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.