There is one aspect of running a 24/7 daycare being outnumbered by small children I have yet to discuss here.
I have named this phenomenon and even created a little picture to fully illustrate what happens.
Lost In Translation
Our trip to Target today provided a perfect example:
(Walking through toy aisles to pick out their bribe for not fighting the entire trip a small treat.)
Child 1 (2 y/o): Look, look it’s Areo!
Me: Oh from The Little Mermaid, that’s Ari…
Child 2 (4 y/o): That’s not Areo that’s Ariolo.
Me: No, her name is A...
Child 3 (4 y/o and perceived expert on the subject): Boys, her name is Areola.
Child 1 & 2 nodding approvingly: Can we get Areola, please, please mom? We love Areola!
Child 3: Yes, we want Areola, Mom.
Me: Guys, we are not getting…
Child 2: Look Toy Story toys!
Exit aisle left. I follow red faced but relieved my children only shouted “areola” three times.
Now moving on to everyone asking for a Woody.
Who comes up with these Disney names anyway?
What have kids done to embarrass you lately?
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I'm Jessica, 30-something mom to five, four in my arms and one in my heart.
Hahahaha!! AREOLA!!
I imagine the people coming up with names for Disney characters have no children of their own. Or they do, they just have an incredibly wicked sense of humor.
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I can’t help but snort! Straight out of the mouths of babes!
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Hehehe
(I know, not quite worth a commemt, yet … Hehehe … I couldn’t help but share my laugh!)
PS. Laughing with you NOT at you
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That was hysterical. Yes, I wonder where they come up with these names too. Poor little Areola.
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Too funny! What about how they named the boy dog, Tramp?!
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So hilarious, at that point you were wise to retreat!
That is so hilarious! Yeah.. we’ve got that going on too. My kids have NO FILTER. Right now, we still give rewards for pooping on the potty. If they catch you with M and M’s – they will ask you if you’ve pooped. Even random strangers.
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Hee! Love it and ohmygoodness, *so* been there! xo
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HA HA HA!!!! Thanks for the awesome laughs, Jessica. And if I’d been by you in the store I totally would have been laughing because I SO get this.
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Woody has always bothered. I giggle a little bit myself every time my kids talk about Toy Story. Areola, though, now that’s just funny.
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I probably shouldn’t admit that every time I hear “Woody” I giggle to myself. I know, I’m mature.
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We have that Woody costume! I love this story. My kids’ ages range pretty widely so there is usually someone (besides me!) who knows it all…for real. My 12-yr old is a walking wikipedia.
My 6-year old is the one who embarrasses me. He knows a few ‘choice’ words from kids at school. He likes to sing “The Name Game” song really loudly and call out, “Now let’s do Chuck!” and he proceeds to sing with the name Chuck…you know where that leads (banana fanna fo…). Yeah. So awesome.
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Oh that is the worst. At least mine are only embarrassing me by accident right now! Not sure I am looking forward to them doing it on purpose.
Now that was totally humiliating. If you are the father, you might be laughing all the way to the doors of the store.
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This is hilarious!!! and so true.
We went to the mall the other day and we passed a lingerie store. Chunky shouts out “Hey Momma, is that where you buy your boobs?!”
Yea.
I think that’s their purpose in life. To embarras us.
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This was hilarious!
One time, D1 was at the Disney Store in the Toy Story section and she shouts out, “LOOK DAD! A BIG WOODY!”
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Ugh, that Woody and the amount of embarrassment he has caused to all of us. Could they not have chosen a different name?
I guess it’s a better name than Boner. Boner and Buzz – now THAT’S a duo.
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Exactly what nighttime stories do you read to them anyway?
m.
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Should I not be reading anatomy books to them in hopes of boring them to sleep?
Too funny! Good luck with that… good luck to all of us with that! Our kids’ public displays of embarassment are some kind of parental requirement I think.
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I read this and I suddenly wonder why I want my kids to start speaking.
When last I had my kids in Target, I was just coming back from church, so the kids were in nice clothes, including a cute little dress for my daughter. When a grandmotherly-type came up to my kids, because they’re damn cute and love being the center of attention, my daughter lifted her dress to her chest and pointed out her belly button.
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Now that is seriously cute!
LOL, when I was two my dad once took me to work with him. After work, we went to Woolworths and I saw some Disney princess underwear which I just HAD to have. Needless, to say, when we were waiting at the bus stop later I lifted my dress and shouted, “Lookit my new panties!”
I have never heard the end of it, almost twenty years later…
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Obviously your daughter is an expert. Aeroela. Ha! My boys only embarrass me by having their hands in their pants. Perpetually. They are following daddy’s example so not much I can say.
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Hilarious! My now 10 year old was just under 2 and I was hugely preggo with Daughter. My younger, bachelor bro was in town to babysit me and I had begged him to take me to Target. So here he is, being super cool Uncle pushing adorable kid around in the cart when me son starts SCREAMING “the bras! The bras! Take to bras! Pretty bras! Pretty bras!”
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I can only imagine how embarrassed he was. Too funny!
that is totally awesome and brought a chuckle to this tired momma this morning
thanks for sharing!!
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Hilarious. Damn Disney.
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Too funny!
My daughter is into a rhyming phase. We were out and about and she started singing, “Truck, duck, muck, guck, *uck!” at the top of her lungs. Over and over and over again.
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Nice and it is always those times when you know what’s coming but you can’t quiet them fast enough.
That is HILARIOUS. I think the worst thing that Little Man ever said was over dinner one night with friends. We were (thankfully) at our house and not in public, but it was still slightly humiliating. Since he’s only three, he is still learning those connector words like “a, the, but, and, with, etc.” We were all eating pizza and he pointed to my husband and said “Look! Daddy eats mommy!” Everyone nearly spit their food out because it was so random. Of course he meant that daddy was eating WITH mommy, but it brings quite a different meaning to the sentence if you don’t include the “With.”
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Oh that is hilarious, hope you were dining with close friends!
Oh, Pixar so needs to make this into a movie.
“Woody and Areola: Lost in Translation.”
I’d buy tickets.
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I’m trying really hard not to picture what the characters would look like but it’s not working.
Oh this made me laugh because it is SO something that would happen to me. Actually, I am surprised it hasn’t.
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Imagine if we lived close enough for a play date. Every character would be named after a body part.
Oh my god! HAHAHAHA!!! Picturing them screaming “Areola!” and “Woody!” has me in hysterics.
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I am crying over here!
And my kids routinely fight over the big Woody and the little Woody
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We now have one they call “Soft Woody.” Not kidding.
Oh my…laughing out loud again.
I really needed a laugh today and this really made me laugh. Hysterical!
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I so glad to read that I am not the only one who “bribes” her children at target. Love the diagram. Will go check out sits now.
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Oh I loved this..I sent it a girlfriend of mine who doesn’t blog and then called her and laughed and giggled like little girls about this.
Thank you for the smile this gave me. Plus my kids are too much lately, the things that they come up with keep me giggling for days…thank goodness they are cute and entertaining.
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Your cycle is Hilarious! Seriously, I hear the boys correcting the girls speech all the time. Lately they all are trying to sing lyric to songs and they are SO wrong . . . . but come up with the funniest words instead. I just love it.
Fantastic:) I just can’t stop to laugh. Areola:) But anyway, I think it’s Disney’s fault that the kids can’t remember these names. They aren’t lifelike.
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I remember when I was in law school my evidence professor said if you don’t know something…say it with more confidence. Amazing how quickly kids learn that lesson LOL
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Laughing out loud…so hysterical! Disney names are funny now that I think about it!
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That’s hilarious!
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This was too funny! I loved it! I don’t know which is worse, Woody or Aerola!
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This made me laugh out loud.
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OMG Jessica I’m laughing out loud!!
This is hilarious. My little Q is obsessed with numbers but has poor pronunciation so all of his Fs come out as an H. His favorite number is 4 and he loves to yell “Hore! Hore!” everywhere we go…yesterday i said these words in the Vons parking lot, “no not your mam, your license plate has a 4 on it.” smile. Love the minis!
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Oh my gosh that is SO funny. They will be embarrassing us for years to come won’t they?
Oh my goodness, that’s just lovely! The latest I remember was when I took Little Brother shopping a few years ago (before I left home for university) and he begged for a playstation game.I told him he already had that one – and he loudly proclaimed, “But it’s a newer virgin!”.
On a sidenote, found your blog at SITS – great work.
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Seriously who decided on the name Woody? When My son was in preschool he used to sleep with his Woody doll at nap time every day. One afternoon he woke up in a panic yelling
“I can’t find my Woody! I lost my Woody! I lost my Woody!”
The poor little thing. The teachers couldn’t even help him they were laughing so hard.
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Oh no, even at school? Mine stood up at his birthday party and thanked everyone for his “big Woody.”
Hahahahahaha………….I know how it is to handle kids. They make you forget even what you knew.
Your story was hilarious, but spoke a lot of other information as well. I loved the translation cycle you created.
Thanks for sharing.
Ted
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Oh, this cracked me up! Seriously, someone at Disney is having a food laugh with these names…
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Awesome. Awesome. I love it. BTW, my 2 year old thinks the baby drinks milk from my belly button. I mean, yes, my stomach WAS big. And NOW my breasts are. But THEY AREN’T THE SAME.
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