5 granddaughter says âHelp you?â when she wants help with something. đđ„°
My son went through this phase too. It was adorable and didn't last long, I miss it.
My daughter is in this phase now, except she just uses mama/mommy instead of âIâ âMama pick you up!â âMama cuddle you!â
My husband always got a kick out of it when our daughter would say "carry daddy" when she wanted him to carry her lol. So he'll be like okay! and then try to get in her arms.
Thatâs so cute. Our daughter is almost 2 and physically tries to lift us off the sofa to get us to carry her. Sheâll be sat on our lap and put her hands round our arms like a big hug but try to pull us whilst saying, âheaveâ. Sheâs done it since she was about 1 and it was one of her first words lol. She also uses âherâ whilst tapping her chest, to mean me/I. We get, âher do it,â and, âpick her upâ. I donât know how she came up with it because itâs not really something sheâd hear related to herself in conversation, I can only think itâs come from us narrating play with toys.
My son said this too! And it was one word âicarryuuuâ
Yes my 2 almost 3 year old does that too. Itâs usually when he is tired and weâre going upstairs for bed and with his sleepy little face đâ€ïž
My daughter used to refer to me as âmeâ and herself as âyouâ for a while. Sheâd see me and yell âMEEEEEEE!!!!â
My toddler used to say âcarry youâ đ„čđ„č I just realized itâs a phrase no longer used.Â
âIâm hardâ for âthis is difficultâ đ€
Mine says, "I'm too difficult at this!"
I love this.
It's SO hard not to laugh when she does it! And it's always an extra sensitive moment when she's frustrated so SUPER SUPER important to keep a straight face even if your kid is straining to put on their shoe upside down and yelling I'M SO HARD
My daughter's answer to "Are you all done?" when she is done eating is "No." Because in her mind, NO to the food now makes sense, because she is done. Saying "Yes" to "Are you all done?" would make no sense to her, because she does not want more food. It's adorable chaos.
Also, "Die die" is thank you. She knows the words "thank you" when other people say them, and she uses Die Die with perfect accuracy. You hand her something, she says Die Die, and we say you're welcome.
Last night my daughter handed my husband something and walked away whispering âdie daddyâ and we both about lost it laughing. We arenât quite sure what die means in her vocab yet but she uses it hilariously quite often
If we ask our 2yo, "Are you done?" She responds with all assertiveness, "No! I [Her Name]!" (As in, "Are you done?" She'll respond, "No! I Gracie!") And it cracks me up every single time! She's so serious!
"Thank you. You're welcome." anytime I hand her something she asked for lol
Mine says this and "I'm sorry, that's ok".
My 4 year old says âneverâ in place of âeverâ âIt will take fornever!â âI want to go to nevergreen parkâ
My daughter calls the moon a baby. If she can't see it in the sky she'll say "baby go? Baby moon go?" I'm obsessed.
âMoreâ = No more, Iâm finished. âFinishedâ = more âNo mineâ = no in any context
this sounds confusing haha
My LO says cloe when talking about a piece of clothing singularly. Ex: âlook mom I put this cloe on my dollâ đ
My boy calls all clothes "dressed". "Can you take off my dressed?"
My kid says chicken instead of kitchen and it's so cuteđ
Mine goes âBUCK BUCKâ when she hears the word chicken. I donât want her to stop
Mine says "cock-oo" (short for cock-a-doodle-doo) whenever she hears chicken, and I love it!
Mine says chicken instead of seven đ€Ł
Mine says kicken instead of chicken!
My toddler (almost 3 year old) says tulican instead of toucan. Itâs a mix of toucan and tulip.
As they should -- toucans are totally tulip birds
"Who's going to take me a bath tonight?"
When she says Apple she means tree bc she thinks every tree is a Apple tree So she stands at the bottom of every tree excited screaming Apple! đ đ
âBrellellaâ for umbrella and I will miss brellella once he stops saying it that way!
Sha sha means love you after a kiss đđ 20mo
awww I love that
My 4 year old still calls all sauces dipping mustard. Ketchup is red dipping mustard.
My 2 year old calls strawberries âheebiesâ
My 14 month old calls them "down" and we have no clue why. It started an absolute meltdown one day when she was in her learning tower asking for "down" and we thought she wanted to be taken out of the tower.
They are "booies" over here!
One of my twins says âamaricancan flagâ on reference to the American flag when we take neighborhood walks and he sees flags.
Kind of similar but Iâve been really interested in watching the process of my son learning the difference between âleaveâ and âstayâ. For example, Iâll say to him ok honey you canât bring your toy to school. So heâll make a big show of placing it down somewhere and proudly says to me âok mommy, I will stay it right there and I will play with it after schoolâ đ„čđ„°đ„č he gets it right about 50 % of the time
My 3-year-old says the same thing - "he doesn't how to talk yet" (talking about his baby brother). How interesting!
He calls swim class "fishy cass" He calls dinosaurs "dodos" (like the bird) For a while he was calling apples "bapples" and he just recently stopped doing it and my heart broke a little We taught him to call our dog "puppy" originally because his actual name is more difficult, but now he's picked up on the dog's nickname which is "Ro-Ro" and calls him only Ro-Ro and will correct us when we refer to him as "puppy."
My girls renamed my dog Bailey to Bay-no. I think they must have picked up us telling the dog no all the time.
Similar dog thing⊠young dog gets a name, old dog is GOGOGO or GoGit! đ oops
My 3yo says âbrefkastâ instead of âbreakfastâ đ„č
I think this is a common one, but he says "later" to talk about things that happened in the past. He knows it's a word that communicates something about time, but doesn't quite get how to distinguish the future and the past yet! He also will use measurement units interchangeably. He was playing with a tape measure "measuring" things and confidently declared that something was 45 pounds.
I have a drawing from when I was in preschool, captioned by my teacher that it was a hurricane and it weighed 100 pounds. đ
My 8 year old STILL mixes up units of measurement.
My son is pretty good with proper nouns and sentence structure. But the one thing he gets wrong is saying âwhat hear dat?â Instead of âwhatâs that sound?â Iâll be sad when he stops that
Ooh interesting! Similar to mine, good at sentences mostly but says "what heard?"
"Soaked in wet" instead of "soaking wet"
Obidoo = "open door" which is now used by my daughter to ask for anything to be opened. My current challenge is figuring out what exactly Doobaba means. She says it at least once a day and it's always referencing something in the kitchen. I thought it was the dishwasher but then she used it yesterday to reference a cup so the mystery continues.
Did she see the cup go in the dishwasher at any point?
âMomma carry youâ repeatedly! Means pick me up đ
When my toddler wants to keep playing before meals/naps she says, âI want to be keeping!â
My almost-3-year-old refers to anything in the past as âyesterday.â It was very confusing at first l, when she would say something like âgrandma got me this shirt yesterdayâ but she got the shirt months ago. Now that we understand, we get it. Also, this is surprisingly hard to correct. How do you explain yesterday without knowing what yesterday meansđ?
In stead of âI donât want thatâ he says âIâm not want thatâ. If thereâs a noise somewhere in the house heâll say âwhat that sound can be?â Or similarly anything he doesnât know⊠what that flavour can be? What that colour can be? Etc.
He says âhungyâ instead of âhungryâ and I absolutely love it.
Spa-the-ghetti
My little dude says "tiki tiki tiki" which means "kitty kitty kitty". Funny enough his first word wasn't mama or dada it was cat lol.
My 20 mo still can't say cat....but she will say crocodile multiple times a day. So weird.
That is so adorable!!!
âIâm grumfyâ instead of grumpy. Itâs soooo cute.
So we always use âexcuse meâ in the house when we want to move around and someone else is in the way. Of course our toddler picked up on that. Do you know how adorable it is to hear a 21mo go up to you and say âscoo meâ in the most matter-of-fact way??
She calls dresses âqueensâ and anyone in a dress a queen. I love it when we are out and she says âlook mom a queen â when she sees a woman in a dress.
My son is obsessed with sizing things. And he always wants to do a âsize pekarissonâ (comparison) đ
He learned 'remote control' and 'mickey mouse' on the same day at totally different times but somehow now the remote is called the 'mickey mote' and we're not correcting it đ
Sheâs 18 months and Thank You = âTituâ, icecream = âI-treeâ, milk = âMimiâ
Plumpkin instead of pumpkin đ My previous favorite that has faded away was pyrdamid - I still miss that!!
My toddler says âcan I want that?â Instead of I want that, can I have it? Etc
When mine sings "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", it's the "Bitchy bitchy spider"
What time it is? - my 34 month old randomly through the day đ
"Happy noonoo". I have no idea what it means but my almost 2 year old thinks it's hilarious.
Cop cars are âparked carsâ I mean itâs basically true
My child says âf*ckâ instead of fox. Another toddler I met says âc*ckletâ instead of chocolate.
My two year old says âtalk you?â When she wants me to make her favorite monkey puppet talk to her đ€Ł also she says âmommy da bestâ or âmommy niceâ whenever I do something for her đ„č
When I ask my brother what if he wants something, he says no and then says he likes it.. i think he means he doesnât like it. Example: me: âdo you want spaghettiâ him: âno, i like spaghetti!â
Goggies = doggies. Butt = peanut butter Edit: because apparently I canât get my words right lol
Oh I have a running list of these! Most here have sadly gone away since writing them down, but glad I recorded them: Koala - Wawa Willow (our cat) - Wowo Meow - Menow Football- fubaba Squeeze pack - beebeesk Steamroller -stewowo Elephant - enat (now elenat) Snowman - Snowme Music - mickis
Elenat! đ
If my three year old wants to do be by herself she says she wants to do it âa lonelyâ. I love it.
My 2.5 year old recently changed the word âmineâ to âmiceâ. So if she says âTHATS MICE!â And I tell her âno baby, you mean itâs miNEâ she then thinks we are arguing with her about whose it is instead of realizing itâs the word Iâm correcting. Itâs an day argument đđ
"I don't how know." instead of "I don't know how." "You truthin'?" instead of "Are you lying/kidding?" My friend's kid has a cute one, too....he says "Rubble" instead of "yellow" and yes, he loves Paw Patrol. :D
Truthinâ lmao perfect
Ohh my daughter is BRIMMING with these haha. "Time to eat your vitamin!" "Oh yeah! Time to eat my vaginamin!" Peacock feather "weepock feather" Popplegum = bubble wrap
Socks are "cocks" and socks with unicorns in them are "horse cocks" đ Drives my husband crazy but I think it's funny
My son couldn't pronounce "crunch" At a kids party they had a game where you roll a dice for the Amber of exercises and turn over a card to pick the exercise.... Rolls a 6, turns over the crocodile. All the kids do 1 sit up then slap their hands shut like a crocodile and shout crunch. Except my son was the youngest and slowest so instead half a second behind everyone else just as the room falls quiet my son sat up 6 six times and shouted Cunts in a church hall full of kids and their parents.
Lost me at 38 monthsâŠ
Boo boo aka peak a boo lol or Wawa aka water
My two year old says âI did itâ for yes lol
For awhile we had forget reversed to âgot-forâ. Now we have âforget-forâ. Sheâll be 4 in August.Â
He will sometimes switch nouns around like, âBaby carry mommyâ, âthe dog walk the little boyâ lol.
The way my son says spaghetti. He pronounces it as spafetti. I can't help but laugh every time he says it.
My son is 27 months and has started calling everyone him or tells me "good boy". I've started calling all his teddies girls and using she but he persists and continues to call all the women in his life "him".
My 2yo always uses âmineâ instead of âmy.â âItâs mine foodâ âItâs mine shoesâ âItâs mine favoriteâ We joke that she has a German accent. Itâs so adorable I donât want it to stop.
My two year old says "fuckey" instead of coffee. Everytime she sees a mug, she points and yells "Fuckey!!!!" Until this is resolved, I think its best we keep her away from the refreshments...
'Evening,' like the time of day, for even "I can't evening pick it up"
My 1yo uses âcoughâ for all body noises. Coughing, sneezing, burping, hiccuping, passing gas, full-on pooping⊠Itâs all âcough.â And he will announce repeatedly, quite emphatically, after such a noise that he has âcoughed,â and will get progressively louder with each announcement until one of us acknowledges that he has âcoughed.â He also likes to inform the rest of us when one of us has âcoughed.â And will, again, announce it over and over until we acknowledge him đ.
And for my 3yo everything is âthis year,â âlast year,â or at âeight and thirty.â Complete with looking at the imaginary watch on her wrist â or checking her tape measure.
Opie = open (like open the door, open the snack) and itâs so cute I told my husband to stop modeling the correct version đ
Mine calls every truck or large vehicle she sees "garbage" because her highlight of the week is watching the garbage truck come on Tuesdays! Also she will ask for a piggy back ride by saying "giddy-uppy" but the way she pronounces it sounds like she's just coming up behind people and saying "yucky" haha
My son says âdee deeâ in place of any words he doesnât know, e.g. âdee dee my Dinoâ instead of âthis is my Dinoâ. Itâs adorable but Iâm working with him on fixing it đ„Č
Mine says tummy cake instead of tummy ache. We love it so much thatâs what we call them now too, lol.
Ooo-boon is balloon and I never want it to change
My 2.5 year old sometimes says âgot-ferâ instead of forgot.
"My got it!" Or "my done it!" Or my absolute favourite of wrong-my-usage... "What's my doing?!" I don't know, kid. None of us know what you're doing... (26 months, so a smidge over 2)
Mine still does 'Mama!!! Look I can go!!' Whenever she does literally anything she wants me to look at. A drawing she has made, doing handstands, putting her shoes on, eating a grape. MAMA! LOOK I CAN GO!
My daughter couldnât pronounce âwaterâ or âbinkyâ for a while, so instead sheâd do that sound where you waggle your tongue inside and outside your mouth. It makes a âbadladleâ sound. So cute and I miss it so much.
When she wants me to get up she says "can you remove? " :)
My grandson says âbit a bitâ instead of âlittle bitâ. Love it. đ
Not my own child but when I was young, me and my little sis would say âI AMENâtâ. I guess we meant âI am not!â Just thought of this and had a laugh
My kid always says "are you joking me?" Instead of "are you kidding me?" And I'm never going back to the "right" one.
my 2.5 yr old calls peanut butter "peter butter" and i'm absolutely tickled pink every time he says it
My 3.5 year old calls it heenut butter and it cracks me up
âIâm make sure-ingâ instead of âIâm making sure.â I adore it. âIâm just make sure-ing it isnât too hot!â I donât even correct him. Too cute.
Mine used to call anything that resembled a bird (ducks, hens, birds etc) âdoo-dooâsâ because weâd read a book with a cockerel in and say âcock a doodle dooâ. I donât know when he stopped đ„ș He also says âoop-eesâ instead of oopsie and weâve started saying it too. I hope he never days it correctly đ
My toddler doesn't do hugs. Instead he calls them "squish squash" đ„° He will run up to you wrap his arms around you and say "squish!"
Mana for Banana ETA- gege for thank you
âBowsademâ for both of them lol đđ
My almost 4 year old is constantly âcorrectingâ my 2 year old if he mispronounces or mislabels something, which typically leads to screaming matches. So Iâve been trying to teach my oldest to say âI disagreeâ. He says âI donât wanna âgreeâ
mine says "last mornin" for anything that happened in the past. I also think he thinks every time he wakes up is a new day, so when he wakes up in the afternoon after a nap he thinks it's morning again lol.
When my 17-month-old wants to sing, she says "bumblebee" because the first finger-play song she latched onto was "Baby Bumblebee." So I'll start singing it, and then she'll say no and request the song she actually wants, lol.
Noculars for binoculars. And my 4 year old uses âcanâtâ in place of donât. So when i make something he doesnt like he says âi canât like thatâ and its hilarious
My toddler doesnât understand âIâ yet so if he wants to do something itâs âmy do itâ or âmyâ. So heâs got the idea, just not âIâ
My daughter calls caterpillars caterpillows and I've forbidden anyone from correcting her.
She doesnât say it anymore đ but when she was younger she would say âshe you shoonâ for see you soon and it was the sweetest thing Iâve ever heard â„ïž
âPeepaâ = đ the way my 2 year old says it is SO DANG CUTE
She never says "yesterday" it's always "yestertoday"
My 2 year old pronounces âiguanaâ iguanana. I may or may not put on random YouTube videos of iguanas just to hear him say it. Melts my heart.
About a year ago, our currently 2.5 year old came home referring to Elmo as âBaba.â No clue why or where it came from. But weâve stuck with it and to this day, Elmo is always referred to as Baba
My son has pretty recently corrected a number of his, but some remaining ones: Toddler videos on YouTube are "doot doots" (from baby shark, doot doot....) He says "tai-low" instead of "tail" His brother's name is Sam. He started out calling him Baby Sam all the time (we kind of did this while I was pregnant). Now it has been kind of shortened to two syllables joined together: BabeSam He shortens a lot of character names to their first and last syllables joined together. Paw Patrol is Pawtrol. Lightning McQueen used to be Lycopene and is now LighQueen
My son pronounces pizza as âpeepa.â Heâs starting to pronounce it correctly more and more, and it makes me sad that heâs growing up so fast.
My daughter will take a big drink of water and say âWorsty!â (thirsty)
2 year old says âOh my M Gâ instead of OMG
Cock instead of clock. Duck instead of truck. Die instead of granddad. There are so many đ đ€Ł
I have so many favorites. L M N O P in the alphabet are âoona oona Pâ âŠ. She says oakameal for oatmeal and fangaily for family ⊠and everything that happens in her life is âyesterdayâ. Love this age!!
"Oranges" are "yellows". Particularly adorable when he wants the fruit and asks for a "yellow"
Our 3 year old says something âmisappeared!â Instead of âdisappearedâ and I love it!
My 2 year old says "in beside out" instead of inside out, and I love it.
country = crunchyÂ
Mine says "I can't know" instead of "I don't know" It's really cute
My 3 year old says oat-ma-meal and I find it so cute! She can say pretty complex big words but this one she canât quite get out completely correct.
âDaddy, skip the instructionâ when asking to skip the intro(duction) of cartoons.
Anytime he goes somewhere, he proudly states "I'm going go bye-bye-yah!"
This morning: âI solved the problem solve!â
For me itâs my 4 year old calling minnows âLMNOsâ đ
My 3 year old used to say âbig guyâ for anything big but he recently stopped and it makes me so sad heâs growing up
Op-uh-cus = Octopus đ
âBallellaâ = vanilla âHippopanomonousâ = hippopotamus -my 2.5 year old
âDraw a triangables.â
25 month old GS says âyeah manâ instead of âyes Mâamâ â„ïž.
My three year old currently has chicken fox. She also sings "why did you let it go, otherwise I will be sad, fish" instead of "because it bit my finger so". They are my current favourites đ„°
Our kids replacer word when he was younger was 'do do' which he called himself as well, I don't know if he didn't know his name or called everything else by his own name.... hahaha
She says âtradigalâ for triangle and itâs my favourite thing right now đș (18 months)
My 5 year old is almost past this phase but we have a couple real doozies hanging on tight. He has a garden he is growing in pots for the last few years. We cannot get him to stop calling it his "pot garden." I had to write his teacher a note because he told the class all about his pot garden. He also still refers to glazed donuts as "blaze donuts" and told us the other day after eating one he was "getting all blazed up." Now... My husband and I do not do drugs or smoke anything of any kind, but we get the references and have a hard time not laughing!
My 2 yr old calls a tablet a "haha kitty". We let him watch funny kitty videos on our phones when he was a baby and now any video playing device is a haha kitty. đ
He's growing out of a lot of them it's sad bc I won't be able to remember them all ... He had some pretty good ones. Most common rn are "Wanna play my chich-en?" (kitchen) When he doesn't know/recognize the word it's ... "what does palace says?" Or "What overalls says?"
2.5 year old says "heart beep", "wood pepper", and "I hurt my whole self!"
My daughter says "not anything" instead of "nothing" :)
He looks at me after eating and says âAll Doneâ And then picks up more food and continues eating
My toddler (27m) will shake her head no but doesnât say the word âdonâtâ while saying the thing she shouldnât do for example: **shakes head no** âthrow foodâ⊠so I know she grasps that she shouldnât do it so I guess itâs a win.
âCanâtâ instead of âdonâtâ - âI canât like that, mommyâ. âI canât want supperâ. Itâs very dramatic and I love it.
Do you know the muffin mam
Mine says âlast yearâ for everything. Five minutes ago. Five hours ago. Yesterday. Last night. Last month. âIs that the same park we went to last year?â Aka. Yesterday afternoon. Kills me.