I had quite an OK weekend. How about you?
I didn’t run because I was feeling a bit under the weather so I ended up spending a lot of te weekend indoors with Rose. It was marvelous and just what the Dr ordered. Yesterday I had lunch with my parents and ended up staying there all afternoon until we came home last night to get ready for school today.
I did manage to organise a summer uniform and some necessary (extra) stationery for Child1.
Must say that there is a MASSIVE difference in traffic when it’s school holiday. I’m thinking that we should introduce a system where kids can fly to school rather than have their parents drive them? Would make life so much easier for those commuting on the roads. What do you think?
Anyway.
This morning Child1 walked into the bathroom while I was busy putting on my face. So we had this conversation:
Child1: “Mommy, I think my voice is PUBER-TATING.”
Me: (trying not to look shocked) “Puber-tating? is it sore?”
Child1: “No, not actually”
Me: “Could it not be a post-nasal drip that is making you croak? I also croak when I get up in the mornings. And Daddy. I am sure that if we listen carefully then we’ll also hear your brother croaking when he wakes up”
Child1: “No, Mommy, I think my voice is PUBER-TATING”
Me: “I see. Should I get you something for it? Maybe some Halls?”
Child1: “You could get me some smarties.”
ME: “OK. I’ll get some later on.”
Child1: gets distracted by something else and walks away.
I just LOVE this word “puber-tating”. I told them in the office about the conversation and they laughed and laughed and laughed.
I was reading this post that Marcia wrote last week and I saw in the comments that one of the readers used the word “frivoulosity”
I LOVE it!
Have you or your kids come up with any made-up words lately? Do share?
Btw…I DID get him the smarties that he asked for. And this evening he is still croaking. There are no other symptoms so I am not sure if this is really pubertation or if it could be a case of laryngitis? And Marcia, I bought some gel pens too! Can’t wait to see if 0.7 is THE ONE.
0.7 is the ONE! I’m telling you
I even went “mmmmm” today in a meeting when I wrote with a lovely thick 0.7 mm gel pen. Good thing they didn’t hear me 
I had an awesome weekend of connection but nothing got done except that one month of photos. Nothing.
All worth it though.
Makey-uppy words, love them! My daughter requested ‘Ppm crms’ as a birthday treat, that’s what she calls ‘Peppermint creams’ – she is 12 so she can say it, lol.
‘Fizz-n-up’ is 7 Up (like a lemonade drink, don’t know if you have it.)
Also, not a day goes by when we dont quote our favourite T.V shows – ALWAYS makes me laugh, and probably always sounds like a load of nonsense to everyone else.
Oh gosh, this is cute! Well you know that the iPad is nopw permanently called the “iPerd” and strawberry milk is called “Pinksies” in our home, Spur is the “Smur” because L used to call it that.
I love made up words too! Nicola to this day will thank someone “berry” much, she refers to bacon as “spekkies” and marshmallows as “varkies”, meringues are “skapies” and for a long time she used to call cycads “einas” because my dad used to caution her not to touch the sharp leaves cause they would hurt her. My brother’s dog is named Diablo, but he gets called everything from double-O to Billabong. The other dog is named Nala, but mostly gets referred to as Nollie-pot. And our cat, Tigger mostly goes by Tiggy-wicks.
When we were young my brother couldn’t properly pronounce my name and used to call me something that sounded like, “who-eeh-zah” for the longest time. He’s almost 30 now, but when he really wants me to do him a big favour he automatically reverts to this name for me (as opposed to b_tch, which is what he usually calls me).
Oh goodness that is so sweet!!!! Kiara’s whole vocab is made up *sigh* – I do love words like this though but David is so proper (or anal) that we aren’t allowed to use made up words!