Sight word list #3

"How," "many," "out," "use," and "these" were the trickiest.

Sight Words List #2

"Were" and "one" were the toughest.

Paolo's first 20 sight words!

Paolo is writing!

Paolo was upset with his punishment earlier this week, so he shut himself in his room and wrote on his white board. Starting on the bottom line, it reads "Paolo gets no TV and Kindle."

Look who can tie his shoes!

New sneakers for the occasion

Lena's Vocabulary: Half birthday

First ≥ 50

Update 1

Body parts
Back
Butt
Cheek
Neck
Paw

Food
Carrot (kett)
Grapes (gates)
Ice cream (keemy)
Lunch (nutch)
Livermush (mush)
Noodles (noonoos--like Bubba!)
Supper (suppo)
Yogurt (yogitt)

Animals
Cows
Elephant (effit)
Pets
Sheep

Clothing
Backpack (bapa)
Bow
Bracelet (bekkit)
Diaper (dahpoo)
Dress (dess)
Jacket
Necklace (nekkit)
Pants (pats)

Phrases
*Adiós (joce)

Here you go! (Heeco)
I coming!
I got it!
Love you (wuvvoo)
We will, we will rock you (wewooo, wewoo wakku)
Where are you? (ayoo)
You!

Household items
Cloth/washcloth (coff)
Colors/crayons (cuhlls)
Crib (kip)
Makeup (maycuts)
Money
Pillow
Princess (pih-tess)
Stairs (tee-ew)
Straw (taw)
Water (wow)

Commands
Cook

C'mere (meea)
Cuddle (cuddo)
Kiss
Smooch (mootth)

Descriptions
Hurt (hutt)
Naked
Noise! (nuss)
Ready
Scared (kayood)
Tasty (taytee)

Windy (vees)

Animal speak
Oo oo ah
Oink (aik)
Arf/woof
Quack (cock)
Tweet tweet (tee tee)

WORD COUNT 59 + 56 + 55 = 170

Lena Vocabulary: 17 months

[In addition to first 50 or so words]

Body parts
Arm (ahm)
Finger (figguh)
Leg (yeg)
Toes (tose)

Food
Bar (baw--as in cereal)
Berry (bey)
Biscuit (bikih)
Cake
Cereal (seeo)
Meat
Milk (moke)
Snack (nack)
Toast (tose)
Tortilla (tia)

Animals
Bear
Bunny
Frog (f***)
Horse (huss)
Turtle (tootoe)

Clothing
Barrette (bet)
Boot
Buckle
Clothes (cose)
Flip flop (fah fah)

Phrases
Night night (nah nah)
Pee
Sorry (sai)
Thank you (theckoo)
I want
Wow!
Yuck!

Household items
Ball
Basket
Bed (bett)
Blanket (bake-eh)
Cover (cuvvy)
Box
Flower (fai)
Light (lai)
Marker (mahkuh)
Picture (picker)
Potty (pah-ee)
Toy

Commands
Fight! (fie--as in battle game with Brother)
Go!
Look!
On!
Ride!
Sleep!
Stop!
Wait!
Walk! (as in "let me")

Descriptions
Funny (fuy)
Heavy
Hungry (hungee)
Neat

Paolo Vocabulary

Of course I cannot begin to plumb the depths of everything Paolo can and does say now, at five years old (though I have broken down and started a Twitter account to track all of the fun stuff he says), but here's a retrospective of when my eldest started talking all through age 1 (though my records appear to be less than exhaustive).

First Official Word:

February ??, 2009

Eye

We had a snow delay, and he decided to identify mine for me.

As of July 7, 2009

Body parts

• arm
• ear
• mouth
• teeth

Food

• apple
• juice

Animals

• baby
• bear
• cat
• dog
• duck
• puppy

Clothing

• backpack
• shirt
• shoes
• socks

Phrases

• Bye bye
• I'm done
• No
• No more

Household items

• ball
• balloon
• block
• box
• bubble
• door
• light
• moon
• pillow
• rock
• sheets
• toot-toot (Thomas the Train)

Commands

• Don't
• Get down!
• Jump
• Sit
• Stop
• Tattoo
• Up

Descriptions

• hot
• me/mine
• nice

As of September 9, 2009

Body parts

• face
• hair
• hand
• knee
• nose
• toes
• tummy

Food

• *agua
• apple
• broccoli
• cheese
• cookie
• cracker
• corn
• corndog
• milk
• *papa

Animals

• bunny (or f--f-- for Foo Foo)
• cows
• dino
• hippo
• horse
• kitty
• monkey
• *nino
• people
• rhino
• sea cow
• sheep
• turtle
• tweet-tweet

Clothing

• hat

Phrases

• *Adios
• Please
• Thank you

Household items

• bath
• bed
• car
• cello
• keys
• phone
• pool
• potty
• rocker
• star
• swing (fween)
• train
• trash
• truck
• wall

Commands

• Bite
• Go away!
• More

Descriptions

• bad
• blue
• dirty
• empty
• gross
• happy
• huge
• rocking
• talking

Characters

• Admiral (from Thomas book)
• Babar
• Gordon (the train)
• Jamba (mad scientist/evil genius)
• Lilo
• Thomas

As of October 19, 2009

Food

• bread
• brownie
• butter
• candy
• cereal
• chocolate
• eggs
• gummy
• ice cream
• noodles
• peaches
• pizza
• toast

Animals

• bird
• giraffe
• lion
• manatee

Clothing

• jacket
• hood

Phrases

• Love you!

Household items

• bathtub
• boat
• book
• bus
• circle
• crayons
• home
• house
• leaves
• one
• picture
• sun
• toys
• two

Commands

• buckle
• drive?
• drop
• hug
• kiss
• paint
• tickle
• zip

Descriptions

• bouncy
• disgusting
• fall
• good
• mess
• stinky

Characters

• Bob (the tomato)
• Harold (helicopter from Thomas)
• James (Thomas train)
• Nemo
• Percy (Thomas train)
• Toby (train, of course)

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.