Cute Ellis and Anders Sayings

Our kids are getting older and some of their cuter turns of phrase from their earlier days have disappeared.  So this post is a celebration and remembrance of all the adorable ways that these kids used to express themselves.

Ellis: this kid was very articulate at an early age. People were always surprised by how well she spoke when she was as little as 2 years old, and many thought she was much older. Most of her mispronunciations came from trying to say bigger words than a kid that young should know or by her not knowing the right term and taking a guess.

• "epitant" for elephant
• "nocturtle" for nocturnal
• "white peanut butter" for cream cheese 
• "carrah up" which turned into "carry up" for carry me

 Anders: this kid had a lot of mispronunciations that came from him learning to speak with a pacifier (or, as he called it, a "baba") in his mouth. It lead to a very unique way of talking.  G became k, b became d, i became e, p often k. He also leaned more heavily on facial expressions and vocal emphasis to be understood since his pronunciations could be challenging to the listener. To this day, he has a completely unique and super expressive way of speaking, even if the mispronunciations are going away. I keep trying to catch it on video but he usually clams up when the camera starts rolling.

• "vengtables" for vegetables
• "nanola" for granola
• "thragon" for dragon
• "mewk" and then later "melk" for milk 
• "tsoos" for juice -- the 'ts' sounds was used for 'j' a lot.
• "tsahmies" and later "jahmies" for pajamas
• "carrah me" for carry me
• "abre" for open or turn it on or make this thing do what I want it to do (from Spanish speaking nanny)
• "suave" for gentle (from Spanish speaking nanny)
• "decause" for because
• "kretzel" for pretzel 
• "fuh-lakes" and "fuh-leece" for flakes and fleece
• "ghosteses" for ghosts
• "olyefs" for olives
• "shoosh" for juice, as in "appow shoosh"
• "Shosh and Shue" for Josh and Sue
• pronouncing 'v' and 'b' as in "festibal"
• adding an 'n' to works that started with vowels
• '"nunique" for unique
• "New Nork" for New York
• "New Norleans" for New Orleans
• pronouncing all short i's as short e's, for example (he still does this a little)
• "Elles" for Ellis
• "cheps" for chips
• "deshes" for dishes
• "ketty" for kitty
• pronouncing o's that are usually pronounced "ah" like "aw", for example
• "stawp" for stop
• "tawp" for top
• "hawt" for hot

Both of them: they had a few mistakes in common, either by happenstance or by Anders learning it from Ellis.

• "may you" instead of would you
• "pasghetti" for spaghetti  
• "beby" for baby
• "stummy ache" for tummy ache
• "lunchkables" for Lunchables (some of their friends at school eat them at lunch)
• "mines" for mine, which makes more sense when you think about it -- we do use an 's' in yours.