Toddler Translator Required

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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?!

@IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere I love that your toddlerisms have become part of your families language: we still use spigit for biscuit but only a very particular one at a certain time of day.

I’ve just remembered how I almost stuffed a toy in DP’s mouth for trying to correct ‘snapdile’ for crocodile. I loved that one

Love toddler talk. We often still use the words bibbit (biscuit), ooce (juice) and nuggly (blanket).
Current toddler speaks very clearly but does say "cunna MUP!" when she wants to be picked up and "cunna MOUT!" to get out of her high chair.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff is she saying (do you tell her... ) ‘I’m imaginative!’?

Ds used to shout for boobies in the supermarket, he really had a obsession with blueberries! I'd go with picking him up and seeing if that makes it clearer🤞

My dd used to say ‘don’t like Sonia’ at mealtimes . I spent ages trying to find out who Sonia was and why dd didn’t like her - turned out Sonia was onion !

Mim is him. DS is “him”, DD is “her”. As in, lift “him” up to grab stuff on the shelf.
My DS used to refer to himself in 3rd person, using a butchered version of his surname (nursery used his full name, he retained the second half only!)

My 16 month old calls his water 'a-dum' no idea why, we have only ever called it water or juice 🤣

This is the cutest little pick me up thread ever!! Thanks OP!
My little one currently shouts keyyy keyyy (his little comfort blanket, we call it binky)
And the newest one is flowowower, or she she (fishy) 😂 he's so cute
Mim could mean more? Mine says a similar word/sound for more

I'd go with "him" or "mine"

DS likes to eat "peppermummy" pizza which always makes us chuckle.
A tissue will always be known as a "favoo" in our house too.

Ds1 (now a teenager) used to call cockerels “cock-a-loo” a little bit of my heart broke the day he said cockerel

It it isn’t on the shelves does he mean the actual shelves?

The dotdor/fockit was my son's word for chocolate

Ds3s word is ‘COCKTIT? I have COCKTIT please?’ 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Motherofmonsters is he saying hug and a kiss?

Love this thread! My DD (3) used to call cats minaows. Broke my heart a little when she started to use the proper word, so we've called her stuffed cat toy Minaow for posterity. She still calls paw patrol "porgy shore"

I was just talking to dm bout this thread, she said I had twin pals at 1-5 til we moved away, I was the only one that understood them, when we moved their mum phoned mine for me to interpret

Oh and how could I forget the perennial favourite of Donaldson's "Dick Man" for bedtime reading

My eldest spoke really well - aside from making up his own word for thank you, which was 'cumpah' – we never worked out why. You'd say: say 'thank', and he'd say 'thank', say 'you' - and he'd say 'you'. Say 'thank you' - cumpah!'

A bit older, he kept banging on about 'Marjorie Taylor'. Turned out he was saying 'major retailers', from a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD encouraging you to buy further episodes!

In 2012, his younger brother was 4 and very excited about 'Flamingo Pink' in 2012. I realised he was talking about 'La Flame Olympique' - that one was quite funny when we realised!

Are you breastfeeding? My toddler calls breastfeeding mimi.

But I'll add my story. He has become extremely attached for some reason to the parent unit of the baby monitor. He drives it around the floor like a car, puts it carefully in and out of the charging cradle, carries it around with him and becomes distressed if his older brother hides it and it doesn't become immediately visible again. His word for it? The googlgooglgooglglgl. We think that he thinks it is Google, as in when you ask Google to play a song or funny sounds etc, which he loves.

Is he asking for milk?

We also have a very plaintive "Miyyyyyn"

And if it's light outside, that means it's "manya!" which is morning. I think mim = morning is a good contender. He might be linking morning with breakfast maybe.

DS and DD were early talkers - and spoke clearly, too. But even they came up with some funnies...

(DS) Milk = "milk-ah"
Picture a small child, waving his hands about with a stereotypical Italian accent. "I want some milk-ah!"
15 years later, it's still milk-ah, BTW.
(DD) Moohaha = bad guy/villain/generally untrustworthy human.
Cue dastardly laugh: "Darth Vader is a Moohaha!"
She's not dating yet, but already seeing her dad calling each and every one of them Moohahas...Hopefully not to their faces!

Dt2 used to call her brother Fishy (not his real name).

On their second birthday, through the wall we heard her wake him up by shouting "Oi Fishy, wake up! Merry Christmas, bad dog!"

DS1 had a big speech delay, so we got the toddler speak stage at around 3/3.5 or so.

Wellie boots are still (and will always be) Way-boos
Cornflakes were doh-rays (no idea why)

The one that confused us for the longest was PEPPER-SOOOP!! We knew it was related to dinner, but had no clue. Until I went to the soup cupboard, and pulled out a can of Peppa Pig spaghetti hoops.... All canned spaghetti is still Peppa Soup :)

"Red Riding Hood" = "Red Heinie Wood."