I love the stage of life that Noah is in right now. He’s not quite old enough to be a big kid, and not quite young enough to be a little kid. And that stage brings never ending laughs for dad, along with a lot of special “wanna-be-big-like-dad” moments that we get to share together. My other favorite part about this stage is the way in which he talks and forms his words. And I won’t lie. I’m going to be kind of sad when Noah doesn’t talk like a little kid anymore.
I love when Noah screeches from his bedroom before I can head downstairs and says, “dad, wait! Gimme a tiggity back!” I don’t know what it is, but there’s something just a little more fun about tiggity back rides than piggy backs rides. Maybe it’s the way Noah sings, “tiggity backs, tiggity backs”, all the way down the stairs. Maybe it’s the way he says, “I LOVE tiggity backs!” when we’re done and I pile drive him onto the couch. Either way, I’ll really miss the tiggity backs if he ever changes to start saying “piggy backs” instead.
Another favorite of mine is “pup cakes”. It’s so endearing when he says it, that many of those around him have also started calling cup cakes just that. “Do you want a pup cake?” Noah and I never don’t want a pup cake. Funny thing is, I never cared much for cup cakes, but Noah’s love for pup cakes did turn me onto those. Big time. Pup cakes are just good.
And, at the top of the list is when Noah asks for a “Kitten Kat”. I think this one is my favorite because when he first started saying it, I would try and correct him. “Noah, say kit…” and Noah would quickly reply, en kat.” It was so funny because he couldn’t not change the first word to Kitten. So, forever more I will probably be asking people to break me off a piece of that Kitten Kat bar.
What makes me laugh is that when looking at these examples, they all have to do with animals. The first he removed the name of an animal, and the second two he added it. Just goes to show how much that boy loves critters.
What are some the things your kids have said that make you laugh?
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
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My son is 7, right now the only word he uses wrong is ridiculous. He says ridicleeus. It sounds like he is trying to cast a Harry Potter spell lol.
My two favorites that my son used all the time was chicken for kitchen and lellow for yellow. I cherished every time he said them, because I knew that one day he would grow out of it and the chicken would indeed just be a flightless, egg laying bird. :( Now that he is fixing to be 8 the only one he has left is, at his sister's softball games, he always wants to go to the 'confession' stand for some candy.
My oldest granddaughter used to love the story of the gingerbread man, only she called him the brinderman. My younger granddaughter used to call her uncle Joseph uncle Jophes. My niece, instead of saying "love you" would say love me! My nephew called Walmart Lawmart. My great niece calls my youngest granddaughter bibybug because she can't say Lily bug! I love having so many beautiful angels in my life :)
My munchkin could not say the word "vampire" to save her life and to this day, even though she's the big bad 6 yrs old, we all refer to them as "bam-phires". She also still calls M&M's "N&M's". My all time favorite is the way she would put her arms wide up in the air and say "i want to hold (pronounced hoed) you" instead of "hold me". :)
My 4 year old son at the end of a prayer with Nana... "In the name of Jesus Christ Damon".
My nieces say thing like that. "Pack yak" for back pack or "mops" for moths. "Happy dirt day" or "Jacob" for good job! "It's bark in here" gotta love those cute little sayings.
Sometimes, my husband and I seem to talk in code because we still use many of the words our kids used to screw up. They have become part of the language of our home. Keppitch instead of ketchup. Napkwins instead of napkins. Too many to list. The last word my oldest pronounced wrong was, "fingers". He would say, "thingers". I begged my visiting, know-it-all sister to not correct him because it was the last little slice of kiddie language I still had. I miss those silly words, and I wish I had written them all down.
My 2 1/2 year old daughter calls watermelon, waterlemon. It's so cute!
My almost-three-year-old says "No, I amn't" instead of "No, I'm not." (which I think is actually pretty smart...she has mastered the concept of contractions...).Also, for some reason my oldest (will be four on Saturday) used to call a "bib" a "bon" - and she was capable of saying bib. We'd try to get her to say "Baby wears a bib" and she'd say, "Baby wears a bon." - Hilarious.Lastly, my kids love coffee. I'm guilty of sneaking them a sip here and there (note: caffeine has an opposite effect in kids than it does adults, not that I give them enough to matter). They used to talk about "foffee" all the time. My oldest is getting of the cute words stage, but my middle one is smack in the middle of it. Another year, and my youngest will be doing it. I love it... I wish I could remember to jot it all down for their baby books.
Anytime my daughter says "uh oh" or whenever she does something naughty she gives me kisses... I think to try and distract me... It works most times... Who could be mad?
My daughter would ask us to put her "hoop" on (her hood). Or "hook it up" meant hang up her coat.
When my son was very little, just learning to talk, he called milk "gohtz." It doesn't even really work to spell it out. I have no idea where he got the word from since it sounds nothing like the world "milk," but that was his word for it. I was a little sad when it was replaced with boring ol' "milk" :P
I have been writing a list of the adorable words my daughter uses so that I never forget the cuteness of them. Here are a few: Hola bears, Boonicorns, Hide and Go Peek, Humbrellas, and Holy Poly (the bug) :)
When my (now 21 year old) son was little, he used to say that something had 'scared me out my whips', taxi drivers were 'taki-man' and a cold sore was a 'cole slaw'. Still makes me laugh now. Ooooo, how I miss my baby!
That's too cute! My daughter says pupcakes too. She has since she was 1-2. She's 6 and still calls them that.
When my grandson was about 5 he was playing with friends and came running home crying. I sat him on my lap and kept asking him what was wrong. Between the crying and the little kid speak I couldn't get what he was saying, but I kept asking and he kept trying to tell me. And I kept asking and he kept trying. After about ten minutes I finally got it. He was saying,
"Nobody understands me!"
When I was five I had a terrible speech impediment ,also. I couldn't pronunce K's. So cats were Titty's. I would go outside my grandmother's house and call, "Here Titty, Titty, Titty. Here Titty, Titty titty!" This mortified my aunt and she would continually try to correct me. "Kitty." "Titty" "Kitty." Titty.' Kitty" "That's what I said, Titty." "Kitty." Finally in exasperation, I said, "All right, I will tall it a tat."
We are teaching our son to say Merry Christmas. He says "Messy Chris Mom!" So now I tell the story and wish everyone I know a Messy Chris :)
My daughter Kaylee who is 3, has always said 'hode 'er, hode 'er, hode 'er, lol. Translated- "hold her, hold her, hold her", instead of hold me. Love it! We've had evelants in our house, make the door up (due to language confusion while learning 2 languages), aminals. Lol!! Kids are GREAT!
My daughter at Noah's age would say swimspoot, instead of swimsuit, and "Holey Poleys" for the teletubbies.
I still say "Sammiches" "Sockies" and "Suspagetti"... just a thing.. I know how to say them right, but its so much more fun my way :)
my 5.5 yo still say puc cakes, i love it!
When I was very small I LOVED my disney movies, and my mom heavily emphasized reading and physical activity, so when I got to watch my disney, life was good. One of my favorites was The Lion King, and I would enthusiastically sing along to Hakuna Matana, "Is a problem freeeeeee en-los-if-eeeeee" Which is pretty darn good for a 2 year old, if I do say so myself.
My now 15 and 17 yr old daughters would call grilled cheese gorilla cheese, pan cakes panny cakes and my 17 yr old called M&M's ennymems, I miss my babies!!! Now I have another on the way and can't wait to hear all his lil crazies....
Pup cake was the just one of them for me, when my son was 2 he would say onna copop. ( I want ketchup) Then came flybutter. I thought my daughter was speaking cambodian when she said I wan ceereweer (cereal). Butsgetti was what followed....I have journaled these things for them to cherish later. I absolutely love remembering these things, thanks for making me smile today!!
Pish-Pingers was always my word for fish fingers.... I'm now 18 and dad still calls them Pish-Pingers... we all do haha!
My brother said "BwAk-a-wihge" instead of "garbage".
My son used to say chacha milk for chocolate milk. And you're right, when they catch on and say it correctly, it takes some of the joy out of. My son needed speech therapy, so we almost always repeated the correct pronunciation for things. Except a few: Gog-Gog is what he called dogs instead of Dog-Dog, Cha-Cha Milk and my sister, Lora, is still Aunt Luh-luh (even I say it, my sister loves it). My son is 7 1/2 half now and almost all of his speech issues have been corrected although he has to concentrate sometimes.
I am 40 and still call my Aunt Mary "Aunt Mare-Mare" and she still calls herself that and signs things that way to the little ones.
So don't stop calling them tiggity backs! In my family, my dad still goes out to "lawn the mow," because that's what my brother called it when he was 4. He's 40 now . . . some things just become a beloved family tradition. Noah can give his kids tiggity backs when he's grown.
My son used to say "washing maween" instead of washing machine, Soooo cute, I miss that now he can say washing machine lol. And he sings La Roux's song Bulletproof, only he says "This time baby I'll be PUDDINGproof" hahahaha
A few of my favorites from my amazing kids....."handcops" (handcuffs), "calipitters" (caterpillars), "sky hose" (telescope). My most recent favorite was from my 22 month old daughter, who burped and said, "ice cream me" (excuse me). They grow out of this stage way too fast.
My daughters Third Birthday party is Sunday and she has talked non-stop about her pinanna. She wants to hits her pinnana with a stick so she can get the candy. I love it.
Man! At Harmons I saw that they had a pup cake decorated like a "hamabooger"!!! I want one so bad.
My five year old is always screaming for Midi Cheddars (so much more substantial than minis) and my eldest used to adore what she called creme mamel - something my mother, sadly now passed away, used to be fantastic at cooking
When my son was young he would say jamamas.. for pajamas. When he was learning to read, we were behind a truck and he said, "Mom, look there's a Chev ro let. " I couldn't help but laugh..... still to this day we have a good laugh whenever we see a Chevrolet.
The latest thing my 3yo son says is "mechanizzle." I *think* he means "mechanism" - haven't been able to catch it on the show he says he got it from yet, so I'm not sure. But every time I hear him say it, I think, "Mechanizzle, fo' shizzle!" ;-)
my 2 year old says pup cakes, too and I LOVE IT!!
When my (now 20 year old) son was young, he couldn't say "already". He said it "audrey". The cutest thing about it was that we had a neighbor girl named Audrey, so when I would say "Pick up your toys" and he would reply, "I audrey did it", I would reply, "You made Audrey help you?" We would both giggle about it. Now, years later, when I am talking to him or his younger sister, I never say "already". It is always "audrey" in our house.
My 31 year old sister still says Toe-let instead of toilet, despite us laughing everytime she says it.
My son says a lot of words twice. Like dog-dog, or away-away (for put it away, throw it away, go away). It is the cutest thing.
My son will be 3 next week, and his words are always cracking me up!! First, he REFUSES to say "no more." It has to be, "mo nore" every.single.time. It's too cute!
For the longest time, he couldn't say "vaccum," and instead would say, "gammick." We were walking through Target and we were passing the vaccums, and he was saying "gammic, gammick" over and over again...only it didn't sound like gammic, it sounded like "dam* it!" I got some odd looks that day!
Oh, and we don't have belly buttons in our house...we have sugar bowls, and hearing my two boys beg to have their bellies and sugar bowls tickled is just the sweetest thing!!
My son pronounces smoothie as "floozie"... It makes for some hilarious quotes.
My son Elijah doesn't say a whole lot that I understand just yet, he will be two in December. However, some of my favorites include:
-I wan dat! *with a big grin on his sweet face* which translates into I want that
-ligh onnnnnnn- that would be light on and yes he does emphasize the n quite a bit
-leetle leetle leetle- that is a family thing when he was just a baby, I would say "Awww, you're my little little baby"
-and of course booo bah- no...it may not be what you are thinking, that is him asking for his blue ball :)
My son Timmy is 18 and has Down syndrome, so the creative pronunciations are endless, and endlessly charming. My all-time favorite has to be "bacateria," for that place at school that serves lunch (and sometimes, less savory organisms).
My two-year-old son has a favorite toy elephant who is (and i hope will always be) "brrp." Which is his interpretation of the noise and elephant makes. Everyone close to him calls elephants "brrp"
My daughter is 9-months old, so she's not old enough to say cute things. But my niece is almost 4 years old and she has said fernilla for vanilla. She says blah blah for baklava. She said chicken pock-a-ping for chicken a la king. She used to say EEP-ah-DOPE-dee-yuh for Ethiopia. I love all the cute things they say!!
The days of our son and his bon mots is long over, however his daughter is now filling in the void. She, not so long ago, suddenly put her hands to her cheeks and said (both amazed and horrified) "I've got LIPS!" Not sure what brought that on nor what it meant...still gives me a chuckle, though.
Noahisms (he's 4):
As soon as he could talk, he called my mom and MIL "yaya". Which later progressed to yaya kitty (kim) and yaya lona (Ilona - loooong o sound)
We got into a conversation last night, and my mom told him he was cute or something:
Noah: No I'm not!
Yaya: Well what are the then?
Noah: I'm a pain in the ass! (horrified looks from us) Butt! I'm a pain in the butt!!
Puhsketti - Spaghetti
My mom asked why he writes his N backwards: Because, yaya, that's just the way it's going to be.
Noah: Yaya, are you going to get a new pappy (my dad dies in June of 09)? Yaya: Where am I going to get a new Pappy? Noah: At the Pappy store!
My daughter will drop the first consonant off of words untill they start with a vowel; then she ADDS a consonant. Which means for breakfast we have affles and bapples wil a tall glass of ilk. ♥ Love it!
My two year old princess says "ove oh" instead of love you. There is naner instead of banana, Sasha for every dog she sees (my mother-in-laws dog id Sasha and gets yelled at often). all small roundish fruit are rabberries (I think she is combining raspberries and strawberries. this goes for grapes as well). "ogen is he bradder" (Logan is her Brother).
My son was not a talker like my girl is. He never really talked till he was almost five and by that point was out of the toddler talking stage. he was my walker (walking along the couch at 5 or 6 months old), where as she didn't really walk till just after her first birthday. She has been talking sense birth!
I will never forget the day when my little brother told my mom that he "bleshewed."--- "You what?" --- "I bleshewed!" ---- "you know (he makes a sneezing noise)" ---"Oh, you sneezed! What did you call it?" ---"You know, that's what you say." ----- He had "Bless You'ed"
Bo gozers and volkswagon sandwiches(brunsweiger) are 2 that my boys came up with.