3 Year Old Hilarious Vocabulary

Updated on September 09, 2011
A.J. asks from Norristown, PA
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So. My 3 year old son just confessed he likes grilled cheese sandwiches even though he's a boy. Turns out all along he thought they were "girl cheese sandwiches".

How do your kids interpret certain words? :)

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SOOOOO cute! Thanks, ladies!

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M.F.

answers from Phoenix on

My 2 year old think "My Little Pony" means MY little pony. She will ask me who is on her toothpaste and I tell her it's "My Little Pony", but then she gets a little defensive and insists "No, it's MY little pony!". My hubby thinks this is hilarious and will go round and round with her, like a toddler version of "Who's On First".

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A.H.

answers from San Francisco on

When my son was 3 he came to me crying. Dad was in the kitchen cooking a stir fry and he pointed to it. I asked him what was wrong and he said "Daddy told me he is going to put very yucky sauce on my dinner!" (it was teriyaki sauce, which he ended up loving)

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K.L.

answers from Savannah on

My son can't talk yet, but I can only imagine! I did have a friend who asked his dad why he never brought home any pets for the car. When asked why, he said, "I know that you work next to the Car Pet store!" His dad's shop was actually nest to a carpet factory!

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E.A.

answers from Erie on

When my oldest was 3, he said "grill" instead of girl. He also made up his own words for things he didn't know the name of. There's a famous story in our home about the "fan channel", which was a remote for a ceiling fan.
My youngest called my second oldest "Brother" until she was almost 5, because she had a hard time pronouncing his name.
My third boy called Harry Potter "Happy Potty". That was hilarious.

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C.J.

answers from Dallas on

My 4 yo picked up using the prefix "re" infront of words - random words. Now he says "resince" instead of "because." LOL we do correct him, but he slips up all the time (secretly I think it is really, really cute!)

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C.P.

answers from Columbia on

My little brother did have a few hilarious ones:

He once said he wanted to have "air guitar lessons."

He received a fishing pole for his brithday. Grandpa said "that looks like a good crappie pole!" (crappie is a type of fish, for those who don't know). Jon got mad and said "It's NOT a crappy pole! It's a really good fishing pole!"

Hilarious!

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J.C.

answers from Cleveland on

First time we had a bonfire in our new fire pit, my daughter (3 at the time) ran into the house when we were building it, and wouldn't come out.

I asked her why she was scared, and she cried, "It's too loud! It's too loud!"

"It's not loud, sweetie, what are you talking about? What's too loud?"

"The bomb fire! It's too loud! I don't want to have a bomb!"

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R.D.

answers from Richmond on

HAHAHA AWWW!! That's soooo cute!! Good for him though for breaking through what he thought was a gender issue :)

My eldest daughter, when she was about a year and a half old, couldn't say 'cheese pizza'. She said 'cheese dabby'. She could say 'cheese', she could say 'pizza', but whenever she put them together, it was always 'CHEESE DABBY!!'

My little brother used to call olives, owls... I still tease him :)

My youngest brother used to say 'egg' instead of 'boy'... weird kid.

@TALKSTOTREES, LOL @ HAPPY POTTY, that's adorable!

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B.P.

answers from New York on

My son calls breasts "pubs". I referred to them as boobs a few times to there ya' go!

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J.F.

answers from Tallahassee on

My daughter used to think that mini vans were actually Minnie vans, as in Minnie Mouse. I figured this out because one day she asked me if I liked mini vans. I said, "Sure. They're okay." Then, she said, "I like Daisy vans." It took me a few minutes to figure out that she meant Daisy Duck.

Also, I was recently trying to explain something to my 5-year old daughter and I used the word meant. Don't remember exactly what I said, something like "Oh, that's not what you meant." She kept saying "NO! I didn't have a mint!" I kept trying to explain it to her the difference between meant and mint and finally had to give up because she was getting really angry. LOL

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M.F.

answers from Youngstown on

that is too cute! Well my boys play football and they played the Mc Donald blue devils a couple weeks ago. My 6 yo kept saying we were playing McDonalds...My husband told him to watch out for the Hamburgaler..he is really fast..my son did not get it!

My son Giavoni has a freind named Tyler. They are now 9. When they were 3 Tyler asked his mom"Why does Giaboni call me Tyer?"...

Kids are too cute`

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M.K.

answers from Kansas City on

Hilarious!!

Let's see....my (now) 3yo has some Thomas bath toys, Thomas, Salty, and Percy (can you see where this is going?!?). I came home from school one night to my husband laughing hysterically. When asked what was so funny, he said, "Hey A, who do you love?" My little guy (then 2) promptly says, " I love my salty pussy!" I was shocked, my husband was laughing! He had him say it every time he could. MEN!!

I looked at my middle guy the other day and said, "you're crazy!" He looked a me dead serious and said, "I'm not crazy, I'm Avery!"

When my oldest was learning to read, he often just looked at the first few letters of a word and tried to guess the word, hoping he was right. Well one night we were driving he said, "Mom, I didn't know we had Indians here (we live near KCMO)." Huh?!? "Right there, it says Native American University. I've never seen a real Indian before (5yo mind, he's thinking war paint and headresses), can we go look?" Ummmm, no son, that's NATIONAL American University, not Native American University! LOL!

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L.L.

answers from Rochester on

We have an agency in town called ARC...not sure what it stands for, but it's a community action agency for mentally handicapped individuals. They are located inside our senior center, where we have been volunteering for about five years on a weekly basis.

Okay, so they were adding on an entire extension to the building, and had been constructing on it for about a year. I guess my daughter heard people talk about "building the new ARC" or something...because one day she asked me when the "Ark" would be done and how all the animals were going to get downtown!

:)

Oh, and right now my 16 month old says "Beat-a-Boo" and it is the CUTEST THING EVER!!! (To me, of course.) :)

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A.H.

answers from Omaha on

LOL! That is too cute! One time my son's diaper was hiked up over one butt cheek, so I told him to let me fix his diaper because his hiney was hanging out. Another time it happened again and he said, "Mom, my hamburger is hanging out! So we often call his hiney hamburger now!
A.

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G.T.

answers from Redding on

My DIL went away on a day trip with her bff and left my son home with my 3 yr old granddaughter for the day. She had already prepared the vegan menu for him to feed her and left it taped to the fridge for him to reference.
At lunch time she hadnt finished her vegan burrito completely and asked for some apple. My son told her "you need to eat your burrito first". My granddaughter walked to the fridge door, read the menu, turned around to Daddy with hands on hips and says "APPLE is on the menu Daddy!"
He said it just slayed him.... thus winning an apple AND a pear for her assertiveness.

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L.A.

answers from Chattanooga on

My daughter used to say the exact same thing!!! "Mommy, can I have a girl cheese sandwich?" I used to tease her and say, "Awww, how about a boy cheese sandwich this time?" She would always say, "No! A GIRL cheese sandwich!!" They are SO cute when they are little aren't they??
She also could not pronounce "watermelon" when she was about 2...she called it "My-Yamma" for some reason!

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K.O.

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My oldest used to refer to dune grass(we live near lake michigan) as beach hair....it cracked me up!

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J.C.

answers from Columbus on

My kids call it that! Girl cheese! So cute.

My son says "hambrella" instead of umbrella.

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M.P.

answers from Grand Forks on

omg, that's hilarious! i don't have anything in particular but my son's almost 3 & i'm just amazed & filled w/love and joy & just BURSTING at the seams at how much i love him! he picks up EVERYTHING i say. yesterday he's like, "my hair's dirty"...i said, what?! i guess i must've commented about my own hair, but it's just CRAZY how much he says that i say. it's really incredible! ohhhh....i'm missing my angel so much as i write this. thanks for a cute post! omg i love my boy! :)

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J.L.

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On my daughter's second Christmas (she was 1yr and 2 months) I put up the tree before she woke up. I wanted her to be able to help and decorate the tree, so when she woke up I brought her in the living room. She looks up at the tree and says "Mommy, it looks like broccoli!" Precious.

A few weeks ago we told her (now almost 4) that she will have a baby brother after Christmas! She seemed very nonchalant about it but asked "Is your belly gonna pop out?!"

I just want the silly vocab to last forever =o )

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B.C.

answers from Dallas on

It's not karate, it's "hi-ya-tee" as in, you say, "Hi-ya!" when you kick. I love it!

Love the girl cheese! So cute!

My 10 year old still says "Robin noodles" instead of Ramen noodles.

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J.M.

answers from Philadelphia on

I wish it would last forever too!

My son thinks windshield wipers are "witchy wipers".

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J.C.

answers from Rockford on

My oldest used to love to go to Pizza Hut. When he wanted to go, he would come running up and ask if we could to to Pizza Butt. That one was my favorite!

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M.B.

answers from Orlando on

My son used to say "cannibal" for carnival
And Festable for festival. And there was of course "geico" everyone and everything was a "geico"

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E.L.

answers from Detroit on

love the post. My son just turned 2 and I love to see the way he thinks. We are just in the procees of getting rid of the pasifier and he only gets it at bed time. We keep it in a safe spot next to the bed in a basket that looks like a duck. So anyway, last night I asked him if he wants to go to bed. His response.....walked to his room, closed the door and said, bye, bye ducky :)

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A.G.

answers from Houston on

lol!!!

My oldest was 3 and she screamed at me for wanting her to take a shower with me (to make it quicker) Apparantly she thought that a "baby shower" was when somebody would turn back into a baby and go back into moms body.!!

Poor thing

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S.B.

answers from New York on

When I first wake my son up I take him to the potty. One morning I got him up and said "Come on, let's go potty" He said "Party? I love parties, let's go."

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S.S.

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my 2yr old who usually just speaks in small one to three word sentences, has alittle toy laptop. the screen has pictures that go with the buttons. He was pointing to each picture saying "whats that? whats that?" finally we got to a pic of a boat that had a large letter B above it. I said "that's a boat." and he shakes his head and says 'no that's a B," I told him he was absolutly right and was left wondering how he knew that!

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R.R.

answers from Dallas on

My 2 1/2 year old grandson calls Banana's - "Hannah's" - his aunt is Hannah, and apparently he's gotten that word burned in his brain. We don't correct him because it's so darn cute when he says "I want a Hannah" as he points to the bananas on the counter.

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