one of my guys used to ask for a piece of water from the water fountain, I always thought that was cute.

Our faves right now from 4 year old is stadders for stairs-a mix of ladder and stairs and I don’t know why but she calls rollercoasters hellicoasters.  It’s funny to me to think that many adults probably feel like they are hell-a-coasters.

Our daughter, now 17, used to say “You’re Injewous!” when she got mad at somebody. I guess she meant “in-jealous”...what ever that would mean! It was funny and we say it to this day, jokingly of course. Our son, now 21, got out of my parents pool one day when he was about 4 and said, “I’m cold like a chicken.” I guess he meant he had goosebumps. We often refer to that little phrase when the cold winds blow. Cute things have staying power!

My favorite comes from my younger sister when she was little: “my tie’s unshoed” (for my shoe’s untied).

My 4-year-old rubbed an “eye pebble” out of his eyes when he got up this morning and since he was 2, he always needs a tissue to get the “ladybugs” in his nose. I understand the “eye pebble” but still to this day have no idea where the “ladybugs” came from. I love little kid speak!

Last night at Urgent Care my son climbed up on one of the sign posts and announced that it was a supervisor, and that he was “vising”.

My three-year-old refers to things that are breakable (like her ceramic piggy bank) as “glass-able.”

Our babysitter was telling our 7 year old son not to be a “party pooper.” So the next day he says, “someone pooped at my party.” He is our most literal child!

Last spring my 2 1/2 year old son had a 24 hour bug and when he threw up he told me that he ‘spilled out of his mouth.’  It was very precious and I just had to pull him into my arms for a big hug because it was cute and he was sick.  Poor kid.  He was better the next morning.

My kids call popsicles on wooden sticks “popSTICKles”.  Makes sense to me.

Our oldest son made “each other” a little more specific: “Our chother,” “your chother,” and “their chother.”

Oh, too many to even remember! Favorites from my oldest: “belaxing” on the couch, having a “party jammies” at home, walking around with “naked feet”. (And he would correct you if you mentioned his “bare feet”—he did not have bare feet, he had John feet!) I’d have loved him to say “cheppit” (ketchup) forever; happily his little brother says it now though.

My 2 1/2 year old son calls umbrellas ‘Cinderellas’ and I just can’t bring myself to correct him!

So much cuteness here - I love this thread!   
My dd used to say “bank-let” for blanket and then extended that pattern to other words too: “tick-lets” to ride on an airplane, “rack-lets” for tennis, and so on.  I never corrected the “bank-let” - it was way too cute when she was asking to be tucked in!
My 2-y-o ds, if he breaks something like a graham cracker into pieces instead of eating it whole, will inform us that he is “taking a break from crackers.”

One nephew used to say “scrimps” for shrimps.  when my niece was three, she would talk about her “toesies”.

my eldest would say “full of hands” for having full hands

Empartment. Messinin.  The list goes on and on.

For years our family said “moomi” for movie, in imitation of our now 14yr old. And sometimes I still say “Does anyone see a sparking space?” Just like she did when she was little.  I remember my brother saying he was going to “murdicre” me (murder and massacre together). He was 4. (Now he’s a priest.)

I have a son that would ask me to “take a haircut” instead of a short cut.  He also still says “extra case” for jus in case.  He’s 7.5 and a lot of his “baby words” are leaving but I sure am a bit sad when they do. 

The best though is my brother - 23 yrs my junior - when he was a small boy he used to call a helicopter and “octalooloo.”  My cousins won a Taboo game once because the word that came up was “helicopter” and one of them said “octalooloo” and everyone screamed “helicopter” because they knew remembered it from my brother. Love it!

Once we were heading out the door to go swimming, when my little brother came out of his room saying he couldn’t find his “logs.”  We spent the next few minutes trying to guess what he meant by “logs” (swimmies?  noodles?)  Finally he said in exasperation, “Those things you wear on your legs to go swimming.” 

“Do you mean trunks?”

“Yeah!”  Logs, trunks, same thing, right?

My 3.5 yr old daughter called Larry the cucumber a “cueburger” and all stars are “twinkle little stars”. When she falls down she will tell you that she hurt her “bobum”. Milk is “muk” and waffles are “waffaloes”. Haha, love that one. I don’t even know where she got this one from, but her aunt bought her a very nice pair of Keen waterproof shoes that she calls her “patcherskatch” shoes. Maybe she thinks they look like Sketchers shoes?

These are all so cute, and bring back so many wonderful huggable memories!  There so many I can’t list all, one favorite of mine, my youngest daughter would tell me her clothes were inside-outside for inside out.

My little girl who shockingly just turned 20 yesterday (where did the time go?) was the best inventor of words, especially around age 3.  My favorite was “butterfly slam,” better known as the flyswatter.

“booty and the beef” for “beauty and the beast”, and “come keep me comfortable” (instead of company) are my favorites from when my dd was little.

“Meat-hotter” for grill, “Sucker-upper” for vacuum, “Pumper-upper” for balloon pump.  Also “nose no work” for a stuffed up nose.

I love all of these! One of my favorites was when my then 5 yr. old accused the 2 yr. old of lying. Her response? “I not a lion, I a people!”

Thank you dear ladies for the many laughs your blog today has brought me.
God bless you all and all your “childen ” too not forgetting your spouses!

The hospital was always called the “hopsi-doodle”.  Makes it sound more fun, doesn’t it?

My favorite…
Christmas crumbs - the pine needles that fall from the Christmas tree

When my oldest son was around 3 or 4 he referred to my father’s mustache as his “nosebrow”. Makes sense to me!

I can still hear my nephew asking me “Do you have a presnet for me?”  (present) or asking me to put “kepuch” (ketchup) on his sandwich.  Heck, I still use use those words when I am talking to myself!  He is 32—and I am proud to say he just earned his masters degree while working full time and going to school nights after several years of serious illness.  May God bless him and all this year’s graduates!

My all time favorite was my oldest’s opinion of soda pop when he was about 2 1/2.  He didn’t like it because it was “too busy”.

When something is a bit slippery, but also has a slimy texture it is slickery around here. And each evening on his way to bed my little 4 y/o says “goodnight mommy and daddy I will see you to-morning…instead of tomorrow.