One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
Instead of saying fast forward and rewind, my kids say fast forward and fast backwards
My son was obsessed with Starwars in preschool. His favorite characters were : Yogurt (Yoda), Dark Fader, and Job The Butt (which should obviously have been Jabba the Huts real name)
when i was first learning to speak and had not seen anyelse yet puke i called it caught-pee-pee.
My youngest used to call my eye makeup “Eye-scara”, and lipstick “Lip kick”.
My sons used to ask me for Oak Milk every morning. (Oatmeal)
Cemetery = Zombie Park
My four year old niece, Jovi.
My three/four year old called rubber bungees hookers, because of the hooks on each end, lol.
Young daughter referred to windscrepers instead of wind screen wipers and we still do to
My daughter called escalators .. escamotors so 32 years later, still escamotors!
Driving by a local beach, my daughter commented on the clamsters she could see.. She was right, she could see the shells of oysters and clams!
As my son rightly noticed, jet trails should be called sky scrapes! We live in a very small town, so no skyscrapers in evidence. He had obviously heard the word, and devised a meaning for it!
Teaching on a reserve, the kids had never seen “ear muffs” and called them what they looked like…”Ear Muffins” they remain to this day!
My Son used to say his shoes had good gription, makes sense to me.
My son used to call Ambulances Band aid busses
My 4 yr old granddaughter loves “noonicorns “. My kids called spaghetti-“ba-sketti “, and cauliflower was “white broccoli “.
My daughter came home from kindergarten saying she had won the “concha-bean goods” (caught ya being good award). My son referred to Inspector Gadget as Spester Jagget. Matthew Broderick now has a new name.
My son liked to see Hiccup Trucks and use the “mikey-wave” and his favorite dinosaur was Chops. (Pick up trucks, microwave, triceratops).
my son used to say “you hurt my peelings”
When I was three, I called fireworks “thunder drops”! This post made me laugh so hard!
My son once said he had a headhache in his belly… :D He was probably three
Pointed out migrating birds to my 4yr old son and he called them ‘your grating birds’. He told his sister he saw ‘Mum’s grating birds’. We have since called migrating birds “grating birds” as we have been unable to establish ownership of these birds!
Had a friend who used to call windshield wipers “wind-wild sheepers,” and I can’t call them anything else now.
When my son was three he saw a rainbow and said “Look mom, a circus cloud!” He also asked the elderly neighbor “How did you get those designs on your face?”
A friend and I were out on a drive and saw cows and very young calves in a pasture. She couldn’t think of the word “calf” and called them cow puppies.
At 3 years, my daughter coined the term “work vacation” for business trips. Having been on a couple after having kids, I can’t disagree with her! 😂 It’s a part of my vocabulary now.
when my son was little he called fog – werewolf mist
My kids call “over easy eggs” dipper eggs and ordered them that way in restaurants.
My daughter called Burger King onion rings, ugly rings and a friend still calls them that to this day.
My daughter used to call underwear “butt pants”
My youngest son calls gyros lamb tacos. And when his oldest brother was little little he would call ketchup cat goo
My daughter when referring to the movie chitty chitty bang bang says chilly chilly bang bang
Daughter calls lasagna basonya
I went to the local zoo with a friend and his young son. When we went by the turkeys, you could hear them gobble. When his son heard them gobble, he turned to us and said, “Look! Chicken nuggets!” We started laughing.
One of my son’s when he was about 3, called an Elk a oohayuck. Oohs referred to horse’s, yuck was dirty diapers because of the Ella white hind end
My son used to call the dish you make with ground beef and breadcrumbs “meat love.”
When my son was about 3 brussel sprouts were known as basketballs.
My nephew at 5 called syrup…worship…I mean what else do you do with that silky suger
My granddaughter says ‘yesternight’ and ‘lasternight’ instead of yesterday and last night.
When my daughter was about 5 she started saying splash you instead of bless you when anyone sneezed. Made sense!😉
My 5 year old daughter calls double decker buses ‘bunk bed buses’ 😊😊
My daughter pointed at a host of heavenly angels and called them ‘people birds’
When my son was 2, he asked for a Blum. What’s a Blum? “You know mom blumblum Blum Blum Blum 🎶🎵” (tempo of the loan ranger theme) Horses have been blums for 18 years now. Lol
In our family, gloves are called paw protectors.
In Swedish, “vrist” is the word for ankle. (The one between hand and arm. is a”hand joint”).
My son was two when he passed gas and said with a smile, “My butt burped!”
It was the summer of the 1996 Olympics and we had been watching a lot of exciting activity on balance beams and parallel bars and such. As we drove over a hill near our home in Seattle, my daughter, who was 3, looked west then east and said, “Those mountains are the Olympics. THOSE must be the Gymnastics.” The Cascades have been the Gymnastics to our family ever since.
18 month old called a sock a “pocket shoe.”
Our son @ the tender age of 4 called sheep fuzzy pigs. And they have been fuzzy pigs thru 12 grandchildren!
When my grandson was four he kept asking for the memop. It took awhile before we found out that a memop for him is our snowman.
My son would quote Arnold Schwarzenegger and say Pasta Bolista Baby!!!
When my granddaughter was about three she would ask to go to the wee for shy shys. McDonald’s with the play equipment for french fries.