I Am Thankful For Cute Words

One thing that makes time spent together with the kids even more fun are the cute things they say.  Today at lunch Hannah almost knocked over her cup of lemonade with her elbow, but caught it just in time. She looked at me with big eyes and an even bigger smile.  Then Sabrina said, “Good catch Elmo!”

This is a phrase that we adopted from a book that was a favorite bedtime story many years ago. I can’t remember the name of it now, but it was a Sesame Street book that was sent as part of one of those monthly book club offers.  In the story Elmo is playing with a ball and chasing it with his Sesame Street friends.  Finally on the last page, he catches it and Zoe says, “Good catch Elmo.” We all picked up on the phrase and say it whenever someone in the family makes a nice save from disaster or while playing a game etc.

As you know from the name of this blog, we think this kind of stuff is funny, and keep using the words or phrases again and again until they seem normal to us. This comes mostly from Rob’s side of the family who all love to add an ee sound to the end of every word they can. I tease Rob(by) about a time when we were dating and someone in his family referred to something as “weirdy.” Nobody snickered, or mentioned anything about the use of this unique word.  I love that his parents have programmed them all this way…  And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Robby married Amy, Marky married Melanie, Scotty married Korby, Heidi married Gary, and well, I guess Heather and Craig are that exception to this rule.  No pressure Holly, but you’ve got to find a way to make your future honey end his name with a “y.” 😉

Some other examples of words we have adopted into everyday use:

bopper or dipee= diaper

be in pirate= be in private

shoesies= shoes

ladytard= leotard

pawcorn= popcorn

meanie-meanie= a person who is being mean

a double= anything with two stuck together (a double Cheeto or a double bubble…)

There are tons more, but I can’t think of them right now.