Monday, November 26, 2012

Favorite Zeppee Sayings

"Zeppee" is our most common nickname for Giuseppe. He is also known as "Zep-a-Bep" and "Zeppee Beppee." Yes, Americans have thoroughly butchered another Italian name.

Giuseppe after his new haircut
 

Here are some of our favorite Zeppee sayings:

Family names: "Ria" = Maria, "Cati" = Cati, "Teo" = Matteo, "Car-Car" = Chiara, "Elna" = Elena.

"Bubbles" = bar soap that he loves playing with in the bath

"Apples" = apples, grapes, or cubed cheese

"Cheese" = shredded cheese (his favorite food)

"Tareful" = careful...what he says when thinking about stepping off something high and our cue to come quickly!

"Mackerel" = Nursing

"Bapper" = diaper

"Side" = outside

"Panda. Ciao!" = what he says if the kids are watching the Italian Little Pim DVDs.

"Heh Meh" = this can mean 'Help me' or 'Hail, Mary' if he sees a Holy Water Font, a Rosary, or if we are praying.

Ow-ie!!! = This means 'My feet have come out of the footie part of my pajamas' or 'I can't get the pots and pans out of the cabinet.'

"AMEN!" = His emphatic ending to prayers :)

 

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mackerel=nursing? How did he come up with this? I am assuming he does not know of the fish and that is not a commonly used word.....do you think it is his version of the word snack? He is o cute! Can't wait to see you all again and thank you for updating the blog!!

Love, Dot

Modest Mama said...

I love it! He needs to come teach Malcolm some words since he has about twice as many as Malcolm does!