The things they say.

DD used to go to a Brontosaurus nursery school - she knew the dinosaur word but not Maria Montessori.

We have marmers in our marmalade too.

I wanted to be a ballerina but got too big, but maybe I could have made it as a barrellina

Me too! We could have been Les Dawson's Roly Polys !!

One of my son's called a basket a barstick and the other kept money in a wallop. We also parked in a par cark when they were very small!

My grandson , when he first started school , called the inset day " insect day "
My god-daughter had soldiers, not shoulders when she was little ( she is a major in the army now ! )

mrsmopp Yes! Our time has come!

At long last

I was dampening the clothes with a water spray bottle before ironing them, and my friend's little girl was watching me, looking puzzled.
"Doesn't your mummy do this?" I asked.
"No" was the reply. " my mummy washes the clothes properly!"

My DGD, has just asked her mummy to 'put jam on the tracks' we have no idea what she means?

My youngest son used to call scrambled eggs "strangled eggs!" We still do - strangle eggs, I mean......

My son used to say N instead of L so used to call out 'Granddad, nunch is ready!'. not as bad though as when describing the character Sebastian in The Little Mermaid as a 'Nobster' . We still call out 'nunch!' to get people to the table.

My DGS (two and a half) tends to put a 'D' in place of any letter that he finds awkward. Hence, a cuddle is a 'duddle', and I suspect that we will all continue to use that word long after he has mastered all his letters!

Strangely, the one word that he won't start with 'D' is 'Daddy', which he always says as 'Addy'!

When my youngest son was little he used to say...Mummy, can I wear your lipspick? He soon grew out of that trend.

DH knows my printer is just about out of ink. He's just asked me, in all seriousness, "Can I print this without using ink?"

I don't know whether to be amused or worried!

When we used to go out on cold winter days I always told DS1 (now 39 yrs old) to put his jacket hood-up. When he wanted to take it off, he used to say " Can I put my hood-up down". To this day we still call a hood a hood-up.

We used to call any hooded jacket a Kermit, as the one I made for DS out of stretch towelling was bright leaf green. With his little skinny legs, he did look rather frog-like.

when asked what flavour ice cream DGS 4 would like he excitedly piped up moustachio please nonnanoo
the green nut ice cream will never be pistachio again

My younger brother drove the family mad when a jar of jam was in use - he would cry because he wanted the 'smiley' -- it took weeks to work out that he meant the smooth shiny surface you got under the paper disk that used to be on top of the jam - that's what he wanted!

PS: That was nearly seventy years ago..

I can't stop laughing. My daughter, mother of toddler twin girls, has just had a disturbed night as one of them has been wide awake and wanting to play all through the night, so she was brought into mum and dad's bedroom to avoid disturbing her sister.

She's just posted this on Facebook:

'Shattered, after she spent an hour sliding down my body shouting "wheeeee" so Daddy took over at 5am and she proceeded to cover her eyes count to ten and shout "ready or not"!

And if I hear "row row ya bo ently do a ree and if you see a occafile dont get to reem!" one more time....'

I can see me being in trouble for teaching her that verse

DS' s version of 'wind the bobbin up' is 'wind the parents up'

for your poor dd and sil
Does your dgd sleep during the day, or is she just a 24hr person?

Lona she'll be wanting a nap at lunchtime, but she's going through a phase of finding night time too exciting to miss!

SiL says he's just put my daughter down for a nap as she's falling asleep!

My son was reading to his daughter but she eventually lost interest and started playing with something else so he put the book down and went to the loo. When he got back his daughter was sitting on the floor, head in hands, crying but wailed at him 'you hurt my feelings!

She was three in January! I blame the television!

Wheni'm They are not alone! My DD posted on FB this morning that DGS, singing "wind the bobbin up", with full actions, is not appropriate at 6:30am. on a Sunday morning.

Aaahhhhh....retirement....being a grandmother.....no responsibility.....I love it!