My 13 month old grandaughter has now said her first sentence-
“I know it.”
Her mother at least waited til she was in her teens befoe she got to this frame of mind…
But I am being have! (‘have’ pronounced like ‘pave’, in response to, “Patrick Sean, behave!”)
My sister’s grandchild (age 4) has been known to come out of her bedroom with long scratches on her arm and announce, “I wasn’t bothering that cat.”
My sister’s youngest girl thought her name was Dino, instead of Justine, because she constantly heard " Justine NO!" while she was young.
It is still her nickname.
When my kid sister was yet in a highchair and discovering the power of speech, one day at the table she announced with a very proud look to us all, “I’m a grill!”
Oh mercy! That reminds me of another one! When my daughter was about two, we used to meet with a few other parents with children around the same age once a week as a sort of playgroup. That summer, one of the families lived in an apartment complex with a swimming pool, so we met there most often. The kids being little, we didn’t think anything about shucking them out of their clothes and into their swimsuits right there at poolside. One day my daughter noticed something different about one of her playmates. She turned to me and whispered "Mommy! Nathan has a NOSE on his bobbum “(bottom)!”
I’ve never been able to hear the saying “stop to smell the roses” in quite the same way since!
Redwolf