Yesterday we were over at my parents house getting some water plants. The oldest has an aquarium with some goldfish upstairs. No one cares about the fish but me and I'm kind of sick of dealing with it. My parents used to have a small pond full of koi and water lilies. It's neglected and overgrown at this point but I thought if I got some lilies out of it I could make a nice little container pond on our front porch and stick the fish outside for the summer. While were were outside there I mentioned to the oldest that we'd have to cut some peonies to take home with us in a vase. Which led to this conversation:
Him: "Mom, what are panties?"
Me: "Panties are what you call ladies underwear. Honey why are you asking me that?"
Him: "You said we should take some panties home."
Me: "Peonies. It's a pretty pink flower your grandma liked. Here, I'll show you. PE-O-KNEES"
Him: "Panties."
So now we have a big-ol vase of panties on the table.
The yellow one is some kind of Japanese? tree peony. It's lovely. The orchid came from Aldi last week where I couldn't help myself. There have got to be 30 tiny blossoms on it, it's beautiful. However, it's not as beautiful as the "panties" we picked.
I love it when this happens, they are so cute when they are young.
ReplyDeleteOh it's so much fun. We still call Triceratops "tip a tip a tops" and meatballs "meatmalls".
DeleteI grew up in central Pennsylvania during the 40's and 50's (I still live here) and people called peonies "pineys" - I have no idea why, unless it's just a mispronuciation. I just googled "regional pronunciations of peony" and see that there are other places where they're called "pineys", seems from older generations. So it isn't just us Mifflin/Juniata county hicks!
ReplyDeleteHi Ruth! Thanks for commenting! Yep, we hicks in over in Mercer County have lots of our own way of saying things too. It's definitely influenced by old-time Pittsburgh and Cleveland speak.
DeleteI'm glad you have one of those orchids. I practically drooled looking at them, but I can't bring myself to condemn one to certain death by bringing it home.
ReplyDeleteI have come to terms with the fact that no houseplants here is going to become a family heirloom. It's the first house plant I've gotten in probably 2 years... orchids are pretty hardy but we have so little light in here I have no hope of keeping it alive until it re-blooms. :(
DeleteI love when they get words wrong at this age. My youngest keeps calling "beetles" "beat-bug-les" at the moment which is the sweetest thing ever and no way am I going to correct him
ReplyDeleteI could do with a vase full of panties though!
With all of your sweet kids I'm sure your family has nearly has its own language of mis-pronounced words. As for a vase of panties, pretty sure you could find that on Amazon somewhere. LOL.
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