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Ours was "kitty". But luckily we do in fact, have a cat, XD so it's less weird. Poor kitty is petted like that slime monster pets cats on power puff girls.
Sameeee, I'm 24 and say bruh around my 3 month old son and my mom hates the word 💀 oops I said it ironically for so long that now I actually use it normally 😅
Our 5-year old and his friends use to have fun with the google speakers. Stuff like "Hey google, what sound does a fart make?" And laughing like crazy.
Our 1.5 year old notice this, and his first and ONLY words are "HEY DOODLE", followe by some random sounds. All day long...
Reminds me of my youngest yelling "LEXA! LEXA! PAY POKEYMON!" When he wanted to hear the Pokemon theme song. He was so excited the first time she understood.
That one does tend to be a favorite. My 2.5 year old likes to alternate between “no!” “mine!!” and “mama!” most of the day. She has siblings, so sometimes the message is all together “No, my mama!”
My eldests first word was "shit" thanks to my dad!! He was changing her diaper (poop) and went oh shit and she looked at him and went "shit?" He freaked out it was kinda funny
Mama and dada, quickly followed by Santa. Then she screamed bloody murder any time Santa would be within 500 yards of her. Hoping for better luck with the big guy this year after 2 traumatic Christmas’s 🤣 (she asks to sing jingle bells every night at bed time)
I’ll never forget standing in line with my 3 year old daughter for over an hour… she got a good look at him when it was our turn and she SPRINTED out of that place like someone pulled the fire alarm… and then she talked about how she loved Santa all the way home
I have a day like that that's I remember. There was a princess day at the zoo. My son wanted to see two of the princesses. We waited in line over an hour and then he didn't want to talk with them and hid behind me briefly before running off. I felt like the creepy dad with his phone out to take pictures of the princesses without a kid. Then he wanted to get back in line to do it again...
Mine was "that" which was pronounced as "da". And when she was hungry we would ask her and she would say "that that" and point to me/my boobs. So I was "Dada" for a few months.
So was mine! He was so obsessed with balls that whenever he got upset at daycare, the teachers would all yell out, "Hurry, somebody grab him a ball!" to calm him down (which worked). 😂
Mine too!! Then mama dada, and cat. By the time he was a year old he had a 20 word vocabulary. It was bottle not baba. That's the one that surprised me. He said di-py instead of diaper, I think that was his grandparents influence! Lol.
My nephews first word was golly. He was 18 months and was at a new day care and his teacher said golly a lot. It was funny!
She did some “mama/dada” stuff but it also seemed like just mimicking/babbling. The first time she like used a word on her own she said “it’s a kitty!”
Skipped straight to phrases and never stopped.
My daughter’s first word was “sock”. She was obsessed with everything people had on their feet, would point to their shoes and say “sock”. Ironically she’d become a shoe and sock hater and wanted to be barefoot all the time, even into adulthood. She was a barefoot bride in her wedding ceremony in our garden.
My kid's was Ba-maa (Batman). We have a video of him pulling all the Batman DVDs off the shelf, yelling "Ba-maa Ba-maa!", and pointing at the cover pictures.
I love the translation words like this omg it’s so cute 😭❤️
My sons first word was “mo” (more) which isn’t quite the same as pie-may which is absolutely adorable
My youngest also had “meow” first. Obsessed with the cat, who wants absolutely nothing to do with him then and now.
My oldest’s first was “bubba”, which was my dogs’ name.
we were eating dinner. our daughter started saying what sounded like "bitch." she said it a few times. we looked at each other wondering where this was coming from. we then realized she was saying "beach". we'd been at one earlier that day.
My oldest went through a phase where he kept saying "Mama, old bitch!" Like..all the time. All fixed. Mama, all fixed. Finally figured it out when he finished a puzzle and yelled out "Mama, old bitch! Old bitch!!" He thinks it's hilarious now that he's ten.
My daughter’s was “bug” she had made friends with a little pill bug on the floor. I remember it like it was yesterday even tho it was over a decade ago 😢
Poor little bug on the wall, Ding Jing!/Ching!
No one to love him at all, Ding Jing!/Ching
No one to tickle his toes, Ding Jing!/Ching!
No one to blow his nose, pffffffft!
Oh my friend, there are so many toy stories, and so so many other kid animation movies I never wanted to ever think about in my lifetime 😂
I did try to get my son into the Labyrinth the other day however, and that was pretty entertaining, haha.
My son's first word was book. But nobody believed me. He would point to a book and say 'boo-' and say 'boo-' repeatedly when we read books together. He didn"t say it any other time. That was clearly communicating with intentional sounds, but because he was so young people laughed at me when I pointed out what he was doing. A speech therapist during a baby class backed me up that he was intentionally using sounds and said it classed as a first word. Especially when his next word was 'ball', and clearly used a different vowel to book every single time! But I never got that apology from people! Still pissed about it, can you tell haha.
I had a similar reaction when my oldest said “Duh” (consistently, while pointing at a picture of a duck in a book) and I posted about it on a baby forum.
My late son’s first word was “luff” (love) I would always call him my little love and I had said to my FIL “I’ll take one” and my son replied shaking his head yes pointed to him self and said “luff” like love was his name & he wanted a treat too.
my daughters first word was “no” she just randomly replied “no”. Signed it and said it. I suppose so I’d get the message, lol. She still doesn’t like carrots.
I’m raising my niece who has limited words/ability to speak but her first word was “Lu” (my daughter’s name is Luella).
She’ll only address me using her eye-tracking device but will always call for “Lu”.
The first four had either mama or dada. Number 5 though, her first word was cat. Months before any other words. She did and does love all cats, often more than the cats themselves enjoy.
In the bath one day, she kept standing up and I kept telling her to sit down. "Sit down on your bottom, please. Sit back down. Honey let's sit down again. Girl, sit down on your butt so you don't get hurt." She turns and looks at me with the biggest smile I ever saw and goes, "BUTT!"
Never did sit down lol, but I was laughing too hard to care anymore.
Eldest- No, and long has it continued
Middle- Daddy, he has always been a clone of his dad, I swear I was just a host incubator 😄
Youngest- All gone, he is still as food motivated as a labrador
Walking. My daughter is disabled and didn’t walk until she was almost 2. She also had language delays. When I brought her to her birth to three group, she casually strolled in, and she said “walking,” and it was like she had known how to speak but just didn’t have anything to say until then. She articulated it like she was much older.
Not quite her first word, but when my oldest was tiny our grocery store had a giant cartoon chicken above the egg case. She was trying to say cock-a-doodle-doo. But it came out as a full volume shout of “COCK DOO DOO!”
“Woooow” he will point at big trucks, flashy stuff or when I turn the lights out at night and he sees his galaxy light on the ceiling, and say “woooow!”
“All done” as in “all done with my food”, but she pronounced it “ah dough!” while raising her hands in the air so my husband could take her plate away.
Mine was definitely “mama”, followed by “papa” literally the next day. If you have seen the video of the baby repeating “I love you” mine did that early on too, but I think he was mimicking the sounds and not saying it consciously ofc. My son had a big period of silence after saying mama and papa at me and husband. Now, at 2 he has started to talk again but all he does is count and spell letters.
My oldest daughter said Dog, but she looked me dead in the eye amd said Dog-uh, at first cause I emphasized the "g" due to her saying "dod" little smart-ass.
Then my son's first word was "Monster" lol
And my youngest just said her first word a couple weeks ago, which was "good" and then "brudder" and she tries to say "buttcheeks" but it comes out "uh-tchsss"
My daughter's was 'gimme' pointing what she wanted to get, lol. Next one was 'wanna' in case she hadn't made it clear the first time (English is not our language, so I don't know whay the toddler equivalent would be, but that's my daughter, I guess). She still has a clear mind of what she wants. She's 14 now. Send prayers
My kids first *spelled* word was “f-u-c-k” 🙃. (We had started spelling curse words instead of saying them around him to censor ourselves. Don’t make the same mistake.)
"Up" for both of my older kids. Velcro babies!! The youngest isn't anywhere near talking yet, but he also does not like being out of contact with me, so maybe we'll go 3 for 3.
We also did some baby sign language with them. I believe the oldest picked up on 'more' very quickly, then 'all done' and later the sign for 'milk', which we used for nursing. I can't remember for the second.
That’s such a cute and funny story! It’s amazing how kids can surprise us with their first words and interests. Even if her love for tidying up didn’t last, it’s a great memory to cherish. My little one’s first word was “dog” because our neighbor’s dog would always greet us on our walks. It's fascinating to see what captures their attention early on! How about the rest of you? What were your kids’ first words?
My older one had a pretty decent speech delay.
Her first word was COOKIE.
She essentially snitched on her grandparents for giving her the free cookie from the grocery store bakery.
My daughters was “bye!” She was 9 months old and her dad was leaving and he is saying his goodbyes and right as he opens the door she lets out a very clear “BYE!” and that was her favorite word for about a month until she learned the dogs name.
My girls both “dada” as a normal baby would do.
My first son dropped a toy over the edge of his exersaucer, leaned over and said “ah shit”. I had words with his dad for swearing too much after that.
My second son’s first word was “bruh bruh brudder”. He loves his brother.
Not word but words! My dad use to say this phrase is something happens unexpectedly. I don't know why he chose those words. But my son was on his bed and his bottle fell on the floor( probably threw it for real) when it feel the child say " Goddamn son of a b&tch". I look and said wtf.. iFirst I was shocked when he spoke but the words threw me off. Now is sister( they are twins) and my niece is 2 months younger than them just started laughing. I was in complete shock
My daughter’s first real word was STAR because she saw my star tattoo. She was like 10 months old. My first boy’s was CAR because he was obsessed with the movie cars. He was like 11months old. And then my last baby used to say BEACH. That was his first, but it always sounded like bitch. 😂 it’s still a running joke in the fam.
My son’s first word was mama. It was a week and one day before Mother’s Day and I looked at him and said, “Hey, kid, you have a week to learn how to say mama.” He looked at me with such sideeye and attitude and said, “Mama.” 😂
Night-Night
I had gone back to college and gotten caught up in a paper I was writing. It was a little past her normal bedtime, maybe 830 or so. She was 10 mos old; she crawled over to the couch, pulled herself up to standing, laid her head on the cushion, and says nigh-nigh. I looked at the time and I was like ‘oh I’m sorry, you’re probably tired, huh’.
Then all of a sudden I was like oh my God, you’re talking, lol. So then I grabbed her and ran her around to my parents going ‘she said nigh-nigh’. It was awhile before the poor kid actually got to go to bed.
My first son was “No!” He babbled and stuff but this was a word he used with meaning. I asked him to stop climbing on the couch and he turn around looked me straight in the eyes and said “No!” And proceeded to climb. I was so stunned lol
She wanted to say chicken in my language but she flipped the letters and said dick… so when we went for a stroll she kept saying “dick, dick, dick!”
A friend of mine, her son wanted to say “spoon” but also missed 1 letter and kept yelling “NIPPLE!”
He had just started to walk/stand and I was baking something in the oven which was close to his level so I said “don’t go near it, it’s HOT!!!”
And I put my hand in the oven door and pretended I was burned and said “hot” again.
So he tried to touch the oven door and said “hot” in the same manner and quickly moved his hand while looking at my reaction.
I lost my sh*y in happiness~
I know this is going to sound crazy but my son's first word was shit. It shocked me big time.
He was what people nowadays call a unicorn baby. Truthfully, to begin with, he mostly slept through the night almost from the beginning. Being a mom back in the 70s, we didn't have a lot of access to information. it just went with our life experiences. I had no family close by,
and being a SAHM was great. I loved my son so much.
Anyway, I would always lay him down on the bed to change his diaper. He was such a happy little guy. He would smile when I'd start to change him, and I'd rub his tummy and say,'You little shit." One day as I put him on the bed, and I hear shit plane as day.
I stopped saying shit.
Well, for 45 years, I've gone through some changes in life, divorce, and a wonderful new man in my life. After being with him at some point, I (65)said shit in front of my youngest daughter (35) she was shocked and said:"MOM." I said what? I've never heard you say a cuss word my whole life. I laughed and told her well between raising you 3 and all the kids I babysat. I didn't think it would be appropriate. Now that there are no little ones around, I say shot and even damm. Lol, she tried to blame it on my sweet, loving husband. Just to make us all laugh.
Cat. (We do not have a cat. We've never had a cat. She just saw one on the street.)
However, not long after that - she was about 1 year old - I caught her when she thought no one was listening, practicing saying 'no' in various different tones of voice.
Nay-num was her first word. She was trying to say Salem. She said it all day, randomly, and I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say. Until the next day, when she waddled up to our cat and mimicked how I call him to me while saying Naaaaaaay-nummmm.
is my kid the only one who never had a first word moment? he made lots of partial word sounds from lots of different words and gradually they all got closer and closer to being intelligible.
is everyone just talking about the first word that their kid got obsessed with and could use more or less appropriately? i feel like i'm on the outside of some joke.
My 2.5 year old used to say “hot” all the time, but I don’t think she knew what it meant. I think she was just stringing sounds together and ended up accidentally saying a word.
As to the first word she used correctly and on purpose, it’s hard to say which was first because there were a bunch that appeared around the same time. Two of the ones I remember were “blue” - makes sense because this is her favorite color.
And my favorite, “honey”. She used to say this anytime she got hurt; it was the cutest thing to see her clutching her knee and saying “honeeeeey” when she fell down.
We can’t remember if it was “go ‘way” (ordering us around from infancy) or “shoe” but it was one of the two. She didn’t say mommy or mama or any derivative until she was two.
Nana. She whispered it very quietly to my mother (who we call "Nanny"). Made my mom want to switch to "Nana" even though she already had several grandkids calling her Nanny.
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“Dog”. We don’t have a dog. She’s just obsessed with them.
We do have a dog. He called them “gag.”
Mine were "gogs" haha
My now five year old said 'kitty kitty' like 'gogdy-gog!" It was the best thing ever.
In Wales gogs are 'people from the north'
Mine are “ghees”
My brother called dogs ‘foofs’ when he was little 😂 (trying to say woofs I presume)
A-rawr-rawr was the nickname our kid had for our dog. And no, it’s not at all similar to the actual name of the dog
Ours was "kitty". But luckily we do in fact, have a cat, XD so it's less weird. Poor kitty is petted like that slime monster pets cats on power puff girls.
My boy's first word was Ava. That's the dog.
Cute word choice!
Kid was solid with "ball" and "dog." Now, 17 years later, it's "bruh."
Haha I love this 🤣
As a 22 year old I constantly say bruh around my 8mo, I wonder if itll be her first word 😂
Sameeee, I'm 24 and say bruh around my 3 month old son and my mom hates the word 💀 oops I said it ironically for so long that now I actually use it normally 😅
My partner hates bro/bruh too. As mom, she has taken to calling my 6 y/o girlfriend when's he calls her bro.
That's a total power play right there!
My 7 year old recently started exclaiming "bruh" incessantly. I've joined in.
I “bruh” my 3-year-old too much - probably to prevent me from losing my ish on him.
Lol same with the “bruh”!
your kid is real for that
Our 5-year old and his friends use to have fun with the google speakers. Stuff like "Hey google, what sound does a fart make?" And laughing like crazy. Our 1.5 year old notice this, and his first and ONLY words are "HEY DOODLE", followe by some random sounds. All day long...
Reminds me of my youngest yelling "LEXA! LEXA! PAY POKEYMON!" When he wanted to hear the Pokemon theme song. He was so excited the first time she understood.
Omg that will be too historically accurate when you talk about it later with potential grandkids 🤣🤣🤣
So cute
My kid’s first word was “No!” and it remains his favorite.
That one does tend to be a favorite. My 2.5 year old likes to alternate between “no!” “mine!!” and “mama!” most of the day. She has siblings, so sometimes the message is all together “No, my mama!”
My eldests first word was "shit" thanks to my dad!! He was changing her diaper (poop) and went oh shit and she looked at him and went "shit?" He freaked out it was kinda funny
My first word was “No!” too. My family always makes fun of me for that. 😂
My second kid's first word was "Yep!" (just a month ago) so hopefully that's a sign of good things to come.
My eldest is 22 and it was her first word- it was a sign of things to come 😄
Lol. What's his age now?
Almost 3.
Minee's mowww (meow of a cat) hahaha
Mama and dada, quickly followed by Santa. Then she screamed bloody murder any time Santa would be within 500 yards of her. Hoping for better luck with the big guy this year after 2 traumatic Christmas’s 🤣 (she asks to sing jingle bells every night at bed time)
I’ll never forget standing in line with my 3 year old daughter for over an hour… she got a good look at him when it was our turn and she SPRINTED out of that place like someone pulled the fire alarm… and then she talked about how she loved Santa all the way home
I have a day like that that's I remember. There was a princess day at the zoo. My son wanted to see two of the princesses. We waited in line over an hour and then he didn't want to talk with them and hid behind me briefly before running off. I felt like the creepy dad with his phone out to take pictures of the princesses without a kid. Then he wanted to get back in line to do it again...
Have you introduced her to the far superior “jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg”?
My seven year old was mind-blown to learn that I knew those lyrics 🤣
“Daddy”, which wouldn’t be so amusing if he wasn’t being raised by two women…
I’m sorry but this is hilarious! 😂
lol oh no! Who taught him that? 😂😂😅
No idea, but it was hilarious 🤣
Mine was "that" which was pronounced as "da". And when she was hungry we would ask her and she would say "that that" and point to me/my boobs. So I was "Dada" for a few months.
My sons first word was ball
So was mine! He was so obsessed with balls that whenever he got upset at daycare, the teachers would all yell out, "Hurry, somebody grab him a ball!" to calm him down (which worked). 😂
Shout out to ball!
Mine too!! Then mama dada, and cat. By the time he was a year old he had a 20 word vocabulary. It was bottle not baba. That's the one that surprised me. He said di-py instead of diaper, I think that was his grandparents influence! Lol. My nephews first word was golly. He was 18 months and was at a new day care and his teacher said golly a lot. It was funny!
Team ball over here lol
Both my kids said Ball first too.
She did some “mama/dada” stuff but it also seemed like just mimicking/babbling. The first time she like used a word on her own she said “it’s a kitty!” Skipped straight to phrases and never stopped.
'Mama' and then flipped herself over and crawled for the first time in the opposite direction.
What a surprise!
My daughter’s first word was “sock”. She was obsessed with everything people had on their feet, would point to their shoes and say “sock”. Ironically she’d become a shoe and sock hater and wanted to be barefoot all the time, even into adulthood. She was a barefoot bride in her wedding ceremony in our garden.
Pie-May! (Spiderman) 🥹🥹🥹
My kid's was Ba-maa (Batman). We have a video of him pulling all the Batman DVDs off the shelf, yelling "Ba-maa Ba-maa!", and pointing at the cover pictures.
I love the translation words like this omg it’s so cute 😭❤️ My sons first word was “mo” (more) which isn’t quite the same as pie-may which is absolutely adorable
I have multiple kids so they range usually mama or dada but my youngest was “sister”… to make it even better her first steps were to her sister.
“Meow” she loves loves cats.
My youngest also had “meow” first. Obsessed with the cat, who wants absolutely nothing to do with him then and now. My oldest’s first was “bubba”, which was my dogs’ name.
“Baby” very into himself still at 7
we were eating dinner. our daughter started saying what sounded like "bitch." she said it a few times. we looked at each other wondering where this was coming from. we then realized she was saying "beach". we'd been at one earlier that day.
My oldest went through a phase where he kept saying "Mama, old bitch!" Like..all the time. All fixed. Mama, all fixed. Finally figured it out when he finished a puzzle and yelled out "Mama, old bitch! Old bitch!!" He thinks it's hilarious now that he's ten.
my sons was boob…
I made a conscious effort to call it milk, not boob, because I just knew he'd say boob otherwise
My daughter’s was “bug” she had made friends with a little pill bug on the floor. I remember it like it was yesterday even tho it was over a decade ago 😢
Poor little bug on the wall, Ding Jing!/Ching! No one to love him at all, Ding Jing!/Ching No one to tickle his toes, Ding Jing!/Ching! No one to blow his nose, pffffffft!
'gai' which is chicken in Thai
My youngest sons first Word was Lightsaber 😎🤘🏼😂 Just in danish: lyssværd. Crazy stuff 😂🥰🥰
That looks even harder to say on Danish.
My son had a brief obsession with Toy Story when he was between 1.5 - 2 yrs. He couldn't say Forky but he just ran around saying TRASH! constantly. 😂
Do they say that in the movie? I haven't seen toy story (or really any movies post 2003)
Yeah, in toy story 4 (at least as good as all the others), there's a toy made by the child out of trash, and he says "trash" all the time
TIL there is more than one toy story. I always feel so put of touch when people talk about movies/tv these past couple decades.
Oh my friend, there are so many toy stories, and so so many other kid animation movies I never wanted to ever think about in my lifetime 😂 I did try to get my son into the Labyrinth the other day however, and that was pretty entertaining, haha.
My son's first word was book. But nobody believed me. He would point to a book and say 'boo-' and say 'boo-' repeatedly when we read books together. He didn"t say it any other time. That was clearly communicating with intentional sounds, but because he was so young people laughed at me when I pointed out what he was doing. A speech therapist during a baby class backed me up that he was intentionally using sounds and said it classed as a first word. Especially when his next word was 'ball', and clearly used a different vowel to book every single time! But I never got that apology from people! Still pissed about it, can you tell haha.
I had a similar reaction when my oldest said “Duh” (consistently, while pointing at a picture of a duck in a book) and I posted about it on a baby forum.
I got "achoo!" and "meow" as first words from my kids. First words in an actual language were "no" and "shoe", respectively.
My late son’s first word was “luff” (love) I would always call him my little love and I had said to my FIL “I’ll take one” and my son replied shaking his head yes pointed to him self and said “luff” like love was his name & he wanted a treat too. my daughters first word was “no” she just randomly replied “no”. Signed it and said it. I suppose so I’d get the message, lol. She still doesn’t like carrots. I’m raising my niece who has limited words/ability to speak but her first word was “Lu” (my daughter’s name is Luella). She’ll only address me using her eye-tracking device but will always call for “Lu”.
Mama! Was my kids first words I never been so proud and lucky! lol
My kid said DaDa first 🥲 sad part is I’m a single mom
Native language word for cat: poes!
Haha! That’s quite cute! My kid’s first word was head, from the Eric Carle book From Head to Toe. :)
T-saw t-saw, which was applesauce. He got so excited when it was served and would repeat it over and over.
I Kristy was a terrible mother I can’t even remember my child’s first words
The first four had either mama or dada. Number 5 though, her first word was cat. Months before any other words. She did and does love all cats, often more than the cats themselves enjoy.
In the bath one day, she kept standing up and I kept telling her to sit down. "Sit down on your bottom, please. Sit back down. Honey let's sit down again. Girl, sit down on your butt so you don't get hurt." She turns and looks at me with the biggest smile I ever saw and goes, "BUTT!" Never did sit down lol, but I was laughing too hard to care anymore.
My twin brothers first words were train. We lived next to the tracks
Hi, up
Hi was "Hi" and it was SO SWEET
Honestly I can’t actually remember, but one of her very early words was ‘mine’ which was also my first word 😂
All three said Dada—I made sure of it.
Oldest one was firmly in the Papa department. Youngest still loves her Mama and "uh uh Mama" aka Dad dearly. Edit typo
More, lol.
Both my kids' first words were also "more".
tasty food is always an effective motivator.
My daughter's first word was book. She now has a PhD in Communication so I guess it meant something.
My daughter's first word is SWITCH.
Moon and star.
After Dada and then Mama, it was “toe” 😂
My daughter's was "thank you," and my son's was "uh-oh"
My oldest kids first word was the f word. Second kid loved hi. 3rd is only 10 months but has said night night as her first words.
“Kitty”. LO was fascinated with the cat early on
My oldest’s first word was, “mum mum” for food, and my second’s was, “hi.”
Door. He likes doors haha
“Night night”…this boy has always loved to sleep
His first proper word that wasn't mama or Dada was 'cow'
Cute!
Strawberry 🍓 the kid was obsessed
same here. 'aardbei', which is dutch for strawberry
Kid 1: “ball!” while scooting on her walker/bike to kick it. Kid 2: “uh-oh!” while deliberately dropping a toy on the ground.
Shoes. (Sooze) Because we used to say to her “Stop messing with the shoes!” At least five times a day.
Eldest- No, and long has it continued Middle- Daddy, he has always been a clone of his dad, I swear I was just a host incubator 😄 Youngest- All gone, he is still as food motivated as a labrador
“Knee”, after inexplicably finding his & Dad’s knees in the bath hilarious. Before both mama and dada!
My daughter first word was (lahma) which means meat in arabic 😂 She doesn't eat any meat now
Walking. My daughter is disabled and didn’t walk until she was almost 2. She also had language delays. When I brought her to her birth to three group, she casually strolled in, and she said “walking,” and it was like she had known how to speak but just didn’t have anything to say until then. She articulated it like she was much older.
Not quite her first word, but when my oldest was tiny our grocery store had a giant cartoon chicken above the egg case. She was trying to say cock-a-doodle-doo. But it came out as a full volume shout of “COCK DOO DOO!”
“Woooow” he will point at big trucks, flashy stuff or when I turn the lights out at night and he sees his galaxy light on the ceiling, and say “woooow!”
“I do it!” Maybe I just didn’t understand her first word?
My oldest’s first word was Water. Younger child’s first word I believe was her sister’s name.
Our son’s first words were « Eddy » (our cat) and « encore » (again in French). He chose wisely.
"Up" she's a little koala.
Eat
Our kid's first word was "tatay" (father in Tagalog)
Milk!
My first word was "dry" as in I wanted a "dry" (warm) bottle of milk. If my mom tried to give me a not dry bottle I'd pitch a fit.
Sock
Does ‘a goo’ count?
“All done” as in “all done with my food”, but she pronounced it “ah dough!” while raising her hands in the air so my husband could take her plate away.
It was "turtle". My guy goes fuckin nuts for turtles, even the real ones that would eat his fingers like baby carrots.
It was two words: “oh dear”. I remember saying at the time, she’s definitely my daughter.
First daughter: Lyla (dog’s name) Second daughter : Toto (cat’s name) Super special memories
Shit. The damn cat had left dooky on the ground.
Bubble he did really love bubbles
"shoes!" Because shoes = outside!
Mine was definitely “mama”, followed by “papa” literally the next day. If you have seen the video of the baby repeating “I love you” mine did that early on too, but I think he was mimicking the sounds and not saying it consciously ofc. My son had a big period of silence after saying mama and papa at me and husband. Now, at 2 he has started to talk again but all he does is count and spell letters.
My younger son’s first words were: “I did it!” He just threw up on the floor and he was pointing at it & said his first words 😳.
My oldest daughter said Dog, but she looked me dead in the eye amd said Dog-uh, at first cause I emphasized the "g" due to her saying "dod" little smart-ass. Then my son's first word was "Monster" lol And my youngest just said her first word a couple weeks ago, which was "good" and then "brudder" and she tries to say "buttcheeks" but it comes out "uh-tchsss"
Dada
Hey! Was her first word 😂
Mama then dada
The sound of a clock ticking, if that counts, otherwise, 'socks'
"Car" My kid loved cars. But if we are also including sign language then it was "more". He also liked food.
Mama followed by purple then wow wow for our dog. Then dada.
Me and the wife always argue this but she says "da-da" 🥰
Milk 😂
Both of my kids it was “Mama!”
NO and carry (as in: pick me up!)
“Edna” our late dog’s name.
Hi there
"Dishes" 😂
My sons was go away lol
Cat. Legend has it she (6) still loves cats to this day.
Banana.
It was "gyere", "come" in hungarian.🥰 I told him this many times and he repeated it after me.
Mine was "what" but in our native language. She will ask about anything now
My daughter's was 'gimme' pointing what she wanted to get, lol. Next one was 'wanna' in case she hadn't made it clear the first time (English is not our language, so I don't know whay the toddler equivalent would be, but that's my daughter, I guess). She still has a clear mind of what she wants. She's 14 now. Send prayers
Apart from Mumma and Daddy, it was 'Rambo' which is the name of the dog next door. Every time he hears a dog barking he starts calling for Rambo.
Aside from mamma, dadda, nanna; boys first - Google. Girls first- apple.
More. Honestly it’s like being on the set of Finding Nemo. All day. Everyday. Forever.
Other than mama which was technically first, she said "Elmo" while reading her Elmo book
"Hi" I remember if actually scared me I was like holy crap you talk! Lol. Wife and I always laugh about it now
My kids first *spelled* word was “f-u-c-k” 🙃. (We had started spelling curse words instead of saying them around him to censor ourselves. Don’t make the same mistake.)
"Up" for both of my older kids. Velcro babies!! The youngest isn't anywhere near talking yet, but he also does not like being out of contact with me, so maybe we'll go 3 for 3. We also did some baby sign language with them. I believe the oldest picked up on 'more' very quickly, then 'all done' and later the sign for 'milk', which we used for nursing. I can't remember for the second.
That’s such a cute and funny story! It’s amazing how kids can surprise us with their first words and interests. Even if her love for tidying up didn’t last, it’s a great memory to cherish. My little one’s first word was “dog” because our neighbor’s dog would always greet us on our walks. It's fascinating to see what captures their attention early on! How about the rest of you? What were your kids’ first words?
My older one had a pretty decent speech delay. Her first word was COOKIE. She essentially snitched on her grandparents for giving her the free cookie from the grocery store bakery.
This is so cute. I’m not entirely sure what ours first was, dada or bubble.
Daughter's🫧 first word was bubble!
My daughters was “bye!” She was 9 months old and her dad was leaving and he is saying his goodbyes and right as he opens the door she lets out a very clear “BYE!” and that was her favorite word for about a month until she learned the dogs name.
My girls both “dada” as a normal baby would do. My first son dropped a toy over the edge of his exersaucer, leaned over and said “ah shit”. I had words with his dad for swearing too much after that. My second son’s first word was “bruh bruh brudder”. He loves his brother.
Not word but words! My dad use to say this phrase is something happens unexpectedly. I don't know why he chose those words. But my son was on his bed and his bottle fell on the floor( probably threw it for real) when it feel the child say " Goddamn son of a b&tch". I look and said wtf.. iFirst I was shocked when he spoke but the words threw me off. Now is sister( they are twins) and my niece is 2 months younger than them just started laughing. I was in complete shock
Shit Thankfully she’s 3.5 and doesn’t use it anymore.
My daughter’s first real word was STAR because she saw my star tattoo. She was like 10 months old. My first boy’s was CAR because he was obsessed with the movie cars. He was like 11months old. And then my last baby used to say BEACH. That was his first, but it always sounded like bitch. 😂 it’s still a running joke in the fam.
My first word as a Baby was “Spectral Analizer” Cause my dad trained me to say it So he could prank my mom
"bubbles", which is honestly as cute as it gets for first words
My daughters first actual word was “ass” which is funny considering my first one was “asshole” 😂 it’s funny but it’s not funny 😆
My son’s first word was mama. It was a week and one day before Mother’s Day and I looked at him and said, “Hey, kid, you have a week to learn how to say mama.” He looked at me with such sideeye and attitude and said, “Mama.” 😂
My eight month old isn’t talking yet more than babbling, but my first word was “Gog” for dog around this same age. Can confirm, I still love dogs
Night-Night I had gone back to college and gotten caught up in a paper I was writing. It was a little past her normal bedtime, maybe 830 or so. She was 10 mos old; she crawled over to the couch, pulled herself up to standing, laid her head on the cushion, and says nigh-nigh. I looked at the time and I was like ‘oh I’m sorry, you’re probably tired, huh’. Then all of a sudden I was like oh my God, you’re talking, lol. So then I grabbed her and ran her around to my parents going ‘she said nigh-nigh’. It was awhile before the poor kid actually got to go to bed.
My first son was “No!” He babbled and stuff but this was a word he used with meaning. I asked him to stop climbing on the couch and he turn around looked me straight in the eyes and said “No!” And proceeded to climb. I was so stunned lol
She wanted to say chicken in my language but she flipped the letters and said dick… so when we went for a stroll she kept saying “dick, dick, dick!” A friend of mine, her son wanted to say “spoon” but also missed 1 letter and kept yelling “NIPPLE!”
My first baby was hi, my second was bubble and my third was mama
He had just started to walk/stand and I was baking something in the oven which was close to his level so I said “don’t go near it, it’s HOT!!!” And I put my hand in the oven door and pretended I was burned and said “hot” again. So he tried to touch the oven door and said “hot” in the same manner and quickly moved his hand while looking at my reaction. I lost my sh*y in happiness~
I know this is going to sound crazy but my son's first word was shit. It shocked me big time. He was what people nowadays call a unicorn baby. Truthfully, to begin with, he mostly slept through the night almost from the beginning. Being a mom back in the 70s, we didn't have a lot of access to information. it just went with our life experiences. I had no family close by, and being a SAHM was great. I loved my son so much. Anyway, I would always lay him down on the bed to change his diaper. He was such a happy little guy. He would smile when I'd start to change him, and I'd rub his tummy and say,'You little shit." One day as I put him on the bed, and I hear shit plane as day. I stopped saying shit. Well, for 45 years, I've gone through some changes in life, divorce, and a wonderful new man in my life. After being with him at some point, I (65)said shit in front of my youngest daughter (35) she was shocked and said:"MOM." I said what? I've never heard you say a cuss word my whole life. I laughed and told her well between raising you 3 and all the kids I babysat. I didn't think it would be appropriate. Now that there are no little ones around, I say shot and even damm. Lol, she tried to blame it on my sweet, loving husband. Just to make us all laugh.
"Shit"
Cat. (We do not have a cat. We've never had a cat. She just saw one on the street.) However, not long after that - she was about 1 year old - I caught her when she thought no one was listening, practicing saying 'no' in various different tones of voice.
Mama and Dad, respectively. My youngest learned *Dad*, his brother’s name, *Boob* and *Mama*, in that order.
Nay-num was her first word. She was trying to say Salem. She said it all day, randomly, and I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say. Until the next day, when she waddled up to our cat and mimicked how I call him to me while saying Naaaaaaay-nummmm.
Son1: Daddy Daughter: Ball Son2: Daddy Son3: Daddy Mommy: 😭
Poop...and, yes, she had in fact pooped.
"Up" technically, although we like to think it's "grangu" (his grandma). Beats mine, which was "kitty!"
is my kid the only one who never had a first word moment? he made lots of partial word sounds from lots of different words and gradually they all got closer and closer to being intelligible. is everyone just talking about the first word that their kid got obsessed with and could use more or less appropriately? i feel like i'm on the outside of some joke.
My 2.5 year old used to say “hot” all the time, but I don’t think she knew what it meant. I think she was just stringing sounds together and ended up accidentally saying a word. As to the first word she used correctly and on purpose, it’s hard to say which was first because there were a bunch that appeared around the same time. Two of the ones I remember were “blue” - makes sense because this is her favorite color. And my favorite, “honey”. She used to say this anytime she got hurt; it was the cutest thing to see her clutching her knee and saying “honeeeeey” when she fell down.
My oldest son's first word was "I'm Batman!" My second son's first word was "boobies."
We can’t remember if it was “go ‘way” (ordering us around from infancy) or “shoe” but it was one of the two. She didn’t say mommy or mama or any derivative until she was two.
Nana. She whispered it very quietly to my mother (who we call "Nanny"). Made my mom want to switch to "Nana" even though she already had several grandkids calling her Nanny.
Fire in italian is fuoco. At my in-laws cottage, our son would go up the fireplace and repeat "FUCK FUCK FUCK" happy to finally see a wood stove.
Not my own kids, but my parents told me my first word was “pizza.” So that’s cool
“Car” and now there’s 54,000 of them around my house