It was a routine diaper change—nothing out of the ordinary—when all of a sudden Levi pointed to himself “down there” and enthusiastically said, “NUTS! NUTS!” with a big grin on his face (clearly impressed with himself).
I thought I might have heard him incorrectly so I just ignored it.
Moments later he said it again: “NUTS! NUTS!”
This baffled me a little since Ryan and I have talked about using “proper” names for body parts as he’s learning (knowing that kids have plenty of time to learn slang later).
But surely my husband taught him this. After all, it sounds like him…
Later that night I asked Ryan about it and told him what happened. We had a little giggle but Ryan reassured me that he’s not used the term nuts in that context with Levi.
We shrugged our shoulders and moved on. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
The next week Ryan was driving in the car with Levi when someone cut him off. “Aw, NUTS!” Ryan said (determined not to swear).
A light bulb clicked. Maybe Levi has just heard nuts used as an expletive and it was a coincidence that he was grabbing himself when saying it last week.
Never mind.
But then a few days later Ryan was changing Levi’s diaper when again he said, “NUTS! NUTS!” while pointing to himself.
Still unsure if he’d heard correctly, Ryan ignored it and continued with the diaper change.
And then this…
“NUTS! NUTS!” Levi said as he pointed to himself.
“BIG NUTS! BIG NUTS!” he then said as he grinned and pointed to Ryan (in the right area, I might add).
Apparently he knows what he’s talking about after all.
Where do kids learn this stuff?
And so it begins… Ha!
Dear friends, no doubt Levi learned this from some of our friends’ boys who are 4-6 years old. (Boys that age think the word “nuts” in that context is hi.lar.i.ous.) It was bound to happen eventually, but I was surprised that Levi learned it so early!! How about you? What have your kids said to surprise you lately?
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11 Comments
Sommer J
9 February 2012 at 6:28 pmTheir favorite words to use often seems to be expletives or inappropriate uses of words.
While I was out, my husband told me that my daughter hit her little brother. He scolded her and later told her to go to bed (bedtime anyway), and then while playing the old, ‘i’m not sleepy’ game, she came downstairs and said, “Daddy, I’s soy for kicking Dylan’s ass.” When he told me that I about died from laughing…but of course we had to tell her that was not nice, and where the hell did she hear it from lol 🙂
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11 February 2012 at 9:36 pmOh no Sommer! Not good!! 🙂
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Nessa
10 February 2012 at 4:00 amThat is hilarious! Where do they get this stuff??
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Jennie {Clover & Violet}
10 February 2012 at 4:51 amHaha! I keep reminding my husband that Silas is listening and will eventually repeat him. Right now our problem is that the words he’s trying to say are coming out sounding like words he shouldn’t say. Right now we just repeat the correct word in hopes that his pronunciation catches up before he realizes he shouldn’t be saying those words…
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Adriel @ The Mommyhood Memos
11 February 2012 at 9:38 pmhahaha, i can only imagine. one of my friend’s little boys couldn’t say “truck” properly for the LONGEST time. but for whatever reason he had no problem with the letter “f” sound……. Ah!!
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Rachel
10 February 2012 at 7:04 pmWell, that’s just nuts! Fh
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Martina
11 February 2012 at 11:39 amOh Boy, it starts! haha
Reminds me of my oldest boy, when he was around two, I noticed that he was pointing to down there and saying “tickle tickle!” I could not for the life of me figure out where he had heard that from, until I told my husband and he laughed and said it’s because he had taught him that those were his testicles. That was what he was trying to say! So for awhile after that it was common occurance for him to point to his testicles and say “tickle tickle!”. Boys will be boys!
Adriel @ The Mommyhood Memos
11 February 2012 at 9:39 pmum yeah! not exactly a place your little boy should be “tickled” by anyone! (yikes!) glad you figured out what he meant without stressing about it! hahaha. love it!! BOYS. 😀
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Tanya
14 February 2012 at 1:57 amOh dear. Hilarious. Love the photo!
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Branson
23 February 2012 at 8:50 amI must admit this made me giggle 😉
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Holly
22 July 2013 at 2:20 amI’m 17, and I got my 3 year old cousin to say “holy strawberries batman!”, “houston we have a problem” (when he needs his diaper changed), and “roger that” lol
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