My kids used to have all sorts of funny nicknames for food! They still say "wawa" sometimes, but mostly they call food/drink by its real name. Oh except for seltzer water: my son loves it and asks for a can of "spicy water" all the time!
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My LO calls blueberries "beebees". And oranges are "ocean". And Milky is "Mucky"....which really confused my mom when she was here last, because LO kept asking for "mucky" and my mom kept looking for a lost stuffed monkey somewhere.
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H calls raisins "Minnow" for some reason, Goldfish is always called "nack" (snack), and graham cracker is always "ra ra ra."
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@mrbee: bacon, pork loin, porkchops, ham... it's all just called pig.
we live in the country
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Yoga bies = yogurt bites
White meat = chicken
Gink = drink -
Parmesan is sprinkle cheese. Raisins are "roisins" for some reason...and she wants them gone.
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@tinyperson: Sprinkle cheese - that's hilarious!! Might have to steal that one.
"Could you please pass the sprinkle cheese?"
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She calls her yogurt smoothie a nilkshake. (milk is nilk)
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Burritos are bee-tos
Sparkling water is bubble water
Milk is milky if she wants to drink it while cuddling (we're in the middle of a regression). -
Acqua = Avocado (aguacate in Spanish)
Baybe = berries -
@mrbee: It's funny - we ran across parmesan being referred to as sprinkle cheese in a Daniel Tiger episode (maybe the one about being frustrated?), but she'd been using the term for a long time before seeing that episode.
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@tinyperson: Too funny! Well you can tell her that thanks to her, two kids in Brooklyn now call it sprinkle cheese too!
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She calls watermelon 'martermelon" even though she can pronounced water just fine
And lucky charms are called Charmers.
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My lo calls her granola bar a lolabah. I know she can say the real word but she refuses!
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Noodles are new news.
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@Andrea: Do they both call it that?
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Bananas = Lalas
Blueberries = Boos
Puffs = Upffs -
@mrbee: hahaha, just the 2 year old!
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@Andrea: My eldest has started using the words that my youngest makes up. She loves it when he uses baby talk with her... wonder how long this phase will last!
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My son called raisins "beems" for a long time because he confused them with our coffee beans. Now we all call them beems for fun.
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For a long time, DD1 called milk "no". So we had no idea if she was telling us "no" or asking for milk.
Right now, she has combined her love for bacon and steak into to "Steak-on" for either bacon or steak.
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@rosegold: Brilliant!!!
@BabyBoecksMom: I laughed out loud at this! Steak-on!!
E calls fish fingers"fingies". So cute. Milk is "mork".
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@tinyperson: bahahah we alwaysed called it shacky cheese
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@tinyperson: DD calls is this too! She also calls seltzer bubbles, granola gra lola, American cheese is sandwich cheese
DS calls bananas manas (his only food related word)
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@mrbee: awww, they are best buds, probably won't last long (the baby talk)!
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LO signs "gorilla" for mozzarella cheese. I guess mozzarella sounds like gorilla to him!
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Blueberries are "babies"
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Yogurt is "yoyo" and blueberries are "boo boos". When she sees goldfish crackers she says "Dorothy" b/c that's the name of Elmo's goldfish
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Moo-moo for milk.
Strawberries are a crazy word I can't spell out but it's funny.
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Drinkle = drink
Cream sauce = sour cream
Ollies = Olives -
We also say sprinkle cheese!
She's on an applesauce/fruit pouch kick and calls them apple pouch.
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We call shredded cheese sprinkle cheese, but my husband originated it in our house.
Avocado = cabo cabo
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