Lena Vocabulary

Official First Word:

December 22, 2012--11 months

Cookie!

She heard the magic word from the next room and got excited.

Vocabulary as of February 5, 2013

Cookie/Cracker (Ritz=cookies--don't tell her!)

Pretty (peey)

Brush (buss)

Teeth (teese)

Bath (bas)

Tub (tah)

Mine (mai)

Read! (Ree!)

Apple (appo)

Bottle (bah)

What's 'is?

Whassat?

Hey

Uh-oh

And in animal speak: woof (uff), quack (kaa), bok bok, baa

2 1/2 months later...

The doctor asks if she can say 2-3 words and asked me to list what she says. I couldn't think of everything at the time, but here are 50+ more words that she can say as of now:

Body parts

• ear (ee)
• eye (aa)
• face (fess)
• feet (fee)
• hair (hayy)
• hand (han)
• head (hett)
• mouth (moss)
• nose (neese)

Food

• *agua (awa--first Spanish word!)
• banana (belabela)
• bread (beh)
• cheese
• cup (really used for any drink)
• food (foo)
• noodle (noonoo--jut like Bubba!)
• pea
• pizza (peeta)

Animals

• baby (not to be confused with her doll Bibi)
• bear (beh)
• dog (goggy)
• ducky (gucky)
• kitty (keekee)
• fish (fiss)
• piggy (clear as a bell, actually, especially when holding out toes for her favorite game)
• puppy

Clothing

• beads (beese--for all jewelry)
• hat (hett--context tells us if she means head or hat, kind of like non-native English speakers I've known...)
• shoes (soo)
• socks (sakis)

Phrases

• All gone! (Ah go! cutest with a shrug)
• Bye (bah--Southern girl)
• Good girl (goo'goo')
• Hello
• No
• Where's...?(wess)
• Yeah

Household items

• balloon (bwoo)
• book
• bubble (bubbo)
• car (cah)
• door (doh)
• key
• phone (fo')
• robot (bot--as in Transformers)
• TV (tee)

Commands

• down (dow)
• eat (really mans "feed me!")
• help (hope)
• hug (huck--for toys)
• off
• outside (sai?)
• up

Descriptions

• cold (coe)
• fluffy (fahfee--mostly Bubba's hair)
• happy (clear as a bell, but usually means Elmo because of her "happy and you know it" book)
• hot (hah)
• nice (naith--for petting animals)
• poopy

Animal speak

• moo

I had not previously listed names, but for the record, she does say Mommy (a LOT), Daddy (datty), Bubba, Bompa (bahpah), Pat, Pawpaw, Uncle (ucco), Ziggy (Theethee), Pease, and Hoppy. She has called Granny "gaee" and Oma "ma," but for some reason she doesn't like to do it a lot.