The most exciting development is a sudden burst of words. At our 18 month appointment, I could only confidently say that he had one word, HOT! This prompted our pediatrician to give this whole developmental questionaire and suggest that if we didn't see improvement that we should have Finn evalutated for speech. And while I was confident that Finn was just fine and would explore language when he was ready, it has been in the back of our minds.
Well, I can happily say that he now has 18 words and he is trying to add new ones daily. Here is our running list:
- Hot (first word, most often associated with food whether it is hot or not and followed by blowing)
- Mama
- Daddy (said with much emphasis DA-DEE)
- Truck (buck, and followed by a vrooming noise)
- Car (Ca, with proper Boston accent and absence of "R")
- Ball
- Bird (said with gusto as he looks out the window)
- Back Hoe (a word that every little boy needs)
- Dog
- Flower (Fla wa..my personal favorite)
- Nana
- Papa (Pa)
- Baboo (Ba bmm)
- Bubbles (Bu Bu)
- Bear (easily confused with bird, but often used when pointing at one of his bears)
- Boat (BO, also followed by vrooming noise)
- Water (wa wa)
- Star (ar, just added today)
He is also really into mimicking noises. He has his dad's ability to accurately mimic animal noises. For instance, when asked to quack like a duck, he doesn't say "quack", but gives a very believable quack that could bring the ducks in!
He also really likes to try to sing songs and do hand motions with those songs.
I am loving this stage and I am very excited for him to become even more expressive.
EDIT: I can't believe I forgot he can say "Baby", "Poop", and "Block" Oh, boy, 21 words and counting!
1 comment:
Before you know you'll be playing the quiet game ;) I have to say back hoe made me chuckle, Soren's "advanced word" is tractor and he pronounces it quite clearly.
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