(Note: Before you read this, you’ll need to know that I keep a piece of card stock in my back pocket all day to write down things I need to do and stuff I want to remember.)
One of the preschoolers was looking at a book with animals, and had a question.
Bailey: “Mrs. Sommerer, is this a crocodocle?”
Me: “……..Bailey, go get me a pen.”
The cuteness. I die from it. I also never correct a child who says ‘lallow’ instead of ‘yellow’.
I used to say ‘kinitial’ as a kid instead of initial.
You? Any cute goofs?
Charles says
That’s a goodie. Macy would say “hink” instead of “think” (i.e. “I hink it’s somere.” -- I think it’s somewhere.)
Charles says
You know what I’m in the mood for?… a bacon mat sandwich! (… with a Shiner Bock chaser!)(… all while playing a game of “Settlers”)
Brad says
Sometimes Max says: “meow” instead of “food”. Unlike you, I try to correct him.
Lloyd says
I used to say geels instead of girls, but I seem to be doing better this week.
Peggy says
I couldn’t say girls either….I had a hard time with the ‘r’. I guess all ‘r’s’. My mom used to have me practice my ‘r’s’ by saying the word girls. I remember I used to try & sneak up on it by saying real fast ‘Hey you gools’.
I also used to say phant-de-phant. (elephant)
Peggy says
I didn’t spell it right…that would be pronounced
font-de-font
Gretchen says
Andrew was fond of the word “connext” -- a combination of next and connect. As in, “Our neighbor’s yard is connext to ours.”
Kristi says
Joanna used to say “hiccup-otamus.”
She also was quite sure that the word upside-down was pronounced “ups-pide down.”
Deborah says
Bethany could never say “pill”. She would say “pillow” instead.
Deborah says
What the what? Who put that picture in?! Is it me?! If so, what am I doing?
Kristi says
We know you’re muscular, but you don’t have to be so bold about showing off.
Karla says
Anna gushes over little animals and says that they’re “so soot!” instead of so cute.
Zeke just says uh-oh and oh-no about everything.
Lloyd says
That’s our little pessimist. Just keep it up, Zeke.
Rev. Todd Peperkorn says
Our youngest repeatedly says “calapitter” instead of caterpillar.
Kristi says
My little brother used to pronounce it “caterpilleter.”
Peggy says
That is soooo cute! I like it better than the correct way. Calapitter it is!
Beth says
I called a yellow fly swatter “lello fly flatter” as a child. And so I still do as an adult.
Also I called the air conditioner an “in-chee-din-cher”.
Tara used to call Strawberry Shortcake “Strawberry Cortcakes”.
Everything Tim says is cute. He can hardly help it.
christina says
I used to say molk instead of milk. I don’t recall the kids ever having one particular word they said funny….Brittney still puts extra letters in words when she says them….
Rae says
We still use Anna’s word. Hanguber instead of hamburger. Let’s face it, it is much easier to say, no matter who you are.
Rae says
Oh, and Sam still says “secutary” instead of secretary. It bugs me to no end…
Peggy says
My son Joe used to say while driving in the car: 88 miles pa nour!
Matt used to say blue geels (blue gills), and banamanamanamana.
Karla says
Any time there’s talk about a number, Anna has to say her favorite number “Ninety-Eighteen!” I have no idea where she got that from.
Peggy says
I feel ninety-eighteen!
Lauren's dad says
Learning to read on her own, at 5 years, Lauren’s sister, Keren, asked: “Mom, what are pedestrains?” I still call pedestrians “pedestrains.”
Keren Lowell says
Dad, I remember that! I was so confused…
Lauren says
You guys are killing me with adorableness! I gotta go lie down…….
Keren Lowell says
When Whitney was little, she would say ‘stew meat’ instead of ‘excuse me’ after she sneezed.