Cute Words & Phrases

3 1/2 – 4 years old:

  • thum (them)
  • w’are were you? (where)

3 – 3 1/2 years old:

  • Erf (earth)
  • Tuffity Ah B’yonne! (“to infinity, and beyond” from toy story)
  • Bofadem (both of them)
  • Doobie Hat (derby hat)

2 1/2 – 3 years old:

  • Fay-ast (fast)
  • Cindy (sydney, from nemo)
  • Memo (finding nemo)
  • Maroat (remote)
  • Big Bad Woof
  • Extrasize (exercise)
  • Freckstable (flexible)
  • Himmie See (let me see)
  • Oh jeesus!
  • Tu-tuh-puter (computer)

2 – 2 1/2 years old:

  • I Fraver It (I’m afraid of it)
  • The Jerry (the deli)
  • Moat (remote)
  • Jealous Muffin (english muffin)
  • Mommy Tatunia!! (said in response to my calling her Oona Petunia)
  • Dat’s Sully (that’s silly)
  • Picka My Up (pick me up)
  • My hep! (when you ask, can I help?)
  • Baby Suit (bathing suit)
  • Sun Scream (sun screen)
  • Scrouch (scratch)
  • Boondings (buildings)
  • Sea Shelf (sea shells pasta)
  • Playnano (piano)
  • Benddies (panties)
  • Umbrellalella
  • Muh (milk)
  • Mushmash (mustache)
  • Mommy’s Lecklace (necklace)
  • Mommy’s Boop! (boob)
  • Come on Mommy, come on! Come on Daddy, come on!

1 – 2 years old:

  • Chaaaairs! (cheers)
  • Faffe (coffee)
  • Moe tata? Mo tata, peas (More cracker, please)
  • Bapple (waffle). Ex (eggs). Jews (Juice). A-Wawddahs (water)
  • Foon (spoon). Fock (fork).
  • Don-wantit… Don-wantit… (If you’re trying to get her to eat something)
  • A Sawwwwh (Her yellow dinosaur)
  • Lello. Puhpul. Gree. Boo. (Colors)
  • One. Twoooo. Tree. Fo-wah. sIX. Sewen. Et. Nine. Den. (Note the omission of five, which she always forgets)
  • A-B-Scees
  • Awwt (art)
  • Nena. Da-daddy. Pop-ax.
  • Bye’ies (berry) Sye-i-ie (strawberry).
  • Hosie (horsie). Effent (elephant). Honey (hyena). Lillah (gorilla). Doe-gie (doggie). Chich-chen (chicken). MOEse (mouse).
  • Fix (pacifier)
  • Seemee (swimming)
  • Bap (bat). Punkin (pumpkin).
  • Emmo (Elmo – for a while there she was calling him “Eh-Mama” and then just “Mama”. So every time she’d see an Elmo book she’d point at him and say “Mama”. It became this running gag where I’d roll my eyes at her and laugh and say “No, *I’M* Mama!! ” So cute!!!)
  • Ba-BOO (peek a boo)

First word: “Quack”. She was imitating a stuffed duck which quacked “quack-quackquackquackquackquackquackquack” and she would say “ya-ya-ya-ya-ya”.

First real English word: “That” – and she’d walk around pointing to everything in site saying “That. That.”