A Small Epiphany
You know what I'm going to miss about this winter? Regan's "glwubes"
Not the gloves themselves, although their fingerpuppet pattern is wicked cute, but the fact that she calls them her "glwubes." Next year, they will simply be "gloves," and that tiny part of my baby will be gone, filed away in my memory beside the child who loved "pollymops" and the little girl who needed "boo boo sticks" to make it all better.
I'm gonna miss those glwubes.
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I'm a big sister to triplets who are now 6 and a half. Last week they were playing spelling games - I'd give them a word to spell, or they'd pick one themselves, and they'd sound it out and tell me how it was spelled.
I felt like a terrible person, but I just couldn't correct them when they spelled "shoes" as "shooz" or "dancers" as "dnsr." It was just too cute.
Yeah, I love the mis-pronunciations. My favorite one (now gone by) was effledidnt (aka 'elephant').
My son called a magician a Famician. My mother makes him repeat it over and over because she find it so cute.
Took me a minute to figure out how to pronounce "glwubes" - so cute!
We were assembling a toy today, and Q helped his dad find the "cooldriver" (screwdriver).
banato - tomatoe (think uk pronouncation!) hostable - hospital, engliand - england, ta-pay-poe - potatoe, lemalade - lemonade, cimina - cinema, those most be loads more and he's five, I should correct him but I love the cuteness!
I miss...
From my son:
own-der-igle - motorcycle
vider-drux - firetrucks
From older daughter:
droopy-ups - lawn sprinkler
crystal trees - street lights
and the weirdest one by far, provided by younger daughter...
gookums - socks
I too have had moments like you all are describing but I'm disturbed more and more to realize how many I've forgotten. As a single mom and a full time employee, there are so many things I have to know and am responsible for but it seems that as more goes in my head, other things fall out. I'm afraid it's the cute memories that fall out. Now I'm bummed . . .
My favorite with Vivian was always Boobies! (birdies)-otherwise, she was talking early enough that we had no fun mispronunciations.
Rosalyn however...."pease" just kills me, and for awhile she was saying "Me-Maw" instead of Mommy which of course, made my heart melt into a pile of mushy goo.
Some of Emily's first words (have to refer to her baby book, as I have no short term memory left):
hippert = Clifford
booby = belly (at age 2 she often lifted up (my, Nana's, etc.) shirt and pointed upwards, which embarassed the heck out of me until we understood she meant belly!)
aw-saw = applesauce
guck = duck
big hug = dee dah (I was sad when she started to say this properly)
The mispronunciations are one of my favorite things about my son who is 3. Every time he starts to say something correctly, my heart aches a little for my baby.
