Our family Mooish

A while back I posted a bit about Mamoo’s special vocabulary. Since then I have been listening to us as a family, and I think we speak Moo too! These things you don’t really notice until you actually hear yourself ask the girl on the other side of the deli counter for a ½ pound of “smack and cheese” and not mac and cheese. Yes, I really did this the other day, but smack and cheese is what we call it at our house.

We have lots of code words in regards to foods. Gavin use to ask for chicky buckets, when he couldn’t say chicken nuggets. Last night we had Crawfish Etouffee, we call them mud bugs like a lot of people down south do. When Macey says “pass the stinky cheese” she is asking for the parmesan cheese. She use to ask for keppy, meaning ketchup. Macey’s favorite place for lunch is Pajoli’s or as you would know it Fazoli’s. When we want to eat a Red Robin, someone just has to say “Yummmm”. When we want to visit our favorite German restaurant Gerhardt's Bierstube someone just has to mention the name of our favorite waitress ever Anna Leigh.

When we are not talking about food we even call the things we love after food. Like Daddy drives a “cheese stick” which is really a G6 (but we think the recent song by Far East Movement that sounds like she is singing “like a cheese stick”.)

Then there are places. When we mention “daddy’s special place” we are always referring to Lookout Mountain Tenn. Last spring we caprized (surprised) the kids to a trip to the Rat’s Nest or Disney. We frequently shop at Wally World or Wal-Mart. Sometimes the kids ask if we can go to Their City which is Indy. Every fall we go to the “ribber” aka river in Derby Indiana. Sometimes daddy tells the story about the puke stick he rode with my father in the Wisconsin Dells the day before we got married.

And it is not just the things we say, but the way we say them that I cannot even put into a blog. The high pitch way we sing Hello Kitty, one of Macey’s favorite things.

Then there are the countless ways we refer to one another via pet names, or your in trouble now names, even nostalgic names. Here are a few of them…Mike, Myrt, Bubby, Mister Paul P, Mister Gavin B., Ann, Indy Girl, cupcake, Vic, butt cheese, and Frog. Jack as a few words we add to his name when he is not so nice…but you can figure that out.

I know that there are many, many more…but these are the ones that come to the top of my head. And I think this is super cool! It is like being part of an elite club that only a very special few belong too. I love this club that I belong too, and all the inside jokes and secret words that weave our special memories from days past into what we are today!