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Posted: 10/22/2009 6:22:30 PM | My little girl started saying "yabbadaba" the other day... I thought it was cute but didnt think anything of it, just another vocalization by a one year old. Then I told my mother and all the pieces fell into place.
She was/is saying Abby Cadabby. My mother had bought her Abby slippers the day this all started. She would "talk" to her slippers, in the hallway of my building as we were walking towards our apartment she would start saying "yabbadabba". Abby is her favorite right now and I just wasnt hearing it.
She says other things but really who expects something like her favorite TV character to come out of her mouth? lol
So what have your kids said that you wernt expecting or didnt realize until later what they had said? | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 6:32:14 PM | Thats funny. And you also find yourself using their terms talking to them,lol. My daughter called apple juice " abby juice" and when people would have her (grandma, etc,), I'd ask if they had abby juice for her and they'd look at me funny. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 6:36:05 PM | | I get that look when I ask people if theres somewhere I can "give the baby a new bum"... lol... Apparently most people change diapers not bums, not I! lol | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 7:00:52 PM | my one daughter when she was 2 would say, Apen want parties and Apen parter Todd.
She meant Aspen wants smarties, and Aspen is smarter that Todd. They do say such cute things.
I however couldn't figure out where Apen Ollie had come from, apparently she watched that rolly poly Ollie show once and named herself apen ollie. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 7:45:40 PM | When my oldest was little and wanted a drink, he would ask for a "sica". Took me a while to figure out "sica" was the edited version of "sip cup". Seems so simple....once you figure it out!
He also called a wasp a "swap". I thought that was interesting because he had all the letters but was too little to know how to spell it.
His other fun one was calling butterflies "flutterbys". I, personally, think that one makes SO much more sense!! | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 7:49:15 PM | | When my oldest son was tiny, he always told people his birthday was knocked over... (It's in October) And to this day, we chase flies with a flyswapper.... Gawd, I can't wait for the grandkids to start showing up! | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 7:54:10 PM | My 6 yr old still uses the "flutterbys" to this day. And when she was in kindergarten they had to use hand sanitizer after they went to the bathroom. She called it hanitizer. Scissors used to be swibbers.
My 4 yr old and I have a game that we play where he says "I love you" in some silly voice and I have to respond in the same type of voice. My 1 yr old has been listening to this and now he tries to join in by saying "iyaoo" It took me a little bit to figure out that he was saying I love you to try and join into the game.
I love how they talk at these ages!!!!!  | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 7:55:42 PM | | unfortunately as they get older we correct them and the cute saying are gone. I have to admit I haven't been correcting my 6 year old with a few. Like music is muscic, or sketaton | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 8:07:36 PM | My son was between 1 and 2..not yet talking. One day he came into the kitchen and let me know he wanted milk (probably pointed at it...don't really remember how he non-verbally communicated...been too long). My neighbour was over and in the kitchen with me when I handed off his sippy cup to him. He took it and said "Thank you" clear as a bell then turned and walked out of the kitchen. Our mouths dropped open in shock. He didn't say another word for a couple of months but when he started talking, he was one of the children that anyone could understand (not just Mom).
My daughter who is 4 and just started school is coming home with a new vocabulary of curse words...yeah! | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 8:13:27 PM | Curse words... that totally reminds me...
I was at a friends house and her son (about 20 months) was playing with his dad while we yakked on the couch. All of a sudden her son says "Daddy, I want to fvck you"... Mouthes drop open... son repeats it... giggles commence... Dad goes red... giggles continue...
What was he really saying you ask? "Daddy, I want to VACUUM"
Once we figured it out I dont think any of us in the room could breathe for the next 20 minutes, we were laughing too damn hard... lol | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 8:20:40 PM | | Karmic...that is funny. Gotta love some kids trying to say truck...it sounds more like fvck....hehehe. My daughter's fav at the moment is damnit and she uses it correctly. If anyone has suggestions other than washing out her mouth with soap and reminding her not to use that word cause it is an adult word...I'm all ears. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 8:29:14 PM | | Taken Soul my 6 year old started using it to , correctly and friggen. damn zipper won't work or That friggen dog pee'd on dads truck. I sat her done and explain how inappropriate those words were and she stopped. I don't cuss infront of the kids and not much elsewhere. The mom cussed like a drunken sailor infront of the kids and very inappropriate convo's infront of the kids, like well I sucked your ..... last night , blah blah blah, etc. They are all pretty well mannered now, even the 2 and 3 year old say please and thank you with out being asked. | |
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Posted: 10/22/2009 8:31:52 PM | | itsallinthesoul.... lol oh right, i almost forgot the swear words... that can be embarrassing, no? We tried to replace them with silly words that were fun to say. I think dammit was dingdangdiggetydog.... OP this thread was so fun, i think i'm gonna have to go get the videos out. Just gotta hear that sweet little baby voice | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 11:36:35 AM | | My neighbor asked how my son got "cheetah" bites...LOL...he had been trying at the age of 4 to say "mosquito". | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 12:12:58 PM | My oldest when she fell down or whatever and got a scratch would scream "I GOTTA BLEED! I GOTTA BLEED!" (translation: I'm bleeding).
My youngest fell and knocked out several teeth when she was about 2. She already was developmentally delayed and not speaking well so she had speech therapy for about 5 years but still mispronounces a lot of words at the age of 18. Much of this comes from me not having the heart to correct her so you younger parents take note. You don't want your grown adult child talking like a baby. Anyway, the earliest one I recall I believe would wanting "pasghetti" for supper. I think the translation on that one is pretty obvious.
My middle daughter is studying to be a high school English/Literature teacher. She is a grammar-nazi and I don't recall her ever saying anything like the other 2. Last night he did, however, threaten to suffocate her younger sister if she ever said "boughten" again. LOL! Poor kid got that John Prine's "Souvenirs" so I guess she thought it was a real word. LOL! | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 12:16:11 PM | The swear words are a good one. My 4 yr old used to walk around the house going "sit, sit sit sit sit," in kind of sing song voice. Only he wasn't saying sit. He just had a hard time with the sh together. He ad just turned 3 at the time and had no idea what he was saying. But I am still trying to figure out where he heard that. :D
Last year my 6 yr old liked to watch Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. Only it was Maggie and the refrocious beast. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 12:18:42 PM | | My son is 6 months old and he says "Yeah" It's not just a sound that sounds like "Yeah" this is clear as day. It's funny, because I can play on that word. I can ask him if he wants a cookie and he says "Yeah!" One time after hearing him grunt but seeing no poop in his diaper, I asked him if he was hiding the poop between his buttcheeks , and as clear as day he looks at me and says "Yeah!" | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 12:54:35 PM | | It took me forever to realize my daughter was telling us "I'm a princess" Lol. Then about a month ago her dad was asking her her name and she said "Lula" He said what is your FULL name. She said "Princess Lula" I thought I was going to pee myself laughing so hard. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 4:02:34 PM | | haha, heres one , the 2 year old just ran in the kitchen yelling "yay, seesa", which fore us would be yay pizza of course, lol | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 5:28:18 PM | My ex frequently called the computer his 'puter, until my daughter greeted me with "Daddy's playing with his peter." She was about 2-3 at the time.
When she was 3, he fell off of our roof. That Christmas she got a Little Tykes doll house. She'd stand the father figure on the roof and then tap him to make him fall over and announce "Daddy fell off the roof." -- at 17 she still remembers that day. | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 6:18:20 PM | My one year old loves his cousin Carrie Jean, who's fifteen. Carrie, however, doesn't love it when she's with her friends and my baby runs up to her yelling her name the only way he can say it...."Titty Dean! Titty Dean!". Tooooooooo funny. LOL
And I love when he wants held and he comes up and says, "I hold you, Mama."
He can't say Grandma. He calls her Mahnah. So he says , "I hold you, Mahnah."
Kids are so dang cute! Took him to the Maple Leaf Parade and here come the fire trucks. He excitedly yelled in the streets with hundreds of ppl, "Fire fvck, Mama! Fire fvck!"
He has an Uncle Ricky that he of course calls him, "Uncle Icky". Kinda fitting. hahaha | |
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Posted: 10/23/2009 9:08:06 PM |
All of a sudden her son says "Daddy, I want to fvck you"... Mouthes drop open... son repeats it... giggles commence... Dad goes red... giggles continue...
I was waiting to disembark from an airplane and was standing in the aisle behind this older man. My son was probably 2 at the time and looked at this elderly man, pointed at him and said "Bullsh1t" over and over again. I was absolutely mortified and everyone around was giggling (except the elderly man who was shooting daggers at me). It took me a minute but I finally realized that he was pointing to the pin that the man was wearing (airplane wings) and was saying "Push It".
I haven't hightailed it out of a terminal so quickly in my entire life. | |
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Posted: 10/24/2009 8:24:47 AM | I was really big on trying to teach my kids the correct names for body parts when they were little. I say was because that ended one morning when my daughter was sitting at the breakfast table squirming around. I asked her what the problem was and she replied,
"These jeans are hurting my VOLVO!"
That was when we switched to "privates"....and she got to go change her pants! | |
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Posted: 10/24/2009 12:56:25 PM | | My daughter is 18 months and is in the fun stage of learning words. Her favorite show is Caillou. When it comes on, she runs around the house screaming, "DIE-YOU!!!" | |
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Posted: 10/24/2009 8:51:07 PM | My daughter was 18 months old and very vocal, with disappointingly few mispronunciations. But one day we were out for a walk after watching Sesame Street, and she kept yelling 'uncle! uncle!' N0w her uncle was about to come for a visit and shed not met him before, so I assumed that was it. But as we neared the end of the walk she darts off, yelling UNCLE at the top of her voice... and comes back with a stoone shaped like... a triangle!!
As a child I called flamingos 'mingagos', pen guins were 'poogins' and my wallpaper as a child had an odd fruit-like print on it which I called 'stobbyabbles'.
The kids at work always call light sabres 'light savers'. One refers to shoving in (pushing in) as 'shovelling in'- now they all say it!
Kids- better than the telly..... | |
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