(Spinoff of the memorable sayings thread)


Is your family like mine--- it's been at least 25 years since any of us were small children-- but within family conversations we still tend to use some of the babytalk words that each of us kids coined as toddlers?


Or do you still remember some of the hilarious things a small child--- might even have been YOU--- said to inadvertently destroy the adults with sidesplitting laughter?


Or maybe a small child-- again, maybe you--- said something so incredibly wise or far beyond his/her years?


Tell your stories here, please:

My daughter is still small, but we've picked up some of her words and realize that we use them - in public - without hesitation. Dogs are now "woofs", fish are "fa", milk is "ma", bananas are "nanners" and tomatoes are "matus".

I don't think I ever routinely mispronounced any words, but one time during "show and tell" I got up in front of the class and gave a demonstration of how my mother looked when she was putting her girdle on. The teacher told my mom, of course! I think I was in first or second grade at the time...

It wasn't long after that, that my mom stopped taking me shopping with her, because she never never knew what was going to come out of my mouth, and she was tired of being embarassed (who could blame her? )

I still call monthly periodicals maz-a-geens because my daughter began the tradition when she was 2.

Came up to my mother all serious and demanded to know why we only had one crib. "Why would we need another crib?" wondered my mother. I replied, "Where's my husband going to sleep?!"

The following is both funny and not funny. I did not laugh. I felt very bad for the child. Thanksgiving church service, kids' part of the service. They are being asked what they are thankful for. A little boy cries out, "Whiskey!" and the congregations HOWLS. He protests in sadness and confusion, "That's my dog!"

That's great, nubka!!!

My niece, when she was very young, if you asked her "why?" she would stop and think for a moment, and then say, as if it were perfectly obvious, "Because that's why!" The fact that she stopped to think about it made it funny.

When I was little I couldn't say "breakfast" - I would say "bref-kist". One day I remember being in the kitchen and pronouncing it correctly and being so excited I ran down the hall to tell my Mom, but the time I got there I had lost it and was back to "bref-kist". My sister told me I was stupid and would never be able to say it correctly - wasn't she mean?

Nephew #1, now a sophomore in college, couldn't pronounce triangle. He would say it "trigingle." The first time he said it correctly, my sister actually called me crying, "He doesn't say 'trigingle' any more!"

Also Nephew #1, when learning to say my name: He couldn't say "Aunt Laura" so I became "Aunt Ruh-ruh." My sister would say to him, overenunciating: "AunT Lah Rah" and he would say back "AunT Ruh Ruh." To this day, I'm still Aunt Ruhruh.

Oh, my parents bought the house that they still live in when I was about 3. I distinctly recall touring the house with them, meeting the family that lived in it, and asking if their kids came with the house. Hey, we were moving from an apartment to a house - more space equals more kids, right? Isn't that how it works?

My Mom related this one to me. Youngest DS, who was 7 at the time, was staying with her and they were running errands. Mom mentioned that she needed to run into XYZ Store to get some makeup. DS said, "Grandma, aren't you kind of old for makeup?"

When he was about four, my little brother Andrew was sitting on my lap.... I was about 22 at the time.


He was eyeing my face very gravely, with his enormous blue eyes.


Finally after many minutes, he said, "Brudder, you know what?"

"What?"

Then, with great seriousness, as though unfortunately having to break some bad news, he said: "Your teefs are Lellow."

A while back, my little boy was saying to me, "When I am rich I am going to buy you all your bottles of smells." (his word for perfumes)

Then he said, "And I'm going to buy your sticks."
I was really startled because that is my husband's word for tampons.
I said, "Whhaaat?" He said, "Yes, your hair sticks." He was talking about HOT ROLLERS!

"bottles of smells" Awwwww...I like that!

I was eating a salad and my daughter who was 2 or 3 years old at the time had a bowl of carrot and celery sticks. She asked for lotion. I asked her why she wanted lotion and she said it was for her salad. Ever since then salad dressing has been lotion in my house.

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Look at the glint in this little boy's eyes as he says:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrz49dnzKA8...feature=related

These stories are endearing. They make me want to laugh and cry at the same time!

I think my brother had the best line in our family. On his first day of kindergarten my mom took him to the school (about a block away from the house) and left him there, much to his objection.

Around 10am there was a knock on the door of our house and Mom went to answer it. It was my brother. She exclaimed "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be in school!" My brother replied, "I exscaped!"

These are so Funny.

I took my son to pre-school last week and there we met his little friend Kate. I said to Kate, "I'm so happy you're in Henry's class." Kate, who is not quite three answered, "No, actually, Henry is in myclass." I laughed so hard. She'll go far in life with an attitude like that. My mother always said you have to walk into a place like you own it.

-Noelle

These are so Funny.

I took my son to pre-school last week and there we met his little friend Kate. I said to Kate, "I'm so happy you're in Henry's class." Kate, who is not quite three answered, "No, actually, Henry is in myclass." I laughed so hard. She'll go far in life with an attitude like that. My mother always said you have to walk into a place like you own it.

-Noelle

Sorry, not sure why it double posted.

-Noelle

My sons are in their 30's but my sister and I still use some of their words in conversation. Boops for boots. Tonytails for ponytails. I remember some crazy things from when the kids were little. One time my son almost got a perfect score on an picture identification test in kindegarten - he only missed one answer - he identified the picture of an egg as "pantyhose." I laughed very hard.

When my daughter was 3, she told one of my friends, in front of me: "My mom says your kid is a brat."
Of course I lied like a dog: "Oh, honey, I wouldn't say something like that!" LOL

I embarrassed my Mom similarily as a young'un. Mom had to go visit an older lady for some reason, a lady who was just a wee bit more well-heeled than we were-- and let everybody know it. (Picture Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" and you'll have her nailed.)

To shut me up, this lady gave me a plate of some lemon layer cake. I was about 5.

I took my fork and only ate the frosting, leaving the tattered yellow sponge behind.

The woman gasped and said, "What? doesn't he like the cake?"

My Mom leaped to smoothe things over with a genteel, "Oh, SURE he does! Right, honey?"

Me, angrily: "No, I DON'T!"

Up until 8th grade, I pronounced "Pisces" as "peeses."

Two things my 7 year old said recently "Mommy, I am never going to call you the F word because that will hurt your feelings." I am shocked, he should NOT know the F word yet! Then he went on, "You know, F A T."
The other day he said, "Mommy, when your hair turns white and you look like a grandmother and everybody else thinks you look not so good anymore, I'm STILL going to tell you that you look pretty."

How sweet, Demetrue!

We have explained to our little boy, who's 10, why we don't have movies and games in the house rated "Mature" by saying they have naked people and bad words.
We recently had to explain why we were not going to the "Adult Superstore" whose sign we saw on the highway.
The other day we were in Walmart and we walked past vitamins for "Mature" people and he said "Why does the multivitamin say "Mature"? It doesn't cuss when you open it!"

These stories are great!

I can't think of a cute story at that time. My daughter used to call my lipstick -stiplick. So to this day I say stiplick.

Cute, Fumebag!

These posts are just wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Children and babies are something beyond words...I only really discovered that when I became a Grandmother !!
My Six year old Grandson was out fishing with his family a few days ago and came flying, running, leaping up to his Mother at the beach, to show her a nice little whiting he had caught. As he flew up to her he shouted "Yeahhh, I'm good to be alive"!

When my second son was around five years old, he kept asking for the pizza toys. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. A couple of months later I got the dominos out for him to play with and he said, "those are the pizza toys." Lol.

My coworker always has stories about her little girls, 3 and 5. The little 3-year-old, quite the diva, was explaining to her mother what her married life would be like. After, of course, she became a princess. Her mother asked, "So, you'll be a princess and marry a handsome prince?"

Exasperatedly: "NO, MOMMIE! The prince is going to marry ME!!!"