First of all, who started googoo speak? Who were the first civilizations that started putting their face in their baby’s face to utter ridiculous, nonsensical babble in order to communicate. –And most importantly why when I have a child am I conversationally fluent in this baby language.

Who said it was ok to just get lazy with annunciation? Is it the most ridiculous thing in the world. Yes. Do I love it? Um hum baba!

I never realized how crazy I sound talking to my little one until I heard myself on video playback. I began to ask myself what prompted this knowledge of baby talk and why is it ok to do this. Then I began to hear it more often coming out of the mouths of other parents at the doctor’s office and at the playground. Turns out they know the same language. They also call the little swimming creatures in the fish tank, fishies. They also call there baby’s feet, feetsies. What is that!? Do we all do it? I guess so.

But leave it to my wife and I, we have gone the extra mile on this and we’ve managed to unknowingly invent our own jibberish thinking it was common speak…but turns out it’s just us.

When my daughter started using pacifiers I, for some reason, started calling them beebees and for some reason Mom just started saying it because I was saying it that way.  First time parents over here, neither one of us knew if why we were saying, “beebees.” I wasn’t until our family asked us, “what the heck is a beebee?” No one knows what the heck beebees are? We can’t be talking about a pacifier because those go by binkys or passies. So where in the world did beebees come from? I guess in my first rush to find the pacifier for my crying baby I shouted where’s her beebee? I guess I was wanting to say binky but it came out beebe. Now it’s ever known as Beebee.

Even though my wife gave me grief over this little slip up, she is guilty of inventing non-words too. The other day she coined “lovies” in reference to the little one’s cuddly stuffed animal friends. “Hon, can you fetch her lovies?” Lovies!

Have you invented any crazy words? Let me know that we aren’t the only crazies!