Regular visitors know how much I love my adopted little girl who is growing up entirely too fast. Now just a few months past 3 years old, my little princess is both stubborn and cute. Like my son at this age, she has her own special way of pronouncing certain words, and I figured I’d better write them down lest one day I forget them. Here’s a sampling:
Pack Pack = Backpack
Cup folder = Cup holder
Cheek cheeks = Chi chi’s (breasts)
Key-nut-butter = Peanut butter
Grills = Girls
Hokey hokey = hokey pokey
I know the RIGHT thing to do is to repeat these words correctly so she learns them, but I admit that our whole family sometimes gets caught up in repeating these words HER way, because it’s just so cute. Me to my son: “please put this in your pack pack.”
But sometimes, my 6 year old gets on the kick of having to fix her mispronounced words. A replay from a recent car ride went like this:
Me: put this in your cup holder please.
Girl: ok, in my cup folder…
Boy: it’s not a cup FFOOOLDER it’s a cup HHHOOOLDER; with an “H”, HOLDER!
Girl: it IS a cup folder…Folder….FOLDER…FFFFOOOOOLDER!
Boy: NOOOOO it’s HOLDER…you’re wrong! Dad who’s right…Etc., etc., etc…
Ah the joys of parenting!
What are some of your kids “special” words?
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I remember pronouncing “Egypt” as “Eggbede” (Egg-bee-dee) for whatever reason. It is strangely fascinating how kids even develop some of these speech impediments when they grow up.
Left by Wilderness Program on August 7th, 2010