ok, I admit it, I’m holding them back
I have a confession to make. A bad mom type of confession. But I’m putting it out there, because I’m willing to bet I’m not alone in this.
I allow my children to misspeak because I think it’s cute. And sometimes, I actually encourage the use of the baby words, because I’ll be sad when they grow out of them.
Like what? you may ask. Or don’t ask, whatever, I’m telling you anyway. These are a few words pulled straight from our family dictionary:
‘plobbler toys’ – you know, the under-3 toys in Happy Meals. ok fine, toddler toys. whatever.
‘cuddles’ – besides the obvious, these are also the small pools of water to splash in – aka puddles.
‘chrucks’ – trucks. apparently we have some annunciation issues. we’re southern.
‘bask in robin’s’ – observed just yesterday, when Annie asked what it meant to bask in something
And all of the above, sadly, are things I’ve allowed all three girls to continue. Yes, Annie just turned 6. I know.
And then there are the little baby words, that are oh-so-adorable. Lilly just turned 2, so she is bandying about gems like wadu(water), cuppa(cup), shrash(trash), ba-ye(belly), and wa-wu(love you).
I know you’re supposed to use the real words. But it’s hard sometimes. I like the baby words, and she’s the last baby here to use them. Annie’s adorable utterances like adoo(ice cream) and bodu(Cooper, our dog – how she came up with this is beyond me) are long gone. Catie had gems like guck(stuck) and balay(blanket – ok, we still call it that), but she’s evolved as well.
So yeah, I’m a bad mom. I’ll probably give my poor daughters speech impediments or developmental delays or something. But they will be so darn cute!
PS) One more sugary sweet mommy moment, and then I promise I’ll stop. When Annie was tiny, she’d come to me with her arms up and I’d swoop her up, saying ‘Mommy would be happy to hold you.’ As soon as she began talking, her outstretched arms were accompanied by her tiny little voice saying ‘happy hold you, happy hold you.’ How cute is that?
Tags: baby talk, parenting, speech, toddlers
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By Darcie - Such The Spot, February 18, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Nope. Totally not alone on this one. I had a “hold you” baby too. Jayce is the only one left with baby utterances. And his are just weird. He uses the word ‘hunt’ for milk. I think it’s more of a speech issue than anything else, but cute nonetheless.
One thing I’ve held to? I still call the remote control for the tv a kamote. One of the kids said it for ages and I can’t let it go.
By Heather, February 18, 2009 @ 10:25 am
guilty here too. not only did i not correct them, but i adopted their words as if that was the real way to same them.
and i don’t feel the least bit bad about it. my girls are 8 and 9 1/2 now. they have figured out the correct pronounciations and our cute words are all but gone now.
i am so glad that we were like this. it makes for great memories of the way they were. they grow up so darn fast.
By Amanda M., February 18, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
OMG…we do this constantly in our house. It’s so bad- we still say baby things that our 12 and 9 year old said cutely when they were toddlers!
So, now that I think about it, there you go- we have kids 14, 12, 9 and 3 and they are all verbally just fine, even though both my husband and I are so bad about it!
By Julie From Inmates, February 19, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
I’m with you. My 6 year old says “hockie tockie” for walkie talkie and fridg-e-ator. I love it. Totally guilty.