Anyone speak toddler?

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My 19 month old has taken to saying ‘purple’ all the time and I have literally no idea what it means. He definitely isn’t referring to the colour purple (he knows the names of colours but not with any reliability that he’ll match them to the correct colour). He seems to say it whenever he likes something! He says ‘give it’, ‘reach it’, ‘pass it’, ‘please’ or ‘(DS) help’ (as in ‘mummy let me help you eat that cake’) etc. So I don’t think he’s asking for anything. What is he trying to say? I can’t think of anything that ‘purple’ even sounds like!

I think its probably just his favourite colour name and is imitating you pointing out colours.

My DS went through a phase of everything was green, and my niece did the same with pink. Regardless of what you were looking at if you asked what colour is it the answer was green / pink.

No idea I'm afraid but it reminded me of when DS was about 18 months and kept saying 'a-num-a-num' which we thought was just a cute little noise and would repeat back, but then he started to get more and more frustrated... Turned out it was 'another one'!

polkadotpixie
My 19 month old keeps saying 'Mimmit' when he wants something, no idea why!

I think that is "give me it".

In our house purple was careful. “Be purple!”