Every kid has their own way of speaking as they acquire language. Proper grammar and pronunciation is a learning process. J is your typical four year old and has difficulty pronouncing the “y” sound so “yellow” is “lellow”. She also has a hard time with the “th” sound so she says “teef” (teeth) and “froat” (throat). But she has also put some words in her vocabulary blender, and here is the result. I am hesitant to correct her because some of them are super funny and I know as she gets older she will figure it out.

What she says	What she means
Cantaloupe	Antelope
Head Brain	Forehead
The day after this day	Tomorrow
Splinter	Blister
Bones and Arrow	Bows and Arrows
Eenie eenie eyenie oh, catch a tiger in your toe	Eenie meenie minie mo, catch a tiger by the toe
Bounce back to me	Ricochet
Racoon	Cocoon
Golf course	Obstacle course

And my all time favorite “Lightning the Queen”, which would be Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. After all, he is a race car, so drag…racing isn’t that far fetched.

What are some funny things your kid says?