The words of a toddler – Mummascribbles

Zach’s speech came out of nowhere. He was a boy that focussed on learning to run around creating havoc and wasn’t too bothered about talking. His vocabulary started coming on slowly but his first words weren’t your usual first words like dog or teddy, they were water and highchair! All of the books, emails and fellow parents were making me worry that he didn’t know enough but I always knew it would come out at some point, and boy did it.

As soon as he moved up to the toddler room at nursery, I realised that most of the children in his previous class had been younger than him, and it was mixing with the older ones when all of these new words started coming out of nowhere. Soon after, he was forming small sentences and soon after that he was shocking me with what he knew. A few weeks back we’d gotten up to five word sentences (airplane up in the sky) and today I got a seven word one but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. He can give us simple instructions, tell us what he wants and explain simple things to us (rocket go blast off) – do you see an aviation fan here?!

Sometimes he comes out with the cutest things that are pronounced wrong. He pronounces Wednesday, Wesnesday and Furchester (from the tv programme), Furschester and it’s so blimmin cute!

Today however, there was something a little worrying. I knew he didn’t mean what he was actually saying but I couldn’t figure out what he was trying to say. His words were, want a dead man. Yep, I didn’t hear wrong, he was asking for a dead man and I just didn’t understand. I initially thought that maybe he’d remembered the you dead man from Cool Runnings but surely he couldn’t be that clever! Me and the other half looked at each other funny and laughed it off as whatever it was, it didn’t seem overly important. A few minutes later he said it again but this time pointing at the kitchen cupboard. It was then that I clicked – he wasn’t asking for a dead man but a gingerbread man!! I had to laugh at the misunderstanding and was secretly relieved that he didn’t somehow know about dead men at the age of two!

What funny things have your little ones come out with that have taken you a while to decipher? I’d love to hear!