She had a hard time saying, "tomorrow" - but she could say "yesterday" quite well.

So when she wanted to say tomorrow, she invented her own word for it, and with a dimpled sweet smile her little voice chimed, "Dah'll you be playing Kswing (i.e. X-Wing) next...er..day?"

Thus a new word was born. A better word. It makes me smile every time I use it, and every time I tell the story, so I thought I would pass it as a lighthearted aside from your busy days. Hopefully you will smile too.

That's adorable!

She's five now, and doesn't say nexterday anymore. But the rest of us still do. It is just too adorable to let it fade.

Nexterday is a wonderful word and I hope your family will use it for many many years.

Anyone else have made up words that you only use around friends and family, and nobody has an idea what it means?

Here's an example from my friends/gaming group:

Multi-stuff : Fruit juice consisting of multiple fruits.

Zombie pie : Any cake or pie covered in chocolate shavings. Named by me after I saw a pie covered in choclate shavings and powdered Sugar under bright flurecent lights and the whole thing just looked like parched dry and cracked skin, like on a withered corpse or zombie. Yes, my mind makes weird leaps some times.

I don't have anything good like "nexterday." That's just awesome.

But there was one time when my daughter (3 or 4 at the time) came up to my wife and I and said -- quite emphatically -- "The babies are not controlling me! The babies are NOT controlling me!" At first we didn't know what to think, but after coaxing her to tell us more about the situation, we discovered that she was pretending that her baby dolls were not listening to what she said. She got the word "obeying" mixed up with "controlling." It was a hoot!

Best post I have read today on any forum. Thank you for sharing. My daughter is 2 and my son is 14 weeks, much fun ahead!