Has your toddler adopted any of your trademark phrases?

[ellemenope]

I don't really have any good ones, but I'd love to hear yours.

'upps' instead of 'oops'.
'let's see...'
'how 'bout..?'
'Actually...'
'careful'

I have realized I say these a ton, and now DD does, too.

'I got milked.' when milk splashes up from straw.

'ummm...' thanks to DH not me.

[just_lily]

My DD picked up "ummmm" from my other daycare kids. DF isn't too pleased about it. She also calls me and DF by our first names, also from the daycare kids. *sigh*

She likes to say "Come on" when she wants us to go someplace with her.

If she is looking for Daddy she will yell "Marco!!" and then he will yell back "Polo!" DF and I have always done this when we are out in stores and lose sight of each other, and she has picked it up.

Having a toddler makes you look in the mirror quite a bit. When she started wagging her finger at people when she was mad I wondered where she picked it up. Turns out it was from me! I am making an effort to quit!!

[not_telling]

Not exactly a trademark phrase, but...

When we're getting ready to leave the house, DS (22 months) has started doing the verbal checklist thing that I do to make sure I'm not forgetting anything. He'll stand at the front door and say, in the same kind of voice I use when I'm going down the mental checklist, "Mommy shoessss...baby shoessss....and keyssss....and diaper baaaaag..."

Cracks me up.

[starling&diesel]

Whenever my partner drops something, she says, "Man down!" and now whenever our little one drops something, she says, "Mah Dow!"
And she's the first to tell our dog, "Come on, Charlie, let's go!" Even though it sounds more like, "Coh on, Harlie, ets go!" That's something I always say when Charlie is dawdling. Oh, and "Do your business!" when we want the dog to poop. Esmé says it like this, "Harlie, oooo yo izzness!"

[Nicole730]

DS shouts We're home everytime he walks in the house. When he goes pee in the potty, it's either I did pee-pee or I did do it.
I did do it - is quite common for anything he wants to do himself.

When he shouts for his dad he says some version of William that is absolutely adorable.

When he says, Okay, it's Ahh-hoo. And if we say "okay" in a sing-songy drawn out voice he'll copy us and go, "ah-hooey". Cracks us up every time.

[cparkly]

DS says, "well, well, well". Just like his daddy.
He also said "dammit", this morning. Just like his mommy.

[ShyDaisi]

The ones I have noticed are...

"That is cool/awesome!"
"Umm....no!"

I didn't even realize the "umm" until he started picking it up...He would ask a question that (to me) was an obvious no. I would think about it (thus the um...) and then answer (the no...). He started doing "Um...yes!" on his own!

[tracymom1]

I often find myself saying, "I just want to ___" take a shower, make a phone call - whatever, and now DS ALWAYS says this!! And he talks in the 3rd person, so he is always saying, "Gabe just wanna do this, mama!" in a very exasperated tone - I love it!!

He also holds his hands up and says "what??!!" with such a great sound of surprise and shock!

[GoJoJo]

Phrases of dismay and surprise are her favorite to copy...to my surprise and dismay
"Oh Gah!" I am really trying to stop exclaiming Oh God! every time she almost falls or does something that seems crazy dangerous.
"No! Why?" I had no idea I was saying this until she started. Usually comes out after something really messy happens.

[mamakaikai]

Haha, yes and it's happening more and more! Here are some of our apparent household trademark phrases that 26 month old dd has started using:

"Oh no!! What happened there?"
"It's ok. It happens"
"That is really cute!"
"That's Awesome!"
"Hey! How you doing?"
"No problem, Mama."
"That's fine."
"Hey Love!"
"What are you doing there?"

[caenach]

"Oh goodness."
"Hiya"


DD (21 mos) does this thing with her babies where she talks to them in exactly the voice that I use to talk to her, usually when she's nursing, and we chat about what we did during the day. So she'll be over in the corner with her dolls...and hold this whole two-part conversation solo.

"Baby go park? Yeah. Go down slide? Yeah. See waterfall? See ducks? Yeah. Thirsty? Drink water? Here. Take it. Take it."

[Comtessa]

My toddler's too little to imitate much, yet. But my friend's toddler, a few days ago, after a mild reprimand, looked up at his mother, clasped his hands under his chin, and pleaded, "Mommy, can you ever forgive me?" She had no idea where he learned it, but it seems that it is something his father says when he is reprimanded by mommy.

[lisavark]

Just in the last couple of days my DD (27 months) has started saying, "That's a good idea!" Which I say all the time in response to her ideas. She, of course, says it about something that isn't a good idea at all. She was mad at me for something this morning (still not sure what --still recovering from weekend travel, I think, and really irritable as a result), and she said--yelled, really--"I want scratch your face! That's a good idea!"

[lindalu]

so, four year old has started saying, "such and such really freaks me out"- not sure which of us says that.....

just turned - yesterday!- three year old says, "can we go there? please! can we just poke our heads in for a moment??"

so many more - i can't think. sometimes it is beyond endearing. other times it is just plain scary. :-) what mirrors they are!!!

[Baby_Cakes]

DD sometimes comes out with, "Oh deez," when she drops something, which is a spin off of my, "Oh geeze!" It's so adorable!

These are great!

[blizzard_babe]

DS (2 y/o) says, "No, not really, no," if I ask him if he has to use the bathroom. He also urgently screams, "NO THANK YOU! NO THANK YOU!" when I'm trying to do something he doesn't want me doing (putting on his nighttime diaper, wiping his nose, etc).

He also says "Ka'caa!" (pronounced "kah-CHA") when he drops something. It's Yup'ik Eskimo for "woah," or "darnit," or "wow," or something like that.

[sapphire_chan]

"uuum, yup"
"okay" (as in "you want X? okay")

[kmb9906]

DD says "Ummmmmmmm, " before answering any question. She got that from me. It was cute at first, but I am soooo over it now.

She calls DH by his first name in the same tone that I do when I need him to do something. It seriously cracks me up every time. Actually, she hasn't done it in awhile. DH didn't really care for it, so he made a point to ignore it. (I tried ... but, dang, it was funny!)

[Teenytoona]

hang on! Calm down! (with varying tones dependent upon the situation) and to my DH's dismay - "thingie." DSD also picked that one up years ago.

[hrsmom]

I love these!

My dd also does "hang on" so cute!
She also tells the dogs "no barking"
When she's nursing in bed, she always wants to switch sides. Sometimes I feel like making the effort, sometimes I don't. I guess fairly often when she'd say she want to switch sides, I'd say, "of course you do" and so now when I ask her if she to do wants something, or tells me she wants to do something, she says, "of course I do"

She's pretty good at finishing my sentences for me, too.

There are more that I can't think of at the moment!