Conference moira::parenting

    Snurky nose = congested
    
    Freezering = cold and shivering (especially right after a bath)
    
    Egg pie = quiche
    
    Egg shake = egg nog
    
    
    And, thanks to my youngest: 
    
    Frizzert = dessert
    
    Pacaroni = macaroni
    
    Oovie = movie
    
    

   
   Blinky... that "pins and needles" feeling when you cross your legs for
             a while and your foot goes to sleep... at least that's what 
             I *think* she's talking about... :-)
   
   - Tom
   

    When my daughter was young (between ages 18-36 months), her daycare
    provider was a wonderful woman who lived in a downstairs condo. The
    babysitter (Steph) had a daughter the same age as mine.  When the 
    upstairs neighbors got a little noisy, Steph's little girl would 
    ask what *that* noise was.  Instead of telling Heather what it was
    and more specifically how she felt about all the racket, Steph would
    tell her that elephants lived upstairs.  My daughter picked up on this
    explaination and used it for any unexplainable noise.  So did we.
    
    One day, somebody cut wind, passed gas, farted.  Amber obviously
    startled asked, was that elephants too?  I said yes, but those are
    called "fluffy elephants".  
    
    To this day, when someone flatuates, the kids still look around the 
    room and asked "who fluffed?"  
    
    I like the name fluffs.  It's polite, and most people are clueless what
    we're talking about.
    
    Jodi-
    

	.re 0

	I like the GHOST POOP, this happens to us all the time.
	
	Karen T.

RE: Ghost poop

Yes, that was one of my favorites too.  I won't claim authorship.
It came from two former DECcies -- Karl Barth and Molly Sherrick,
who have two young ones.

    From our daughter, Meredith
    
    Hunchbuggie = Volkswagon "bug"
    
    Hangamer = a Hamburger
    
    From those early infancy days when it seemed that every feeding
    subsequently required a diaper change, "Put a little in, take a little
    out..."  Hey, you had to keep your sense of humor.
    
    Kathleen
    
    
    Kathleen
    
    

    re .3
    
    "fanny burps"
    

    re "fanny burps"
    
    My husband taught the boys that farts are called "rooty-toot-toots" and
    burps are called "mouth rooty-toot-toots". 

    Puckies = Anything thats found/picked up from the floor that not 
              indentifiable or Mommy doesnot wants Natasha to play with 
    	      because it's dirty.  All puckies go immediate into the
              garbage pail in the kitchen.
    
    (The only problem with having taught our toddler this is our remote
    control is missing and we think it may have had a puckie on it and
    ended up on in the trash because it's sure not in our house)
    
    
    Puckies in our house are usually sock lint or a frangment
    from dinner that stuck to my daughters clothes then ended up on 
    the floor or couch.  It's gross but we find pieces of rice
    and peas (a couple days old) in the strangest places.
                                            

    
    
    OUrs...
    
    Nose droobles  (preferred over "boogers")
    
    Eye Crumbs  for pink-eye type overloads
    
    noodle-oodles - our favorite food
    
    Cheerio-eeo's - second favorite food
    
    Jamd

my 2 year-old calls church, ``The big house''!!!

    In our house its:
    
    Cooley:  the "private" part of a body, means male and female
    Optigook: the morning eye sleepies.
    Gazania:  lasagne
    Pen-wens:  penguins
    
    
    

    
    	Emily calls her diapers "poopies".  She started this after
    	she had a couple days with very frequent bowel movements, so
    	I assume my mother was asking her if she had "poopies".
    
    	Kind of embarrassing when you're going through the grocery
    	store and your kid is yelling "poopies" as you pass the diapers.
    
    	BTW, she knows what diapers are, and can say the word, but still
    	tends to call them poopies...
    
    	Karen
    

    
    in our house, female gear is called the "peeper" and male gear
    is called the "winkie".
    
    Monica
    

From Anthony (5)

Bettle Bugs - VW Bugs

New Brand - instead of Brand New

Tends to use 'B' for the start of some words like 'Besanga' and 'Bessert'.

He refers to the the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as 'the teenagers'.

Samantha (2.75)

Still calls Anthony 'Antny', but this has progessed from when it was 'Aniny'.

Any old car (mostly pre-war) is a Studebaker because we have 2 of them, a 
1924 and 1926.

Dave

    Fizz 		- Club Soda
    Hot Chips 		- French Fries
    The big D 		- daddy
    The Momulae		- mom
    GranMomulae		- Gramma
    Tall Man		- Any monster
    Hannakah "Guy"	- Jewish Santa Claus
    Fools Day		- The first of any month (e.g. December Fools Day)

	.15 brought to mind these from Katie (4 1/2):

Cheese grill sandwich  (grilled cheese sandwich)
Injun Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Traceyt 

    
    From Kevin (6 1/2). He got the last two from his Dad
    
    Chicken fish    = swordfish
    nuck-it         = microwave some food
    nuclear reactor = microwave
    
    
    
    

This reminds me of the last time my daughter, 6 years old, came to
ZKO for lunch.  She went to the grill and asked for a cheeseburger
with no burger.  It took a few minutes to figure out that what she
wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich...

Some of these are from when David was "much younger" (he's now 4.5)

 Cubbles - covers (ie bedlinen)
 Flowies - flowers
 Injured Turtles - TMN Turtles

Flatulence is unknown in our house (no, really it is) - we "beep".

    Show-no-beelin' - snowmobiling
    Knuckle Samaniches - Knuckle sandwiches
    skomitoes - mosquitos
    

    
    
    
    da-da-da-da-da from the twins when the phone rings.
    
    'cos thats the noise it makes when they play with it and US WEST sends
    a 'please hang up and try again' tone
    
    8-) Simon

17-month Noelle				English
---------------				-------
macamoni				macaroni
Polo-go-press				Polar Express (name of a book)
"pass-eee-fy-uh,  I *NEED* IT!!"	(pretty clear)
banana					moon (notice how many toddler books
					  portray the moon as a yellow crescent)



:-)

Deb

    Brian at 20 months:
    
    Doodle-doos		->	Children
    
    We still have no idea where that came from and took us weeks to figure
    out what he was talking about.

    From the "older child" vocabulary, (just turned 7)
    
    Still hearing "poopie" and pee, I guess that will grow with age,
    Hearing grown up words like "Private parts" that's pretty obvious, but
    occationally will revert back to a "borrowed from a younger child at
    daycare phrase"  He like to call his penis a "winkie" occationally.
    
    Oh and the one we chuckle over together is in the Disney Bambi tape
    'Twitterpated" a phrase used when Bambi falls in love with the Doe.
    
    "Daddy juice" = wine bought in the supermarket (includes beer too)
    
    Chicken McNuggets, a generic term used in any fast food joint for the
    fried chicken pieces.
    
    Fuzzy water, a term the daycare provider designed for the soda water
    with the juice in it, he  adores it the stuff  I have yet to have a
    whole bottle of the stuff to myself.
    
    MY favorite salad, This kid adores Cesar salad and would have it
    everynight given a choice.
    
    Oh and finally there is only ONE kind of pizza, Peperonipizza said as
    one word!
    
    Oh and this week's phrase, "where's the dumb one?" referring to the cat
    who seems to stupid to come in from the rain, snow and subzero weather
    and still refuses to go near the litter pan!  He is also referred to as
    "Piglet" since he weighs over 17 pounds and eats anything and
    everything and still wants more!
    
    I'm glad I'm back!
    Lyn

    
    
    My wife told me of some that her sister used to say when she was a
    baby!
    
    Horace  -   Orange juice.
    Mink.  -   Milk.
    Bemember   -   Remember.
    Nunky   -   Dummy   (Soother.)
    Blow off roof   -   A convertible car.
    Metalize   -   To annoy somebody.
    If you put herbs in a dish she won't eat it because its got pickles on
    it.
    Pickles also referes to freckles.
    She has loads more but I just can't remember them all. You watch I'll
    be half way home and I'llremember them all.
    
    Chow for now!
    
    Jim G.
    
    
    

    We just learned this one last night:
    
    Poop juice = Diarrhea
    
    
      Courtesy of Daniel, age 4 1/2.    

    I love Derek's name for popcorn before it's popped:
    
    popcorn-beans

    Granola bars in our house are DE-LONA bars.
    

    We've just started collecting Sarah-isms (she's 2)
    
    Trunk = The Truck
    
    Alligator = Elevator/Escalator
    
    Old McDonald = McDonald's Restaurant
    
    Susan

    For the phrase 'Two of them'....Samantha (2 1/2) says Toodums.....
    
    It's so cute..
    
    

When my son was 2, he learned the word for crayons: "gahnas".
We would say to him very carefully, "craaaayyyyyooooonnnns".
And he would reply just as carefully, "That what I say, 
gahnas!" 

What was really funny was that, even though he would get
extremely upset when we didn't match his pronounciation of
other words, he never did that here. We would say "crayons"
and he would say "gahnas", back and forth, as if they sounded 
alike to him. It had us wondering a bit about his hearing, 
but now he is saying "crayons" (although the "r" is missing 
half the time...).

And Superman? "Soupinman". That one really cracked us up, 
especially when I made him a costume for his first Halloween.
"Who are you?" we would ask. "Soupinman!!" was the enthusiastic
reply. Then he went around to the houses announcing, 
"I SOUPinman!"

	Emily calls Andrew's pacifier an assafire...

	sounds particularly funny when she says "That's Andrew's assafire!"

    
    	Early this A.M. Evan came running up beside our bed, with
    furrowed brow and scratching away at his arm.  He announced that
    he was "B*tching" (Bitten + Itching = ......)
    
    It's difficult for us *not*  to use the same term now!
    Candace

    Rowan sees alot of our chickens when he's having a meal because his
    high chair is in the kitchen, and the chickens like to scratch in the
    herb garden (outside the kitchen at around eyelevel). Now every time he
    sees them he points and says "Cooker!". I don't know whether he's having
    difficulty with "Chicken", or whether he just fancies a KFC!
    
    Andy