Toddler Translator Required

[SuckingDownDarjeeling]

Anybody bored and would like to help me translate the word 'mim'? 22mo DS says it, normally in the morning pointing at the shelves but says no to everything I point to until I give up. He also says it during the day occasionally. I'm starting to think it's not an item, but an expression for a feeling?

He has a twin sister who is not bothered by 'mim' in the slightest and just gets on with her business while he struggles to make me understand.

Help?!

Have you tried pointing to the actual shelf?!

I have no idea about ‘mim’ but it possibly being a feeling has tickled me.

I realised at bedtime that ‘Chaou ru!’ (which DT2 has been saying for the last six months) means ‘found you!’

Does he ever use it in combination with another word? (Yes I'm bored haha)

Mine? Is there anything of his up there?

Bib? If he wants food and is used to having a bib put on first?

Toddlers are fucking weird, mind, so it may be something quite random. My twins are a little older than yours and obsessed with eyes. Every day, DT1 picks up the suncream and says sadly to his sister "no eyesh" and she agrees "no eyesh again".

It never bloody had eyes in the first place!

Johnny has someone gotten suncream in their eyes one time maybe?

Have you tried picking him up and letting him take the "mim" off the shelf (if it's actually there)?

When my DC1 was very small, he went on and on about gar-goos. They turned out to be his bottles. I can't remember quite how we found this out, though.

DC2's "nimmynimmynimmy" turned out to be "anything that tastes nice".

I love toddlers. I am sorry I don't have them now.

You sure he is not trying to say morning and is pointing to the window?

Dt1 also insists on his own words for things. So he calls his Abidec multivit syrup "orange water". His sister calls it "bitumens" but if I try to correct him gets irate and screams ORANGE WATER at me.

He also constantly chunters instructions to himself "not time for breakfast, nope, no cornflakes just now, not your car, don't take it, read nice book"

Basically, his monologue is me

normally in the morning pointing at the shelves

What's on the shelves? He doesn't want to 'climb'
up the shelves does he?

Windy ooh maybe! Actually that would make sense. It has never happened but I always tell them to hold still so I don't get it in their eyes.

Mind you he also likes to point theatrically at our NDN and shout "look DT2, it's got eyesh!" Makes the poor fellow sound like some type of science experiment gone wrong.

Is he saying "me"? Mine? ?

My ds wore lorts and T lurts..
Any guesses?

Shorts and T-shirts!!

I would guess it means nothing but he likes to see you point at everything on the shelf for a lark. Was a popular game here, different word of course.

Aw this takes me back. My dd used to demand 'badilly' at regular intervals. I remember it took a long time to work out it was 'blanket' but we have been using her word instead of blanket for approximately 15 years now!

I speak fluent toddler. I’ve often translated in the wild for random parents.

The eyes/suncream thing is 100% about not getting in the eyes.

Shorts and t shirts.

Mim is obviously a ghost he’s greeting.

White soup? Don't want 'mato want white soup.. never had chicken or anything, possibly Cullen skink DH have had ONCE in dc presence!

Ds2 used to ask for a ‘special bottle of milk’ (which was whole milk in a bottle until he was about 4, yes I know, terrible, but it was his thing). Anyway it sounded NOTHING like special bottle of milk and was more like speffa boll murk. It then turned into a song. It’s still an ear worm.

He also had a fully fledged imaginary friend called Jake Willard from as soon as he could speak, probably earlier. He drifted off when DS was about five and he doesn’t even remember it now but he was a constant presence.

I miss having toddlers so much.

He's asking the time.

White soup is custard or fromage frais.

He’s seeing dead people 👻

Apparently my partner when a toddler loved 'bips and nocnoc' (crisps and chocolate)

My middle son puzzled my mother by repeatedly pointing into the cupboard and asking for ok biscuits. She then asked me quite crossly to buy some as it was all he had asked for. Eventually realised he wanted oatcakes