At dinner tonight, my 3-year-old son said, “HEY! I have a rocket in my pocket!” My husband, guest-for-dinner brother, and I just looked at each other like did he really just say that?!
I asked the kid to repeat it and he said again, a little too proudly, “I HAVE A ROCKET IN MY POCKET!!!!”
Yep. We heard him correctly.
My mind was spinning: where would he have learned something like that?! Does he understand what he’s saying?! He was at his grandmother’s all day today…could she be to blame?! Doubtful. The woman doesn’t like him to say pee or poop, she’s certainly not teaching him this kind of stuff.
As if the rocket weren’t enough, the kid follows up with, “I yike (like) to dance naked!”
My brother couldn’t let this one go and inquired: “How do you keep the rocket in your pocket if you’re dancing naked?”
Thankfully the toddler didn’t bite: “Nooooo Uncle Mike! I yisten (listen) to John Mellencamp’s “Dance Naked.”
And we thought modern music was a bad influence.
But back to the problem at hand: the rocket.
My mom brain was firing on all synapses and it hit me! The adorable child with the adorable speech impediment who can’t pronounce his Ls, among other letters, wasn’t saying “rocket,” he was saying, “wocket” as in…
WHEW! Innocence restored.
Love it! 🙂
Haha.:)
🙂
tee hee, made me giggle!
Me, too! Hope that doesn’t make me a bad mom 😉
No one can decode Toddlerese better than a mom. I bet you let out the biggest sigh of relief upon discovering what your little man was REALLY saying!
You know I did!!!!
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How cute!
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I see your wocket and raise you Ender’s rock: http://nothingbythebook.com/2011/11/22/ender-says-rock/
HILARIOUS!!!!!
So cute and loved this post 🙂
Thanks so much!!
That’s funny there I don’t care who ya are…
My four year old kept talking about a damanshen, and about how she was going to have one someday, and how so and so had one and all of this nonsense. None of us knew what she was talking about. Finally she got really mad at me and yelled “A DAMANSHEN, you know, big houses where some people live!” Ohhhh, a mansion. Mystery solved.
Ahahaha!! One of my readers coined it best: Toddlerese. They speak it, we interpret it 😉
My mother wondered aloud if my daughter was really speaking English when she was younger or if she was speaking Ewok…