Two

Since tomorrow is Petra's 16 month birthday, we were checking the AAP book to make sure she was hitting her developmental milestones on time. You could say that. The book says at 18 months or so, your baby should have about 15 words she uses regularly. Just to be sure, we did a quick count. Hmmm, she might be a *LITTLE* bit ahead of the curve. In alphabetical order her words (and signs) are:

1. Baby (Sign)


2. Ball


3. Banana


4. Bath


5. Bed


6. Bird


7. Blue ("color")


8. Boat


9. Boot


10. Bowl


11. Box


12. Brush


13. Candle


14. Candy


15. Car


16. Cat


17. Cereal


18. Cheese


19. Cold


20. Crab


21. Cracker


22. Cup


23. Dada


24. Dog


25. Door


26. Dora (!)


27. Duck


28. Fish (Sign)


29. Flower


30. Glasses


31. Go


32. Grass


33. Hat (Sign)


34. Hello


35. Hot


36. Hug


37. Keys


38. Mama


39. Moon


40. No


41. Noodle


42. Nose


43. Phone (Sign)


44. Piper (The cat)


45. Pole


46. Pool


47. Pull


48. Puzzle


49. Quiche


50. Raisin


51. Sasha (The dog)


52. Shoe(s)


53. Swim


54. Toes


55. Touch


56. Tractor


57. Two ("Number")


58. Vanna (The anti-cat)


59. Water


60. Yogurt

Many of these are somewhat less than the proper English pronunciation (Banana comes out "nanananana," but she uses them consistently, and always for the correct objects/actions. A couple are used in place of the generic term- "Two" stands for any number or letter at the moment, and "Blue" for any color. And a dozen or so are signs left over from her pre-verbal stages.