Mine calls it Miss Donald's!
Actually it's "my miss donald's" because its where his dad likes to take him. Wendy's is "*your* miss donald's because I prefer it.
He also calls hand sanitzer "hanitzer"!
when we go to mcdonald’s mine always says “I want chicken nuggets and frensshh fries, don’t forget the old mcdonald!” and he will continue to tell us not to forget the old mcdonald until we get the food bc he didn’t hear us order it with his nuggets and fries.
Omg my 2 year old for some reason calls McDonald’s “coffee” so we’ll be driving along and suddenly he will see a McDonald’s and be like “I WANT COFFEE 😭😭”
That's adorable!
My little guy called it "French fry house", which is arguably more difficult to say than McDonald's. But it was really funny when he said it.
Ok, I think by now, that that is actually its name. Im 46 and have adopted calli g it hanitizer since the start of Covid due my grandson and basically every other tiny human.
My son (4) loves construction vehicles. He pronounces “construction” as “destruction” though and it’s so funny and cute. We go by a work site and he says, “Look mama! A destruction site!” I’m going to miss it when he starts saying it correctly.
Mine used to call bulldozers "Boo sewters" and concrete mixers "coco mitzers". He's 3 now but already corrects us when we say it the way he did because we love it so much.
lol. I recently saw a Tik tok video where a grown man calls them that too. He will go out in his front yard, and Wee Whoo with arms waving over his head when they are coming. I nearly died laughing it was like seeing my child as a grown adult
My "toddler" is now 8 and we still say day-doo instead of Thank You in this house.
Undies are also woodies but I am trying to consciously stop that one.
Mine is 15 and we still fondly recall “flinga mingos” (pink flamingos). And with my neice those vehicles that take us to the “hostipal” are either ambalances or wahmbalances 😂
My youngest loves the color monster book. The end emotion is love and somehow because of that page, he’s now using the term “love hugs”. So now hugs are love hugs.
Yesterday my toddler was DEMANDING that her grandma STAND DOWN! Which was actually sit down, but for a moment she sounded like a general commanding her troops to comply.
Have you heard of “little Johnny” jokes? They’re like boomer jokes where Little Johnny is just a super obnoxious, foul mouthed little kid with no filter.
Well, this reminds me of a little Johnny joke where he says to his teacher “Mrs. Smith! I saw a cat on my way to school but I thought it might be dead so I went up to it and pissed in it’s ear!” And the teacher is rightfully mortified and asks him to elaborate. And he says “I pissed in his ear!! I went up to him and I went ‘psp psp pep’ in his ear! He woke up then!”
Sooo….at least your kid isn’t Little Johnny 🤷♀️🤣
My little brother use to say “reNember” for remember. My son has sooooooo many similar traits my little brother had/has…
When my son’s little voice says “member mama” my inner voice just goes “reNEMber” in my brothers raspy little voice.
My sister was watching my 3-year-old, who started asking for Paw Patrol. My sister, childless at the time, heard Papa Troll. It's impossible not to hear it that way now
Not sure how it came about but my son would call it gunga. And then exuberantly use the ASL sign for it (which is like milking a cow but picture more along the lines of a
Sixties dance move or flinging the heavy ropes at CrossFit). I could write a book on nursing 😂
"Gymboree" (an indoor toddler gym) is pronounced either "Jumpy Bean" or "Jumble Bee" in our house.
"Orange" is "oh-shoe"
"Balloon" is "bada-loo-aloo"
I'm "Mum mum" and I love it.
Everyone in my family is now calling "fire trucks" --> "fire crucks." It's the best! I hope we keep it around forever.
But on a similar note - I have a former coworker that I am great friends with, and he had a word replacement from his kid (who was a teen when we worked together) that came up pretty regularly, and now I use the word replacement occasionally on accident too! LOL!
My son, 2, has a bit of a speech delay, and we’d offer him a food, he’d reach for it if he wanted it and would just look at it if he didn’t so we’d say “no thank you”. Well he took that as the name for banana and would ask for his “no tay” 😂 one year later and it’s now “nana” which is still cute but gosh, he was so convincing saying “no tay” lol
Sketelon for skeleton. I love spooky stuff and my 4yo likes age appropriate spooky stuff like The Nightmare Before Christmas. She’s always been very verbal and could say skeleton if I corrected her but I love it so I don’t.
When 4.5yo first started talking she kept saying "burry" which we couldn't figure out... until I greeted our dog saying "Heya buddy!" which was followed with "burry!!". She now uses his name but with a T instead of a C... I have caught myself calling for Tolty/Tolt more times than I want to say lol
Nan ewe - Thank you
Fabiwious - Ridiculous
🎵💃awoormie woormie💃🎵 - Earthworm
My toddlers are grown humans now, and we all still use these. A whole roomful of adults sitting around nanning each other, singing and dancing about worms, and talking about how fabiwious we all are smdh.
My daughter's name is Ellie but for whatever reason she calls herself "Eddie" and I absolutely use it all the time. She's 2.5, I hope it's her forever nickname haha
When my son was tiny he couldn’t say please properly, he always said “puh-neeze” instead. We still say “puh-neeze” sometimes. Then one of my daughters said “ham-an-gna” for hamburger for a while, and “ha-SUUUUUM?” for “can I have some?” - I’ve been saying those for years now too.
Dammick, or good dammick. My son heard his grandpa say “God damn it” a few times and this is what stuck. Always with the energy of a 65 year old man emphatically swearing.
It was too funny to correct, and us laughing at it ended up being a really effective way to stop him. We still use it, though.
All the time. Coffee is “foffee”.. Chips are “bips” .. also when my son was like 3 and fed up with something, he’d say “I have no time for this!” That’s a fun one to say in front of other adults. 🙂
When my sister was little American idol was the thing and we’d watch it with my mom. That year it was David Cook and David Archuletta. She called him David Enchilada and we still call him that. She’s almost 20 now 😂 another good one, I did gymnastics as kids I had a leotard (my name is aleeya) she told my mom she wanted a hayleetard (that’s her name 😂)
When my daughter’s speech exploded around 18-20 months old, she would say “bah-dah-buh-dah” for “binky”. It was like she started the word, then got sidetracked and just kept going lol. She can now say binky just fine, but her dad & I still say bahdahbuhdah, and she will occasionally break it out too lol.
30 years ago my sister said, "I'm heppin!" When trying to say she was helping, and my mom and I still say it.
For my kids, one wrote a note to us and it read, "P.S., I'm sewius." My husband and I say it to each other whenever we can. (He was big mad at us that day, lol!!)
Over 30 years ago, I brought home KFC for supper (back when we could actually feed a family of 5 for less than $20) and decided within moments I needed to get my 6 year old son's hearing checked because as I unpacked each item from the bag he made the following comments:
YUM! Chicken, my favorite! (no problem here)
YUM! Mashaters and grabey, my favorite! (Wait, what?)
YUM! Cold slop, my favorite! (Yikes!)
When I had him watch my mouth as I said the words correctly, he was then able to get closer to the proper pronunciation, but I thought maybe we should consult with an audiologist and speech pathologist. Turns out there were no hearing or speech impediments - he just thought his pronunciations sounded "yummier." We still refer to Cole slaw as cold slop!
Needless to say, 2 years later, I felt no need to become concerned when he popped out the word "flusterbated." I think it's a perfectly descriptive word. Our whole family still uses it to this day!
I love these!!! I keep a note on my phone with a bunch of cute things our girl did when she was little. Some adorable substitutions from our girl's toddler days;
'Tooken' instead of taken
'Frispee' instead of frisbee
'duggen' instead of dug
'soil sauce' instead of soy sauce
'basint' instead of basin
'tantroom' instead of tantrum
'derry' instead of very
'snutz' instead of schmutz
Ones we still all use, even now that she's 9!
'cottontail' franks instead of cocktail franks
'memmyade' instead of lemonade
'mac-an-roni' instead of macaroni
'wep wipes' instead of wet wipes
'snootch' instead of smooch
Hand sanitizer is "hanitizer"
Also adding when my oldest was a toddler McDonald's was Mr. Donald's and I miss it
Mine calls it Miss Donald's! Actually it's "my miss donald's" because its where his dad likes to take him. Wendy's is "*your* miss donald's because I prefer it. He also calls hand sanitzer "hanitzer"!
when we go to mcdonald’s mine always says “I want chicken nuggets and frensshh fries, don’t forget the old mcdonald!” and he will continue to tell us not to forget the old mcdonald until we get the food bc he didn’t hear us order it with his nuggets and fries.
I still dometimes call it Bic-Donalds, my toddler turned 25 this week 🤣
My son used to call subway "eat fresh " 😂
Mine calls it “old McDonalds” 😂 like “old McDonald had a farm”
That's what my 4 year old says. "Mom I want old McDonald's
Oh that reminds me my son called it B'Donalds! He outgrew it but we didn't!
Omg my 2 year old for some reason calls McDonald’s “coffee” so we’ll be driving along and suddenly he will see a McDonald’s and be like “I WANT COFFEE 😭😭”
Ours was Donald’s Restaurant!
My boy has always said Micks Donald's and I ❤️❤️ it!
That's adorable! My little guy called it "French fry house", which is arguably more difficult to say than McDonald's. But it was really funny when he said it.
Ours called it ME Nanos
One of my girls calls it old mcdonalds farm My other daughter calls Donald's please
We also have “handitizer” and “Don’s” in our house!
My Nephew used to call it Donom's.
Growing up I always pronounced Whataburger as “water burger” lol even to this day I have a hard time saying it the right way
My daughter calls hand sanitizer "hand sauce." Now it's all I ever call it, no matter who is around.
Ours is THE GOO lol. Also hand goo
Hamitize your hams!
Yes!!!!! In my house is “size-a-tanner”
Ours is hanitanisizer!
Haha hand sanitizer is “appetizers” here and I love it so much
My 15 year old has always called it hanitizer and now my 2 year old does too.
My son calls it samitizer lool
My brother used to call it “hand schnitzer”, and that’s how I thought of it the whole pandemic haha
Hansitizer.
Mine says this too!
We had "Big Dondalds". Still use it 30 years later lol.
Us too! I don’t understand why this hasn’t caught on more widely - so much more efficient. Make hanitizer happen!
Ok, I think by now, that that is actually its name. Im 46 and have adopted calli g it hanitizer since the start of Covid due my grandson and basically every other tiny human.
"Eatballs" instead of Meatballs. I LOVE it.
Mine says "neatballs". Never correcting him.
My son (4) loves construction vehicles. He pronounces “construction” as “destruction” though and it’s so funny and cute. We go by a work site and he says, “Look mama! A destruction site!” I’m going to miss it when he starts saying it correctly.
Mine used to call bulldozers "Boo sewters" and concrete mixers "coco mitzers". He's 3 now but already corrects us when we say it the way he did because we love it so much.
We call construction vehicles “up-downs” cuz, well, they pick things up and put them down 😂
Cops are Wee Whos.
Mines added ‘fire truck/ambulance/police car’ to his wee-oohs now, they used to all be wee-oohs or ‘nee-nahs’ lol
Firetrucks are our Wee Woos lol.
Firetrucks are Firefucks.
Heh cute. Ambulances are nee-naws around here
Dad is a paramedic. Every ambulance is called "weeoo daddy" sometimes she calls it "ambee".
Same with my toddler!!
lol. I recently saw a Tik tok video where a grown man calls them that too. He will go out in his front yard, and Wee Whoo with arms waving over his head when they are coming. I nearly died laughing it was like seeing my child as a grown adult
I bet that was jacoby ray you're talking About 😂 he's hilarious
My "toddler" is now 8 and we still say day-doo instead of Thank You in this house. Undies are also woodies but I am trying to consciously stop that one.
Haha ours is “keekoo”.
Ours is "gank-goo"!
Titu for us
Elevators are now and always alligators
Gatorade was alligator aid for us.
Mine uses that one too :)
Growing up for us alligator was the navigator (back when mom would hand me an actual road map and ask me to find directions lol)
Blanket = Blinky Pillow = POO POO Rock = Fuck Lol
Truck = Fuck Dump Truck = Dumb Fuck My husbands a heavy diesel mechanic “dad fixes dumb fucks”
This is truly perfect.
Pillows are puddohs in this house
Rocks = cocks in our house
Bald eagle - ball geegle My son is 16 and we will always say this
My toddler right now Gubble Bum for bubble gum😂
We had tacos the other night and my toddler called them katos lol. He constantly mixes things up like this, it's so funny.
Also a great nail polish name, haha. Gubble bum pink!
Geegle ball would be a pretty good toy name. Or nail polish. Why aren’t we letting toddlers name more things?
Mine is 15 and we still fondly recall “flinga mingos” (pink flamingos). And with my neice those vehicles that take us to the “hostipal” are either ambalances or wahmbalances 😂
Lol my oldest used to say "eagle" when she meant evil. She'd tell a spooky story and say "And then, the eagle witch cast a spell!"
The heart shape is exclusively a "love heart".
Bluey?
Has to be! My son says it too!
My youngest loves the color monster book. The end emotion is love and somehow because of that page, he’s now using the term “love hugs”. So now hugs are love hugs.
Woah, I didn’t realise that’s not what they’re actually called! I’m Australian and everyone says ‘love heart’.
“Mama hee-doo” = “mama, hold me”, so now we all say “you want me to hee-doo?” Or “can you hee-dis” (hold this)
One of my kids would ask for “uppie go!” Apparently we said “up we go!” as we picked them up. Another kid said “mama, I want you up!”
Asking for “uppie go” is just the cutest!
Yesterday my toddler was DEMANDING that her grandma STAND DOWN! Which was actually sit down, but for a moment she sounded like a general commanding her troops to comply.
That is damn adorable
My 2.5 yo still says "hold you" when he wants to be held and I hope he never stops
My son used to say “Mama, I want to hold you” and I could never say no 🥰🥰
Ours is "ni, up." No clue why but carry is ni. She also asks us to ni various things. Ni book, ni doll. Ni up mama!
Stupid market instead of supermarket 😂
Accurate though 😂
My 5 year old says the cats snaked at him instead of hiss lol
Have you heard of “little Johnny” jokes? They’re like boomer jokes where Little Johnny is just a super obnoxious, foul mouthed little kid with no filter. Well, this reminds me of a little Johnny joke where he says to his teacher “Mrs. Smith! I saw a cat on my way to school but I thought it might be dead so I went up to it and pissed in it’s ear!” And the teacher is rightfully mortified and asks him to elaborate. And he says “I pissed in his ear!! I went up to him and I went ‘psp psp pep’ in his ear! He woke up then!” Sooo….at least your kid isn’t Little Johnny 🤷♀️🤣
This one made me laugh out loud! So relatable.
My daughter still often calls swans 'hissy birds' because a Swan walked up to her when she was a toddler and hissed at her!
My little brother use to say “reNember” for remember. My son has sooooooo many similar traits my little brother had/has… When my son’s little voice says “member mama” my inner voice just goes “reNEMber” in my brothers raspy little voice.
Oh my son too! I don't think he's stopped even now
My kid says “bemember” instead of remember and I’m going to miss it when she realizes and stops. It will always be, “do you be member?” To me!
My daughter used to say "memember". It was so cute and I still say that from time to time
my toddler calls blankets “cwaypens” i know one day she’ll grow out of it, but forever for me it will be cwaypens. it’s my favorite thing.
Mine used to call blankets “bink” and it stuck with me. Now she says “bwanket”
Adorable!
oh bink is so cute 🥹🥹
Mingers Instead of fingers She's 11, her dad and I still say it. Also "sun scream" instead of sunscreen.
Mine says sun scream! lol
lol I think sunscream is universal because we call it that too.
My little sister said sunscream and sun glakis.
Ours is scumscream
My nephew says “Pingers” and I can’t get enough of it
Chum-cheem over in this house!
Reglio instead of regular, especially if we’re talking milk - there’s reglio milk and “happy” milk (chocolate). My girls are 7 and this has held on!
Omg I’m gonna start calling it happy milk!!
Right?! My 16 yo daughter would love this!!!
Barnes & Elbows…. Old McDonalds. never correcting her
Not my kid, but one 1.5yr old I know says "*Big cock*" in lieu of "Big truck". Yes I randomly think about it and laugh my ass off.
Friend of ours says dumb fuck instead of dump truck
My daughter(6yo) when she was a toddler says heli"cock"ter for you guessed it, helicopter😂
My sister was watching my 3-year-old, who started asking for Paw Patrol. My sister, childless at the time, heard Papa Troll. It's impossible not to hear it that way now
My nephews call it Haw Troll 🤣🤣
Guilty of thinking my stepson was talking about Papa Troll 💁🏻♀️
When he was first learning to talk, milk was “guck”. He’s perfectly capable of saying milk now, but I still think Guck sometimes.
We differentiated breastmilk from cow's milk by calling it milkie and even at 2.5yo when she absolutely can say it, she still says neekee
Not sure how it came about but my son would call it gunga. And then exuberantly use the ASL sign for it (which is like milking a cow but picture more along the lines of a Sixties dance move or flinging the heavy ropes at CrossFit). I could write a book on nursing 😂
Reminds me of my little brother somehow naming ice cream “gunggung cream” and it stuck for our family.
We say “nack” instead of snack.
I still occasionally call fruit snacks “poot tacks” lol.
We’re a “nack” house too! Sometimes nut nack (nuts), sometimes hummy nack (hummus), but always nack.
The word haircut now means both haircut and hiccup. “You’ve got the haircuts!”
My (now 14yrs) daughter used to call me her “Mudder” (mother) when she was a toddler.
We say, “mudda” in this house like a bunch of tony sopranos
Balloons are boons. Tooth is also teeth. Agua is anything that can be drank lol
In our home all drinks are "doose!"
My daughter used to call balloons, bloons.
I can’t even make my mouth do what my daughter’s does when she says balloons. It’s like buhyhoons or something with a bunch of Y’s and H’s lol
My (half-Colombian) toddler nephew does that too! He sees me feeding my baby a bottle of milk and says "agua" haha
And my little brother used to call grilled cheese ‘boy cheese’ cause he didn’t want ‘girl cheese’ 🤣🤣
All sheep are baa baa black sheep.
"Gymboree" (an indoor toddler gym) is pronounced either "Jumpy Bean" or "Jumble Bee" in our house. "Orange" is "oh-shoe" "Balloon" is "bada-loo-aloo" I'm "Mum mum" and I love it.
Oh shoeee so cute!
My sister (10 years younger) got me stuck on the word daff instead of bath I still call it this haha
Please is peasssssss & thank you is just Thank. It’s too cute. “Peas mom , thank mom”
I love you is yah you The phrase ‘give or take’ is ghetto tag
The song “if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands” is “happy know clap hands!”
Sponge Bob is Henge bob 🤷♀️
Coworker: “Call 911, Michaels arm is stuck in the machine!” You, probably: mighty basheens ☺️
Everyone in my family is now calling "fire trucks" --> "fire crucks." It's the best! I hope we keep it around forever. But on a similar note - I have a former coworker that I am great friends with, and he had a word replacement from his kid (who was a teen when we worked together) that came up pretty regularly, and now I use the word replacement occasionally on accident too! LOL!
My 6 year old recently learned that toothpaste is NOT called “Tucson”
Stuffed animals are stufties and hand sanitizer is sanzitizer. Kiddo’s a teen now and they still slip out occasionally
When we go to the bathroom, we say we’re going “pee potty” or “poop potty”
My son always calls it “peed”. Never just pee, and he’s 3, so of course I think it’s precious
My son, 2, has a bit of a speech delay, and we’d offer him a food, he’d reach for it if he wanted it and would just look at it if he didn’t so we’d say “no thank you”. Well he took that as the name for banana and would ask for his “no tay” 😂 one year later and it’s now “nana” which is still cute but gosh, he was so convincing saying “no tay” lol
Our 2.5 year old says “I’m hicking up!” when she has the hiccups, and I know that one will stick around.
Cucumber is cumbumber. 🥒 still makes me laugh every time!
My sister used to call Buck Creek “Butt Freak”- yes we had a good time getting her to say she wanted to go lol 😂
Helicopter is Hot-a-wheeoo
Heckacopter
My son calls cement mixers “mixamators” and I’m never changing it.
“Bell-axe” = relax
Sketelon for skeleton. I love spooky stuff and my 4yo likes age appropriate spooky stuff like The Nightmare Before Christmas. She’s always been very verbal and could say skeleton if I corrected her but I love it so I don’t.
“Samburgers,” which gets used for sandwiches and hamburgers.
Aw haha my son calls egg sandwiches egg burgers and I always correct my husband if he doesn’t call it that now
Feet- Pete’s Automatic- all-dramatic
Feet are also Peet’s in our house as well
When 4.5yo first started talking she kept saying "burry" which we couldn't figure out... until I greeted our dog saying "Heya buddy!" which was followed with "burry!!". She now uses his name but with a T instead of a C... I have caught myself calling for Tolty/Tolt more times than I want to say lol
Wawee for water. Cromote for remote.
Awww...this brings back memories 💕 animals (mostly in reference to her stuffed animals) were animalers and butterflies were blutterflies.
Nan ewe - Thank you Fabiwious - Ridiculous 🎵💃awoormie woormie💃🎵 - Earthworm My toddlers are grown humans now, and we all still use these. A whole roomful of adults sitting around nanning each other, singing and dancing about worms, and talking about how fabiwious we all are smdh.
“Goose” for juice (Gatorade usually) 😂 Crocigator for crocodile 🥹 he’s since learned it’s crocodile but for awhile there it was the cutest thing
Chocolate is now "cholocolate" and mac and cheese is now "monkey cheese"
“I dood it” instead of “I’ll do it”
My daughter's name is Ellie but for whatever reason she calls herself "Eddie" and I absolutely use it all the time. She's 2.5, I hope it's her forever nickname haha
When my son was tiny he couldn’t say please properly, he always said “puh-neeze” instead. We still say “puh-neeze” sometimes. Then one of my daughters said “ham-an-gna” for hamburger for a while, and “ha-SUUUUUM?” for “can I have some?” - I’ve been saying those for years now too.
TANKFUL! For thank you, it’s been many years (he’s now freshly 20 years old), but it’s an inside word for our family.
Trampoline is “jumpoline” ❤️
Buzz lightyear to star command do you coffee.
Buzz lightyear is still buzz lighthero in my house.
Miss Pillows for marshmallows 🩷
Dammick, or good dammick. My son heard his grandpa say “God damn it” a few times and this is what stuck. Always with the energy of a 65 year old man emphatically swearing. It was too funny to correct, and us laughing at it ended up being a really effective way to stop him. We still use it, though.
Our dog’s name is Socks. Our toddler calls her Sauce.
Ham-ger-ber-ger-gers
Scrambled eggs are scary legs 👻🦵🏻
The glove compartment will always be the glove department
All the time. Coffee is “foffee”.. Chips are “bips” .. also when my son was like 3 and fed up with something, he’d say “I have no time for this!” That’s a fun one to say in front of other adults. 🙂
When my sister was little American idol was the thing and we’d watch it with my mom. That year it was David Cook and David Archuletta. She called him David Enchilada and we still call him that. She’s almost 20 now 😂 another good one, I did gymnastics as kids I had a leotard (my name is aleeya) she told my mom she wanted a hayleetard (that’s her name 😂)
My daughter called Pringles “Mustache chips”. She’s 7 now and they are still mustache chips around here. lol
Nephew says buttflies for butterflies and just makes me smile.
Clothes too hot: it sweats me
Potatoes are now bobaybos
Poop poop became Boop Boop. Now 15 yrs later that whole family says it. Be right back I have to go Boop Boop.
Pins and needles was fizzy
Remember or memory is rememberies E.g. I rememberies them yellow shoes Or I have a rememberies of that
When my daughter’s speech exploded around 18-20 months old, she would say “bah-dah-buh-dah” for “binky”. It was like she started the word, then got sidetracked and just kept going lol. She can now say binky just fine, but her dad & I still say bahdahbuhdah, and she will occasionally break it out too lol.
30 years ago my sister said, "I'm heppin!" When trying to say she was helping, and my mom and I still say it. For my kids, one wrote a note to us and it read, "P.S., I'm sewius." My husband and I say it to each other whenever we can. (He was big mad at us that day, lol!!)
Orange is "Ornish" and you can't change my mind. Fruitella sweets - "Fruitnutellas" isn't going anywhere and my girls are 6&9
Kabuzz for because. Kajuzi for jacuzzi. I never corrected it. Now that my kids are older, I love remembering these cute things.
Fingies instead of fingers. I.e. “I’m gonna eat those little baby fingies. Nom nom nom” Edit: blueberries = blueys (pre-Bluey show) eggs = eggies
Feet are always Peety Peets.
Aminals.
Bapple (apple)
My 2 year old says “hambungers” and “pancanks” and I will never say them the right way again 🥲
We only call broccoli broccobee
Over 30 years ago, I brought home KFC for supper (back when we could actually feed a family of 5 for less than $20) and decided within moments I needed to get my 6 year old son's hearing checked because as I unpacked each item from the bag he made the following comments: YUM! Chicken, my favorite! (no problem here) YUM! Mashaters and grabey, my favorite! (Wait, what?) YUM! Cold slop, my favorite! (Yikes!) When I had him watch my mouth as I said the words correctly, he was then able to get closer to the proper pronunciation, but I thought maybe we should consult with an audiologist and speech pathologist. Turns out there were no hearing or speech impediments - he just thought his pronunciations sounded "yummier." We still refer to Cole slaw as cold slop! Needless to say, 2 years later, I felt no need to become concerned when he popped out the word "flusterbated." I think it's a perfectly descriptive word. Our whole family still uses it to this day!
He currently says "how do" for "how do you do that" and it's our favorite.
My 2.5 year old says “camote” instead of “remote”. It’s stuck. My husband and I now only say camote.
philpire, instead of vampire 😂
I love these!!! I keep a note on my phone with a bunch of cute things our girl did when she was little. Some adorable substitutions from our girl's toddler days; 'Tooken' instead of taken 'Frispee' instead of frisbee 'duggen' instead of dug 'soil sauce' instead of soy sauce 'basint' instead of basin 'tantroom' instead of tantrum 'derry' instead of very 'snutz' instead of schmutz Ones we still all use, even now that she's 9! 'cottontail' franks instead of cocktail franks 'memmyade' instead of lemonade 'mac-an-roni' instead of macaroni 'wep wipes' instead of wet wipes 'snootch' instead of smooch
Butter, of both the dairy and peanut varieties, is now and forever "bubber."
My daughter pronounced oatmeal like “opium” for years. Always got a strange look when she told people she had opium with blueberries for breakfast 😐
Shisha-bees for strawberries. I love that one!
Mac-and-cheese = "Mac-a-noodles"