John Francis at 18 months old
Signs he uses now (21):
BABY
BLOWING NOSE [accompanied by sound “fffff”]
BRUSHING TEETH
CRYING [somebody else is crying]
DOWN
EAT
FLOWER / PLANT
HELLO / BYE-BYE
I HEAR SOMETHING
MORE
MUSIC [same sign he uses for TELEVISION]
NO [means “you are telling me no,” does not mean “I am telling you no”]
OWIE [another sign for emotional hurt]
OWIE [one sign for physical owie]
PHONE
POTTY [noun, verb]
PRAY
SIGN OF THE CROSS [at this point, he only does the Father on the forehead or temple]
WASHING HANDS
WATER
WHERE / ALL GONE
Words he uses now (25):
Nouns
Ba [sound sheep makes]
Baba [baby]
Cluck cluck [sound chicken makes]
Cop cop [helicopter]
Dada
Diaper
Duck
Mama
Meow [sound cat makes]
Moo [sound cow makes]
Neigh [sound horse makes]
No [nose, does not mean he is saying “no”]
Oh? [hello, telephone]
Ohn ohn [oink, sound pig makes]
Pine pine [porcupine]
Shhhhhh [sound water makes, usually indicating a hose spraying water]
Thhhbbbt [coffee, trash]
Vroom [vehicles, keys]
Woof [sound dog makes]
Verbs
Down [using it as a verb, to go down the stairs]
Jump
Exclamations
No no no [in imitation of another person saying “no,” does not mean he is saying “no”]
Uh-oh
Wow
Yum
Traditional Catholic living in the modern world
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Communication
Today I thought it would be fun and interesting to try to tally the signs and words John uses. I poked around online to learn what was average (and John is nice and average). I was amazed to see that the average 18-month-old speaks 5-20 words, but the average 24-month-old speaks 150-300 words! That explains why I sense a cognitive explosion in John right now. Often he opens the page to a book and asks me for the labels for every picture he sees, even though he can't repeat back the words yet.
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You're so funny to carefully specify how he is not telling you no.
ReplyDeleteChristina doesn't do it yet either except for answering yes/no questions and imitating a sibling.
She imitated Soren saying "mine" the other day and I think said it one more time after that! I hate when they finally learn that one!
Neat! I've been thinking about doing the same thing on my site.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny John's word for car and keys are the same, because Emma did that too...only she used "beep."
Sarah: Well, I'm specifying that John isn't saying "no" to use yet because I find it so fascinating that he isn't. I guess I thought toddlers said "no" sooner than this, but perhaps not if even Christina isn't saying "no" to yet and she has three older siblings to imitate!
ReplyDeleteBut she will answer yes/no questions by saying "yes" or "no"? Wow, John doesn't do that yet. I'm impressed.