I’m a major homebody and love to cuddle in my comfy clothes - my 3 year old is the exact same as me. As soon as we get home from somewhere she will run to her room, change her clothes, come up to me with a blanket and say “want snuggles mama?” It’s our special time together 🥹
My 2 year old loves clothes, he dresses like his dad. He is not into colorful children clothes, prefers a linen shirt and trousers, have to put on his watch and sunglasses before we leave the house. 🥺
That’s my son. My wife gets annoyed with how much my son and I match, and sure I might buy him clothes that match my own, and similar hats and sunglasses. The best is overhearing the conversations when yet another mom jokingly asks if my wife dressed my son to look like me and she has to explain for the hundredth time “nope, they do this on their own and I can’t stop it.”
Don’t worry my son wanted NOTHING to do with snuggles at that age either but now that he is 4 he actually will lay his head on me or sit in my lap with his head on my shoulder/chest and even lay in bed with me sometimes!!! He is still a wild maniac who almost never stops moving but he actually seems to enjoy being snuggled now!! I bet you will have that snuggle time soon! I used to be so “jealous” when I saw other kids cuddle up w their moms so I totally get the feeling!
The way he talks to his baby sister is the way I do.
‘Hello sweet baby how are you?’ And then when she’s crying ‘don’t be sad little one I’m here’
It’s freaking adorable.
Similar but with a pet, but our toddler has picked up the way my husband talks to the dog. He puts a chubby little hand on each side of the dog’s head and says, “Who’s a good boy? You are! Yes you are! Yes you are!”
My toddler did the same thing when we were visiting family. He loved their dog. They were instant BBFFLs.
So naturally, he interpreted being a ‘Good Boy’ as a great honor bestowed on only the very best of the best.
So now, when he’s trying to be sweet he’ll say:
“Mom, you’re a good boy, you are my good boy” and will pat me.
So cute!! I also have had the pleasure of my daughter telling me “good boy, mommy” with a gentle head pat (she is completely obsessed with our dog). However today I had my cordless vacuum out charging, and heard her say “good boy, mommy’s vacuum.” So, there’s that.
Same!! We have 1 cat who is into EVERYTHING and my Toddler is always saying "NO! NO! Freddy" It took me a while to put two and two together that she was scolding him because she hears us do it. In our defense he is usually trying to eat plastic or some other hari-kari move.
Meanwhile the other cat who never gets into stuff is her favorite and she tries to share her most prized possessions with him.
Our one cat is very skittish and will walk away from her dry food if startled by anything, and the other cat will eat it. Our daughter has picked up “[cat’s name], eat your food!” very authoritatively.
Aw baby wants her kitty to eat!! His only “chore” is to help feed the dog and cat and he loves to do it. He’s gotten much better about not spilling on the walk from the kitchen to the pets eating spots and he’s always so proud.
Ha! Yes, mine scolds the cats too. It’s always “Jupiter, get down!” Not great when we’re trying to get him to be nicer to the cats so they’re not afraid of him.
Oh we also have a begging dog, not a Beagle (I’ve heard they are relentless, my mom grew up with them) but our begging dog is also always under foot trying to kill us all and he’s picked up on “move it dog, damn!” Ooosy
Hahaha makes me feel better about the “move!!!” We hear to our dogs
My husband stepped in dog poop yesterday (long story) and said “fuck!” And the toddler instantly said “fu”. We’re lucky he’s not finishing words yet!
My now 5 year old would take a pacifier and put it in my now 3 year olds mouth when he was crying and say shhhhhh. It was cute. This was when the 3 year old was 1 year and younger.
We have a 3 yo boy that always greets his 1 yo sister in the morning with “hey gorgeous girl!” because she’s known around here as our gorgeous girl 😂
However it has carried around to other little girls too 🤔 one day at the park he called another little girl gorgeous. We are going to have to keep our eyes on this kid.
Mine hasn’t (normally) picked up the cursing but we flew down to my in laws just the two of us and they had some toys out for him. Among the toys was a bag of cars that he was having trouble opening. He came up to me and loudly asked ‘mom, can you open the fucking bag?’ with the biggest, slyest smile on his face. He was waiting to whip that out and, tbh, used it like a pro.
My oldest used to do this when she was mad! It was absolutely hilarious watching a little 10 month old stomp around the house chanting "shit, shit, shit" after we changed her diaper or told her she couldn't eat something random off the floor 😂
Yeah my son will do this too…when I asked him what his dad’s name was he said “Rob!” (And will use it when he isn’t getting a quick enough reply from his dad!) but when I asked and what my name? was he looked at me like I was nuts and said “it’s mommy, mommy!” I think he knows it now but for a long time he somehow seemed to really not know I HAD a first name!
My wife gets hyper focused on things and you can practically yell in her ear and she won’t hear you. So I end up yelling “babe…Babe!…BABE!!!…TAYLOR!!!”. My 2yo son picked it up but it’s “mama…Mommy!….MOM!…TAYLOR!” My wife absolutely hates it.
Our 3yr old calls EVERYONE babe. Family members, husband and i, even strangers if she's trying to get their attention. It's always fun having to explain that my husband and I always just call each other babe and she just assumed it's what she should call everyone lol
My personal favorite is when she's really trying to get someone's attention. "Mommy! Mommy! BABE!!"
This is exactly what I was going to say. My son is 2 and he says “I sorry” pretty much all day. I’m really working on it and have been telling him things like - I appreciate you saying sorry but you really don’t need to because ——. But then he says - oh I Sorry.
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My daughter used to say “oh sorry!” a lot. She would say it if she stubbed her toe, put her shoes on the wrong foot, pretty much anything. It took me a realize that I said it all the time and that she got it from me!
Out of curiosity, are you the child of either a narcissistic or/and abusive parent? I ask because this is something I’ve struggled with my entire life. I’ve always thought it was due to the sort of chaos I grew up with.
Samesies. I've been working hard on that, and it seems to have slipped back out of her limited communication for now. Just a reassurance that there is hope. 💜
“Kind of” became filler word for every sentence. It probably came from trying to let the kind down easy when I was saying no, but now she says things like “I kind of love playing kitty” and “I kinda don’t ever want to eat that again” for food she dislikes or “I kinda want everyone to pay attention to me now” for when she’s being an attention hoe (first kid, got spoiled by having 5 adults at her beck and call, now expects the world to stop for her if she’s feeling like expressing herself. Like, great, I’m glad she’s feeling confident, it’s so much better than the “leave me alone but don’t LEAVE ME nooooo - STOP LOOKING AT ME” phase where she wants to be the exact right amount of ignored/attended to).
I said "ummm" ONCE when I couldn't think of the word for something in Spanish (I'm not very fluent) and now my 17 month old does it all.the.time when she's thinking. Ugh.
My toddler sometimes gentle/ respectful parents us.
“Oops, sorry, baby! Mama can’t find Pup Pup Boogie on my phone. Looks like we can’t listen to it on repeat for the whole 20 minute drive to the library!”
“You got this, Mama! You can do it! You can do hard things!”
or
After accidentally whacking me with a stick earlier—
“Woah, dude! I need you to be more careful. That really hurt.”
“It’s okay! It’s okay to have big feelings!”
My son does this too! I spilled some puree earlier and he said "it's okay to make mistakes. Let's just clean this up!"
I was getting frustrated trying to put something together, and he said "it's okay, we'll just have to put this away for now and try again later."
I love it. It's so cute and very reassuring that he's listening when I talk to him.
Yes! I’m telling my three year old that I can’t dress this doll because the Barbie will not fit into that dress. “It’s okay, mama. Try again! You can do it!”
Girl, it literally won’t close.
My toddler, after many many attempts with different toys, is finally starting to understand that when I say "too big, doesn't fit" there is literally no physical way to put the thing in the other thing.
Lol that “you can do hard things” phrase backfired the other day. My son was trying to take of his Tshirt, but he was doing it in a weird way and he was struggling . My husband suggested to do it a different way because it was easier, he said, “no daddy, I can do hard things”. So there he stayed, fighting his Tshirt for like 10 more minutes.
I love Caesar salads. Like it’s an inside joke in my family bc if it’s on the menu, I’ll prob order it. Last night I took my 2 year old and 10 m old out for pizza with my parents.
I got a Caesar salad. My 2 year old has never had Caesar salad and every time I’ve introduced her to lettuce she is not interested. She had a crouton, which is normal, then she started taking lettuce off my plate and shoving it into her mouth. It was like she discovered she had just won the lotto. That’s how I know she’s my child.
The words I use for comfort. The other day we were waiting in a long line at a store and my daughter said “you’re doing a great job being patient, mom!” And gave me a thumbs up.
We’re the opposite. I hate socks and having things on my feet. And now my daughter refuses to wear socks if she doesn’t have shoes on.
Also going barefoot outside. I thought this was a normal thing (especially after living in Texas). It’s not so normal where we live now but she loves walking around barefoot lol
Exact same! I strip her socks as soon as we remove shoes and husband doesn’t. She holds up her little foot and says socks as if to remind my husband we don’t do socks in this house.
Same here! I have always hated wearing socks and shoes and spent a lot of my childhood barefoot. I spend a lot of time as an adult outside and barefoot (my husband thinks it's weird, but whatever). We went on a walk last night and I noticed my youngest kicked off her sandals to carry them through the park. So proud, lol
“Love you, sleep well” - sleep is pronounced ‘speep’ and she often only says this combination during the day time - not at bedtime, which is when I say it.
Honourable mention: “Mama needin pace?” (Mama needs some space?) daughter now asks it when I am quiet for a while. Kills me every time.
The Midwestern "ope". I didn't realize how much I said it until she started saying it, and she says it a lot. It's especially funny because she's born and raised in the South. At least she'll blend right in when we eventually move back to the Midwest 😅
My daughter is 2 and 1/2 and I sometimes worry about the jocularity with which we treat farts in our house, and how that's going to pan out once she starts going to school
If you haven’t done it yet, get a bendy straw and put one end under your armpit, put that arm down at your side and then blow in the straw. Might need to move it around to get it perfect but it’s hilarious. My poor wife came downstairs the other day to me and our 2yo, shirts off, blowing the wettest fart sounds. My son laughed so hard he got the hiccups to the point he threw up a little bit. It was awesome.
I hate wearing shoes in the house, so now my son thinks you shouldn’t wear shoes in the house.
We pick up his room every night before bed and now if something is still left out he’ll need to pick it up before we can go to bed.
Who wears shoes in the house?? Ick, man.
And my sons never wear socks, because I don’t either haha. No child wears socks in my house- it makes NO sense to. It’s indoors, they’re always running like monkeys, they will stop and die lol.
Play date rules are full-barefoot in my home! Haha
We never wear outdoor shoes inside (unless it’s to grab something real quick and everyone’s already waiting in the car lol). Options are house slippers, socks, or barefoot!
The way mine sighs and says "oohhh-kayyyyy" is just adorable. But on the reverse side of things, I hope I haven't also passed on my autoimmune disorder. It really only reared its ugly head when I was pregnant.
We never realized that my husband often stands with his hands behind his back when looking at something, until our toddler started doing the same thing! It’s super cute to see the two of them unintentionally (at least on my husband’s side) doing it together. 😊
Not long after she started walking we noticed our daughter clasping her hands behind her back whenever she was standing around. We initially made jokes about her standing at "parade rest" but when she did it EVERY DAY ALL DAY I finally cracked and confessed to my mom that I had no idea where she saw it only for mom to crack up and point to my dad. I'd forgotten that when he's being really polite/ respectful, my dad stands like that bc he was taught to do so by HIS grandad and she sees him do that every Sunday when they take my daughter to church with them.
We “wake up slow.” There’s no up and rushing or yelling to wake up. Sometimes after a nap we “wake up rough.” That involves waking up crying. Followed by snuggles and a few more sleeps until we wake up slow.
I hate my feet to be covered when I'm going to go to sleep. Even if I'm covered with a blanket, I'll stick my feet out. My two year old boy is the same lol.
I had severe brain fog with my last pregnancy (coinciding with my daughter starting to talk). For a bit, every other word was "Um", "Uuuummmmmmmm", "wait", or "hold on."
not proud but he got my heat anger 😭 when i’m in the heat, i get mad easily at the littlest things, he picked up on that & also gets irritated if he’s hot & things aren’t going his way. now it’s more fun because dada has to deal with both of us being angry in the heat
but he also meows randomly, i’ve done that for a few years where it’ll be quiet and i just meow, now he does it when it’s too quiet. he also uses it like echolocation if im not near him, that’s how we find each other 😭
My 20 month old hates to be messy or dirty (“wipe hands Mama!”), picks up trash from the ground and insists on throwing it away, always picks up her toys (and her friends’/the local soft play’s). A total rule follower who needs tons of encouragement to try anything new or risky. Very shy. A homebody.
Oops. I gave her my anxiety.
My 2 year old is always picking up litter to throw away too! I definitely passed it down to him and I love that he likes to keep places clean but sometimes I wonder if people are thinking we’re gross lol.
I live in dresses regardless of the time of year. If it’s fall or winter, I throw on tights and a cardigan with my dresses. My second daughter who’s now four refuses to wear anything but dresses and if I suggest something else, it’s a massive fight.
Writing in a notebook. I love to journal, and my 3 year old can't write, but she loves to pretend she's writing.
Also, working on a laptop 😖 my ex and I both work on our computers a lot. she gets her little leapfrog and says she working all the time, in fact, she's never says she's playing, she's only working on something. Apparently making two dolls interact is a form of work.
When home and fully relaxed into being home, I will sometimes eat like "a wild animal who has starved for a week," or that's how my husband (who was raised in a very strict etiquette home, whereas I was barely taught how to use a fork) describes it. As in just picking up a whole chicken breast and eating it as finger food, same with tortellini. Kiddo does this too now, though it's hard to tell how much is her just still struggling with utensils.
I also drink water like a camel, as in, like 3 times a day but a *lot* gulped up. She does too a lot now, oops.
Sorry kiddo, I dunno if you have any desire to be a dainty lady, but momma aint the one to show you how.
She does my husband's kind of funny thinking stance (he puts one foot on top of the other and stands kind of like a tired flamingo) when she's thinking already, even though she's not even 2. I love it. Also the way he plays with his hair when he's trying to relax after a hard day, but she does it every night while she's falling asleep. They have almost the same hair which makes it extra cute.
i have always say awww my baby when i hug him and now every time he hugs me randomly he goes awww baby.
also apparently i say “there you go” a lot because he’s even said it to other kids trying to do something when they finally get it.
my parents also watch him while im at work and he says “oh boy” just like my dad lol
Evil laughter. Whenever I do something cheeky I'd say "nyeh heheheh", but it was entirely subconscious and i never really noticed myself doing it. Now when my son decides to be mischievous I hear a little "nyeh heheh"
In my case, it was totally intentional. Books. Any kind of book. She is three and a half, and when we go to the library now, she spends more time with the books, trying to read than she does with the toys in the play section.
I'll admit, I didn't expect her to choose books over toys for another couple of years at least. Her favourite screentime is a playlist I made of people reading Sandra Boynton books on YouTube .
Whenever something happens that isn’t intentional (he drops a cup of water, knocks something off of something else, falls over, etc) I’ll say “it was just an accident! Accidents happen!” And now he says that. It makes me really happy. When I was a kid I was beaten for “accidents” so when one would happen I would start crying out of fear of the repercussions. It’s nice to know my son doesn’t have to worry about things like this and will move into his adolescence knowing that accidents happen and it’s ok!
I’m the opposite. I hate socks and love being barefoot. If I’m out somewhere that requires shoes that need socks, I strip them off the second I’m home (sometimes in the car). My son has started to do the same.
For a few years my 4 year olf would say "ooooh you said a bad word" now she goes "Mommy, don't say shit." Today she stormed around the living room mutter "i swear to god..." i need to watch myself.
Similar to your socks,I’m a huge blanket person. She’s now become one as well, if she’s on the couch she’s asking for a blanket. We sit and cuddle under our blankie a lot and it’s my favorite 🤍
Aside from various swears and just overall attitude, my oldest makes the exact same face when she doesn't want her picture taken as I do. I get it from my dad. It's absolutely hilarious to see a face I saw so often from my dad on my 3 year old. My little one got her aversion to being touched in her sleep from me 😅. She LOVES to cuddle when she's awake but don't you dare even THINK about touching her when she's asleep. Unless she falls asleep on top of you, in which case you are furniture. Don't move.
Randomly going “hey, I love you” and “you are amazing” along with a lot of other compliments to people he loves
Eta: and offering me hugs EVERYTIME I’m angry
Being polite to service industry workers. Whether it's in the drive thru at a fast food place, in person face to face... cashiers, wait staff, grocery baggers, customer service... my kids are all "please & thank you", "have a nice day", "you're welcome" etc. Asking nicely instead of demanding. They're hellions half the time at home, but so sweet and polite to strangers.
I didn't realize how polite I was until I had a little parrot by my side, calling it out.
I've also apparently passed on a southern twang to my son, which I didn't even know I have 😳😅
For starters, I love my husband and all perfect and imperfect things about him. This is meant to be lighthearted.
My husband has four traits that really bug me.
- He has a wonky cowlick that is actually cute but I curse at it every time I cut his hair. It’s so hard to cut and style and I’ve been cutting his hair since we met.
- He has an obnoxiously large gap between his big toe and second toe that makes shoe shopping for him so hard. I can’t surprise him with shoes because he always has to try shoes on before buying them since most feel uncomfortable on him.
- He also has a very sensitive gag reflex. He will literally vomit if it is triggered.
- He touches something gross and reactively sniffs his fingers every time.
My 5 year old possesses all four of these traits. Those happen to be the only four noticeable traits that he has inherited from his dad, my husband. It’s honestly hysterical. My husband jokes that he can only pass down the best of the best traits 😂 I also curse (in my head) at my son’s cute wonky cowlick when I cut his hair, ensure he is present to try on all new shoes, have a barf bucket in every area of my home for that inevitable gag barf session, and nearly pee my pants when I witness him instinctively sniff his fingers after touching something gross.
My husband immediately gets out of his work clothes and into boxers when he gets home, so a while ago, maybe close to a year at this point, my now almost 3 year old started asking for “shoes off, socks off, pants off” when he came home from daycare 😂. We used to do it for him and now he’s starting to automatically do it as soon as we walk in the door lol
My kid is anti social l, just like me. When i realized thay he need some social interaction (we stayed away from crowd and people because of covid), he already became anti social. He hates crowd and people
Opposite issue - we are Floridian so not heavily into socks. I don’t wear them, and now she doesn’t either lol. Or if I wear a dress, she has to wear one!
Wearing hat. I feel naked without hat on my head whenever I go out. My toddler is big hat lover and he brings me his hat to put on whenever we go out. His dad doesn’t understand our “addiction” lol
The complete opposite of this one, I hate wearing socks/shoes which has taken to my daughter doing the same thing of unless we need to wear socks/shoes we will not put them on. She's also taken to my habit of eating meals on my bed, I've done it for years and once I realized she was copying me I had to switch to making sure I sat down with her at the table for breakfast and dinner but at lunch we make a little "chill" time to eat on the bed and watch a cooking show much to my husband's dismay.
3 year old cups 1 year old’s face and says so cute! And also scolds the dog with- naughty girl! No treats for you!edit to add- both tots love dancing! That’s def inherited from both mom and dad.
She offers her hand to the dog or cat she is petting. It's the first thing she does and then she pets them. She gets compliments for being such a good gentle petter. Though she is much rougher with our cats.
We’re a sock crew as well! I also might have passed an exclamatory“oh!” whenever I find something. I didn’t even realize I had this verbal tick until my kid started using it with everything she observes or finds 😂
I am always cold. When I sit on the couch, I always want to be covered with a blanket. Now my kid wants a blanket whenever he’s on the couch, brings a blanket to the breakfast table with him some days, and wants to be covered in four blankets when he goes to bed. 🤣🤣🤣
I am a big ice chewer (I know not great for your tooth enamel and can be an indication of low iron) and it was my biggest craving in pregnancy and my daughter and dog both love eating ice thanks to me 😂.
In the same boat with socks lol I love socks and so does he lol we’re very rarely barefoot lol for my other son, unfortunately, anxiety lol. I’m not diagnosed but I’ve heard from many people in my life that my level of anxiety is indeed not normal. Not to mention I have panic attacks so lol Anyway, when my son was diagnosed with selective mutism and I read about how it’s an anxiety disorder I was like “oops, sorry bud” lol anyway, he’s good, he talks, he’s just extremely shy lol
I am very much the opposite and rarely wear socks at home anymore. Especially since we moved to a warmer climate.
Now my 18 month old who just started walking will protest whenever we try to put shoes on him 🥲
The various distinctive facial expressions I’ve allegedly made over the years. Yeah, okay…I guess she picked them up from somewhere 😂
she may have more facial expressions than she has words at 2.5 years. lmao jk jk
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My very southern dialect. We currently do not live in the area where I grew up. While we live in the south still, we are very close to a large metropolitan area. But when she mixes my southern accent with her own "city" accent. It's quite funny.
I had a habit of saying “rip!” whenever someone passed gas in the house. Now my 4 year old and almost 2 year old girls will fart and yell “Rip!!” or say it whenever they hear someone else do it
Once my kid wanted a little ponytail like mine, and I thought it was so cute and took pictures. Now every time he asks for a pony, he also wants a picture taken immediately.
I pat and rub his back when he’s upset. Now any sign of me being upset (even if I’m not) he’ll pat/rub my back. Today I had a tone while asking him to put his crocs on for the billionth time because we were running late, and when I sat down to just put them on him myself he gave me a good pat/rub 😭
Saying "aww" for hugs, lol.
I don't always say it when I give people hugs, but I definitely say it when I observe them or play pretend with stuffed animals giving each other hugs.
So now she says "aww" every time she gives a hug. 💀🤣
Every time I walk into a room I do a little wave to everyone (became a habit bc during covid we couldn’t give the hug/kiss hello) and now my daughter does the same little wave!
He won't do *anything* without a book or six. Commuting? Need the Elmo book. Trying to eat breakfast? Elephant book. Want to play outside? Sure, but we're taking this entire pile of dino books with us.
It's so cute and it's not like you can complain about your kid wanting to read... but ohmygod is it a pain in the butt. We go to the library more than we go to the grocery store, and I'm suddenly sympathetic for all those times my mother had to tell me to look up from my book while crossing the street.
When my daughter was a baby, her dad and I would always try to cheer her up or distract her when she cried by making silly noises with her lips using our fingers. Apparently she started associating that with sadness, so for several months every time she was really upset about something she would play with her lower lip with her fingers.
It was really, really cute.
Cleaning, I’m always picking up or cleaning something so naturally he has followed me around and picked up on my cleaning habits. So much so that he would want to grab the broom from me to help so I got him a little one and he does actually grab it when he sees me with mine and I’ll let him sweep like a big wrapper or paper into the dust pan. He races me to the trash when I’m going to throw something away just so he can open it for me. Same with doing laundry, hanging up clothes or washing dishes, I will wash a cup and give it to him to also wash and he helps me put up the silverware. It’s the cutest thing and warms my heart. Another thing is when I make a yucky face I scrunch up my nose and he does that too now, he’ll say nasty? And scrunch up his nose lol I was not prepared for all of these sweet little things!
My giggling about stupid things 😂😂😂😂 now I see how my mom felt when I was a child and I’d just be giggling all the time about stupid stuff. My daughter is the same way and man it’s driving me nuts 🤣
My daughter calls me pet names 24/7. She comes up to me and strokes my hair and says things like "hi baby love. How are you?" "What are you doing sweet girl" "you're so precious mommy". Most of those are from me but the ones she gets from her dad are "mommy! Nice butt!" "You're so beautiful, isn't mommy so beautiful" and "titties!"
He has mimic'd my eyebrow raise. I do it when my students (or my son) are doing something they know they shouldn't.
He does it when he's thinking.... Or trying to stare me down --- which is hilarious.
I'm not proud of it, but my son is a total indoor kid like me. My husband's side of the family is all very active and they always try to get my son to do stuff outside. He will be inside drawing or playing with toys and Grandma will try to get him outside by saying "Let's race each other around the house!" and my son will say "Why?" and Grandma will say "For exercise!" and my son will say "... why." I definitely want my son to be active, but as someone who hates exercise I feel that why deep in my soul.
I’m a major homebody and love to cuddle in my comfy clothes - my 3 year old is the exact same as me. As soon as we get home from somewhere she will run to her room, change her clothes, come up to me with a blanket and say “want snuggles mama?” It’s our special time together 🥹
My 3 yo old and I also do this! “Mommy, let’s get cozy” which is 100% a phrase I picked up from my own mom 😂
My 2 year old loves clothes, he dresses like his dad. He is not into colorful children clothes, prefers a linen shirt and trousers, have to put on his watch and sunglasses before we leave the house. 🥺
That’s my son. My wife gets annoyed with how much my son and I match, and sure I might buy him clothes that match my own, and similar hats and sunglasses. The best is overhearing the conversations when yet another mom jokingly asks if my wife dressed my son to look like me and she has to explain for the hundredth time “nope, they do this on their own and I can’t stop it.”
She should be happy. I spent years making my stepsons look cute when their mother and father would both throw them in mismatched whatever. I gave up 😂
Where’d you find him a watch? We are a watch household.
Oh my 🥹🥹 praying my wee one is like this because it sounds the best!
It is! I hope she never grows out of it and always wants to cuddle with me 😭
Ugh I’m so jealous. Mine is only 21 months but she cannot sit still. Cuddle time only lasts 5 seconds before she’s running off to do other things. 🥲
Don’t worry my son wanted NOTHING to do with snuggles at that age either but now that he is 4 he actually will lay his head on me or sit in my lap with his head on my shoulder/chest and even lay in bed with me sometimes!!! He is still a wild maniac who almost never stops moving but he actually seems to enjoy being snuggled now!! I bet you will have that snuggle time soon! I used to be so “jealous” when I saw other kids cuddle up w their moms so I totally get the feeling!
Aww I hope so. 💙
Omg I am so jealous. Both my husband and I are very busy and our toddler is an absolute tornado. I just wish she’d relax and cuddle every so often!
The way he talks to his baby sister is the way I do. ‘Hello sweet baby how are you?’ And then when she’s crying ‘don’t be sad little one I’m here’ It’s freaking adorable.
Similar but with a pet, but our toddler has picked up the way my husband talks to the dog. He puts a chubby little hand on each side of the dog’s head and says, “Who’s a good boy? You are! Yes you are! Yes you are!”
My toddler did the same thing when we were visiting family. He loved their dog. They were instant BBFFLs. So naturally, he interpreted being a ‘Good Boy’ as a great honor bestowed on only the very best of the best. So now, when he’s trying to be sweet he’ll say: “Mom, you’re a good boy, you are my good boy” and will pat me.
My heart!!! 🥺🥰
Lol, my daughter calls me (mom) a good boy too.
So cute!! I also have had the pleasure of my daughter telling me “good boy, mommy” with a gentle head pat (she is completely obsessed with our dog). However today I had my cordless vacuum out charging, and heard her say “good boy, mommy’s vacuum.” So, there’s that.
Ha! Same except he scolds the cat for jumping on the table and knocking things over. “Chi Chi get down from there!”
Same!! We have 1 cat who is into EVERYTHING and my Toddler is always saying "NO! NO! Freddy" It took me a while to put two and two together that she was scolding him because she hears us do it. In our defense he is usually trying to eat plastic or some other hari-kari move. Meanwhile the other cat who never gets into stuff is her favorite and she tries to share her most prized possessions with him.
Our one cat is very skittish and will walk away from her dry food if startled by anything, and the other cat will eat it. Our daughter has picked up “[cat’s name], eat your food!” very authoritatively.
Aw baby wants her kitty to eat!! His only “chore” is to help feed the dog and cat and he loves to do it. He’s gotten much better about not spilling on the walk from the kitchen to the pets eating spots and he’s always so proud.
Our son did the same with our dog. But it wasn’t very well enunciated so now we all say “Toph! Ea yo foo!”
Ha! Yes, mine scolds the cats too. It’s always “Jupiter, get down!” Not great when we’re trying to get him to be nicer to the cats so they’re not afraid of him.
Lol mine tells the begging beagle to “go!”. He did it to the neighbors dog the other day and I was like if you met the beagle you’d understand… 😂
Oh we also have a begging dog, not a Beagle (I’ve heard they are relentless, my mom grew up with them) but our begging dog is also always under foot trying to kill us all and he’s picked up on “move it dog, damn!” Ooosy
Hahaha makes me feel better about the “move!!!” We hear to our dogs My husband stepped in dog poop yesterday (long story) and said “fuck!” And the toddler instantly said “fu”. We’re lucky he’s not finishing words yet!
Oh. It’ll happen😬🤭 it’s impossible not to laugh. Also, the only correct response to stepping in dog shit I’d definitely “fuck”
Same! It’s such a poignant reminder of how much they internalize how we speak yo them.
Same! He's fussing in his car seat, she goes 'Don't worry baby, I'm here with you." 😭
My now 5 year old would take a pacifier and put it in my now 3 year olds mouth when he was crying and say shhhhhh. It was cute. This was when the 3 year old was 1 year and younger.
Lol mine does the same for his little brother. If baby is crying and I'm in another room I'll hear, "Oh don't worry baby, mommys coming!".
We have a 3 yo boy that always greets his 1 yo sister in the morning with “hey gorgeous girl!” because she’s known around here as our gorgeous girl 😂 However it has carried around to other little girls too 🤔 one day at the park he called another little girl gorgeous. We are going to have to keep our eyes on this kid.
Same. Down to “hi baby goo gaa!” Lol
Mine says ‘shit’ really quietly when he drops something 🙃
Mine started whispering fuck. My Mom's face lol
Mine hasn’t (normally) picked up the cursing but we flew down to my in laws just the two of us and they had some toys out for him. Among the toys was a bag of cars that he was having trouble opening. He came up to me and loudly asked ‘mom, can you open the fucking bag?’ with the biggest, slyest smile on his face. He was waiting to whip that out and, tbh, used it like a pro.
Mine also says "Oh shit" when things don't go how he expected them to. He's 18 months and I'm not sure if I want to correct it or not 😂
Mine walks around, going, "Shit, shit, shit, shit." She also puts her hands on her hips like I do.
My oldest used to do this when she was mad! It was absolutely hilarious watching a little 10 month old stomp around the house chanting "shit, shit, shit" after we changed her diaper or told her she couldn't eat something random off the floor 😂
Mine says "darn" which means my attempts to reign in my swearing around her have been effective!
Whenever I say shit or damnit mine says “uh ohhhh!” So she understands shit and damnit can also mean uh oh lmao.
Mine knows how to road rage and use "fucking" as an emphasis 🫠 thankfully, he doesn't do it often, but I get a look from my husband every time
Mine says "oh fudge" 😂
Mine says “whaaaat the hell?” in disbelief 🫢 😂
I had that problem for a minute. Seems were mostly past it.
Yelling "BABE!" when we want his dad.
Same! My son calls out my husband’s first name in my EXACT tone of voice lol
Yeah my son will do this too…when I asked him what his dad’s name was he said “Rob!” (And will use it when he isn’t getting a quick enough reply from his dad!) but when I asked and what my name? was he looked at me like I was nuts and said “it’s mommy, mommy!” I think he knows it now but for a long time he somehow seemed to really not know I HAD a first name!
😂 I bet that got a few looks! 😂
My wife gets hyper focused on things and you can practically yell in her ear and she won’t hear you. So I end up yelling “babe…Babe!…BABE!!!…TAYLOR!!!”. My 2yo son picked it up but it’s “mama…Mommy!….MOM!…TAYLOR!” My wife absolutely hates it.
Our 3yr old calls EVERYONE babe. Family members, husband and i, even strangers if she's trying to get their attention. It's always fun having to explain that my husband and I always just call each other babe and she just assumed it's what she should call everyone lol My personal favorite is when she's really trying to get someone's attention. "Mommy! Mommy! BABE!!"
My daughter calls Dad babe too 😂😂😂.
Not proud of this one. I apologize for everything. Now my daughter does. I’m trying to change my behavior
My daughter is 7 months, thanks for the reminder to work on that! Sorry
This is exactly what I was going to say. My son is 2 and he says “I sorry” pretty much all day. I’m really working on it and have been telling him things like - I appreciate you saying sorry but you really don’t need to because ——. But then he says - oh I Sorry. 😢 🤦🏻♀️
I actually commented and then read your comment. It’s exactly the same. I feel ya
Whenever I bump into my daughter I say I’m sorry so now when she bumps her head or falls she says I’m sorry to herself 😢
My daughter used to say “oh sorry!” a lot. She would say it if she stubbed her toe, put her shoes on the wrong foot, pretty much anything. It took me a realize that I said it all the time and that she got it from me!
Out of curiosity, are you the child of either a narcissistic or/and abusive parent? I ask because this is something I’ve struggled with my entire life. I’ve always thought it was due to the sort of chaos I grew up with.
I did. My dad was a diagnosed sociopath and abusive. So yep. I’ve read it comes from that
❤️ oooof same thing over here!!!
Same here. It’s something I’m working on and consistently letting her know when she’s not done anything to apologize for.
Samesies. I've been working hard on that, and it seems to have slipped back out of her limited communication for now. Just a reassurance that there is hope. 💜
My three year old started saying ‘actually’ a lot. Oof. That was a hard one to swallow - I sound like a know-it-all
Same 😭 listening to your own speech parroted back to you really does something to a person
“Kind of” became filler word for every sentence. It probably came from trying to let the kind down easy when I was saying no, but now she says things like “I kind of love playing kitty” and “I kinda don’t ever want to eat that again” for food she dislikes or “I kinda want everyone to pay attention to me now” for when she’s being an attention hoe (first kid, got spoiled by having 5 adults at her beck and call, now expects the world to stop for her if she’s feeling like expressing herself. Like, great, I’m glad she’s feeling confident, it’s so much better than the “leave me alone but don’t LEAVE ME nooooo - STOP LOOKING AT ME” phase where she wants to be the exact right amount of ignored/attended to).
I said "ummm" ONCE when I couldn't think of the word for something in Spanish (I'm not very fluent) and now my 17 month old does it all.the.time when she's thinking. Ugh.
My son the other day “we’ve literally been driving for hoursss”
My toddler sometimes gentle/ respectful parents us. “Oops, sorry, baby! Mama can’t find Pup Pup Boogie on my phone. Looks like we can’t listen to it on repeat for the whole 20 minute drive to the library!” “You got this, Mama! You can do it! You can do hard things!” or After accidentally whacking me with a stick earlier— “Woah, dude! I need you to be more careful. That really hurt.” “It’s okay! It’s okay to have big feelings!”
My son does this too! I spilled some puree earlier and he said "it's okay to make mistakes. Let's just clean this up!" I was getting frustrated trying to put something together, and he said "it's okay, we'll just have to put this away for now and try again later." I love it. It's so cute and very reassuring that he's listening when I talk to him.
I need you or your toddler to life coach me to be gentler on myself 😂
Oh man I've always been hard on myself. Raising a toddler like this has been unexpectedly beneficial for both of us
Yes! I’m telling my three year old that I can’t dress this doll because the Barbie will not fit into that dress. “It’s okay, mama. Try again! You can do it!” Girl, it literally won’t close.
My toddler, after many many attempts with different toys, is finally starting to understand that when I say "too big, doesn't fit" there is literally no physical way to put the thing in the other thing.
Lol that “you can do hard things” phrase backfired the other day. My son was trying to take of his Tshirt, but he was doing it in a weird way and he was struggling . My husband suggested to do it a different way because it was easier, he said, “no daddy, I can do hard things”. So there he stayed, fighting his Tshirt for like 10 more minutes.
Yep! My toddler will remind me that I need to take a breath if I’m frustrated lmao
Tipped her head upside down and was scrunching her wee curls this morning while I was doing my hair styling routine 🥰
I love Caesar salads. Like it’s an inside joke in my family bc if it’s on the menu, I’ll prob order it. Last night I took my 2 year old and 10 m old out for pizza with my parents. I got a Caesar salad. My 2 year old has never had Caesar salad and every time I’ve introduced her to lettuce she is not interested. She had a crouton, which is normal, then she started taking lettuce off my plate and shoving it into her mouth. It was like she discovered she had just won the lotto. That’s how I know she’s my child.
The words I use for comfort. The other day we were waiting in a long line at a store and my daughter said “you’re doing a great job being patient, mom!” And gave me a thumbs up.
Wearing hats and sunglasses. I always always wear them when I leave the house (year round) so now he thinks he's not dressed to go out without them.
We’re the opposite. I hate socks and having things on my feet. And now my daughter refuses to wear socks if she doesn’t have shoes on. Also going barefoot outside. I thought this was a normal thing (especially after living in Texas). It’s not so normal where we live now but she loves walking around barefoot lol
Exact same! I strip her socks as soon as we remove shoes and husband doesn’t. She holds up her little foot and says socks as if to remind my husband we don’t do socks in this house.
Same here! I have always hated wearing socks and shoes and spent a lot of my childhood barefoot. I spend a lot of time as an adult outside and barefoot (my husband thinks it's weird, but whatever). We went on a walk last night and I noticed my youngest kicked off her sandals to carry them through the park. So proud, lol
“Love you, sleep well” - sleep is pronounced ‘speep’ and she often only says this combination during the day time - not at bedtime, which is when I say it. Honourable mention: “Mama needin pace?” (Mama needs some space?) daughter now asks it when I am quiet for a while. Kills me every time.
My toddler groans when he had to bend over and pick something up, or get up off the floor 🫠
The Midwestern "ope". I didn't realize how much I said it until she started saying it, and she says it a lot. It's especially funny because she's born and raised in the South. At least she'll blend right in when we eventually move back to the Midwest 😅
my son opes all the time too!
It's so cute when toddlers do it!
I learned the Midwestern ope by a teammate back in school, i still do it at 32 🤣 I'm from the south.
Same!! Hahaha
She laughs at her farts. She's 18m. Hehehe
My 18m twins fart a lot and then look at me, smiling, because they know I’m laughing my head off too 😂
My daughter is 2 and 1/2 and I sometimes worry about the jocularity with which we treat farts in our house, and how that's going to pan out once she starts going to school
Omg same!! When my son started laughing at farts I felt like a good parent bc farts are hilarious 😆
If you haven’t done it yet, get a bendy straw and put one end under your armpit, put that arm down at your side and then blow in the straw. Might need to move it around to get it perfect but it’s hilarious. My poor wife came downstairs the other day to me and our 2yo, shirts off, blowing the wettest fart sounds. My son laughed so hard he got the hiccups to the point he threw up a little bit. It was awesome.
I hate wearing shoes in the house, so now my son thinks you shouldn’t wear shoes in the house. We pick up his room every night before bed and now if something is still left out he’ll need to pick it up before we can go to bed.
This is awesome. I’m forever telling my kids to not wear their shoes inside 😒
Who wears shoes in the house?? Ick, man. And my sons never wear socks, because I don’t either haha. No child wears socks in my house- it makes NO sense to. It’s indoors, they’re always running like monkeys, they will stop and die lol. Play date rules are full-barefoot in my home! Haha
We never wear outdoor shoes inside (unless it’s to grab something real quick and everyone’s already waiting in the car lol). Options are house slippers, socks, or barefoot!
The way mine sighs and says "oohhh-kayyyyy" is just adorable. But on the reverse side of things, I hope I haven't also passed on my autoimmune disorder. It really only reared its ugly head when I was pregnant.
We never realized that my husband often stands with his hands behind his back when looking at something, until our toddler started doing the same thing! It’s super cute to see the two of them unintentionally (at least on my husband’s side) doing it together. 😊
Not long after she started walking we noticed our daughter clasping her hands behind her back whenever she was standing around. We initially made jokes about her standing at "parade rest" but when she did it EVERY DAY ALL DAY I finally cracked and confessed to my mom that I had no idea where she saw it only for mom to crack up and point to my dad. I'd forgotten that when he's being really polite/ respectful, my dad stands like that bc he was taught to do so by HIS grandad and she sees him do that every Sunday when they take my daughter to church with them.
A cheese addiction.
Relatable content
Cheese, chocolate and chips
We both need a minute to wake up in the morning or after a nap, no bright lights right away.
We “wake up slow.” There’s no up and rushing or yelling to wake up. Sometimes after a nap we “wake up rough.” That involves waking up crying. Followed by snuggles and a few more sleeps until we wake up slow.
How headstrong, stubborn and independent he is. Very admirable but annoying AF at the same time.
I feel this one! One of my twins is so bloody determined! Precious and yet.. please stop 😂
I hate my feet to be covered when I'm going to go to sleep. Even if I'm covered with a blanket, I'll stick my feet out. My two year old boy is the same lol.
If you ask my kid a question, he'll go "uh... yeah!" Like he really had to think through if he wanted cereal
I had severe brain fog with my last pregnancy (coinciding with my daughter starting to talk). For a bit, every other word was "Um", "Uuuummmmmmmm", "wait", or "hold on."
Mine goes “um…no?” all the time, like “you want a cheese stick?” “Um…no?”
I'm a quiet person, and now I have a quiet toddler who needs speech therapy. Whoopsie.
Sounds better than being a quiet person with foghorns for kids who still need speech therapy.
not proud but he got my heat anger 😭 when i’m in the heat, i get mad easily at the littlest things, he picked up on that & also gets irritated if he’s hot & things aren’t going his way. now it’s more fun because dada has to deal with both of us being angry in the heat but he also meows randomly, i’ve done that for a few years where it’ll be quiet and i just meow, now he does it when it’s too quiet. he also uses it like echolocation if im not near him, that’s how we find each other 😭
My 20 month old hates to be messy or dirty (“wipe hands Mama!”), picks up trash from the ground and insists on throwing it away, always picks up her toys (and her friends’/the local soft play’s). A total rule follower who needs tons of encouragement to try anything new or risky. Very shy. A homebody. Oops. I gave her my anxiety.
My 2 year old is always picking up litter to throw away too! I definitely passed it down to him and I love that he likes to keep places clean but sometimes I wonder if people are thinking we’re gross lol.
I live in dresses regardless of the time of year. If it’s fall or winter, I throw on tights and a cardigan with my dresses. My second daughter who’s now four refuses to wear anything but dresses and if I suggest something else, it’s a massive fight.
Writing in a notebook. I love to journal, and my 3 year old can't write, but she loves to pretend she's writing. Also, working on a laptop 😖 my ex and I both work on our computers a lot. she gets her little leapfrog and says she working all the time, in fact, she's never says she's playing, she's only working on something. Apparently making two dolls interact is a form of work.
My ADHD
When home and fully relaxed into being home, I will sometimes eat like "a wild animal who has starved for a week," or that's how my husband (who was raised in a very strict etiquette home, whereas I was barely taught how to use a fork) describes it. As in just picking up a whole chicken breast and eating it as finger food, same with tortellini. Kiddo does this too now, though it's hard to tell how much is her just still struggling with utensils. I also drink water like a camel, as in, like 3 times a day but a *lot* gulped up. She does too a lot now, oops. Sorry kiddo, I dunno if you have any desire to be a dainty lady, but momma aint the one to show you how. She does my husband's kind of funny thinking stance (he puts one foot on top of the other and stands kind of like a tired flamingo) when she's thinking already, even though she's not even 2. I love it. Also the way he plays with his hair when he's trying to relax after a hard day, but she does it every night while she's falling asleep. They have almost the same hair which makes it extra cute.
i have always say awww my baby when i hug him and now every time he hugs me randomly he goes awww baby. also apparently i say “there you go” a lot because he’s even said it to other kids trying to do something when they finally get it. my parents also watch him while im at work and he says “oh boy” just like my dad lol
Evil laughter. Whenever I do something cheeky I'd say "nyeh heheheh", but it was entirely subconscious and i never really noticed myself doing it. Now when my son decides to be mischievous I hear a little "nyeh heheh"
My toddler has watched me pick up small objects, like socks, with my feet. He now can do the same.
I always change my clothes when I come into the house, so now as soon as he comes into the house he takes his pants off.
My absolute love of all things sweets. It’s insane how she can seem to sniff them out. I didn’t realize that could be genetic lol
SAME 😅
My 5 year old says "my bad" a lot. She also has crippling anxiety about being late to things. Really wish I didn't pass that one on.
In my case, it was totally intentional. Books. Any kind of book. She is three and a half, and when we go to the library now, she spends more time with the books, trying to read than she does with the toys in the play section. I'll admit, I didn't expect her to choose books over toys for another couple of years at least. Her favourite screentime is a playlist I made of people reading Sandra Boynton books on YouTube .
I always do the “ah!” After I take a sip of cold water and now my almost 2 year old does it.
Whenever something happens that isn’t intentional (he drops a cup of water, knocks something off of something else, falls over, etc) I’ll say “it was just an accident! Accidents happen!” And now he says that. It makes me really happy. When I was a kid I was beaten for “accidents” so when one would happen I would start crying out of fear of the repercussions. It’s nice to know my son doesn’t have to worry about things like this and will move into his adolescence knowing that accidents happen and it’s ok!
Grunting every time she gets up from a seated position. Saying “ope” when I run into something (I blame my midwestern mom)
The high perky voice I use when talking to our dog. It’s just so stinking cute coming out of a toddler’s mouth
I’m the opposite. I hate socks and love being barefoot. If I’m out somewhere that requires shoes that need socks, I strip them off the second I’m home (sometimes in the car). My son has started to do the same.
Mine started yelling for his grandma/abuela like I yell for her (my mom). AMAAAAA 😅
My intense sweet tooth. She begs for sweets alllllll day 🫠
My daughter inherited her father’s tendency to put objects on the kitchen counter to “put away later” 😑
For a few years my 4 year olf would say "ooooh you said a bad word" now she goes "Mommy, don't say shit." Today she stormed around the living room mutter "i swear to god..." i need to watch myself.
Apparently I tutt a lot so now when my toddler is having trouble with something he tutts 😂
Similar to your socks,I’m a huge blanket person. She’s now become one as well, if she’s on the couch she’s asking for a blanket. We sit and cuddle under our blankie a lot and it’s my favorite 🤍
Does it count if it’s from our cat? My 13mo nuzzles people with his head when he’s happy just like our cat does.
Aside from various swears and just overall attitude, my oldest makes the exact same face when she doesn't want her picture taken as I do. I get it from my dad. It's absolutely hilarious to see a face I saw so often from my dad on my 3 year old. My little one got her aversion to being touched in her sleep from me 😅. She LOVES to cuddle when she's awake but don't you dare even THINK about touching her when she's asleep. Unless she falls asleep on top of you, in which case you are furniture. Don't move.
Us it’s the opposite. My husband takes his socks off and leaves them all around the house. So does my daughter. It drives me bananas!
Randomly going “hey, I love you” and “you are amazing” along with a lot of other compliments to people he loves Eta: and offering me hugs EVERYTIME I’m angry
Being polite to service industry workers. Whether it's in the drive thru at a fast food place, in person face to face... cashiers, wait staff, grocery baggers, customer service... my kids are all "please & thank you", "have a nice day", "you're welcome" etc. Asking nicely instead of demanding. They're hellions half the time at home, but so sweet and polite to strangers. I didn't realize how polite I was until I had a little parrot by my side, calling it out. I've also apparently passed on a southern twang to my son, which I didn't even know I have 😳😅
For starters, I love my husband and all perfect and imperfect things about him. This is meant to be lighthearted. My husband has four traits that really bug me. - He has a wonky cowlick that is actually cute but I curse at it every time I cut his hair. It’s so hard to cut and style and I’ve been cutting his hair since we met. - He has an obnoxiously large gap between his big toe and second toe that makes shoe shopping for him so hard. I can’t surprise him with shoes because he always has to try shoes on before buying them since most feel uncomfortable on him. - He also has a very sensitive gag reflex. He will literally vomit if it is triggered. - He touches something gross and reactively sniffs his fingers every time. My 5 year old possesses all four of these traits. Those happen to be the only four noticeable traits that he has inherited from his dad, my husband. It’s honestly hysterical. My husband jokes that he can only pass down the best of the best traits 😂 I also curse (in my head) at my son’s cute wonky cowlick when I cut his hair, ensure he is present to try on all new shoes, have a barf bucket in every area of my home for that inevitable gag barf session, and nearly pee my pants when I witness him instinctively sniff his fingers after touching something gross.
My husband immediately gets out of his work clothes and into boxers when he gets home, so a while ago, maybe close to a year at this point, my now almost 3 year old started asking for “shoes off, socks off, pants off” when he came home from daycare 😂. We used to do it for him and now he’s starting to automatically do it as soon as we walk in the door lol
My Y chromosomes. A girl would have been nice, but I've three boys now
My kid is anti social l, just like me. When i realized thay he need some social interaction (we stayed away from crowd and people because of covid), he already became anti social. He hates crowd and people
Opposite issue - we are Floridian so not heavily into socks. I don’t wear them, and now she doesn’t either lol. Or if I wear a dress, she has to wear one!
My uncontrollable laughter!
C'mon man!
My toddler loves going out. As soon as we put her shoes on, she goes straight to the door. My poor husband loves staying home and we love going out 😅
Omg mine is the exact opposite! I hate socks and my son can’t wait to rip his off and frequently asks me to take them off for him.
Wearing hat. I feel naked without hat on my head whenever I go out. My toddler is big hat lover and he brings me his hat to put on whenever we go out. His dad doesn’t understand our “addiction” lol
Eye-rolling. Lol apparently I roll my eyes a lot.
The complete opposite of this one, I hate wearing socks/shoes which has taken to my daughter doing the same thing of unless we need to wear socks/shoes we will not put them on. She's also taken to my habit of eating meals on my bed, I've done it for years and once I realized she was copying me I had to switch to making sure I sat down with her at the table for breakfast and dinner but at lunch we make a little "chill" time to eat on the bed and watch a cooking show much to my husband's dismay.
Mine has started yelling “oh yeah babayyy” when he likes something
Carrying around two drinks! Water and coffee for me, water and milk for her.
I’m pregnant and often place my hands on my stomach when I’m full, which my almost two year old has started doing 😂
She gets kissed on her forehead. Now she kisses me on my forehead as well.
My two-year-old just told me his cookies are FIRE and “that means theyʼre REALLY good, Mommy” — cracked me up, he sounded exactly like his dad 😂
“I can’t open this, my nails are too long.” 💅🏼
ADHD.
I pat her back to comfort her and now she pats MY back to comfort herself. It’s so cute.
3 year old cups 1 year old’s face and says so cute! And also scolds the dog with- naughty girl! No treats for you!edit to add- both tots love dancing! That’s def inherited from both mom and dad.
She offers her hand to the dog or cat she is petting. It's the first thing she does and then she pets them. She gets compliments for being such a good gentle petter. Though she is much rougher with our cats.
We’re a sock crew as well! I also might have passed an exclamatory“oh!” whenever I find something. I didn’t even realize I had this verbal tick until my kid started using it with everything she observes or finds 😂
I am always cold. When I sit on the couch, I always want to be covered with a blanket. Now my kid wants a blanket whenever he’s on the couch, brings a blanket to the breakfast table with him some days, and wants to be covered in four blankets when he goes to bed. 🤣🤣🤣
Haha here it’s opposite. I hate wearing socks, so I’m always barefoot. Now my toddler is too. Even when it’s winter
I am a big ice chewer (I know not great for your tooth enamel and can be an indication of low iron) and it was my biggest craving in pregnancy and my daughter and dog both love eating ice thanks to me 😂.
My 5 year old calls our cat “Gorgeous” and “Baby Girl” just like I do. He loves her so much. She…tolerates his existence.
A dislike of crowds. He often points out whether it’s “too many people,” or “not too many people” wherever we’re going.
Grunting when i stand up 😂
In the same boat with socks lol I love socks and so does he lol we’re very rarely barefoot lol for my other son, unfortunately, anxiety lol. I’m not diagnosed but I’ve heard from many people in my life that my level of anxiety is indeed not normal. Not to mention I have panic attacks so lol Anyway, when my son was diagnosed with selective mutism and I read about how it’s an anxiety disorder I was like “oops, sorry bud” lol anyway, he’s good, he talks, he’s just extremely shy lol
I am very much the opposite and rarely wear socks at home anymore. Especially since we moved to a warmer climate. Now my 18 month old who just started walking will protest whenever we try to put shoes on him 🥲
The various distinctive facial expressions I’ve allegedly made over the years. Yeah, okay…I guess she picked them up from somewhere 😂 she may have more facial expressions than she has words at 2.5 years. lmao jk jk 😀😆🥹🙃😗😋🤪🤨😒😏😖😭😡🤯😳😨🫣🤔🫢🤗🫠😬🙄😮💨😮😵💫😵👹
My very southern dialect. We currently do not live in the area where I grew up. While we live in the south still, we are very close to a large metropolitan area. But when she mixes my southern accent with her own "city" accent. It's quite funny.
I had a habit of saying “rip!” whenever someone passed gas in the house. Now my 4 year old and almost 2 year old girls will fart and yell “Rip!!” or say it whenever they hear someone else do it
Once my kid wanted a little ponytail like mine, and I thought it was so cute and took pictures. Now every time he asks for a pony, he also wants a picture taken immediately.
I pat and rub his back when he’s upset. Now any sign of me being upset (even if I’m not) he’ll pat/rub my back. Today I had a tone while asking him to put his crocs on for the billionth time because we were running late, and when I sat down to just put them on him myself he gave me a good pat/rub 😭
random “oohs” “ahhhs” and “ohs!” when we’re watching something we’re interested (in synchronization cause we like a lot of the same things 😂)
My nana always said milk tastes better from a glass and I truly believe it and so does my eldest
I open my arms wide and say "abrazo?" And squeeze her tight while wiggling around and now she comes up to me randomly and does the same thing 🥹😭
Saying "aww" for hugs, lol. I don't always say it when I give people hugs, but I definitely say it when I observe them or play pretend with stuffed animals giving each other hugs. So now she says "aww" every time she gives a hug. 💀🤣
Every time I walk into a room I do a little wave to everyone (became a habit bc during covid we couldn’t give the hug/kiss hello) and now my daughter does the same little wave!
I talk to the dog and say things like, " oh you need some food, yeah?" And she does the same "yeah?" Thing
He won't do *anything* without a book or six. Commuting? Need the Elmo book. Trying to eat breakfast? Elephant book. Want to play outside? Sure, but we're taking this entire pile of dino books with us. It's so cute and it's not like you can complain about your kid wanting to read... but ohmygod is it a pain in the butt. We go to the library more than we go to the grocery store, and I'm suddenly sympathetic for all those times my mother had to tell me to look up from my book while crossing the street.
When my daughter was a baby, her dad and I would always try to cheer her up or distract her when she cried by making silly noises with her lips using our fingers. Apparently she started associating that with sadness, so for several months every time she was really upset about something she would play with her lower lip with her fingers. It was really, really cute.
I’ve twirled my hair since I was a little girl and my daughter was relaxing and I watched her just sit there and twirl her hair.
Cleaning, I’m always picking up or cleaning something so naturally he has followed me around and picked up on my cleaning habits. So much so that he would want to grab the broom from me to help so I got him a little one and he does actually grab it when he sees me with mine and I’ll let him sweep like a big wrapper or paper into the dust pan. He races me to the trash when I’m going to throw something away just so he can open it for me. Same with doing laundry, hanging up clothes or washing dishes, I will wash a cup and give it to him to also wash and he helps me put up the silverware. It’s the cutest thing and warms my heart. Another thing is when I make a yucky face I scrunch up my nose and he does that too now, he’ll say nasty? And scrunch up his nose lol I was not prepared for all of these sweet little things!
My giggling about stupid things 😂😂😂😂 now I see how my mom felt when I was a child and I’d just be giggling all the time about stupid stuff. My daughter is the same way and man it’s driving me nuts 🤣
My daughter calls me pet names 24/7. She comes up to me and strokes my hair and says things like "hi baby love. How are you?" "What are you doing sweet girl" "you're so precious mommy". Most of those are from me but the ones she gets from her dad are "mommy! Nice butt!" "You're so beautiful, isn't mommy so beautiful" and "titties!"
Soft clothing. Im very into clothing that is very soft and now my 3 year old refuses to wear things that “aren’t soft enough”
He has mimic'd my eyebrow raise. I do it when my students (or my son) are doing something they know they shouldn't. He does it when he's thinking.... Or trying to stare me down --- which is hilarious.
Mine curses like a Sailor thanks to all his long commutes with me to the city. I'm just rocking it
Currently anytime we “open” something, he immediately says “wow” Miss Rachel rubbed off on me hahahaha
I'm not proud of it, but my son is a total indoor kid like me. My husband's side of the family is all very active and they always try to get my son to do stuff outside. He will be inside drawing or playing with toys and Grandma will try to get him outside by saying "Let's race each other around the house!" and my son will say "Why?" and Grandma will say "For exercise!" and my son will say "... why." I definitely want my son to be active, but as someone who hates exercise I feel that why deep in my soul.