Words, words, words…
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a talker. The other day I read something that said toddlers Colette’s age ought to be able to say between 10 and 50 words. Clearly they didn’t take into account genius children like the one I have. I mean, OBviously. Actually, I sometimes wonder on those online stats whether they dumb them down to make parents think their kids aren’t that low on the rung. Anyways, I set out to see how many words I thought Colette knew. I began writing down all the hard words she has in her vocabulary. This, opposed to the soft ones- words she just repeats but isn’t retaining just yet. I only wanted to make a list of things she really knows, and I was positive that the number would prove to be more than a mere 50. As it turns out, it was about triple that. All day yesterday I asked her to name objects that I held up, and listened for all the words she used, keeping a pen and paper handy. I figure it’ll be cute to put in her baby book.
In other word-ly news, it’s becoming of utmost importance to watch what you say around this little tot lest she repeat something unsavory. Remember that the next time you see her and you think she might not be listening. From the other room you’ll hear the trail end of whatever you’ve just said. Like when Colby yells at the dogs to shut up because they are about to bark themselves inside out over a flappin’ squirrel in the neighbor’s yard. ”…SH’UP! SH’UP!”, you’ll hear from the living room. Sigh. Or, how about the other day when I mentioned the word “fox”? Oh, you can guess what she turned that one into. Well, I couldn’t help but laugh. Colby is a stone in those situations, but I’m kind of terrible at perpetuating bad behaviors that are hilarious. Oops. She has a few phrases that she’s using, such as “Help please” or “Shoe OFF”, which is a command for me to take her shoes off her feet, preferably immediately and the hint of yelling-threat is implied. AND… there was even a whole sentence the other day! ”My boo boo hurrrrrts”, said extremely pitifully. Extremely. Pitifully.
Without further ado, I give you:
Colette’s Words, December 2010!
airplane (“plane”) (To which she also generally waves and says “bye bye”!)
apple
baby
back (as in to put back)
ball
banana (“nana”)
bath (Also sometimes pronounced “baff”)
bear
bed
beep
berries (Strawberries are the only ones she really cares about)
binky (ALL IMPORTANT)
bird
bite
blanket
boat
boo boo (This could also be an ant bite.)
book
boot
box
bread
buckle
bunny
butt
butter (usually whined, “my butter!” when referring to peanut butter)
button (as in shirt and belly)
bus (because, you know, the wheels on ‘em go round n round)
bye bye
car
careful (she likes to say this when she knows I will)
cat (& meow)
cereal
chair
cheese
chicken (& bock bock)
coffee
cold
come (generally accompanied by the hand motion as well)
computer (“puter”)
cookie
couch
cow (& moo)
cracker
diaper
dog (&woof)
down
duck (& quack)
ear
eat
elbow
eye
fart
fingers
flower (sniffing and picking of them will ensue if she sees one.)
fish
food
foot
fork
frog (not always pronounced correctly or decently)
funny
hair
hand
head
heart (symbol)
heiny
hello
help
here
hi
home/ house
horse (& neigh)
hot
hug
hurt
ice
jacket
jeep
juice
kiss
knife (and she will not hesitate to also mention that it is sharp)
lights
mat
meat
milk
monkey
more
mouse
mouth
nails (fingernails)
nap
no
noodle
nose
off
olive
on
orange
ow/ ouch
owl
pear
pee pee
pepper
phone
picture
pig (and oink- sorf of)
please (sounds more like “pees”)
pocket (which she decided to USE today and I can now worry what I’ll find.)
poo poo
potty
seat
shark
sharp
shirt
sheep (& baaah)
shell
shoe
soap
sock
soup (sounds more like “seeyoop”)
spoon (not said well, but she knows)
star
table (that she likes to climb on. Sigh.)
teeth
thank you
that
there
this
thumb
toes
top (as in lid)
turtle
trash
truck
uh oh
up
walrus
want
water
yay
yeah
yes
yucky
