Alex's Words

milk - This is the word for all drinks. She knows "juice" but chooses to argue with us that everything is milk instead. More fun that way.

juice - Like I said, she knows it, but uses this word very infrequently. Why say it right when you can start a fight?

poop - Ummm, I won't elaborate.

cat - It took her a surprisingly long time to learn this one considering we have three of them...

Dies - Short-hand for Diesel. Not her favorite cat, that would be Custard since he talks and runs away ever so slowly.

Cust - Custard. Poor, poor Custard.

showowower - She likes taking showers. So much so that she adds extra syllables for emphasis. Never says Diesel or Custard's complete names though.

crotch - We're so proud of her for picking this one up. She has no idea what it means, but finds it fun to say. We don't say it much around her any more.

couch - She likes to jump on it/be thrown on it. It's a definite favorite.

cheese - She's an addict.

duck - One of her first words, and the word she often uses when she can't think of the right one or doesn't want to say it.

shoes - Her pronunciation has gotten much better - no more shoosh for her! Another first word, Daddy was a bit worried when she started using it with reckless abandon.

socks - Finally, the sock/shoe confusion has ended. Socks are her new favorite, and they're very different from shoes.

book - She's also a book addict. I hear this word all day long as I'm getting pummeled with them.

clock - She's got a picture of one in a puzzle, it's in books, she pays no attention to the time on the real ones.

hush - Thanks you quiet old lady whispering hush. Now she says it for you.

brush - She chews on them (tooth and hair) and brushed her own hair. Now if she could only put in her own pony tails...

nose - She still can't/won't point her own out, but knows where ours are and pokes them mercilessly.

eyes - She's almost got her own figured out, but prefers to gouge ours out instead.

plant - She had better know this one. She's very good at cleaning up our plants, actually. She routinely pulls of dead flowers and leaves, much to my amazement. Apparently the love of deadheading runs in the family.

meow - Ok, meenow, really, but it's what cats say.

moo - A very short moo, usually, but still a moo.

cow - Emphasis on the "w"

sheep - "Ship". The ships in the field....

dog - Still working on that one.

hoot - Cant' say owl, but knows what they say. She surprised me with this one a while back. Very pronounced "t".

truck - All vehicles are trucks. Don't argue with her, she's always right.

ouch - Dunno why she knows that one............

pouch - Sounds like ouch with a "p". Extra fun to say. And yes, she probably learned it from the books with kangaroos and pelicans.

coat - She hates putting it on, but is willing to talk about it.

up - She loves going up. In the air, up the stairs, you name it.

pat - Everyone and everything is a target for pats (smacks) at any time.

pups - A favorite toy, and a favorite thing to recognize on posters, calendars etc. She once ran half way down the mall to return to the calendar kiosk to looks at pups. It's almost always plural.

no - She might not care what it means, but she says it anyway.

shapeesh - No idea what it means, but she uses it like a word, so...ok.

cookie - Minus the "ie". We're working on it.

chalk - Thanks to the easel at the library she's familiar with this. And stealing it from other kids.

bounce - You say it, she does it.

kiss - She's stingy with them but likes getting them.

banana - Well, ba, really. She lets us finish it for her.

baa - It's what the ships say.

chick - Took her a while to figure out that they're different from ducklings, but know she's got it down.

cheep - More like "chip", but we know what she means.

neigh - "Nah". It's what horses say. Sometimes ponies when they aren't saying "ducks".

keys - She'll do anything for keys. Mostly whine.

mom - Usually a series of "mom"s in fairly rapid succession. Applies to Mom and Dad.

dad - Less frequently heard, this one usually has to be prompted. Why call us our titles when we're always watching anyway?

diaper - This one's debatable. She knows it, tries to say it sometimes, but you really have to listen and pretend a bit to catch it.

flower - Sounds exactly like shower. You have to know what she's looking at. She'll have her f's someday.

bee - She's a big fan. We would not touch bees outside all the time. She still asks for them in the same spot in the garden now.

touch - She prefers it to "no touch".

prune - It's another word she almost says. She knows where they are and loves to try and swallow them whole. Bad baby.

crayons - Sounds like cairns. Oh well. So she draws with cairns.

down - Opposite of up, but she still likes it.

soap - Though opposed to it in theory, she says it anyway.

hot - The oven is hot. We stay away from hot. For now.

cold - The fridge is cold. We go toward cold.

mustard - "Must". Thank you Grammy Y. It's the very first condiment she knows thanks to having it in her shopping cart.

ball - She prefers throwing them to talking about them, but occasionally says their name.

outside - This is a recent development. She's always preferred outside, and now can fairly clearly tell us.

blanket - For throwing one's self upon.

belt - For wrapping around one's neck. Not all the way, of course, just around the back!

pig - Those pink things Mom keeps pointing at.

oink - What the pink things say. "Ink" is more like it, probably the lingering "i" sound from "pig".

bra - *sigh* She likes to carry them around, mostly like a scarf, but all too frequently tangling her feet in them.

chapped - Her cheeks and lips are forever chapped, and she knows when we're moisturizing them it's because she's chapped.

pink - She's pink.

toast - Another one she doesn't like to talk about much, but eats every day.

purse - It's where the keys are.

mess - It's what she makes every day.

boss - That's her.

rock - It's what she tries to eat every day.

block - It's also what she tries to eat every day.

x - She recognizes one letter. Go figure it's the one that sounds like her name.

six - Sounds a bit like Alex too, don't ya think?

eight/ate - Who can say which one she's thinking of....

two - She surprised me a while back by saying this as I was counting arms going into sleeves. She says it very slowly.

ten - Only when counting. Of course.

sleeves - This one is sporadic, but she knows it because she hates them.

shirt - No love for clothes, but she can say what they are.

clothes - Again, no love.

Hmm, maybe I should stop here at 81 words and a "shapeesh". In any case, her vocabulary grows daily, and she repeats everything we say, much to our chagrin. But it's fun seeing what she'll say and how she says it, and we can't wait for her to start putting all these words together. oh yeah, she did also say "queen bee" a few times. How appropriate