Vocabulary Lesson a la Piper

I swear I won't write every day, but I've been dying to put in writing some of Piper's most endearing and hilarious mispronunciations. Her Auntie LaLa pointed out that I repeat all of them verbatim when I'm talking to her (instead of trying to correct her pronunciation) and her Auntie Sawah says that's because Piper is the boss of me. It's true, she is, but it's also my attempt to hold onto her toddler-ness. Every parent swears that childhood goes too fast, although you could have fooled me for the first 6 months of Piper's life. It has picked up, however, and she's already started pronouncing words correctly and thereby started the process of breaking my heart. I'm assuming we'll move pretty swiftly into her sneaking out at night to meet boys/girls, stealing the car, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, getting tattooed and my most feared act of rebellion - becoming a Sarah Palin fan - and after all that there will be elementary school to deal with. So with that in mind, I want to remember that at 2 years old she was not only a helluva dancer, a relentless tattletale on her dog siblings, a total Dora the wretched Explorer addict, a tutu lover and painfully loud talker, she also regularly butchered the English language in the cutest ways possible. Oh, and Piper pretty much yells everything, so really scream these out if you're reading aloud. She's also extremely animated and says "OH NO!!!" when she observes anything new - good or bad - so try that too.

Real Word = Piper Word

Water = GoGo Mater (GoGo because Piper's mater must be drunk from a Go Diego Go cup)
Yogurt = Mogurt
Rain = Main
Oatmeal - Momeal
Banana - Mana
Swing = Ming (see what I'm talking about with the Ms???)
Couscous = Cuckoos
Necklaces = Neckasses
Blueberries = Buries
Tomatoes - Mayos
Broccoli = Brocky
Fart = Heart
Dora = DoWA (major emphasis on WA)
Diego = Dago (my apologies to any Italians reading this. She doesn't know it's an ethnic slur)
Thunder = Digger (ok, that one is my fault. I tell her it's a digger - her fav truck - in the sky)
Blankie = Beej (we can blame her friend Maya for that)
Pacifier = Pice
Her dog Leo = Hiyo
Her dog cousin Lucky = Yucky
Her cat Tucson = Tootong Gnocchi Kitty (Gnocchi is the cat from Curious George. No, Tucson doesn't look anything like Gnocchi)
Our neighborhood cat Frank = Prick
Any music = Beatles (her dad's doing)
Bath = DoWA bubbles
Bubbles = DoWA bubbles (I don't get it either)
Any dress or skirt = tutu
Elephant = Emmit
Coughing = Copping
A knock on the door = Pizza (ok, we order a lot of pizza, so what?)
Asking for anything = How 'bout...?
Her thighs = DaDa's chops (again, her dad's doing)