maize Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 My cute little five year old niece was demonstrating her tap dance moves for me yesterday, including a step she called the "shovel-ball-chain"--I couldn't help picturing a ball and chain attached to her feet as she danced. Her mother told me the step is actually a "shuffle ball change", but I liked niece's version :) What funny kid-speak have you heard recently? 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Apparently, my almost 3 year old saw some purple (school color) fire hydrants the other day and she kept talking about "purple fire water". I was so confused! We figured it out only because we happened to drive by another one. She calls them "firey hydrants" now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 DD asks me to "un-inside-out" her clothes for her. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I thought of one more. We are studying Cuba for geography club this month. We were getting ready to watch one of the Kratt brothers documentaries and she asked "Are any of these animals from square?" 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Maize, I just sent that story to my daughter's tap teacher. She loves teaching the youngest dancers because of stuff like that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Laughing at the tap mistake :D My girls are in ballet and I cringe to think of their interpretation of all the French! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmseB Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 My two year old did an unintentional somersault the other day and proclaimed, "I fell up my head." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 When DD was little she kept saying she was missing her "velvet crow piece".... turns out is was velcro! :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkTulip Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 When my kids were little, they would say "ta-la" instead of "ta-da." We still say it that way! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Not recently, but one of mine had some really funny ones when he was little. Complooter, lellow, and boopid. He'd freak out if someone sneezed loudly and say, "Bahbless you, now be quiet!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Oh and concacks for contact lenses. Every morning he'd stand beside me while I put my contacts in and he'd pretend to put contacts into his eyes and he'd say, "I'm putting in my concacks." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaraby Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 When my kids were little, they would say "ta-la" instead of "ta-da." We still say it that way! My youngest says "Puhzetta!" instead of "ta-da" for reasons I don't understand. And while we don't celebrate Easter, she calls the displays at the store and the associated eggs "eastern eggs." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Thanks to John we say getchoo instead of thank you. It's become so common we've all accidentally said it to someone who wasn't familiar with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My 5 year old came home from tumbling yesterday, telling me about "the teacher who teaches me and the teacher who sits down." Her teacher (the one who teaches her) is leaving after this session and apparently is training someone else (the teacher who sits down). Oh yeah, and my oldest daughter used to call McDonald's "Oak MayDonalds" and yard sales "art sales" and of course the speed limit she'd call the "speed lemon". She says them all correctly now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksr5377 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My children STILL sometimes say they want to go to "Old McDonalds" for lunch. My first daughter started mixing it up when she was only 2 or 3 and it carried over to her sister and brother. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northwoodsmama Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 One of mine absolutely cannot remember the correct pronunciation for Jacuzzi- she asks regularly if she can take a "jacooby"! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My cute little five year old niece was demonstrating her tap dance moves for me yesterday, including a step she called the "shovel-ball-chain"--I couldn't help picturing a ball and chain attached to her feet as she danced. Her mother told me the step is actually a "shuffle ball change", but I liked niece's version :) What funny kid-speak have you heard recently? Huh. Do you know I took dance (jazz--- it was an after school thing in middle school) for all of half a year and we were TOLD it was "shift ball chain" because we were shifting our feet and had to pretend we had a ball & chain pulling the foot back. :toetap05: I wonder if that had anything to do with why it wasn't offered again when the semester finished? :tongue_smilie: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Huh. Do you know I took dance (jazz--- it was an after school thing in middle school) for all of half a year and we were TOLD it was "shift ball chain" because we were shifting our feet and had to pretend we had a ball & chain pulling the foot back. :toetap05: I wonder if that had anything to do with why it wasn't offered again when the semester finished? :tongue_smilie: Ummm, just who was teaching that so called jazz class? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My youngest is 13 and still can't say caterpillar correctly. It is calerpitter. The older she gets, the more it gets me when she says it. I kind of hope she never gets it right. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Ummm, just who was teaching that so called jazz class? LOL, I have no idea! I was in middle school, so maybe it was a high schooler? I remember thinking she was young. It was just a fun enrichment thing. I only remember the ball & chain part and "jazz hands" and Frank Sinatra's New York song. Thanks to this thread, I am now wondering if I embarrassed myself in front of any other moms back when dd was seven and in jazz. Can you just imagine? :svengo: Thankfully, there were no real internet forums back then and AOL was in its infancy ---- otherwise, there would probably be a post like "hey ladies, can you believe what this other mom said at jazz lessons?!" :smilielol5: :smilielol5: :smilielol5: I will be forever grateful for this thread for setting me straight, though!! I was just saying to someone this morning that it's a good day when you learn something new. Today was a good day for me! :thumbup1: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy the Valiant Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My boys use the "constructions" that come with Lego sets to build them the first time. (instructions) And my little guy feels healthy when he gets good "extra-size" (exercise). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaniemom Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My ds is a treasure trove of these types of sayings. I have to check myself all the time because I worry he will get upset if I laugh at the cute things he says. (DS is deaf so his speech perception differences cause many interesting language changes.) One of my favorites is "robot pizza guys" for robots in disguise in the Transformer's theme. We also had "deliver us from eagles" in the Lord's Prayer. DD used to switch parts of words. She would say paoosham (shampoo) and tooncars (cartoons). There are a lot more but I can't think of them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My son used to call his comforter his comfortable. It made sense, in a way, because when he used it, he was snuggly and comfortable. It still makes me smile when I think of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 We went to a family camp session at our church camp when my youngest was five. At the opening vespers, several counselors played guitars and led everyone in music. Later that week, youngest child was asked to pick a song to sing at the campfire that night. He requested the zombie song. The counselor looked confused and asked him to sing it. He stood up and sang- Quiet Zombies. I'm pretty sure we all had tears from laughing so much at his version of - I Exalt Thee. We still sing -quiet zombies- for the chorus. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 When my daughter was little she used to say, "It freaks me out the daylights!" whenever she got excited. It stuck with us and we still say it. One day something silly happened that made me jump and someone overheard me saying it to my daughter. The woman looked really confused and said, "You know that's not really how that expression goes." :laugh: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 4yo yesterday said: "I'm a crack runner!'. Which he was... he was running over the cracks in the sidewalk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 When DD was little, she fell at the playground or something and stood up proclaiming that her "ribbons" hurt (her ribs). :lol: MDS is notorious for mispronouncing things: pants-ees for pansies spat- oo- la for spatula gram- AR for grammar There are more but I can't even think of them all now. Lol. I love the kiddie weirdness. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Oh!!!! I just thought of another one! YDS has a BFF who used to live next door. Up until two months ago, they'd lived next door to each from the womb. So practically brothers that sleep in different houses. Anyway, they were playing trains together when BFF says he needs another "hooker" piece. They were both searching for "hookers" all over the house, asking us parents for "hookers." Lol. Turns out, they needed the little male piece on the end of the wooden tracks (some of our pieces are really old and the male pieces had come unglued). :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 My ds is a treasure trove of these types of sayings. I have to check myself all the time because I worry he will get upset if I laugh at the cute things he says. (DS is deaf so his speech perception differences cause many interesting language changes.) One of my favorites is "robot pizza guys" for robots in disguise in the Transformer's theme. We also had "deliver us from eagles" in the Lord's Prayer. DD used to switch parts of words. She would say paoosham (shampoo) and tooncars (cartoons). There are a lot more but I can't think of them now. This one made me think of yet another one, this one from ODS! Haha. He used to walk around the house singing "B-I-Engine Joe" instead of "B-I-N-G-O." Lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 I have one for me. An adult. I didn't know what "park core" was until a few weeks ago. I got schooled by my son, who corrected me after I told him leaving the park one day that I didn't want him to play with those boys anymore because they were disrespectful by referring to a girl as a "that's some serious park wh0re." Park core, mom. Park CORE. She had some good moves. Oh. :huh: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 I have one for me. An adult. I didn't know what "park core" was until a few weeks ago. I got schooled by my son, who corrected me after I told him leaving the park one day that I didn't want him to play with those boys anymore because they were disrespectful by referring to a girl as a "that's some serious park wh0re." Park core, mom. Park CORE. She had some good moves. Oh. :huh: I hesitate to write this but "parkour." :leaving: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Thank you! Apparently I still didn't have it right. In my defense I looked up park core, and a web search gave me tons of videos for what my son described, so I thought I was good to go. LOL Apparently not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Thank you! Apparently I still didn't have it right. In my defense I looked up park core, and a web search gave me tons of videos for what my son described, so I thought I was good to go. LOL Apparently not. Lol. I'm glad you don't hate me for telling you! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Being corrected is a whole lot better than going around thinking kids are calling girls sluts :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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