Baby Talk

My husband recently borrowed a deep fat fryer from a friend and my son scared me half to death the other day when he ran in and confidently announced that he'd seen a beeg Fire in the kitchen.....

OK. My kids are older, but I have a couple I remember off the top of my head.

They used to say "whiling" instead of "while."

My favorite though was a completely new word my youngest made up (very insistently) for "tiara" which is "glidenagleeben." She was 2 and couldn't find her "gliddenagleeben" and wanted my help. I had NO idea what she was talking about, but she kept saying the word very clearly and getting upset that I didn't understand. Finally she found it and showed it to me, "SEE, glidenagleeben!" I told her it was a tiara, but she insisted it wasn't. Too cute!

My now 5yo used to say

cockie = cookie
i no no = i don't know
and my all time favorite (i still say it)
sis = kiss

Instead of "truck" my daughter said "fruck"! We quickly decided to call them SUV's

My daughter called her ankle her "bunkle" until I finally had to let that one go when she started school (for me it was sort of like breaking the news about santa)(she is now 36 with 3 very intellectually advanced children - so no harm done there!) One son always said "benumber" for "remember" and wore a "bay foop" for a bathing suit and the youngest (now 21 and raised on Ninja Turtles) called one Wewaydo when he was 2 - I think it was Leonardo. Now I've heard that when I was little we had "curnits" over the window in out "kinetch" where we cooked our meals.

My daughter hasn't gotten to spend a lot of time around my mother, because she lives out of state (but she sees my husbands mother almost every day).
When I was ready to deliver my second child this past May, my mom came and stayed with us for about three weeks. My mom was a little more strict with her (saying "NO" a lot) then her other grandmother is...
and we found it quite humorous when "grandma" occassionally sounded like "dam-ma".

How about pasgetti? :)

My daughter used to say callapitter (for caterpillar) and brefixt (for breakfast)... my two favorites.

Oh! And how could I forget?!?! When she wanted to say "I love you," she would say RahRoo!

Hi,

my friends kids always say "yester-night"
basguetti (spaguetti)
and one that always cracks me up "accuse me!!" (excuse me)

-M.

"Can I have some more pinocchio?" (We were having gnocchi for dinner, and had just been reading Pinocchio.)
-From my then-two-year-old son

a lot of these are so familiar in our home as our kids are growing up. I'd like to add turch (church). I didn't catch on right away until my 1st grader was writing it. She was asking for help and when I told her how to spell church, she gave me this crazy look. So I looked to see how she was writing it and there it was the T. So both my girls are trying to get out of that habit now and they correct themselves. Also my 6 yr old during her prayers says... for dine is the Kingdom.... or Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, was my kingdom come, my will... that I had to correct really quick. have fun!

Ok, in our family we still call lollypops - pollywops and hamburgers - hangaburs in tribute to my sister's slang 30 years ago...

my youngest has a flare for language as well... his first word besides the basics was "B-cull" for bicycle which really meant MOTORCYCLE to him, he also calls the computer, "percuter" f, but our favorite was when he explained to a friend that we watched an old TV show the night before: "Big Damn Bike".

My seven year old had to explain........" he means: Dick Van Dyke!"

My favorite of my 2 year old's: Hone-y Moan-y! (Holy Moly!)

My son says "jamamas" for pajamas...

When my oldest son was younger, he used to call crackers and cookies "qua-quas". It was so cute!
My now 3 year old middle child says "firsty" for thirsty, "pasghetti" and "zuchanini" for zuchinni.

Sunday Fridays (Semi Freddies!)
Abaghees (strawberries)
Seaboat (syrup)
Taboo (ketchup)
Smashmallow (marshmallow)
O see saw (Elisa)

And when my other daughter was 3 she was asked to name the 7 Dwarves and she responded, "no silly, they already HAVE names!"

D.

"Eskimo kiss" for Escalator.

My now 5 yo's first word was dog, except he said, "og-dah." (perhaps he'll enjoy pig-Latin?) We weren't positive at first that he was saying "dog," but he said og-dah every time the dog came into the room, and we realized that he was saying "dog" -- kinda.

Other words: makamoki (macaroni), strawbabies (strawberries -- the woman at the farmers' market started calling them strawbabies, too, when my son was there), Powalangers (Power Rangers, I think -- he kept insisting that Powalangers were something different, but he didn't know what Power Rangers are), peach peachpeepatino (peach teappachino), and my mom's all-time favorite: Boo Bah (my mom's name is Barbara), which then morphed into Grammy Boo Bah, and then, to my mom's great distress, Grammy (she has no problem being called Grammy; she just misses the Boo Bah part!).

Just remembered some R to X rated ones: for about six months he said clock without the "L," and my friend's son used to call dump trucks dumb f&%ks. She lived in fear of seeing dump trucks for quite some time!

Ok -- one more: until my son was 4, he called the Thai place where we got his favorite chicken dish "The Big Chicken Store."

My daughter has these little pink hippos she's always called beebos, and helicopter has morphed from dop-a-dop to harley daughter, and now helicopper. And she likes to say my realy first name, and she pronounces it Stemanie, even though she can pronounce it correctly. I know there are more but these are the ones I can think of right off.

I've always liked pasghetti and my favorite is my cousin, when he was little of course, would not eat a grilled cheese sandwich because he thought they were called Girl Cheese Sandwiches. lol

C.

Great thread! Here are the ones at our home...

cawdova - avocado
brellella - umbrella
ovawers - overalls
badaw badah - donald duck
Kogie - Chloe
reef rower - leaf blower

and one that we just couldn't correct her on because we didn't want it to go away too soon...

peekuz - because (it even came out that way when she started learning to spell it :)

Have a great morning everyone!

My 6 year old has called the theaters "videe-ers" for as long as I can remember.

Towowowel for towel.

Also? He used to yell for his daddy as "Honey" (pretty sure it was because that was what I called him!)

At my house I have; efalant, noculars (binoculars), dank you, ackilator, tillas(tortillas), camra cane(candy cane), Melmo, Smoosh It(Play Doh), muncher(monster), splinkers(sprinklers), fight knife(sword), turtlize (fertilize).
I keep a small notebook handy to record the hilarious things that come out of my son's mounth.

~ hopspittle...hospital
~ pokey nose...pinochio
~ banama...banana
That's about all I can come up with

~ beeboos...boobies, how could I forget this one?!

ha! the poster below me is funny! My little guy says "hummy" for hummas.

My favorite was Elephant John for Elton John... it was right after Lion King came out and I can't tell you how many times we saw that movie. Thanks for bringing back a great memory.

shepop= ketchup
nana=banana
duce=juice
lellow=yellow
and amazingly my daughter could say "parangaricutirimicuaro" when she was 3. It is the name of a volcano in Mexico. She sounded so cute and amazing at the same time. :)

From my son...
ee oo - thank you
peas - please

From my daughter...
go-go - calling her big brother Michael (Found out later that go-go is mandarin for big brother, but where did she learn that?!?)
booger king - Burger King
boos coos - Blues Clues

Fun! My nephew, now 37 years old and married -- gave me
"sumgakkies" for sunglasses!
Enjoy!

kessert (for dessert)
diarrhea (for diary)
caf-a-terium (for cafe)

Those are some of my favorites - (we call dessert - kessert)

Binoclee-ers(binoculars), boon (balloon) , pane (plane), Are we going to the cabinet (cabin)

My sister used to say "babing suit" for bathing suit and we both used to say ba-sghetti for spaghetti and ba-tatoes for potatoes.

My two year old son:

digoo=sticker
peas=please
pench pies=french fries
pans=fans
bush=can be "brush" (brush your teeth) or "flush" (flush the toilet)
He hits his head and says "boom!" when he's talking about trashcans because he likes the banging noise of them opening and closing
wo wo=dog (the sound a dog makes)
meow=cat
ni ni=milk
bana=banana

Paper Toilet (Toilet paper)
Biaper (Diaper)
Hold you (hold me)

My 3 year old says hang-ger-bur for Hamburger. It was sooo cute. :-)

My 3 kids still can sunscreen --- sunscream! My oldest is 8 1/2 and it still cracks me up...

She’s 12 now, but I do remember those days…
Leek! (look)
Capliceman (policeman)
Hot Cajuzzi (Jacuzzi)
Kerfoom (perfume)
Teepee Cue-zer (PT Cruiser, the car)
Hostiple (hospital)
mama cave (I sleep on my side and she would snuggle into the space between my knees and chest)
When she was older, she always said, “farewell comrades” when she was leaving the room. We never figured out where she heard that.
Oh yeah, and "pock torn" for popcorn
My little sister used to sing “ee-i-ee-i-o” every time she saw the golden arches from her car seat.
My little brother used to say "free sings" (three things) "frow" (throw) and "fanks" (thanks). We still try to find reasons to say “free sings.”

Hangaber (hamburger)
hairpain (airplane)
Peeps (short for pee-pee)
Old MacDonalds (for MacDonalds - my daughter eternally thinks old macdonald lives there)

When my daughter was 2 she used to refer to her uncle Jerome as Drunk because that was her way of pronouncing it, it was hilarious.

My three year old girl calls Tofu "toe-food" ;-)

My son used to say Bud Lightbeer instead of Buzz Lightyear, He used to say Mo-Dy! everytime he wanted more of something to eat..it sounded like a Japanese exclamation of some sort! He used to say grils for girls and still says tavorite instead of favorite. My dughter is just beginning to really talk so we shall see...she calls her brother Bubba and cats Kikis and when she is really tired instead of calling me mommy and dad daddy she rolls our names into one and just calls us both Mumdee! Enjoy!

Hi there. This is so fun to read.
My now 9 yr old use to call handicapped parking spaces "capti chairs" and the rail road crossing arms were called "nee nees." This took me a long time to figure out. A girlfriend (also a mom) figured it out. It is the sound the arms make when they come down. He also said "gills" for girls.
My 4 yr old used to say "last day" for yesterday and my tweezers are "squeezers."
My 11 yr old daughter called elephants "ChaCha" for the longest time. The San Diego Wild Animal Park has a dancing elephant there named ChaCha. My daughter saw the show when she was about 18-20mos. She said ChaCha until she was about 4.
Thanks for all the laughs and smiles.
B. in San Ramon

my daughter says "lellow" for yellow, Hello Killy, jellobeans, ice cream combs

My 3 year old son thinks that if there is such a word as "today" and "tomorrow" than naturaly there must be a "to-later" and a to-yesterday"! Another favorite is "bite-a-mens"
my nine year daughter still calls oatmeal "oit-meal" and my two favorites "renember" & "comp-cuter"! They are too cute to correct. I'll miss when she stops saying it!

L. B

One thing my 21 month old daughter says that took my a while to figure out was pillow. She pronounces it podo. So at night when she is tired she says Mama I want my milky, I want my blanky, and finally I want my Podo.

It's very cute.

Bah-noon (ballon)
Foon (spoon)
Dit-der (sister)
Uppa (up)
E-happer (what happened?)
Nake (snake)
Monny (Molly - the dog)
Dina-door (dinosaur)
Cuppy (coffee)
Buck on a wino (bug on the window)

Oh my gosh, This is great. I really needed this today. Been up wtih 2 sick kids for the past 3 nights. Husband works in LA every week and Im out of my mind. This post made my day. Here are the funny things my 3yo(bday today) says.

B Bone = Rainbow
Grond = Grandma
TT = TV
fribbies = falling leafs
we can't tell if he means baby brother or peanut butter either. This age is so much fun.
SAHM, 39 with a super funny active 3yo son and a 5 month old son who is full of smiles and bubbles.

My son used to call bananas "miss"???. He had a few made up words as well..... "Ma tee" (while patting his hands together as though he was wiping them off), "Paw" while holding his hands like he was reciting a mantra of some sort :, he still says "scuzed" when he wants to be excused from the table, but our all time favorite started quite early. When he was about 12-13 months we were trying to teach him to say Thank you. He would give you the most sincere look and say "Doo Dah" :). We still say "doo Dah" around here! Thanks for the cute post! What a way to start the day!

~S. in Petaluma

Instead of marshmellow my daughter says marshpillow. We always ask her to repeat it gives us such a giggle. Thanks for starting a fun topic. I might have to add another word when I think of it. R.

My 4 year old boy counting:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,14,19,eleventythree ???????

Booger King = Burger King yummy!

Hackamolee = Guacamole

Hi R.,

Here are some of the cute things that my children used to say: Myca-mave (Microwave) Pend -the-night (spend the night) and Gagga-bees, Gagga-bees, Bubba-boe wings (Applebees - Applebees, Buffalo Wings) My son's name (now 22 and in the U.S. Air Force) is Adam and his little sister Emily (now 15) used to call him Adda-dee... there is also gammella bars (granola bars) and mackin (napkin) so many cute things and guess what??? Even though the kids are grown... we still use the timeless terms... so much joy!!! Praise the Lord for babies!!! The greatest blessing of my life so far has been being a mother... Enjoy!!

What a great post - I jumped up to look frantically through old calendars to make sure I noted these funny and adorable words...phew! I did!

My still favorites if my 4 year old Daughter:

Breaktist = Breakfast (we still call it this)

Appletraz = Alcatraz (she loves to go to San Francisco and yells this everytime we cross the bridge)

Jekes/Mac-A-Jekes = this is what she calls little brother Jameson

Old MacDonald's = McDonalds

Cop Corn = Pop Corn

Noxius = Obnoxius

And favorites of my 2 year old son:

Qweeeez = Please (this is so completely adorable)

Ocho Cream = Ice Cream

Pie Man = Spider Man

Hell Docker = Hellicopter

Chicken = Dinner, no matter what is being served

Yogurt = means Licorice

Chockit = Chocolate

Daddycars = My hubby is a car fanatic and my son coined this name for him

Wuv you mommy = this just melts my heart!

As toddlers, I used to call milk 'Minko' and my brother called coffee 'foffee.' We also caled Windshield Wipers 'Winshiners.'

But I love Toppy drop!!!

Thanks for the Mems ; )

One of my favorites... my youngest brother called a helicopter an "op chopper".

My daughter used to refer to my father (her grampa) as "tampa"!!! I believe she was around 2 at the time. She also has a problem pronouncing her f's, so Fruit is suit, four and five are sour and sive. silly. thanks for the laugh today!

My daughter who is now 7-yrs. old used to say "pasghetti" for spaghetti and "yaboo" for I love you. I don't hear them anymore because she can say them properly now but I sure miss hearing them...

My daughter says "surkey" for turkey and "quinguin" for penquin.... And she used to say the ever famous "f-ck" for truck.... And she said it often, "look at the f-ck mommy!,,,, he has a big f-ck mommy.... ohhhhh, that's a pretty blue f-ck mommy"... She finally learned how to say truck correctly but my son just the other day pointed at a truck and said "f-------ckkkkk???" as he's learning how to talk. Looks like I have a few months of being embarrassed again every time we see a truck.

my sons bike is a tribikasel, spaghetti is pubsketti, and (he knows his numbers, and I work at a hotel) when he gives someone a key to room 112 for some reason it's one-elevndy-two. My step-dad has an Element (Toyota) and it's called elephant.

i thought i might add a few..the ones already posted def. made me chuckle. my nephew who is 3 1/2 now had some weird speech patters when he started to talk but some of my favorites are...

lemellade (lemonade)
hockaball hoop (basketball)
told (cold)
tookies (cookies)
twads (quads)
tendie (because his moms name is Kendie)

I have a couple that I thought were cute. My husband used to work at a water district "plant", so my son was saying one day, Mommmy are we going to go to the tree to see daddy? I was like um tree, trying to figure out what he was talking about, then it dawned on me he was talking about the "plant" that my husband worked at. And then we had some friends that lived in an apartment but my son called it a compartment, which if you think about it, is pretty close.

Hilarious and heartwarming! Some of the things my grandson said when he was three:

Grammy, I'm so fusserated (frustrated).
Donup shop = donut shop
marshpillow = marshmallow
grills = girls

These were a few I remembered right off the top of my head. Thanks, R2

scabettis (spaghetti), pinpeller (instead of propeller), mote ratrol (for remote control)

My daughter, 3yo, says "lasteryear" for anything that happened in the past and "next year" for anything that will happen in the future including tomorrow!

She's actually very articulate and doesn't do too many of these so I really enjoy the little babytalk she still uses!

My daughter used to say "Mitmiss" for Christmas and instead of saying Santa she called him HoHo.

My girls ask if they can have "bazzert" after dinner (dessert). And they like to get happy meals at "Old MacDonalds"

Oh, and the cat box is filled with "kitty glitter".

=)

My oldest daughter when she was 18 months said: (she's now 14!)
ber bers- for strawberries
Mur murs- for mushrooms
My other daughter at 2: (now 11)
Wosey wait- for Rosey wait! (her sister)
My son (who is four thus I remember more):
he still sings his abc's with gay replacing j
and when he was little:
Fire*uck for fire truck (imagine that being yelled at every passing fire truck)
titties were kitties
wub was rub
weg was leg
that shtinks so bad! (everytime we drove by the sewage processing plant)
and for awhile everyone who had a K name was called by a T name.
So Ten for Ken, Taffy for Kathy, etc...
Moose for Marine(not sure of the conection on that one)
and Bewa house For Bella's house

and because she is mentioned above and very much in our hearts one last special memory of baby talk goes to our dear sweet friend who just recently passed at the tender age of seven. Belli we love you forever!

When ever her mother or I would exlaim "can you say crazy lady!" she used to respond with "Cwazy Wady!"

This thread is fun. I have 2 1/2 year old twin girls. They love fruit snacks better known in our house as "foot nack"
Fooooot naaaaack pwease!! "footiedoo" Scooby Doo. "my do it" I'll do it. "Ho-bee" help me. "toady" pony. "geekee" blanket. "rediclious" rediculous. "greepa" grandpa

I Love little kid words.

Hi Reeie,

We had just moved to our new location. My little girls (twins) made friends with a little girl down the street. The father asked his daughter where her new friends were from and she told him we were from, "La berry ahh." She was trying to say, "the bay area."

N. :o)

We had a book about an I'm-a-pillow (armadillo), rilla (gorilla), Ohmee (oatmeal - this is also what he used to call my friend Naomi),
Apparently my brother used to call spaghetti - Mrs. getty

Hi R.,
I completely understand your love for the little ones; it is such a precious stage! I remember one time I asked my daughter Ely whether she'd like an apple. She responded "No, papple pie". She still loves apple pie! Have a great day!

My borther used to make announcements before speaking and would address the crowd "ladies and jumpijumps"

My four year old calls bandaids - dambaids. Absolutely love it still.

My baby girl calls my parents dog Sophie, Wewe and for a long time she called Big Bird, Gi Boo. She says Big Bird much clearer now, but Sophie is still WeWe. And of course it's totally cute the way she says i love you. She grabs my leg and says yuv ou mama.

I have a few. My son says "meeyiy" (banana), "patchuduh" (spatula), "bohyball" (volleyball or basketball), and a completely made-up word "obuhgooduhgeeter." We have NO clue where it came from or what it means, but once we figured out how to say it, it never fails to make him giggle.

My sister used to say "glubs" (gloves) and "meelk" (milk). My cousin's phrase for spaghetti sauce was "pasketti skaus." Two of my favorites, though, were ones that my mom said I said when I was little. "Hippomopatumus" and "nirocerous." Nothing like making 2 hard words even harder!!!!

My son loves his "winkie" or blankie and likes to watch a "moosie" or movie with his sissy.

My little girl(4 y/o) is growing so fast because her heart keeps "beeping". It just cracks me up every time she says it.

I think my favorite these days from my 4 yr old is "mazagine"...for magazine. Great question!

I haven't any to share. Yet would like to know ones passed on the web, have any links?
would love some llight laughter lighten the load.

Rennie
my niece told my mom that mens have manners and girls have girlers!

Another, her mother called spaghetti 'guppies' as a child

A.

Hi,
I could not pass up a chance to laugh........
Our daughter use to say "sha cli mellow" for Sacramento. Or she will STILL sometimes tell me she has a "hadduck"....or headache....she's almost 13 now....LOL ....we always got a kick out of that one!
Have a GREAT DAY!!!!!

Years ago, my daughter's favorite movie was "Princess Diarrhea" (Princess Diaries). Had to share that one!

Toonumbers - cucumbers
Pomas the Frain - Thomas the Train
Quacker Oats - Quaker Oats
I wub you too - I love you too

And my all time favorite...Casperafinnadadoz - Casper the Friendly Ghost...that took us FOREVER to figure out.

Those were from my kiddos. One of my niece's still cracks me up...hamsamitizer - hand sanitizer!

R.,

My absolute favorite:

Lipper (zipper)

Molly

I think my favorite was when my now five year old called lasagna "basagna." But he always pronounced spaghetti right instead of the typical "basghetti."

My 10-month old isn't old enough to mispronounce anything, but I can share my own funny words. When I was little I said "froggy" instead of foggy. I didn't know that the word crayon wasn't pronounced "crown" until I was in college - I used to even correct people! For many years I said "girl cheese" sandwich. Thanks for the fun posting!