A friend of ours recently said, “Each time Siena says a real word I think, ‘Woah! A talking baby!”

I’ve been adding to a list of our talking baby’s words and signs for a while now, meaning to post them. I think it’s time.

Signed Words:

• more
• airplane
• cat
• bird
• eat
• potty
• nurse

Verbal words and pronunciations, in approximate order learned:

• hi
• dog (daw)
• woof woof (woo woo)
• down (dow – and points vigorously)
• “grrr” used to indicate bears and snowmen, now is any animal whose name she doesn’t know
• cat (dat said in a high pitched meowing voice)
• ball (bah)
• e-i-e-i-e-i (has turned into yi-yi-yi-yo)
• ice
• light (ite)
• banana (naNAna)
• food (nana)
• baby (baaaybay) (her word for anybody under the age of, say, 12)
• bird (burr)
• santa (deh-deh)
• gives a kiss and says “muh”
• horse (huss)
• two
• egg (g)
• og (orange..the fruit)
• bye-bye (bah-buh)
• donkey (dogm)
• Dada
• Daddy
• Momma
• that (dat – usually means “I want that”)
• flower (fwow-uh)
• rabbit (wab-uh)
• moon
• balloon (boo)
• star (daow)
• fish (fiss)
• shoe (used to rhyme with cow, now sounds like szoo)
• airplane (wee!)
• snake (ssss)
• apple (a-poe)
• water (wa-wuh)
• duck/quack (kah-kah)
• pig (makes a snorting noise)
• eyes
• turtle (t-t)
• heart (haw)
• up (hup)
• on
• off (op)
• sock (with the “ck” sound elongated and guttural)
• please (pees – uses to respond to my question “Do you want help?”)
• bye-bye (bah-buh)
• car (cah)
• bear (bayo)
• Nemo (Mee-mo)
• candle (dat-doh)
• purple (pur-poh)
• Nonna and Papa (No-no, Papa)
• bubble (bubbuh)
• sheep/lamb (baaaa)
• write (wite wite/ite ite ite)
• milk (miccck)
• outside (sye)
• bounce bounce bounce (baw-baw-baw)
• phone (foe)
• color (caw-coe)
• cracker (caw-coe…yes, it can be confusing!)
• sunshine (suh-sye)
• toilet paper (“pull” because that’s what she does with it)
• flush (fwusss)

This week she has started putting two words together:

• two bears
• more flowers
• Hi Daddy
• two shoes
• help please
• two phones

Did you make it all the way to the end? All I have left to say is that I think I’ll stop keeping track now that I’ve finally posted these lists!