Name Calling

One of our big issues with Zoey right now is name calling. She comes up with the craziest names for Max. One of the big ones is "Cagelli"; we have no idea where that came from, but she loves to call him that when she is mad at him. He doesn't mind so much, in fact, it probably bothers me and Ross a lot more, but we are still trying to correct it. Ross and I can't even look at each other when we are scolding her for this either because we crack up saying the words ourselves!! So she knows "Cagelli" is out, and she often stops herself in mid word. And when we ask her what she was going to say , she just makes something up like, "I was just saying babelli." Oh, okay, well that's better. So today we were playing outside when this took place:

Zoey (to Max running by): Hey Conjo! Stop it
Me: Zoey, what did you say? You know you don't call your brother names!
Zoey: I just said Conjo, which is Spanish for "he's wearing red pants"
Me (sort of thinking out loud, not expecting an answer): Oh, I see, kind of like an Indian name?
Zoey: Ah, no, Spanish.