Cubbisin: a belly button.

Dad: Max, what do you call looking at your cubbisin?

Max: Omphaloskepsis!

Max invents a lot of phrases, and many of them are mysteries to his parents for months. This one took some sleuthing to define:

Delicatessen Eyes: The eyes of a person whose lower face is hidden.

Max came up with names for all of the James Barnett Hats paintings that we have.  He calls the Fez painting “Sabbi-Student” and the Biretta painting is “Obbi-Student”.

I told the artist about Max’s names, and he replied:

Oh, that is BEAUTIFUL. I guess the counter at the deli, to a 4 YO, is pretty high, so they only see the clerk’s eyes? That makes me happy. Thank you for sharing!

In reference to an “I do all my own stunts” shirt:

That’s a bashful circlehead.

The same term is applied to the figures in pedestrian crossing signals.

Goo-goo is male. Gaa-gaa is female.

Cacootin: definition unknown.

Dad: Max, what do you know about correlation?

Max: It  does not imply causality. 

Of course, his tediously intellectual father taught him that, and as a result, there is now a 4 year old who knows more than you about economics, science and politics.

Bomminitin: A naked baby butt.

Wackin baby: The person who is “it” in a long-term game of tag. 

Usage: 

Who is the wackin baby? Mommy is the wackin baby.

 

Occan-dingdong: In a children’s book, character who is drawn facing the reader. 

Usage: 

That’s an Occan-dingdong. The rain babies are like an occan-dingdong. A strommel baby. 

Mom: Max, please don’t yell in the house.

Max: Max is using his forte voice!