When your children are learning to speak

MaizieD

My son called one item of clothing a 'clo'. His logic seemed faultless..

DD had four fingers and a flum...

Sadly I've forgotten any others.

We had mentioned that son had wax in his ears. He later had one sore ear and announced that he had a wack in his ear.
More seemingly faultless logic.

We (or now just I) have appoinkments.
I also like "Muuùum! Can i have a pok noodle for my lunch?"

When I had a cleaning blitz my daughter said I had spinkled the whole house.

For a while my Grandaughter called be Bambi instead of Granny. Loved it but her big sister corrected her repeatedly until she used the correct name. I was very sad as I loved being Bambi.

DD3 called slippers bibbers and elephants ooloots.
DD5 called magazines mazageens - this continued until well into her teens.
DGS1 called chocolate clockclock and said grundground for playground.

My almost 4 year old dgc still asks me for a bick-sit rather than a biscuit.

My DD used to say aminals and elephantoms.

Our eldest called potatoes ‘bdoodoos’.
We adopted the word for quite some time.

'Hakkylopter' for 'helicopter' - from my younger daughter.

MaizieD
I remember my child saying “only one bed clo” in the hot summer months. Similar logic.

My son called one item of clothing a 'clo'. His logic seemed faultless..

DD had four fingers and a flum...

Sadly I've forgotten any others.

Very sweet story about your daughter MissAdventure

Grapes were num mums, Perfume was perfenume & Grandad was Poor Foot after an accident left his ankle in plaster.

Wrong posting

It’s cruelty to children to make them watch England be crushed by Mexico 😂

Aveline

Unfortunately, I began, and still use, the children's words for things. eg gissy or gisgit for biscuits and blehbleh for elephant. I could go on...

Likewise 😀

Biscuit: "sgiggit", computer: "ompinter", crisps: "cripsips" and so on.

My DD2 used to call slippers: "flipters" and breakfast was "grekfuts". It hasn't held her back - she is now a successful Headteacher of a large primary school!

My DS, aged two, on seeing me sit down with a much needed cuppa: "Are you having a piece of quiet, Mummy?!"

In a bigger family the funny words invented by first child tend to get passed down. Our younger children all used first child’s words.
Youngest child told us there was someone called Zero at school (quite likely now but not then). It turned out her name was Desiree.

My Son knocked his front teeth out when he was 3, unfortunately the head teacher at the nursery school he went to was called Mr Tucker 🙈 - I'll leave the rest to your imagination 😂

My DD needed speech therapy before she started school as I was the only one who could understand her. At the initial assessment she was asked to name various items in a book. The only one she said correctly was garage.
My granddaughter used to call the washing machine the washing it clean.
It stuck and I still call it that today.

Unfortunately, I began, and still use, the children's words for things. eg gissy or gisgit for biscuits and blehbleh for elephant. I could go on...

My daughter caller her younger brother, Steven, (only 18 months between them) Teedan. It stuck until they went to school. My youngest g’dtr who had trouble pronouncing Fs asked for hishytings for tea. Took me too long to realise she wanted fish fingers.

My daughter was in the verge of a tantrum because she wanted "dibits", and i didn't understand what she meant.
It turned out it was a boiled egg, with toast soldiers, so she could "dibit" into the yolk

DD called grapes ‘mores’. We always had a bowl of grapes and we asked ‘Do you want some more?’
Elephants were ‘ bompies’ ’. As reading to her I always said ‘ and the elephant goes bumpy, bompy, bompy.’

Thats why we have 'em! This was really needed this morning MissA, thankyou

DD2 at 3 called raisins bups. And if we said "they're raisins say raisins". She would say raisins and then under her breath say bups.
They did look a bit more like a bup in their little red box!