The Bad
“No!”
The Funny
“Mommy, your belly looks kind of puffy, like there’s another baby in there, I think there’s another baby in your belly!”
(Hugging her dolly tightly.) “My baby came out of my belly… and her blanket too.”
“There is something in our room– it goes away when you come!”
“Can you hold my little fawn?” (Cupping hands protectively about… nothing that I can see…)
“We’re going camping.” (Camping involves heaping everything we can find into a big pile on the car… I mean the couch. I wonder where they learned that.)
“You look like a skunk!” (While I’m innocently eating my breakfast.)
The Hopeful
“Aww…” (Breaking out of a tantrum long enough to see that baby sister is crying too.)
“I love you too!”
“I’m sorry.”
“I forgive you.”
“Ok Mommy!”
“Look, Mommy, I peed in the potty!”
“Scuse me!”
“When I grow up, I want to be a grandpa and work with tools!”
“When I grow up, I want to be a mommy and wash the dishes!”
Bonus: Can You Guess What These Words Are? Answer in comments.
Pish and Power and Pork
Bankelet
Aminal
Nookidah
Greeps
Ban
Grammy Martin
25 Oct 2025It’s probably unfair for Grammy to translate, but since I know pish and power and pork mean fish and flower and fork, perhaps a ban is a fan?
All the rest I know and will leave for others to guess…
It’s so much fun to watch these little people develop!
Alison
25 Oct 2025Actually, a fan would probably be a pan. A ban is what we use for transportation these days. 😁
Abigail Martin
25 Oct 2025Bankelet is blanket. I find myself using it sometimes too. Is greeps grapes? I’ve never seen the skunk in you yet Alison.
Alison
25 Oct 2025Yup, it’s grapes! Thanks, Abigail! 😉
Dale Stoltzfus
25 Oct 2025Oh my! The joys of parenting and grandparenting!
Jolynne Weaver
26 Oct 2025So is Aminal for Animal?
But what is Nookidah?
Congratulations on the new baby!
Alison
27 Oct 2025You are right, an animal is an aminal to Ellie. Nookidah is their affectionate term for all pacifiers. 😉
Anonymous
17 Nov 2025😂❤️
Jolynne
17 Nov 2025🤣
Alison
27 Oct 2025And thanks for the congrats! 🙂