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When DD and DS were both old enough to ride in the front seat of the car, of course it became an argument over who got to ride up front and who was stuck in the back....DD, thought she was so cool one day, and said, as we were walking toward the car, "I call shot-put!".....Of course, now we all say "shot-put" instead of "shotgun".
In our house now:
Pasta with white sauce = "Mommy's noodles"
Pasta with red sauce = "Daddy's noodles"
Pasta with yellow cheese = "Kraft"
Chocolate = "Chock-Lick"
Eat = "Eat-Eat"
Pajamas = "Jammies"
I'm sure there's more.
When I was growing up:
If something is very hot, you say it has lots of "T"s (as in hotttttt), if it's only a little hot maybe it just has two "T"s, etc ("Be careful, that pot has lot's of "T"s!")
Most of these are from when I was little and they have spilled over into my household
Spinkles : the wrinkles you get from being in the water too long
dog bites : hot dogs cut into bite sized pieces
biberty : Liberty (as in Lady Liberty)
footies : socks
num-nums : dog food (Dukes of Hazzard baybyyyyyy!)
coca-loca : Coca-cola
zoom-zoom : going crazy; hyper
Everybody has a "junk drawer," probably in their kitchen, right? A place where little odds and ends you have nowhere else to put get tossed. Ours was always the "krahm drawer." (I have no idea how that's supposed to be spelled, so I just spelled it phoentically). My dad had spent a lot of time in Germany, though he was not German himself. I always got the impression it was a German word for "junk" or "miscellaneous odds and ends." Today, after being grown and out of my parents' house for over 40 years, it's still the word I use, and my husband and kids also adopted it.
My husband is Hispanic. When you have a wad of snot in your nose (no nice way to put it, sorry), we don't say you've got a "bugger." We use the Spanish word "moco." Most people don't know what it means so if you're kind of discreet, we can often get away with using the word without being too obvious.
We call that drawer the Nervous Drawer.. Unfortunately we have a lot of nervous drawers in our house
zippy food= spicy food
boom boom = #2
bang biscuits = packaged biscuits you bang on the counter to open
Billy and Millie= male and female bluebirds
meef moof meef moof = creep mouse creep mouse. Don't ask me how he got that
Lucy snacks = Lucy the dog raids the litter box and sometimes drops one
"that other kid who lives here"= when I can't remembers somebody's name
go pons= restaurant coupons cause we rarely go out to eat without one!
Nu Nu= GPS
Maudie= Mama's Odyssey
walkies= dog talk for going outside to pee
deer chow = daylillies
ticks on your shoulder= I see your shoulder moles
I was thinking about this tonight as I was making dinner for my two teens and reached for a "smashula". For 16 years now, a spatula has been called a smashula ever since my then 2 year old son mixed up the words. We decided that smashula was more descriptive and accurate than a spatula anyway!
Another family vocabulary word is "chickmunk" rather than the traditional chipmunk.
I was thinking about this tonight as I was making dinner for my two teens and reached for a "smashula". For 16 years now, a spatula has been called a smashula ever since my then 2 year old son mixed up the words. We decided that smashula was more descriptive and accurate than a spatula anyway!
Another family vocabulary word is "chickmunk" rather than the traditional chipmunk.
What words are unique to your family vocabulary?
When my sister was eight, she was hit by a car. My mother was on the scene minutes later with my then-two-year-old brother in tow. They rode in the ambulance to the hospital with the sirens going. This so impressed my bro that he talked about going to the "hoffalo" for a long time afterward.
My sister is now 50, my brother is 44, and we still call it the hoffalo.
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You guys made me laugh
We've had a few of these over the years, but the ones I remember most are:
