“You ATOY!”

What does it mean?

For the longest time Simon and I couldn’t figure it out. We thought it must have come from nursery in some manner.

And then Adam and I were waiting for the bus and he yelled it at me when I told him to stop jumping so close to the road.

“YOU ATOY!” with a small finger shaking up to my face. And I realized.

It’s what Woody says to Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 1 and what Buzz says to the other Lightyear toys in Toy Story 2.

“YOU ARE A TOY!”

And my 2.10 year old thinks it’s an insult to call someone a toy. 🙂

Now that I figured it out I laugh when he says which, of course, just makes him madder. One time when he was calm I tried to explain to him that Woody and Buzz aren’t being insulting, they are trying to convince someone of something. But Adam isn’t buying it.

So I continue to get called ATOY! when Adam is mad at me. Which, at nearly 3, is all the time. As nearly 3 year olds often have to do things that they don’t want to do like brush their teeth and get their nappies changed when they’d rather be playing with Lego or watching the aforementioned Toy Story, any of them but 3 is the big fav.

Of course there are much worse things he could call Simon and me. Much worse things he could yell.

For example?

Yesterday he said ‘Oh Frack!’

Ooooopppps