> You all have some inventive words... I know my family has oodles, but the ones that immediately come to mind are:
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> Trees: Broccoli. "Have some trees with your uppies."
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Yay, we call broccoli 'trees' too! They do look SO much like little trees.

We also have a favorite microbrew we call "tree beer" because of its name, Boréale Rousse. (I pointed out that technically, Boréale Rousse doesn't mean 'arboreal,' it means "the Russian northern lights(!)." But that doesn't stop them from calling it that. It's tradition. :-)


> Cheeriodieos: As near as I can spell, anyway -- Cheerios. :) "My bird's favorite snack is a bowl (not his own of course) of cheeriodios."
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> Chug Room: The laundry room; derivitive of Chugarug (think about it. What's a washer sound like to a 3 year old?) used in the "Toss your jeans in the chug room" sense.
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I like that one. One of our cats is occasionally freaked out by the noise of clothing being washed in the Chug Room.


> Hoppity-skip: "Jump," as in "Hoppityskip to that other station, if you please."
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Similar to the phrase "Twitters 'n' twirls" to describe what happens during figure skating -- "We're watching twitters 'n' twirls on TV."


> And that's all I can think of at the moment. Strange thing is they're all integral words in our household, and the youngest is almost 13 -- technically "too old to use baby words," I suppose.
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> Ni "Boo" tharn

Welcome back, ~Nitharn!~ *Prodigally happy*

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