Blink Liquid

When kids start talking they create many new words. Even though you start correcting them, they are so consistent in making the same mistake, that finally you add those words to your vocabulary.
So they first word made up by my daughter was "Beeya". She called a cat Beeya and even though she knew how a cat was called, she always called it Beeya.

Once when she was two years old, we had been to an aircraft show. On coming home,
Daughter - "I want an aircuttel"
Me- "Whats is an aircuttel? Do you want an airplane?
Daughter - "No aircuttel".
The whole evening she was asking for an aircuttel, which finally ended up to mean helicopter.
Had a hard time understanding that one.Thankfully she learnt the word helicopter and that word is long forgotten.

The next funny word is the "Stapy stick".Any guesses to what that means.
Well its "sticky tape" , and that's been added to our vocabulary.

And since yesterday when she saw the movie "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs", she is "Blink liquid".
"Blink liquid" is the protagonist of the movie and his name is actually "Flint Lockwood", that I have been trying to correct since yesterday!!


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