Posted: 4/5/2009 2:40:38 PM EDT
My boyfriend's daughter is visiting so we went to the park and out to eat and she behaved really well, so we told her she could have a treat. We asked her what she wanted while we were walking to the store down the street. She yells as loud as her five year old voice can "I WANT A RAINBOW POTSICLE!! PLEASE, RAINBOW POTSICLES ARE MY FAVORITE!!" It's nice outside, so we have half the neighborhood looking at us like we're actually feeding the kid pot sicles. We corrected her pronunciation and she kept trying as loud as she could to say it right, but she just couldn't say the "P" sound. So, we were walking down the street cracking up because she kept repeating loudly "Potsicle. potsicle, potsicle" trying her damndest to say it right. I'm sure our neighbors all think we were stoned by the way we were laughing. She got herself two rainbow "potsicles". One for being so good and one for desert tonight after dinner. She's coloring in her Dora coloring book and srinking chocolate milk out of her "Stiderman storts bottle". 
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I just tried to have some fun by asking her to say "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers." She sent me to the corner for making fun of her because Rule One is that we don't hurt others physically or emotionally and I was being mean and hurt her feelings. A two minute time out in the corner for me.
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My kids have all but grown out of that phase...I miss it...a few of their mispronunciations:
"Eddie" for "Ovaltine" (my eldest's favorite beverage from age 1-6 "Faboolns" for "Balloons" (my youngest) "Timmershal" for "Commercial" (youngest still says it and I am not correcting him!) |
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My kids have all but grown out of that phase...I miss it...a few of their mispronunciations: "Eddie" for "Ovaltine" (my eldest's favorite beverage from age 1-6 "Faboolns" for "Balloons" (my youngest) "Timmershal" for "Commercial" (youngest still says it and I am not correcting him!) My oldest son was "Joneon" from the time the younger kids could talk up until they could pronounce "Jonathan". Drove him nuts because by the time he was in first grade, his friends started using the nick name, too. 
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My 4 year old calls her shoes Cracks instead of Crocs...we're working on that.
To my 2 year old they are "loons" not balloons. My now 11 year old used to call popsicles "green jello" I have no idea where he got that. My 6 year old used to call a stuffy nose a "stussy nose" - we still call it stussy. 
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My olldest kid would say "hummingferd beeder" instead of hummingbird feeder. He would also say chock-it for chocolate and when he wanted chocolate milk, or you would go to the fridge to get out chocolate syrup and milk, he would dance and sing "chock-it milk, chock-it milk".
The other 2 said funny things and damn if I can't remember them. I do need to write them down. |
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I just tried to have some fun by asking her to say "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers." She sent me to the corner for making fun of her because Rule One is that we don't hurt others physically or emotionally and I was being mean and hurt her feelings. A two minute time out in the corner for me.  Good mom. 
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LMAO Jen!!
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Ha ha! I love it.
Years ago, a friend's four year old had trouble with this: firetruck = firefuck. My cousin did the "firefuck" thing, too. And some from the nieces: "Red Monster" instead of Red Lobster "Cwunk" instead of "Cheers" because I guess that's the way the glasses sounded to her when they bumped "pink chicken" for ham "Dammit" as an adjective, as in "Who took my dammit wed cwayon?" |
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I remembered some other things my oldest would say that were so funny.
Showers were "show-wows". When I saw the ads for ShamWow, I just snickered. He would sit in your lap and play with your face. He called lips "froops". Groceries were "shishowies". Also, one time, my husband caught him running to his room and then he would back to the kitchen. He was running cans of coke to his room! He also used to bend over a mud puddle and put his white blond hair in the mud. I have pics of that. He was so happy to get so messy. Right now, he is reading over my shoulder begging me Please don't tell those people. He is worried what the ladies think of him. 
Seriously, my MIL is a Betty Boop fan and one her biggest pieces in her collection is a BB light up figure that hangs on the wall. She held up my oldest to BB and he ran a hand up one of BB's legs!  He has always been a ladies man.
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