Monday, April 12, 2010

Language at 17 Months Old

Mary Genevieve turns 17 months old today and has learned 26 new words and 9 new signs in the last month. Below is the current list, combined and alphabetized, with SIGNS IN CAPITAL LETTERS.


Words (46)
SIGNS (30)

AIRPLANE [made while making sound ffffffff]
Baby
Bah [sound sheep makes]
Ball
Banana
Bear / BEAR
Bird / BIRD
BRUSHING HAIR [which she also applies to washing hair]
BRUSHING TEETH
Bonk [meaning, an ouchie] / OUCHIE [a sign she made up on her own, taps her head]
Book
Brother [sounds like Brop-Bop]
Bye-bye / BYE-BYE
Crocs [for Crocs, shoes in general]
Cup
Dada / DADDY
Diaper [sounds like dop-dop] / DIAPER
Dirt
Dirt Down [our “family word” for construction vehicles]
DOWN
EAT
Fish
FLOWER
Fork
GRANDPA [used when Pop-Pops was visiting]
Hat / HAT
Hi / HELLO
Hot
“I did it!”
I HEAR SOMETHING
Jesus
Jump
Kitty / CAT
Mama
MORE
MUSIC [same sign she uses for TELEVISION]
Nice [sounds like niiii and used with accompanying hand gesture of being gentle on her brother]
Night-night!
No / NO [shakes head side to side]
Nurse [her word is nay-nay] / NURSING
Pat pat pat [when we pat her back in comfort, we say “pat, pat, pat”]
Please / PLEASE
Poop
Pop-Pop [Chris’ dad]
POTTY [noun, verb]
Quack-quack [sound duck makes, sounds like ‘kack-kack]
“Side” [used for “inside” and “outside”]
SIGN OF THE CROSS [at this point, she taps her right shoulder three times]
SLEEP
Sorry / SORRY
Stuck
Squeeze [sounds like keez]
Ta-da!
TELEPHONE
Truck
Uh-oh!
Up
WANT
WASHING HANDS
Water [sounds like wah-wah] / WATER
Woof-Woof! [sound dog makes]
Yum!

No comments:

Post a Comment