My kids love the Stories podcast, especially the episode with The Pied Piper. The woman who reads the stories does all kinds of dialects, and in this story the villagers are German. So DS2 has been stomping around the house, pointing at us, and yelling "Pay ze pipah! Pay ze pipah!"
LOL! My daughter just got annoyed with me the other night because I was walking around the house shouting about "ze pied pipah!" My 3 yo DS thinks it's funny. DD, at 6, is obviously too cool for that.
We love the Stories Podcast!
It’s magic!! My kids are silent in the car and super absorbed in the stories. Their favorite is The Four Musicians.
DS has decided that his new baby sister Emily is actually named Emil. Why? Because his friend at school "has a baby Emily so ours has to be different so I'm naming her Emil." The kicker? The friend's baby sister is actually a doll. But he still refuses to accept this overlap, even though he shares a name with like 5 ppl we know, and he has 2 pairs of kids with the same name in his class. Weirdo.
My kids have two animals with name-names, because my husband and I named them when they were infants. ALL of their other animals are named for what they are: Ducky the duck, BearBear the bear, Raccoon the raccoon and so on. Literally every animal and it's BOTH of them.
The lack of creativity mystifies me. They're not otherwise boring people but they're so boring when it comes to names.
DS does this, too. Silly Monkey, Turtle the Turtle, KittyKitty the Cat ... there only time he gets slightly more creative is with his stuffed dogs, because he has a bunch. There's Beigey Puppy (a puppy that's ... beige), Chocolate (choc lab), Chip (dalmatian), Fuzzy (Pomeranian), etc.
my husband had 3 cats in his childhood: TC for "The Cat," Black (black cat) and Grey (grey cat). SO BORING.
My child names everything Leer (Lear?). Everything. Prior to Leer/Lear, it was Leah, who was her creeptastic imaginary friend for a while.
My favorite recent "L-isms" are: calling Netflix "Neckflix", not remembering the name of Fruit by the Foot so calling it "Fruit by the Toe", and telling me to "come on; smell the coco!" which I think in 4 year old speak is "wake up and smell the coffee". She also sings SO SO earnestly these days, usually songs from Elena of Avalor complete with drumming and closing her eyes and flinging out her arms, that I can barely stand it. She makes me laugh every day.
DD1's favorite doll is a Corolle doll that smells like vanilla, so she named her Vanilla Baby.
She's obsessed with pretending to have a baby right now, and multiple times a day she'll take Vanilla Baby out from under her shirt and say "Look Mom, the baby's born! She's a baby and she smells like vanilla! What should we name her?" She gets mad if I answer with anything other than "Vanilla Baby" lol.
My favorite recent "L-isms" are: calling Netflix "Neckflix", not remembering the name of Fruit by the Foot so calling it "Fruit by the Toe", and telling me to "come on; smell the coco!" which I think in 4 year old speak is "wake up and smell the coffee".
Stuff like this cracks me up. DS came home from kindergarten, telling me he learned all about "salamis" -- giant waves that can destroy whole cities.
Also, taste bugs (taste buds), excavators (escalators), hovercrap (hovercraft), and hand-cups (handcuffs). He also mixes up "instruction" and "construction." Like, Lego sets come with "constructions" but the guys building a new house around the corner are doing "instruction."
Post by BicycleBride on Mar 28, 2018 13:09:16 GMT -5
DS’s favorite thing at school is when they have a “potato drill”. It took me a few minutes to realize he meant a tornado drill. He also celebrates “motherstimes day” and “fatherstimes day”. I think he got hung up on Valentine’s Day. This is the second year for those and I am praying no one corrects him. I am so glad to know my kids are not the only ones that name all their stuffed animals by species. Or DSname 2 is another favorite. DD is two and just obsessed with discussing who has a penis and who has a vagina. “Daddy have penis? Mommy have ‘gina?” And of course it’s always in public.
My favorite recent "L-isms" are: calling Netflix "Neckflix", not remembering the name of Fruit by the Foot so calling it "Fruit by the Toe", and telling me to "come on; smell the coco!" which I think in 4 year old speak is "wake up and smell the coffee".
Stuff like this cracks me up. DS came home from kindergarten, telling me he learned all about "salamis" -- giant waves that can destroy whole cities.
Also, taste bugs (taste buds), excavators (escalators), hovercrap (hovercraft), and hand-cups (handcuffs). He also mixes up "instruction" and "construction." Like, Lego sets come with "constructions" but the guys building a new house around the corner are doing "instruction."
lol So cute!
My favorite ever was how L used to say "yay-yo" for yellow. They taught her how to say it correctly at daycare and I was so bitter! ha
DD1's favorite doll is a Corolle doll that smells like vanilla, so she named her Vanilla Baby.
She's obsessed with pretending to have a baby right now, and multiple times a day she'll take Vanilla Baby out from under her shirt and say "Look Mom, the baby's born! She's a baby and she smells like vanilla! What should we name her?" She gets mad if I answer with anything other than "Vanilla Baby" lol.
I said something in a song-song voice yesterday, and my just-turned-three-year-old let out a long-suffering sigh and said, "Please stop trying to be silly, Mommy. Just talk normally."
He also has taken to saying "ridiculous," but it comes out like "wedickeriss," and is the cutest thing ever.
2yo dd loves to make up stories. Recently, they have all been about these imaginary friends, “Pee Pee” and “Poo Poo”. Pee Pee is the nicer one, and dd pretends to call her to ask her how certain songs go, or to ask about her day. Poo Poo is not so nice. If dd does something like pull her sister’s hair, and I tell her- “no, we don’t do that, we don’t hurt people!”, she’ll counter, “well, Poo Poo does”.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Mar 29, 2018 6:57:10 GMT -5
Oh! I have one. Yesterday we had Trader Joe’s turkey meatballs. They were subpar and Wesley looks at me, all concerned “mom, I hate to break it to you, but grandma’s meatballs are betterer.”
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
My youngest son is 2yo and around Christmas time he kept talking about "peppers" and we were all really confused. We eat bell peppers pretty frequently, but the context didn't make sense for that at all. I finally realized one day that he thought that the Christmas lights we hung on our house look like the baby bell peppers that I literally bought ONE time from Costco.
I bought him these PJs around that same time and he is obsessed with them. He constantly asks to wear his "pepper jammies." He wears them so often (yes, in March) that they're super faded and I'm scared how he'll react when they don't fit him anymore.
Post by Mrs. Meerkat on Mar 29, 2018 14:14:20 GMT -5
Oh, the naming. For the longest time DS would names things “Charo.” We had no idea why. Then when he finally started talking better we realized he was saying Charles. Still have no idea why everything is named Charles.
Except for his mommy and baby meerkat dolls. They are Munk and Link, respectively.
DD has five imaginary friends that go with her everywhere. Maisy, Mugga, Bigger, BaBa and Baby Jasmine. Keeping them all straight is a damn full time job. Mostly she carries them around in her pocket and sometimes Mugga looks like a monster. She also names all of her stuffed animals the name of the animal. She has lots of duplicates though, so for the elephants we have gray elephant, purple elephant, loud elephant (this one is a rattle) and other gray elephant.
My mom's name is Evelyn. My MIL does this thing with DS1 where she asks him the names of all his relatives. This conversation happened the other day:
MIL: "Colin, do you have a Nana?" DS1: "Yes." MIL: "What's her name?" DS1: *Pauses* "I don't know." MIL: "Her name is Evelyn." DS1: "Oh yeah! Like my unicorn!"
Nobody had any idea he had named his stuffed unicorn, let alone that her name is Evelyn. Since then, he'll announce that he has Evelyn or will ask for her by name. I find this hysterical. Evelyn is such a funny name for a two year old's stuffed purple unicorn.
When Abby was 2, she got a baby doll for Christmas and kind of ignored it for a couple of months, but then started talking one day about her "emma"--"where's my Emma?" and such. It took us a while to realize she was asking for her new baby doll.
We did not know anyone by the name of Emma. No one at her daycare had that name or anything close to that name. We still don't know where the name Emma came from, but that doll has been Emma for 9 years.
My kids have these little bears that SIL got for them. DS named his Moe when he was 2, and DD named hers Cindy. I have no idea where she came up with Cindy. LOL
My 2 year old has a stuffed lemur that she sleeps with. His name is Eemer. Her stuffed fox is Mamo, but that’s how she started saying Mr. Mulder, which is the name my husband gave it. She also calls my husband’s dad Dan. His name is Richard. She knows no Dan. She seems my dad all the time, so refuses to call her other grandpa (who she rarely sees) Grandpa. We’ve tried other words like Pop and Grampie, but it’s always Dan.
I had Leo (5) with me. It was a snowstorm and we were driving around the grocery store parking lot. I commented that I couldn’t tell if one of the close spaces was handicap or not so we were going to skip it.
“Well mom, you are getting pretty old. You probably can use it.”
LOL I am 36.
Also he was with my MIL and she was on the floor playing. She was having trouble getting up and Leo yelled “Grandpa, come help, grandma is too old to get up.” LOLOLOL
I secretly thought it was funny with MIL. SHe is in her 70s. It WAS NOT funny with me.
Stuff like this cracks me up. DS came home from kindergarten, telling me he learned all about "salamis" -- giant waves that can destroy whole cities.
Also, taste bugs (taste buds), excavators (escalators), hovercrap (hovercraft), and hand-cups (handcuffs). He also mixes up "instruction" and "construction." Like, Lego sets come with "constructions" but the guys building a new house around the corner are doing "instruction."
lol So cute!
My favorite ever was how L used to say "yay-yo" for yellow. They taught her how to say it correctly at daycare and I was so bitter! ha
Why would they do that?! I don’t have kids but the saddest day of my life was when my nephew learned to say my name properly.