When my kids were young, they’d mispronounce a few words. Sometimes, we’d continue to say words the way they did. Eventually those “words” were adopted into our family’s lexicon.
Take the color “lallow.” That’s how my daughter said yellow.
I pushed my son in his stroller downtown Laguna Beach before little sister was born. He said “high gone” or “Hai Gòn.” I was confused at what he was saying. We stopped in our favorite bakery/deli and I bought him a chicken drumstick. He raised it high in the air and said “high gone!” To him, it looked like a helicopter. Chicken drumsticks became “high gones” in our family.
My daughter kept asking me for chicken when she was a toddler. I’d cook baked chicken, chicken and dumplings and every type of chicken I knew how to cook. She was always upset because it was the wrong chicken.
One day I made pan fried sole. My daughter said, “That is the chicken I like.” So we called sole “that chicken.” We still do.
What words did you or your children use that were unusual?
What sayings did your family use?
How adorable! I don’t remember any such words but your kids added cute words to your vocabulary
Thanks! They were very creative kids.
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One of my daughters would nod viciously when she liked an idea that was thrown into the mix, like when we were discussing where to have lunch after church. Along with the nod, she would enthusiastically say “thas a gooey dah”. (That’s a good idea). It was so cute. We still say something is a gooey dah when we agree with an idea, but the vicious nod has, thankfully, not continued. Haha!
I love that! Both the nod and the gooey dah!
Such a sweet memory! Most of our quaint words have been forgotten at this point, although some may be recorded in each kids baby book… Chipotle was always an interesting one. Jeff chose to pronounce it Chip-Lloyd and we still like to remind him of that.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten most of our quaint words, too. I like Chip-Lloyd. Too cute!
I love the ‘lallow’ memory…so sweet! I’ll need to do some mulling about funny words that Delaney used…hmm…🥰
Thanks. Yes, it’s hard to remember. Those fun words were used all the time, but then they disappear from our memories, too.
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Lallow…that’s so cute. Both my daughters would call pancakes-panpakes. We still call them that. 💜
I love panpakes. How cute! Isn’t it funny how some of the words stick throughout the years?
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Oh, I love these family sayings. So sweet! Mr. D used to call going on vacation, “baycation” and we still do!
Baycation is perfect for your Whidbey Island trips! How adorable is that?
We have a couple of those.
“Blue Bo Ney” = Blue Bonnet, “Pediatricians” = pedestrians. Our grandson “Me Hai” = swing. This is what makes life wonderful.
Those are great! I love the “Me Hai.” It’s almost like my son’s Hai Gon. Your other two are funny, too.
Kids are wonderful when small and learning to talk. These are so sweet
They are. They have great imaginations, too.
Mamos for tomatoes, cufflers for cufflinks and dvdoes for DVDs and video
Those are great! It’s so funny to look back on the silly words our kids used.
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Oh my goodness, these are so sweet. Thanks for the smiles. I still say some of the words that my girls did as kids with their little lisps and speech impediments that I almost wish they’d not outgrown!
Lindsay couldn’t say her R’s very well and I could die hearing her say her favorite color is PUPLE.
So funny about the chicken and the helicopter! Why must they grow up?
Thanks! Aren’t they so adorable when they say words with lisps or can’t pronounce letters?
What a cute memory! When my daughter was little, she used to sing a lot, and one song was “You are my sunshine.”
She would sing,
“You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gay… 😁
That’s so cute! How did you keep from laughing?
We didn’t! 😃😃
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Love it!
My daughter called milk “doo” We have no idea why, but we will still call it that sometimes. 🙂
That’s a funny one. Have you ever asked why?
We have and she remembers saying it but she doesn’t know why. We just know we couldn’t figure out what she meant at first. 😂
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