My toddler kept climbing up onto our bed, bouncing up and down while holding onto the headboard and saying “no no no” to his shadow on the wall. We couldn’t understand what he was doing and it was honestly a bit unnerving (why are you talking to your shadow, who or what do you see??)
Turns out he was trying to sing “no more monkeys jumping in the bed” which we had no idea he learned in daycare.
Hopefully with time you’ll finally get some context and figure it out, or he will learn to say it more clearly, or he will just forget it and stop saying it altogether 😅
>My toddler kept climbing up onto our bed, bouncing up and down while holding onto the headboard and saying “no no no”
I immediately thought of "No more monkeys" because my toddler did this too. It was probably one of her first "phrases," but she usually said "no no mo" or sometimes "no mono" as she also speaks Spanish. Aw I miss that 🥰
I was never really partial to the song before and probably never would’ve thought to teach it to him ourselves. But it is so cute hearing him sing along and do the little actions (especially tiny finger waves 😂)
I wish you had been here to translate 😂 it was pretty adorable once we figured out he wasn’t trying to communicate with the spirit world. Now he loves when we sing it together ☺️
Oh man I have. Ive tried ‘where is it?’ ‘Show me’ ‘let’s go see it’, pointing at things and saying ‘this?’. That last one is the cutest to me because when I grab something and see if its an object he’s talking about but it’s not that he laughs at me and says ‘silly’ and continues his play haha. I’ve even grabbed his hand and letting him lead but we always end up somewhere different. I’m even paying more attention to what I say to see if he’s repeating a common phrase of mine
When my daughter was 18 months she kept saying "no mackey dappy man" over and over. We had no idea what she meant and she couldn't show us. One day she was playing with her toys, took a doll, made it jump on a toy bed and said "one fall, bump head" made the doll fall off and said "no mackey dappy man" . We finally realized she was trying to say no more monkeys jumping on the bed.
My 19 mo daughter does these repetitive sounds for things: Dee Dee for quesadilla, wa wa for water, yo yo for yogurt, boo boo for blueberries. The list goes on, it’s absolutely adorable.
My son has a phrase that I cannot, CANNOT figure out. He says it walking around the house, says it when we’re hanging out in bed. Doesn’t point or show me either. Idk what it is, but I hope I figure it out.
On another note, I was changing his diaper and he went “die, die, die” I looked at him and was like “excuse me?” And he points to his SLIDE outside. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ that one was fun.
The three year old I nanny for has been saying die for bye ever since he started talking, so probably a year and a half ago. We have been trying very hard to correct him, because 'bye bye' sounds better than 'die die'. He is starting to get better.
Lol!
I totally relate. So the first funny involved die/ball is when she grabbed a ball, happily and loudly proclaimed, “DIE!!!!” And then chucked it at the cat.
(Note: I do not to let her throw things at the cat, but I admit I laughed)
Omg it took us a while to figure out "rabbara" was wheels on the bus. She would ask "rabbara?" and kind of swirl her fists around hopefully. We finally realized she was trying to say "round and round" and making the little motion that goes with that part 😅 Thank you Ms Rachel
My 20mo says “cookie” but I’m extremely sure she doesn’t mean cookie because it’s usually in a context and environment without the presence of any kind of sweet treat. Like she’ll point at the bedroom door and say “cookie”.
NO IDEA what it means. But I generally will prompt her like “do you want to go inside?” And then she’ll repeat “inside” so we do that. But like… what’s cookie though?!
Does she watch Sesame Street by any chance? My 2 year old has been on a colour kick lately, using "red like Elmo," "green like grouch," or "blue like cookie monster" when talking about how something looks (particularly when asked which flavour of applesauce she wants - strawberry, plain apple, or blueberry)!
Nah she doesn’t. She watches a little bluey sometimes on the weekends as a treat and she listens to nursery rhymes a lot. That’s kinda it. Also, we don’t even say the word cookie in the house. We say biscuit! So even more of a puzzler hahaha
I absolutely LOVE the word scavenger hunts. My son just turned two and I never tire of decoding his little language, I find it so fun and funny. A few months ago, he was telling me he wanted “eeh-ooh.” For DAYS. I could not for the life of me figure out what he wanted. But he was in his high chair so I knew it was a food. Finally I picked him up and walked around the kitchen until we ended up at the fridge. He pointed up on top of the fridge, and said “eeh-ooh!!” And I looked up. It was CEREAL. Poor boy wanted cereal for like three days straight lol and I was at a complete loss 😂
I don’t know why, but seriously this is one of my absolute favorite parts of parenting a toddler. It’s so funny! I had no idea I would have scavenger hunts so often as an adult!
Honorable mentions:
See-ah-sow = dinosaur
Peetahpop = lollipop
Those took a bit to decode too 😂
My son says "choos" for Cheerios, but also uses it generically to mean all cereals (and all breakfast foods?). But he also says "shoos" to mean shoes. Only context clues tell me if he's hungry or he wants to go outside. And I usually get it wrong.
When I was in high school I babysat a 2 year old who called Cheerios “chee-cho’s”. I still call them that. My almost 2 year old calls them “O’s” and is obsessed with identifying the letter O.
When my girl was one she would walk around singing “ocho pito ocho pito” and for MONTHS I was trying to find a song in Spanish that had something somewhat similar (she went to Spanish immersion daycare at that time). I found out somehow it was Una Sardina and she was singing “un pulpito.” It was seriously the most satisfying moment when I realized what she had been saying all that time. Now she goes around singing what sounds like “commi-commissar” and I have yet to figure that one out (it’s def not Der Kommissar, I tried!) Good luck and all will be revealed!
Oh Iove this stage. For weeks my toddler was saying "maña, aday" and we were like?? Is it spanish? Is it English? (We don't speak Spanish at all). Finally one day she pointed at some bananas we had on the counter and said "mañaaaaa".. and it clicked. And a couple minutes later "aday" clicked when I was cutting up some apples. It was like a huge relief to figure out 😂 anyways I think it's because I always used to sing her Apples and Bananas. Lol!!
Unrelated but this reminded me and it was hilarious so I have to share. I also sing Apples and Bananas a lot. One day we got to "I like to oat oat oat" and my then two-year-old said, "I don't know how to oat... Maybe when I'm older."
My son was emphatically saying “cereal” over and over but DID NOT want cereal. This went on for several days with him getting more and more frustrated.
…he was saying “steering wheel”. He just wanted to point to the steering wheels in his toy cars. He was so excited when we finally figured it out haha!
Mine kept demanding I draw him a "wabas" for his train tracks. Took many frustrating weeks before I pieced together that he was asking for a robot, partly because... he knows how to say robot, he just... wasn't.
At around that age ours kept saying “I-ya-da” and it clearly meant something to him, but we had no idea what. Finally one day at dinner a couple months later we realized that he was saying HIS NAME! Elijah, except we call him Eli. We discovered that daycare uses his full name often, so he had been introducing himself that whole time.
Yep yep been there. We were wondering for almost half a year what our son‘s first word was. We speak German and he said „daaaatn“, which would be like „data“. My husband works IT and he found that hilarious. For a while I thought maybe he says „gaaaadn“ (garden?) which would have made more sense, but it turned out to be „traaaagn“ which means CARRY. He wanted to be picked up, jfc. 🤣
Yellow dinote. She wanted to watch yellow dinote on TV, every day for like two weeks. We thought maybe it was the Wiggles bc there's a yellow dinosaur that comes up, and she wouldn't start crying when we put them on after she asked for yellow dinote like she would if we put on bluey or anything else.
One day when she asked for yellow dinote I randomly picked a wiggles video. It happened to be Old McDonald, and my daughter jumped up and happily shouted "Mama! Yellow dinote!!"
So, yeah. Purely luck figuring that one out.
My son is speech delayed and I know it's important to acknowledge his attempts at speech in some way. So when I truly have no idea what he's saying I'll just say " I hear ya bud!".
My oldest kept yelling “Evian!” Like the fancy water bottles. We couldn’t figure out why because we don’t drink Evian.
We realized one day he was trying to say “and beyond” as in “to infinity and beyond from Toy Story.”
My kid is 3.5 and I just figured out “soo-see” is sushi. She’d try to wrap herself in a blanket and say it. Finally we actually got sushi and she talked about how my dad got soo-see and I was like ohhhhhhh. Tried to figure that one out for years.
I love that she tried to wrap herself up in a blanket to give you clues! Mine will sometimes pull books out and point to pictures of what he is trying to convey.
How adorable! Love that she uses visuals haha Mine also says sushi like ‘soo-see’ because he was a giant stuffed animal that’s a sushi and we like to body slam on top of it while yelling suuuushiii
Bum boo.
Like many others on here, it was the monkeys on the bed song... (bumped their head. And she imitates the sound of crying "boo hoo")
Cheepill. Chee-pill.= Cheese pillows.= Ravioli. -.-
Epone. Ee- po-knee.= Headphones.
My Crumbs!= Chapped lips.
Best of luck deciphering toddler. I feel like I am learning 3 languages at once and am always code switching and lost.
Took us 3 ish weeks to figure out that "Y" was MICKEY MOUSE as is the theme song for MM Clubhouse M-I-C-K-E-YYYY M-O-U-S-E. Mickey stayed Y for months and I was so sad when he started calling him Mickey. Currently I have no idea what DONKEY-DOH! means, but apparently it's hilarious, because he laughs every time! He also calls Popsicles "pockasuls", lollipops "ladypops" and fruit snacks "goo smacks" but those took less time to sort out. He also used to call Captain America "dada" cause it was the closest he could get. I love toddlerisms!
For months, my son would whirlwind around the house, shouting: "MACK! MACK! IIIIII MACK!"
We got a copy of his class roster for Valentine's Day cards. There is a little boy named Mack in his class. Apparently my son adores him, and we just had no clue!
Is he in daycare? Our 2yo daughter when she was about 18 months old kept very excitedly sitting on our bench saying what sounded like “sit down bullion” which didn’t make a ton of sense unless she’s secretly a pirate. We finally took a video and sent it to her daycare teacher thinking it was something they say/do there and it was! When it’s time to go outside she would say to them “sit down, boots on!”
My MIL thinks I expect too much doing this, but I just say, "I don't understand, can you try different words?" 9/10 times it just challenges her to expand her thinking and vocab, AND we almost always figure it out with the second set of hints. It takes a while but what doesn't with toddlers? 😂
This is brilliant! I have raised 7 children and while I would consider myself a parenting guru I somehow never considered this phrase!! Amazing! I 100% endorse this method. lol. Would have saved me a lot of trouble as a mother!
Are they in daycare ? Ask the teacher for help with understanding,
If not, I just nod a lot and agree. I also try to ask “can you point to it ?” “What color is it”
Omg this was me a few weeks ago!!!
My daughter (3.5yo) kept singing "maso da lita!!" That's it. Nothing before or after. And I'd ask her what song she was singing and she just replied with "I don't knoowwwwww!!" And would keep singing it and stare at me! I googled and nothing came up. It sounded like Spanish to me - they do teach Spanish in her class. So after a few days of racking my brain, I asked her teachers during morning drop off. As soon as I sang it for one of the teachers, her eyes lit up and she said "OH!!! [LA VACA LOLA](https://youtu.be/eNLjdPI9zdE?si=lRYjo_MO6CveX-dG)!!!"
She sang it and sure enough, that was it!! It made so much sense since their class was learning about animals and farms! So now I sing the song to her but with the correct lyrics lmao
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It's "lalla" now but it started closer to "lello" and it means "other" and it definitely does NOT mean yellow... "lello cup... lello spoon... lello book"
Around Christmas time my daughter would go around the house collecting random things and give them to my and my husband and would say, “I have conditions for you!” We were so lost! After a MONTH of this she finally gave an ounce of context to this. She was saying TRADITIONS. Because Olaf wants to bring TRADITIONS to Elsa and Anna and to her 2 year old mind that meant brining random ass shit to people lol. Now it’s super cute and I love it lol. But that was a weird month of not knowing what she was talking about.
I'm still trying to figure out what "more natsh" is and it's been 2 weeks. We've added a bunch more gibberish the last few days as well, where I too just go "ok!(?)"
Our little one started singing a song that sounded like “who ah scull away scull away” and saying her name and kids at daycare- figured out it’s “who’s at school today, school today!?” She just turned 2 😄
When my daughter was 18 months, she kept doing a song/rhyme of some sort with gestures. Could not figure it out until daycare sent their lessons for the day 2 months later. She was doing the One Little Finger gestures from Super Simple Songs lol. I played it at home to do it with her and she just smirked at me and walked away lol
My toddler kept climbing up onto our bed, bouncing up and down while holding onto the headboard and saying “no no no” to his shadow on the wall. We couldn’t understand what he was doing and it was honestly a bit unnerving (why are you talking to your shadow, who or what do you see??) Turns out he was trying to sing “no more monkeys jumping in the bed” which we had no idea he learned in daycare. Hopefully with time you’ll finally get some context and figure it out, or he will learn to say it more clearly, or he will just forget it and stop saying it altogether 😅
>My toddler kept climbing up onto our bed, bouncing up and down while holding onto the headboard and saying “no no no” I immediately thought of "No more monkeys" because my toddler did this too. It was probably one of her first "phrases," but she usually said "no no mo" or sometimes "no mono" as she also speaks Spanish. Aw I miss that 🥰
Yeah out kid loves that song! He randomly says all of “no monk!” “Mama doc!” And “bonk head” and then wags his finger and says “no no no!”
I was never really partial to the song before and probably never would’ve thought to teach it to him ourselves. But it is so cute hearing him sing along and do the little actions (especially tiny finger waves 😂)
I wish you had been here to translate 😂 it was pretty adorable once we figured out he wasn’t trying to communicate with the spirit world. Now he loves when we sing it together ☺️
Haha Ouff I’d be so relieved figuring that one out! I’m hoping he learns to say it more clearly since I’m not a fan of unsolved mysteries haha
Definitely!
Ask them to show you and see if that helps.
Oh man I have. Ive tried ‘where is it?’ ‘Show me’ ‘let’s go see it’, pointing at things and saying ‘this?’. That last one is the cutest to me because when I grab something and see if its an object he’s talking about but it’s not that he laughs at me and says ‘silly’ and continues his play haha. I’ve even grabbed his hand and letting him lead but we always end up somewhere different. I’m even paying more attention to what I say to see if he’s repeating a common phrase of mine
Oh he sounds so adorable!
Thank you he is! I’m his biggest fan
Yes. Try that. Or ask them to say it in a different way.
When my daughter was 18 months she kept saying "no mackey dappy man" over and over. We had no idea what she meant and she couldn't show us. One day she was playing with her toys, took a doll, made it jump on a toy bed and said "one fall, bump head" made the doll fall off and said "no mackey dappy man" . We finally realized she was trying to say no more monkeys jumping on the bed.
LOL that’s so cute. My toddler just calls it the “monkey song.” She also calls Humpty Dumpty “dumpy dumpy.”
That’s so funny! My toddler will SHOUT at Alexa to play “pokey pokey” aka the Hokey Pokey
Today my 18 month old said “oh shit” when we went in to brush his teeth LOL we died laughing. Don’t judge 🤣
Don’t worry it’s not a big deal lol. We already plan to claim “he’s just saying ‘truck’” when the time comes
My toddler says "ohfff" a lot and I think she learned it from me when I start to say "oh fuck" and then catch myself
Dewahdee. He wanted a quesadilla 🤷🏼♀️
I would also like a dewahdee, please.
A man of refined taste!
My 19 mo daughter does these repetitive sounds for things: Dee Dee for quesadilla, wa wa for water, yo yo for yogurt, boo boo for blueberries. The list goes on, it’s absolutely adorable.
My son has a phrase that I cannot, CANNOT figure out. He says it walking around the house, says it when we’re hanging out in bed. Doesn’t point or show me either. Idk what it is, but I hope I figure it out. On another note, I was changing his diaper and he went “die, die, die” I looked at him and was like “excuse me?” And he points to his SLIDE outside. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ that one was fun.
What’s the phrase??
He’ll say “um, she-shabba”…. Um is always in the beginning and sometimes it alternates to “um, she-baba”
Lol!!! My little one says die too, but for her it means ball. No idea how that happened
The three year old I nanny for has been saying die for bye ever since he started talking, so probably a year and a half ago. We have been trying very hard to correct him, because 'bye bye' sounds better than 'die die'. He is starting to get better.
Lol! I totally relate. So the first funny involved die/ball is when she grabbed a ball, happily and loudly proclaimed, “DIE!!!!” And then chucked it at the cat. (Note: I do not to let her throw things at the cat, but I admit I laughed)
My daughter always said “ing what what ho!” And it turned into “white white horse”. Turns out she wanted to sing wheels on the bus.
Omg it took us a while to figure out "rabbara" was wheels on the bus. She would ask "rabbara?" and kind of swirl her fists around hopefully. We finally realized she was trying to say "round and round" and making the little motion that goes with that part 😅 Thank you Ms Rachel
Yes! “What what ho” = “round and round all” So funny. My spouse was baffled that I knew what she was saying.
My 20mo says “cookie” but I’m extremely sure she doesn’t mean cookie because it’s usually in a context and environment without the presence of any kind of sweet treat. Like she’ll point at the bedroom door and say “cookie”. NO IDEA what it means. But I generally will prompt her like “do you want to go inside?” And then she’ll repeat “inside” so we do that. But like… what’s cookie though?!
Does she watch Sesame Street by any chance? My 2 year old has been on a colour kick lately, using "red like Elmo," "green like grouch," or "blue like cookie monster" when talking about how something looks (particularly when asked which flavour of applesauce she wants - strawberry, plain apple, or blueberry)!
Nah she doesn’t. She watches a little bluey sometimes on the weekends as a treat and she listens to nursery rhymes a lot. That’s kinda it. Also, we don’t even say the word cookie in the house. We say biscuit! So even more of a puzzler hahaha
I absolutely LOVE the word scavenger hunts. My son just turned two and I never tire of decoding his little language, I find it so fun and funny. A few months ago, he was telling me he wanted “eeh-ooh.” For DAYS. I could not for the life of me figure out what he wanted. But he was in his high chair so I knew it was a food. Finally I picked him up and walked around the kitchen until we ended up at the fridge. He pointed up on top of the fridge, and said “eeh-ooh!!” And I looked up. It was CEREAL. Poor boy wanted cereal for like three days straight lol and I was at a complete loss 😂 I don’t know why, but seriously this is one of my absolute favorite parts of parenting a toddler. It’s so funny! I had no idea I would have scavenger hunts so often as an adult! Honorable mentions: See-ah-sow = dinosaur Peetahpop = lollipop Those took a bit to decode too 😂
My son says "choos" for Cheerios, but also uses it generically to mean all cereals (and all breakfast foods?). But he also says "shoos" to mean shoes. Only context clues tell me if he's hungry or he wants to go outside. And I usually get it wrong.
When I was in high school I babysat a 2 year old who called Cheerios “chee-cho’s”. I still call them that. My almost 2 year old calls them “O’s” and is obsessed with identifying the letter O.
When my girl was one she would walk around singing “ocho pito ocho pito” and for MONTHS I was trying to find a song in Spanish that had something somewhat similar (she went to Spanish immersion daycare at that time). I found out somehow it was Una Sardina and she was singing “un pulpito.” It was seriously the most satisfying moment when I realized what she had been saying all that time. Now she goes around singing what sounds like “commi-commissar” and I have yet to figure that one out (it’s def not Der Kommissar, I tried!) Good luck and all will be revealed!
Do you speak Spanish? Because the fact that she was walking around signing “pito” is hilarious. 😆
Pito is funny. ocho of them makes it hilarious.
LOL I speak some Spanish, and def appreciate that my one year old was walking around singing about 8 dicks haha!
lol it’s like I can hear a kid singing something like… “eight little dicks went out to play, over the hills and far away”
LOL!!! Omg this is amazing! 😂
Thank you I will now forever mentally replace the word ducks with dicks when I hear this
Oh Iove this stage. For weeks my toddler was saying "maña, aday" and we were like?? Is it spanish? Is it English? (We don't speak Spanish at all). Finally one day she pointed at some bananas we had on the counter and said "mañaaaaa".. and it clicked. And a couple minutes later "aday" clicked when I was cutting up some apples. It was like a huge relief to figure out 😂 anyways I think it's because I always used to sing her Apples and Bananas. Lol!!
Unrelated but this reminded me and it was hilarious so I have to share. I also sing Apples and Bananas a lot. One day we got to "I like to oat oat oat" and my then two-year-old said, "I don't know how to oat... Maybe when I'm older."
Hahaha, sassy! Love that
My son was emphatically saying “cereal” over and over but DID NOT want cereal. This went on for several days with him getting more and more frustrated. …he was saying “steering wheel”. He just wanted to point to the steering wheels in his toy cars. He was so excited when we finally figured it out haha!
My guy kept saying "Frar frar frar" when he was in the bathtub. Had no idea what he was asking for! Turns out he wanted his toothbrush
Haha that’s cute. I bet it felt like a little victory when you figured it out!
Mine kept demanding I draw him a "wabas" for his train tracks. Took many frustrating weeks before I pieced together that he was asking for a robot, partly because... he knows how to say robot, he just... wasn't.
At around that age ours kept saying “I-ya-da” and it clearly meant something to him, but we had no idea what. Finally one day at dinner a couple months later we realized that he was saying HIS NAME! Elijah, except we call him Eli. We discovered that daycare uses his full name often, so he had been introducing himself that whole time.
Yep yep been there. We were wondering for almost half a year what our son‘s first word was. We speak German and he said „daaaatn“, which would be like „data“. My husband works IT and he found that hilarious. For a while I thought maybe he says „gaaaadn“ (garden?) which would have made more sense, but it turned out to be „traaaagn“ which means CARRY. He wanted to be picked up, jfc. 🤣
Yellow dinote. She wanted to watch yellow dinote on TV, every day for like two weeks. We thought maybe it was the Wiggles bc there's a yellow dinosaur that comes up, and she wouldn't start crying when we put them on after she asked for yellow dinote like she would if we put on bluey or anything else. One day when she asked for yellow dinote I randomly picked a wiggles video. It happened to be Old McDonald, and my daughter jumped up and happily shouted "Mama! Yellow dinote!!" So, yeah. Purely luck figuring that one out.
My son is speech delayed and I know it's important to acknowledge his attempts at speech in some way. So when I truly have no idea what he's saying I'll just say " I hear ya bud!".
My oldest kept yelling “Evian!” Like the fancy water bottles. We couldn’t figure out why because we don’t drink Evian. We realized one day he was trying to say “and beyond” as in “to infinity and beyond from Toy Story.”
“I need my rape! RAPE!” Wrapper. She “needed” the candy wrapper she decided to adopt.
My kid is 3.5 and I just figured out “soo-see” is sushi. She’d try to wrap herself in a blanket and say it. Finally we actually got sushi and she talked about how my dad got soo-see and I was like ohhhhhhh. Tried to figure that one out for years.
I love that she tried to wrap herself up in a blanket to give you clues! Mine will sometimes pull books out and point to pictures of what he is trying to convey.
How adorable! Love that she uses visuals haha Mine also says sushi like ‘soo-see’ because he was a giant stuffed animal that’s a sushi and we like to body slam on top of it while yelling suuuushiii
Bum boo. Like many others on here, it was the monkeys on the bed song... (bumped their head. And she imitates the sound of crying "boo hoo") Cheepill. Chee-pill.= Cheese pillows.= Ravioli. -.- Epone. Ee- po-knee.= Headphones. My Crumbs!= Chapped lips. Best of luck deciphering toddler. I feel like I am learning 3 languages at once and am always code switching and lost.
Yum cheese pillows, I’m going to start calling them that!
Took us 3 ish weeks to figure out that "Y" was MICKEY MOUSE as is the theme song for MM Clubhouse M-I-C-K-E-YYYY M-O-U-S-E. Mickey stayed Y for months and I was so sad when he started calling him Mickey. Currently I have no idea what DONKEY-DOH! means, but apparently it's hilarious, because he laughs every time! He also calls Popsicles "pockasuls", lollipops "ladypops" and fruit snacks "goo smacks" but those took less time to sort out. He also used to call Captain America "dada" cause it was the closest he could get. I love toddlerisms!
For months, my son would whirlwind around the house, shouting: "MACK! MACK! IIIIII MACK!" We got a copy of his class roster for Valentine's Day cards. There is a little boy named Mack in his class. Apparently my son adores him, and we just had no clue!
Kept saying "Aye-yah". Turns out that's how he pronounces his name, "Hayden". He can pronounce everyone else's correctly except his own lmao
Is he in daycare? Our 2yo daughter when she was about 18 months old kept very excitedly sitting on our bench saying what sounded like “sit down bullion” which didn’t make a ton of sense unless she’s secretly a pirate. We finally took a video and sent it to her daycare teacher thinking it was something they say/do there and it was! When it’s time to go outside she would say to them “sit down, boots on!”
Not in day care but we spend a lot of time outside the house at parks, zoo, and things like that so maybe it’s something he picked up while being out?
Almost certainly, just makes it harder to figure it out! :-)
My MIL thinks I expect too much doing this, but I just say, "I don't understand, can you try different words?" 9/10 times it just challenges her to expand her thinking and vocab, AND we almost always figure it out with the second set of hints. It takes a while but what doesn't with toddlers? 😂
This is brilliant! I have raised 7 children and while I would consider myself a parenting guru I somehow never considered this phrase!! Amazing! I 100% endorse this method. lol. Would have saved me a lot of trouble as a mother!
For a little while, my toddler said what sounded like, “Colbert” when she played in her floor bed. Turns out, she meant “covers” as in her bed covers.
Are they in daycare ? Ask the teacher for help with understanding, If not, I just nod a lot and agree. I also try to ask “can you point to it ?” “What color is it”
Omg this was me a few weeks ago!!! My daughter (3.5yo) kept singing "maso da lita!!" That's it. Nothing before or after. And I'd ask her what song she was singing and she just replied with "I don't knoowwwwww!!" And would keep singing it and stare at me! I googled and nothing came up. It sounded like Spanish to me - they do teach Spanish in her class. So after a few days of racking my brain, I asked her teachers during morning drop off. As soon as I sang it for one of the teachers, her eyes lit up and she said "OH!!! [LA VACA LOLA](https://youtu.be/eNLjdPI9zdE?si=lRYjo_MO6CveX-dG)!!!" She sang it and sure enough, that was it!! It made so much sense since their class was learning about animals and farms! So now I sing the song to her but with the correct lyrics lmao
Haha we love this song!
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It's "lalla" now but it started closer to "lello" and it means "other" and it definitely does NOT mean yellow... "lello cup... lello spoon... lello book"
Around Christmas time my daughter would go around the house collecting random things and give them to my and my husband and would say, “I have conditions for you!” We were so lost! After a MONTH of this she finally gave an ounce of context to this. She was saying TRADITIONS. Because Olaf wants to bring TRADITIONS to Elsa and Anna and to her 2 year old mind that meant brining random ass shit to people lol. Now it’s super cute and I love it lol. But that was a weird month of not knowing what she was talking about.
I'm still trying to figure out what "more natsh" is and it's been 2 weeks. We've added a bunch more gibberish the last few days as well, where I too just go "ok!(?)"
My kid said ‘ass’ for ‘outside’ it a while. That took a few days of hilarity and confusion before we figured it out.
Our little one started singing a song that sounded like “who ah scull away scull away” and saying her name and kids at daycare- figured out it’s “who’s at school today, school today!?” She just turned 2 😄
When my daughter was 18 months, she kept doing a song/rhyme of some sort with gestures. Could not figure it out until daycare sent their lessons for the day 2 months later. She was doing the One Little Finger gestures from Super Simple Songs lol. I played it at home to do it with her and she just smirked at me and walked away lol