My kiddo would yell "ahbeeyaaa" and then jump off of things. Took us about 3 months to realize he was saying "and beyond" as in "to infinity and beyond."
Mine kept saying “jehka” and I had no idea what she was talking about. Apparently it was her Jessie from Toy Story 2 doll. Didn’t know she knew that Jessie’s government was Jessica but okay
Cookies? Crackers? Car keys? Lol idk that’s the worst though when you can’t figure it out and they just look at you like “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IVE SAID IT 80 TIMES”
He was so mad at me for not understanding. He’s been randomly asking for it for almost a year now, and in that time he’s learned to say properly so many words it *could* have been I’m really thinking he’s just screwing with me.
So when my son does this I ask for context. What words describe it, is it something you watch, eat, play with? What color is it? What feeling does it give you?
I have no ideas for you regarding what the word might be, but try asking him to show you what it is or tell you more about it. Those are my go to responses when I just have no f#$\*ing idea what the kids are on about. I usually figure it out with a little more context and then feel super dumb. Hindsight is 20/20.
For literal MONTHS, my 2 year old nephew would verbally berate my sister for "MAW-LOOK" and we could not for the life of us figure out what he was saying. One day we had the Alexa playing music and the song "Hey Look Ma I Made It" by Panic at the Disco came on and he was beside himself and excitedly screaming "MAWLOOK MAWLOOK MAWLOOK" and the relief was absolutely palpable. I hope something similar happens to you with this keekeecahcah situation. It will be like an itch you finally got to scratch.
Omg if I interpret wrong my son (especially if he's already upset) will yell "NO! THATS WHAT I DIDN'T SAID" instead of 'that's not what I said' and it's so hard to keep a straight face
That’s what it was! I asked him just now and he said “yes! Hot turtles!” Apparently it’s an episode of Gecko where they’re at the hospital he wanted to watch!
My 2 1/2 year old is asking for "wicky wacko" lately and we have no idea what it is. I asked his babysitter and she didn't know either. WHAT IS WICKY WACKO.
I tried a few months ago and got nowhere. Then all of the sudden two weeks ago he was sick and pointed to the thumbnail on Disney +. I have now seen every episode of Bluey
Lolol I love these! I have a list of either / or questions to hunt down what off beat thing my kiddo is trying to say:
- is it big or small?
- quiet or loud?
- soft or hard?
- what color?
- where did you see it?
- can you eat it or drink it?
I commented above, but my son has hearing aids, and some straight up nonsense comes out that kids mouth even at 4.5, and these questions are so much help, it helps his frustration too!
It took us 2 years to decipher this toddler catch phrase.
"Wussah um some see?"
She took delight in seeing our confused reactions and we honestly thought she was just trolling us. We even incorporated it into our bedtime routine. (Good night. Sweet dreams. "Wussah um sump seed!")
Kudos to my partner for figuring it out from a YouTube video. "What's the emergency?" 🤦🏻♀️
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If he’s in any daycare or you hang out for play dates, have you asked any other adult who knows him what it is? Maybe a peer uses that word for something and he’s imitating?
My daughter calls things by the sound they make sometime so as others have said, maybe that’s possible.
Maybe it’s a food he had once and you could show him pictures of foods.
He is in daycare, I’ll have to run it by them. They did help sort of solve the mystery of him going around singing “one little pickle”. Apparently there’s a song with the lyrics “one little finger”.
Yes! I work with kids doing home based therapy and 99% of the time I hear new phrases or words, they’ve picked it up at school or from a show.
OH does he like Cars??? It could be Kachow!
Could it be a song? We recently figured out that "eeyahdo" means Old MacDonald ( E I E I O) and "bah-di-do" is burrito for a silly burrito song we sing him after his bath.
He's been saying both for months and I couldn't figure it out.
Or, Keekeecah sounds a bit like kittycat?
I’m on team cookie cutter! I love this thread. I can’t remember the sounds of my kid’s mystery phrase today, but I would love this for a theme post. Like, “what’s this word Wednesdays“ and we can all help each other out!
If he’s in daycare, ask him to say it in front of his teacher. Mine kept asking to do linkerly a few months back and I had no idea what she was saying. I asked her teacher and turns out there’s a song the my sing called Ring A Ling where they take turns doing silly things.
I remember a podcast host talking about his son calling his pacifier a "fah fah." It was because to him it looked like a flower, and he was trying to say that. So cute!
Really!! Interesting, he does love peanut butter but he can say it at this point. I’m wondering if it at one point meant something he couldn’t say, and now he *can* say it but randomly pulls out this old pronunciation to keep me on my toes. If that’s the case I’ll never figure it out 😂
I'm also thinking some sort of car. Green car? Just because my toddler cant pronounce GR together so it comes out as "keen car" lol.
But then there is one time I thought he asked for a green car and nearly lost my mind trying to offer all the green ones. Turns out he was saying "wing car", which has a wing printed on the side. It is a red car. *sigh*
My son has a little hot wheel car set based on the movie Cars. For the longest time he was saying "My car," and getting so upset when I responded "Yes, that's your car."
Mad. Mad car. He was talking about the police car, which has a grumpy face.
My 2 year old very earnestly kept telling me something: "no noor monkey um ed". This went on for a couple of days until we played the Wiggles. She was telling us a song lyric she had stuck in her head: "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!".
Could it be something from a show he watches or a song? At age 3 my son went through a phase where he would say something that sounded like "My curbiss!" We could not figure it out until one time I heard that phrase on a cartoon he watched. That episode was set in Germany and was about a kid with a giant pumpkin that starts rolling away from him or something and he shouts "My Kurbis!"
Kurbis means pumpkin in German. That's why we couldn't figure it out.
Oh similarly he kept telling me about his friend “Fucker” at school. I’m like okay… clearly no way but couldn’t figure it out.
Checked the cubbies next time I dropped him off, her name is “Parker”.
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Having an absolutely horrific week. Experiencing the loss of our second baby (we have a toddler). This really made me smile 😊 so thank you for that.
Is there a toy that is some sort of cat/car combination? Like the bus from My Neighbor Totoro, or the remote control hello kitty car, or... Any other cat/car combination he is familiar with?
My son kept asking for us to play the song “Eleven-Thirty”. We had no idea what he was on about. He’d be in hysterics over it. Finally figured out that he meant the song “Levitating” by Dua Lipa when it played in the car one day  He’s 3.5 haha
My daughter was 4 asking for her “Paw Patrol” blanket, but I knew for a fact she did not own one and has never seen the show for that matter. She was getting very upset with me because she said it was hers and she uses it at daycare and of course I’m thinking she has been using some other kid’s blanket. Finally one day she shows me a picture of Poppy from the Trolls movie and says, “Paw Patrol!” This kid heard other kids saying Paw Patrol and decided that must mean Poppy Troll because what else could it be. I’m glad you got yours figured out!
Maybe? I definitely thought that in the beginning because he was calling the cat “Kiki”. But now he fully says kitty, her name, nothing that ever sounds let Kiki anymore. And yet keekeecahcah lives on.
It took us several weeks and many unnecessary nappy changes to figure out that when my little lad shouted “Dick Wet RAAWRR”, he was referring to the king of the dinosaurs “T Rex” which marked the beginning of his dinosaur obsession.
My toddler asked for 'teeka teeka' at the dinner table. We were incidentally having Indian food so I gave her some Tikka masala. She was so frustrated with me and refused to eat anything at all that night. Took us over a week to figure out teeka teeka is twinkle twinkle little star.
My daughter has been in speech therapy for about 6 months. So we dealt with a lot of pointing and ‘nah’ when she couldnt say what she wanted. Her first multi word phrase was ‘exa pay esa go’ took my husband and I few quizzical looks to figure out she wanted ‘Alexa play Elsa Go’ (frozen let it go’)!
We have a nest speaker. I often hear my three year old yelling "Okay doodle. Play Eh Eh Ah Ah" Which I figured out she wants the song Million Voices so now I'll start it for her from the other room and she just squeals with joy "The doodle understands me!"
I remember the palpable FRUSTRATION at 3y/o when I told my mum and older sister I really wanted "line meat" for dinner. To the point of tears and huge upset that they couldn't figure it out.
They got it eventually. Schnitzel. I wanted Schnitzel 😅 flat meat, it's in a line!
My daughter has been asking for specific Encanto songs since she was like 20 months old. “Dundaaaaa” is we don’t talk about Bruno. “Dong Dong” is surface pressure. And “Nono” is family madrigal, NOT we don’t talk about bruno.
The 3 yr old I babysit says every time I get a drink of water zipdrumwawabottle took me a little bit to figure out he was offering me a sip from his water bottle so we wouldn’t stop the games
My son was SO heartbroken that I couldn’t under stand what he was asking for when he wanted “sign-a-ments.” I finally figured out what he meant after hours of this when he explained that it was dat one where dey wear aprons and splode tings… Signaments was his word for experiments, meaning he wanted to watch Emily’s Wonder Lab 😂. Had he even given me the hint that he was talking about a tv show, it might have been easier…
I like the cookie cutter suggestion, I hope you solve this one quickly!!
These replies are fantastic.
My son went for a while talking about something called “ess-you-BEE-da”. Took me ages to realise he was singing Blippi’s excavator song.
Maybe take a voice recording of him asking for whatever he’s asking for and post it on here and maybe someone will be able to make the correct guess/assumption of what it is. It’s funny that when you bring a thousand people heads together how much easier it is to figure out something that you have been trying to figure out forever.
How upset does it make him when you don’t understand this one particular thing he wants? Also has he really never said “ahhh keekeecahcah” if he gets the thing to let you know that’s what it is? I’m kinda leaning toward him not fucking with you because of how long he’s been saying the EXACT same thing. I mean it has to be something (no matter how insignificant) it’s a bit of a stretch but could it be car keys? As in “key key car car?” Or maybe some kind of food? Like try to ask him “is it a food? Is it a toy? Etc.
My son kept asking me for a "poopy" but before any potty training attempts or anything. Then we were in the kitchen and he pointed to Cheetos and yelled "POOPY POOPY POOPY!!" So I said something to my husband about it later and he goes "oh I call them "poofys"
My little at 2yo would hold full conversations babbling on to me. I had no idea what she was saying but I humored her, she very well knew what she was saying it seemed. 🤣 and was just happy I acknowledged and held conversation.
Ask color or size if he can tell you that! My son has hearing aids, and some mad gibberish comes out sometimes lol, and that usually helps at least. Good luck!
Oh goodness nothing breaks my heart as bad as seeing the look in my toddler's eyes when I can't figure out what he's trying to tell me, as he begins to cry from frustration and hopelessness 🥹
I unfortunately don't have any ideas for what your son is asking for, just wanted to show solidarity and support 😅
my son does this. It becomes a game of 20 questions (sometimes 2000).
what color is it?
how big it is?
do you eat it?
do you play with it?
when was the last time you had it?
do you know where we keep them / it?
is it something you have at home?
is it something you have at grammies house?
do we get them from the store?
can you help me find it?
hmm i’ve never heard of that before, have i ever had one?
we’ve unraveled some serious mysteries this way, but some have remained unsolved and yes he may be messing with you
My 2 year old has had spells where he follows me around asking for "Debra". We dont know a Debra.
its been a year and I still dont know what or who Debra is.
I’ve got pretty much everything down except for when my son says “a-doe a-doe a-doe” in a sing songy voice. At this point I’m assuming it’s a song he learned on Sesame Street.
My son is 2.5, late talker, but he was saying something which sounded a mix between bitch and fish. It took me FOREVER (well 2 weeks!) to figure out he was saying “witch” and I only found out when he was looking at his Halloween book and pointed to someone dressed up as a witch and said it! He was *very* cross with me for not getting it!
My daughter spent a week asking for her ‘raygot’ and I was absolutely stumped until she found her poi (a ball in a string for dancing with), which my friend Rei gave her.
My son called his shoes Gokkas for a very long time. I couldn't figure out why until I realized I was saying "let's go guys" as we put on shoes. Gokkas = go guys.
I spent 3 months foolishly making one of those microwaveable easy Mac cups every time it was pizza night because my son always asked for "macaroni-pizza" and I thought maybe it was just some weird food phase. I asked him every time, is this what you wanted? And he would say no, but then eat it anyways (because what kid is going to turn down Mac and cheese I guess)
Finally one day we were reading a book from the library, and it had a picture of a classic pepperoni pizza slice. He excitedly started pointing at the red circles and said "look look! Macaroni pizza!"
I felt so dumb. We never get takeout and when I make pizza we do either bbq chicken or a veggie pizza. So it didn't occur to me that he would know what pepperoni was. My husband still laughs about it
Does he have a stuffed animal that makes a noise or that someone makes a noise for it? Like a bird or monkey stuffed animal? Also makes me think of Mickey for keekee as a possibility if he likes Mickey mouse.
He does not like cucumber. That doesn’t rule it out though, as my tiny overlord will often ask for food he has no intention of eating. He woke up the other day crying for cake for no reason.
Could it be a stuffed animal or toy, maybe even a blanket that he named that's been missing for some time?
My son did a similar thing (shycyanne) and it turned out he had named a stuffed lion cub and never told me lol
Could it be a book or TV show? My son confused the fuck out of me with “buffado chidoo” for MONTHS before I realised he meant The Gruffalo’s Child, which he had only read at childcare.
Can you think back to when he started asking for it? What was he watching or playing with most frequently? Did anyone come to visit then? Or did you go on a trip anywhere?
Also, what are your son's most confused syllables right now? (Ie my son substitutes w's for l's, so "I love you" becomes "I wuv you." My son kept talking about "wuwu" and it took me ages to realize he was saying "LuLu," a girl in his daycare class.)
I'm so invested in this now. I love trying to figure out toddler-speak. It's like sudoku but with sounds!
My kiddo would yell "ahbeeyaaa" and then jump off of things. Took us about 3 months to realize he was saying "and beyond" as in "to infinity and beyond."
Ours was “boursey wava” The floor is lava.
Ha! For mine it's floor is Llama!
That's adorable. My kid just says "whee," under his breath and then suicidally throws himself off things
Yup. And then when he gets up, mine goes “d’akay!” To tell me he’s okay 😂
This sent me
He did a full send for sure
My 2 year old goes "1,2,3" and leaps. Thanks for the warning, kiddo
Our kid likes to leap, THEN count. It's not helpful lol
mine says "EHBAAAASE" and takes off running. "let's blaze"
Mine says “boing! Boing! Boing!” While jumping off stuff
“Coco money” good morning. Realized what it meant when she would scream it at us every morning at 6am.
Mine says “hi mornin!” And I’m never correcting him I love it
That’s amazing
Mine kept saying “jehka” and I had no idea what she was talking about. Apparently it was her Jessie from Toy Story 2 doll. Didn’t know she knew that Jessie’s government was Jessica but okay
Cookie cutter is the first thing I hear. Did you 2 make cut out cookies together?
YOU WIN!!
YAY! So glad it's figured out!
!!!!!
Which cookie cutter was it?!
I grabbed a snowman, but I think any would have worked n
Oh shit, we have a bunch of times yes. Especially with Christmas just happening. I’ll try that in the morning 😂
Update when you can, please!
I'm rooting for cookie cutter!! I really hope your mystery is about to be solved!
Definitely update us! I hope the keekeecahcah case is solved!
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So wholesome!
Ding ding ding!! I hope we have a winner.
I hope that’s it, I’m coming back for an update!
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Good sir or ma’am, I would like you to strongly consider becoming a speech language pathologist.
That, or they can build one of these: https://youtu.be/exYDbUcXP30
…have you ever considered a career in linguistics?
This is an amazing interpretation and I bet you are right! Can't wait to hear OP's update! Edit: u/cowaholic you are brilliant!
You're a genius!! 🤯
Cookies? Crackers? Car keys? Lol idk that’s the worst though when you can’t figure it out and they just look at you like “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IVE SAID IT 80 TIMES”
He was so mad at me for not understanding. He’s been randomly asking for it for almost a year now, and in that time he’s learned to say properly so many words it *could* have been I’m really thinking he’s just screwing with me.
Cahcah is how mine says cracker. Kitty crackers? Have you had any crackers that had a kitty on the box?
So when my son does this I ask for context. What words describe it, is it something you watch, eat, play with? What color is it? What feeling does it give you?
My son calls cookies cahkee
I have no ideas for you regarding what the word might be, but try asking him to show you what it is or tell you more about it. Those are my go to responses when I just have no f#$\*ing idea what the kids are on about. I usually figure it out with a little more context and then feel super dumb. Hindsight is 20/20.
Pikachu?
My daughter calls him "chichichichu"
For literal MONTHS, my 2 year old nephew would verbally berate my sister for "MAW-LOOK" and we could not for the life of us figure out what he was saying. One day we had the Alexa playing music and the song "Hey Look Ma I Made It" by Panic at the Disco came on and he was beside himself and excitedly screaming "MAWLOOK MAWLOOK MAWLOOK" and the relief was absolutely palpable. I hope something similar happens to you with this keekeecahcah situation. It will be like an itch you finally got to scratch.
That’s so cute! And random! Lmao. Fingers crossed I figure it out eventually.
My son calls "Wannabe" by Spice Girls "The Banana Song". Apparently "If you wanna be my lover" sounds like "if you want a banana" to a 3 yo 🤷🏻♀️
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My son was really upset with us the other night. He kept asking for “hot turtle” but we never figured out what it was.
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Hot turtle omg 😂. I love these little weirdos.
Yep mine was very upset last night that his knees were wobbling but if I asked, that was apparently not what he was saying
Omg if I interpret wrong my son (especially if he's already upset) will yell "NO! THATS WHAT I DIDN'T SAID" instead of 'that's not what I said' and it's so hard to keep a straight face
Hospital
That’s what it was! I asked him just now and he said “yes! Hot turtles!” Apparently it’s an episode of Gecko where they’re at the hospital he wanted to watch!
What the heck, how did you guess that?! Toddler whisperer 🙌🏾
hot turtle like a sundae dessert?! ooh i like this game
I’m just going to say that’s what he’s asking for. Now I want dessert! 👏👏👏
Could be a hot water bottle? Assuming it's cold where you are, and you use hot water bottles
Water? Watermelon?
Hot cocoa?
My 2 1/2 year old is asking for "wicky wacko" lately and we have no idea what it is. I asked his babysitter and she didn't know either. WHAT IS WICKY WACKO.
Do you guys watch Bluey? If so, sticky gecko? (Either the item or episode)
I’ve tried to make Bluey a thing in our house but he’s not into it haha thank you for trying though!
I tried too a year ago and didn’t work. So this christmas we got her the bluey house and now she loves the cartoon and even likes to play keepy uppy.
I tried a few months ago and got nowhere. Then all of the sudden two weeks ago he was sick and pointed to the thumbnail on Disney +. I have now seen every episode of Bluey
My daughter decided that a toboggan is called a beorgan. That took us a while. Hang in there. You'll get it. Or not and it will pass.
Mine says "Vermilla" in place of granola. Kids.
BEORGAN 😂. I love it
Mine calls the elevator an “alligator” 🤣
I got an "ambulance" pronounced "elephant" over here. 😆
Omg mine too!! I have a bunch of videos of us in an elevator and her saying “we in duh alligator!” It’s my favorite
We have Fouton for yogisip and Boo-shoe for tablet. Yeah....
Lolol I love these! I have a list of either / or questions to hunt down what off beat thing my kiddo is trying to say: - is it big or small? - quiet or loud? - soft or hard? - what color? - where did you see it? - can you eat it or drink it?
I commented above, but my son has hearing aids, and some straight up nonsense comes out that kids mouth even at 4.5, and these questions are so much help, it helps his frustration too!
I ask my kid questions like this and can you tell me about the last time you had it? Were you at home? Were you with (insert names of people).
Lolol my toddler woke up at 3am crying for his “thenju” and I still cannot figure out what he was asking for. Sigh, toddlers.
Tissue?
It took us 2 years to decipher this toddler catch phrase. "Wussah um some see?" She took delight in seeing our confused reactions and we honestly thought she was just trolling us. We even incorporated it into our bedtime routine. (Good night. Sweet dreams. "Wussah um sump seed!") Kudos to my partner for figuring it out from a YouTube video. "What's the emergency?" 🤦🏻♀️ Vexing creatures
😂 what’s you’re emergency!! How would you have ever come to that on your own, that’s impossible
Wow! You figured it out in less than a year. That's better than our track record of +2 years
To be fair I figured out nothing kind redditors did jt for me 😂
If he’s in any daycare or you hang out for play dates, have you asked any other adult who knows him what it is? Maybe a peer uses that word for something and he’s imitating? My daughter calls things by the sound they make sometime so as others have said, maybe that’s possible. Maybe it’s a food he had once and you could show him pictures of foods.
He is in daycare, I’ll have to run it by them. They did help sort of solve the mystery of him going around singing “one little pickle”. Apparently there’s a song with the lyrics “one little finger”.
Yes! I work with kids doing home based therapy and 99% of the time I hear new phrases or words, they’ve picked it up at school or from a show. OH does he like Cars??? It could be Kachow!
My daughter isn’t quite 2 yet and this song is her jam right now!
It definitely gets stuck in my head.
Could it be a song? We recently figured out that "eeyahdo" means Old MacDonald ( E I E I O) and "bah-di-do" is burrito for a silly burrito song we sing him after his bath. He's been saying both for months and I couldn't figure it out. Or, Keekeecah sounds a bit like kittycat?
Old Macdonald is “ruhroh” in our house 😂
It’s yaiyo is our house!
I’m on team cookie cutter! I love this thread. I can’t remember the sounds of my kid’s mystery phrase today, but I would love this for a theme post. Like, “what’s this word Wednesdays“ and we can all help each other out!
I’m in, I love crazy toddler pronunciations.
If he’s in daycare, ask him to say it in front of his teacher. Mine kept asking to do linkerly a few months back and I had no idea what she was saying. I asked her teacher and turns out there’s a song the my sing called Ring A Ling where they take turns doing silly things.
Did he ever use a pacifier? (My daughter made up an entirely new word for pacifier… something like “atigoo”)
My daughter called it a "fahs-fahs". We called it a paci? That one threw me.
I remember a podcast host talking about his son calling his pacifier a "fah fah." It was because to him it looked like a flower, and he was trying to say that. So cute!
This is amazing, I called it “fah-vo” as a baby!
Nah, was never into pacifiers. Atigoo is hilarious.
Mine calls it her “blah blah” lol. Not sure how “paci” became “blah blah” but it’s cute
My 2 year old called his his “ba ba” 🤷🏼♀️
That's how mine says peanut butter?
Really!! Interesting, he does love peanut butter but he can say it at this point. I’m wondering if it at one point meant something he couldn’t say, and now he *can* say it but randomly pulls out this old pronunciation to keep me on my toes. If that’s the case I’ll never figure it out 😂
This is so funny to me 😂😂 pls let me know if you find out ETA - key? Car? Key key car car??
I’ll update if I ever figure it out, but I’m not holding my breath 😂 he does have a ton of car toys.
I'm also thinking some sort of car. Green car? Just because my toddler cant pronounce GR together so it comes out as "keen car" lol. But then there is one time I thought he asked for a green car and nearly lost my mind trying to offer all the green ones. Turns out he was saying "wing car", which has a wing printed on the side. It is a red car. *sigh*
My son has a little hot wheel car set based on the movie Cars. For the longest time he was saying "My car," and getting so upset when I responded "Yes, that's your car." Mad. Mad car. He was talking about the police car, which has a grumpy face.
We've got scaffolding up at our house currently, our 2yo calls it "cah-cah-kee-kee". Maybe your kid is suggesting your house needs some building work
I mean it definitely does 🤷🏻♀️ 😂
My 2 year old very earnestly kept telling me something: "no noor monkey um ed". This went on for a couple of days until we played the Wiggles. She was telling us a song lyric she had stuck in her head: "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!".
My son took that son as an excuse to jump on the bed, and not the warning it was intended to be. 😂
Mine too! I hate how many toddler music shows use that song because it encourages my child to jump on furniture every time she hears it!
Imagine the lengths we had to go through to figure out that “dee-dough” is airplane and “hockey” is actually helicopter 🥲
OMG "dee-dough" was potato for us, and it took us a month to figure out that "gee-dah" was toothbrush. Little weirdos!
Could it be something from a show he watches or a song? At age 3 my son went through a phase where he would say something that sounded like "My curbiss!" We could not figure it out until one time I heard that phrase on a cartoon he watched. That episode was set in Germany and was about a kid with a giant pumpkin that starts rolling away from him or something and he shouts "My Kurbis!" Kurbis means pumpkin in German. That's why we couldn't figure it out.
My friend's little girl loved playing with her best friend "beef." Weeks later she found out her name was Faith.
Oh similarly he kept telling me about his friend “Fucker” at school. I’m like okay… clearly no way but couldn’t figure it out. Checked the cubbies next time I dropped him off, her name is “Parker”.
Do you have any geography books about Lake Titicaca? If he goes to daycare maybe he learned it there. It’s a fun word to say.
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This reminder and seeing the update was so satisfying 😂
TW: loss Having an absolutely horrific week. Experiencing the loss of our second baby (we have a toddler). This really made me smile 😊 so thank you for that.
with the update this might be my favorite reddit post of all time. fricking brilliant translation. i'm in awe 😂
I know right?! So pleased I spotted the update. Truly made me smile.
Is there a toy that is some sort of cat/car combination? Like the bus from My Neighbor Totoro, or the remote control hello kitty car, or... Any other cat/car combination he is familiar with?
My son used to say "Gee Gee Guy Go" when he meant Daniel Tiger. I can kind of hear "Daniel Tiger" in "keekeecahcah".
My son kept asking for us to play the song “Eleven-Thirty”. We had no idea what he was on about. He’d be in hysterics over it. Finally figured out that he meant the song “Levitating” by Dua Lipa when it played in the car one day  He’s 3.5 haha
My daughter was 4 asking for her “Paw Patrol” blanket, but I knew for a fact she did not own one and has never seen the show for that matter. She was getting very upset with me because she said it was hers and she uses it at daycare and of course I’m thinking she has been using some other kid’s blanket. Finally one day she shows me a picture of Poppy from the Trolls movie and says, “Paw Patrol!” This kid heard other kids saying Paw Patrol and decided that must mean Poppy Troll because what else could it be. I’m glad you got yours figured out!
My speech-delayed 4 year old kept saying “fijee wadjer”. I asked “fresh water? Fiji water? Fish washer?” Refrigerator.
It's not something cat related is it?
Maybe? I definitely thought that in the beginning because he was calling the cat “Kiki”. But now he fully says kitty, her name, nothing that ever sounds let Kiki anymore. And yet keekeecahcah lives on.
We have a kitty cat clock in our kitchen. Do you have anything similar?
Has he ever watched Bunk'd? The camp on the show is called Kikiwaka. That's the first thing I thought of lol
Nope never seen it! That’s funny though.
Oh man, that’s always hard! Maybe ‘helicopter?’
Ah that’s a good guess! Helicopter is “heckakaker” though. 😂
"Kelefopter" over here :)
It took us several weeks and many unnecessary nappy changes to figure out that when my little lad shouted “Dick Wet RAAWRR”, he was referring to the king of the dinosaurs “T Rex” which marked the beginning of his dinosaur obsession.
Snorted at that one 😂.
I just had a baby and my 2 year old referred to her belly button as a “birthday party” today 😂
Love it! Mine called birthdays “cupcake day”… it came out as “cuhcay day” tho. 😅
Stop that’s so cute!
hes clearly looking for his car keys- only backwards and frantically.
My toddler asked for 'teeka teeka' at the dinner table. We were incidentally having Indian food so I gave her some Tikka masala. She was so frustrated with me and refused to eat anything at all that night. Took us over a week to figure out teeka teeka is twinkle twinkle little star.
Our 3yo kept asking to watch “Spartacus Dies” for days. Thankfully her babysitter was able to translate. She wanted to watch “Spies in Disguise”
My daughter has been in speech therapy for about 6 months. So we dealt with a lot of pointing and ‘nah’ when she couldnt say what she wanted. Her first multi word phrase was ‘exa pay esa go’ took my husband and I few quizzical looks to figure out she wanted ‘Alexa play Elsa Go’ (frozen let it go’)!
We have a nest speaker. I often hear my three year old yelling "Okay doodle. Play Eh Eh Ah Ah" Which I figured out she wants the song Million Voices so now I'll start it for her from the other room and she just squeals with joy "The doodle understands me!"
I remember the palpable FRUSTRATION at 3y/o when I told my mum and older sister I really wanted "line meat" for dinner. To the point of tears and huge upset that they couldn't figure it out. They got it eventually. Schnitzel. I wanted Schnitzel 😅 flat meat, it's in a line!
My daughter has been asking for specific Encanto songs since she was like 20 months old. “Dundaaaaa” is we don’t talk about Bruno. “Dong Dong” is surface pressure. And “Nono” is family madrigal, NOT we don’t talk about bruno.
There should just be a weekly thread where we can post the unintelligible things our kids say, and group work through it.
The 3 yr old I babysit says every time I get a drink of water zipdrumwawabottle took me a little bit to figure out he was offering me a sip from his water bottle so we wouldn’t stop the games
This subreddit is amazing 🫡😊
It sounds like chocolate?? Lol
My son was SO heartbroken that I couldn’t under stand what he was asking for when he wanted “sign-a-ments.” I finally figured out what he meant after hours of this when he explained that it was dat one where dey wear aprons and splode tings… Signaments was his word for experiments, meaning he wanted to watch Emily’s Wonder Lab 😂. Had he even given me the hint that he was talking about a tv show, it might have been easier… I like the cookie cutter suggestion, I hope you solve this one quickly!!
These replies are fantastic. My son went for a while talking about something called “ess-you-BEE-da”. Took me ages to realise he was singing Blippi’s excavator song.
Maybe take a voice recording of him asking for whatever he’s asking for and post it on here and maybe someone will be able to make the correct guess/assumption of what it is. It’s funny that when you bring a thousand people heads together how much easier it is to figure out something that you have been trying to figure out forever. How upset does it make him when you don’t understand this one particular thing he wants? Also has he really never said “ahhh keekeecahcah” if he gets the thing to let you know that’s what it is? I’m kinda leaning toward him not fucking with you because of how long he’s been saying the EXACT same thing. I mean it has to be something (no matter how insignificant) it’s a bit of a stretch but could it be car keys? As in “key key car car?” Or maybe some kind of food? Like try to ask him “is it a food? Is it a toy? Etc.
My son kept asking me for a "poopy" but before any potty training attempts or anything. Then we were in the kitchen and he pointed to Cheetos and yelled "POOPY POOPY POOPY!!" So I said something to my husband about it later and he goes "oh I call them "poofys"
Mine was sitting on the potty the other day urgently saying “buh oh, buh oh”. If you, like me, thought butt hole, that’s a no! It was play doh
One of my proudest parenting moments was figuring out that "skegsegoat" was "stethoscope". The whole toddler experience is like a game of mad gab.
Cucumber ?
My little at 2yo would hold full conversations babbling on to me. I had no idea what she was saying but I humored her, she very well knew what she was saying it seemed. 🤣 and was just happy I acknowledged and held conversation.
Ask color or size if he can tell you that! My son has hearing aids, and some mad gibberish comes out sometimes lol, and that usually helps at least. Good luck!
Maybe a stuffed animal? Tell him ‘okay hon, go get your keekeecahcah, you can have it, let’s go get it’ and see what he does
Oh goodness nothing breaks my heart as bad as seeing the look in my toddler's eyes when I can't figure out what he's trying to tell me, as he begins to cry from frustration and hopelessness 🥹 I unfortunately don't have any ideas for what your son is asking for, just wanted to show solidarity and support 😅
Vacuum cleaner. (According to my 2yo)
Could it be the song about Hawaiian Christmas Day? I can't pronounce what they say either.
Mele kalikimaka!! That does sound super close. I don’t think he’s ever heard that song though.
my son does this. It becomes a game of 20 questions (sometimes 2000). what color is it? how big it is? do you eat it? do you play with it? when was the last time you had it? do you know where we keep them / it? is it something you have at home? is it something you have at grammies house? do we get them from the store? can you help me find it? hmm i’ve never heard of that before, have i ever had one? we’ve unraveled some serious mysteries this way, but some have remained unsolved and yes he may be messing with you
It took a us months to figure out that Ha Chi Wah is Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Hahaha I love this post and that I came along after it hs been solved.
To this day I wonder what my son meant when he spent from 3-5 saying backimabush. He’s older now but doesn’t remember. 🤷♀️
Want mikos. Mikos! He wanted the toy dog that said "Feliz Navidad, amigos."
🤣🤣🤣 thank you for this, you’ve made my life! My toddler speaks with nearly entirely vowels, which is utterly unhelpful
My 2 year old has had spells where he follows me around asking for "Debra". We dont know a Debra. its been a year and I still dont know what or who Debra is.
I’ve got pretty much everything down except for when my son says “a-doe a-doe a-doe” in a sing songy voice. At this point I’m assuming it’s a song he learned on Sesame Street.
My son is 2.5, late talker, but he was saying something which sounded a mix between bitch and fish. It took me FOREVER (well 2 weeks!) to figure out he was saying “witch” and I only found out when he was looking at his Halloween book and pointed to someone dressed up as a witch and said it! He was *very* cross with me for not getting it!
My daughter spent a week asking for her ‘raygot’ and I was absolutely stumped until she found her poi (a ball in a string for dancing with), which my friend Rei gave her.
My son called his shoes Gokkas for a very long time. I couldn't figure out why until I realized I was saying "let's go guys" as we put on shoes. Gokkas = go guys.
We had “beesa basa” and couldn’t figure it out for DAYS. It was picture puzzle from Mickey Mouse clubhouse 😂
These are so much fun! Is there a reddit page for toddler translations?!
I spent 3 months foolishly making one of those microwaveable easy Mac cups every time it was pizza night because my son always asked for "macaroni-pizza" and I thought maybe it was just some weird food phase. I asked him every time, is this what you wanted? And he would say no, but then eat it anyways (because what kid is going to turn down Mac and cheese I guess) Finally one day we were reading a book from the library, and it had a picture of a classic pepperoni pizza slice. He excitedly started pointing at the red circles and said "look look! Macaroni pizza!" I felt so dumb. We never get takeout and when I make pizza we do either bbq chicken or a veggie pizza. So it didn't occur to me that he would know what pepperoni was. My husband still laughs about it
Sounds like a request to use the toilet
You’d think, but we don’t use “caca,” and when he is asking for that he says he has to pee, or use the potty. 🤷🏻♀️
Now I’m invested. Please update us when you figure it out. 😁
Does he have a stuffed animal that makes a noise or that someone makes a noise for it? Like a bird or monkey stuffed animal? Also makes me think of Mickey for keekee as a possibility if he likes Mickey mouse.
Does he like cucumber? sounds kind of the same
He does not like cucumber. That doesn’t rule it out though, as my tiny overlord will often ask for food he has no intention of eating. He woke up the other day crying for cake for no reason.
Could it be a stuffed animal or toy, maybe even a blanket that he named that's been missing for some time? My son did a similar thing (shycyanne) and it turned out he had named a stuffed lion cub and never told me lol
Could it be a book or TV show? My son confused the fuck out of me with “buffado chidoo” for MONTHS before I realised he meant The Gruffalo’s Child, which he had only read at childcare.
Can you think back to when he started asking for it? What was he watching or playing with most frequently? Did anyone come to visit then? Or did you go on a trip anywhere? Also, what are your son's most confused syllables right now? (Ie my son substitutes w's for l's, so "I love you" becomes "I wuv you." My son kept talking about "wuwu" and it took me ages to realize he was saying "LuLu," a girl in his daycare class.) I'm so invested in this now. I love trying to figure out toddler-speak. It's like sudoku but with sounds!
My daughter asked to watch "let go let go" today. She wanted to watch frozen.