JFF: What Words Do Your Preschoolers Say in a Funny Way That You Love?

My 2 year old says some of the funniest things right now
"Opi-Ops" are Lollipops
"I will help you" when he wants you to help him
"Fingies" instead of fingers
And most berries end in blueberries. He calls them strawblueberries, raspblueberries, and backblueberries. But this is an improvement he used to say boobies instead of blueberries. Think of him yelling that across the grocery store :)
I just can't correct these things yet, I love them!

My oldest used to say "tebbydare" instead of "teddybear". I would always give her the correct pronunciation of every word EXCEPT this one because I thought it was just too adorable :)

When my son was little he said SpongeBob Square Pants like Bah Bah Pin Pin. He's 8 now and we still laugh about it...it was so cute!

Mine says "can I cry" instead of "can I try" cute!

jawamas, for pajamas. I love it and that is the way is pronounced in our house now.

My four year old calls Chic-fil-A, "Chic the Flay". It is so cute and funny!

my 20mnth old has a stuffed winnie the poor bear he carries everywhere, and whenever i do somethinghe doesnt like (like cutting his nails or telling him he cant have something.) he picks up his bear and cries "ohhhh pooh bear!" like he is trying to say "do you see what she is doing!" he is soooo dramatic

My son says "ma-rote" for remote, which is very cute. But my favorite was when my daughter called Piglet (from winny-the-pooh) "pliget." I was so sad the day she learned to say it right.

"Candle shoes" instead of sandals,

"Holdyoume peas", for please, can you hold me.

My 3 year old daughter says "fing-a-loe" for "flamingo".

And "waterlemon" for "watermelon".

And she likes shopping at "Mall-mart"!

Thanks for this post - too cute! :)

Boop's for boots, winny for window and chipmis for Christmas. So cute!!

My son doesn't talk yet, but I live with my sister and her kids are adorable! Bridger for Justin Beiber he says Justin Beaver!
Hamabooger is a common one. But the Beaver one is my favorite!

My 3 year old calls cereal bars "salad bars". She can say cereal clear as day, but salad bars are her fav. ;)
She used to call macaroni and cheese "mac n' horney". Lol. I was so sad when she finally got it right. Loll

my son says "fableous" for fabulous.

Hi L.-

When my kids were younger, if I ever left them any where (sitter...my mom) when I came back I would always ask if they 'behaved'. Some how it morphed into me giving that 'mom' look at a situation, and they would say "I'm being haved mom!"

We still joke now (youngest are 14)...I often ask if they were 'being haved'...

Cute question
michele/cat

All 3 of my kids say "No I am-it" for "No I am not" and I can't bring myself to correct them, it's just too cute!

hopsital for hospital
pasketti for spaghetti (yes, he really does)
blemian falcon for 'millenium falcon'

My oldest, Emilie, called her fingers, her "noogers", I still ask to see her noogers and shes 21! hehe, middle DD, Desiree, said "titty" instead of kitty.. that was pretty funny. Cant wait for littlest DD to start talking, and see what she comes up with!

Made me smile to read this question as I remember my now 13 year old as a toddler. He use to say "ache" for rake, Ruh-ruh for his name (Ryan), and cah-dince-a-dence for coincedence (sp?). I know there is lots more, but this is what I remember for now. What a precious, precious time!

June bugs are Junior bugs at our house. Cracks me up!

I taught my daughter to say 'yes please,' and for a brief but charming time she would say, 'Pepsi.' Mind you, we don't have cola of any kind in the house!

my 2 year old son says "bakawiwi" for "broccolli" :)

There are so many but my favotite is..My daughter wanted to see the movie Mary Poppins, so we went to the library to borrow it & she asked the librarian if they had the movie Mary Pom Poms.So Cute!!!

My daughter, from the time she was about 14 months, used to call her belly button her "metmo." It was so cute when she would point out body parts: "eyes, nose, mouth, metmo..."

And her favorite food is still "gaygoat" (yogurt).

She's now almost 2.5 and she only says metmo and gaygoat when she is repeating us. My husband and I will probably always call them metmo and gaygoat.

What a great trip down memory lane. My kids are 15 and 11 now and those precious toddler/preschooler mispronunciations are a distant memory, but my son used to say "helipopter" for "helicopter."

My 4 yro has always said hippopomadus and hostable. I love it! I make her say the hippopomadus has to go to the hostable all the time!!! Her 7yo sister tried to teach her the right way the other day and I made her stop! She won't say it forever! LOL!

my 4 yr old daughter is a blast! she talks all day n night. her words are very clear except now that i'm expecting again, i bought some baby oil for my belly at night and she tells me..."mommy don't forget to use your baby OLEEO!"

it cracks me up every time!

So fun :)

My 4 yr. old calls ornaments "orgaments" and used to have all sorts of fun words when she was younger: "Ayah" for Grandma, "Deedah" for diaper, "nina" for our dog Dina. I wish I could remember more :)

Our son was about 6 when he yelled at me that he wanted me to "stop watching so poppers" and read to him.
When my daughter was about 4 she said she was going to marry daddy and I said she couldnt cause he was already married. She replied " Im not gonna marry him on wheels, just retend!"
She also said she had friends who lived in "repartments instead of horses". Our grand daughter who is now 3 told me I was a bad grama and "Im going to put you in time out for free midgets"
She calls lollipop, "lollipuckles"
We really all need to write this stuff down when it happens cause I know there are dozens of things that made us laugh histerically, and now I cant think of many.
also, she spins around and around and then stops, sways back and forth and says "whoa, Im busy".. I just think to myself,, yes you are, and youre dizzy too,,lol

When my daughter was little we went to the zoo and as we came around the corner to the Elephant exhibit my daughter suddenly shouted out, "Ton-a-phant"! From that day on an elephant has always been known as a ton-a-phant! LOL

My son always loved going to the airport with me to pick up friends. His favorite part was riding the "up-alator" and "down-alator" (escalators/elevators).

My daughter used to say "slipperly" instead of slippery; and "Pengin" instead of penguin. I think my favorite right now is mcputer - for computer

"mom can you wipe my behive"

speggi (spaghetti)
hosiple (hospital)

My 22 month old calls bunnies "moggies" and sometimes refers to toes as "toads"

I love this question! We have really noticed over the last couple of weeks that our two year old doesn't say most of her cute little words anymore. She used to say "op ta pus" instead of octopus, but she has corrected that and I miss it!!

Some of my favorites right now are; she just started calling her baby sisters pacifier a "fire pass" and she is constantly asking "where'd all my guys go?" which can be refering to friends or family, whenever they are not around.

I need to start writing down all her little sayings so that I don't forget them!

My four year old is just starting to outgrow her "baby" talk--so sad! My almost 18 month old is just starting up though!

The four year old still says "cimmamin" for cinnamon, "topatos" for potatoes, "thweetiepie" for sweetiepie (it's what she calls the baby), and my favorite: "naloahleum" for linoleum!

My older kids had their own ones, of course..."lello" for yellow, "catpad" for carpet (no, we have no cats lol), "crocagator" for both of those creatures and "cwabbyappley" for crabapple.

one thing that gets me is that my four year old still says, "one, two, FLEE!" when he is counting. i sat down with him and worked with him on it a bit the other day. it's the "TH" sound that trips him up, but he CAN do it correctly. so then i quit pushing lol. it's so stinkin cute! he will also inform you that he has "besided" something. lol....

Both my kids were very early talkers. I was always so crazy about correcting them and working on language skills that anyone could hold complete conversations with them and understand them by the time they were 2 years old. My favorite story is the reverse of all the ones you have gotten. My sister was babysitting my son when he was 2 1/2. They were coloring. She gave him a crayon and said "here, would you like the blue one"....he looked at her...puzzled and then said...."actually, Aunt Colleen, that is turquoise". She could do nothing but laugh, because he was right! LOL!

My 3 year old son says "callerpiller" (caterpillar), moccamolee (guacamole) and sometimes will so "I don't got" instead of "I don't have". He just sounds so cute that I don't correct him!

My daughter (3) says "I willn't" when she means "I won't." The sad thing? It makes totally sense!!

The first time my son had pistachio ice cream he said "mmm this mustashia ice cream is good!"

When my oldest was about 16 months we went to Hawaii and I wore flip flops all the time. When we were out shopping one day she asked for a pair of her own "top-tops" and I just *had* to get them for her :o) For the rest of the trip she'd stomp around in them and with each step say "top-top-top-top". She outgrew it around 3, but *I* still refer to them as top-tops sometimes! lol

When my 17 yr old son was 4 he called an escalator "alligator stairs", and when we then went in an elevator, it was "alligator room".

Love this question lol.

My 4 yr old daughter doesnt say many "babyish" words (and hasnt really since she was about 2)...but I love hearing her say onions, which she pronounces "Yunions". Its so stinkin cute to hear her say, "No daddy, I dont like yunions!" Cracks me up every time lol.

My 2 yr old son doesnt speak that clearly yet, but some of my favs of his are....He calls his sister, Sissy but pronounces it Cici. & I love hearing him say his name. His sister nicknamed him Rain-Rain when he was born (she was 2 and couldnt quite pronounce Raiden yet). So, he calls himself "wain wain". My favorite of all though is probably how he says Dinosaur....Dinofaur. & he LOVES Dinofaurs, so we hear about them quite a lot! lol

I wish it was possible to keep them this little forever!

My 2 1/2 year old remains obsessed with the movie "Wiz A Boz" (Wizard of Oz).

My 4 year-old son says "renembered" for remembered and "instresting" for interesting. I don't correct him because I love that he still says them like that...guess I'm holding on. ;)

My favorite post ever!
Nanks = thanks (I so regret correcting this one)
Hever = Heather
oble = able (still says it at 5)
cat = all animals

I love when my 6 year old daughter asks me for a bottle of Gradiade (Gatorade)!!!!

My 2.5 year old twins had trouble pronouncing Percy from Thomas the Train. I would come out sounding like a female body part. And, they'd walk around the house saying, "Percy?! Where are you Percy? There! I found the Percy!" Or, they'd fight over it. "That's my Percy!" Boys, I'm sure this won't be the last time you ever fight over Percy.

My 3 yr old just asked me to "shovel" the cards so we can play Go Fish!
Oh and one of my 1st grade students said last month It was really bad because there was a "salami" in Japan.....

My son mispronounces the "sm" sound, so *smarty-pants* comes out "farty-pants*! Love it!

I don't coprrect my kids all the time anymore. One time we were ehlping out at school. My older kids were 4. My son's word was "helicomper" for helicopter. The teacher in the room with us told me that I should let him have his little fun words because they grow up so fast. And she was so right. My little one now says the word yes with her tongue between her teeth so sounds more like yeth but she also says it correctly so not a speaking problem. It is just the way she will tell you, as though you should already know that the answer is yes. She also says tisker for sticker.

All my kids call a slide a "wee-fun". When my oplder kids were little, the would say "wee" everytime so that is what it is called now. One day my little one said she wanted to go "wee" and now everytime we pass a park.

My favorite:
Santy Came = candy cane

My 2 1/2 year old son says "episoap" for episode.

My almost 4 yr old says extracise instead of exercise.

When my son started speaking he could not pronounce "M" & "P". My husband and I dreamed that we would be referred to as Mama and Papa but my son called us DeDe and DaDa. I was devasted, I felt like "Aunt" DeDe (not his Mama) in public. But now at age 7, although his speach is fine, I have accepted that we will always be DeDe and DaDa.