Words

At her doctor appointment today (where I learned that Sarah is a giant baby in the 82nd percentile for weight, 80th for height and 90th for head) the doctor asked me what words she was saying.  Apparently the average at 18 months is 4-14, and babies that grow up in bilingual environments tend to have delayed speech, but even so I realized I wanted to start compiling a list of words that Sarah "knows" as of 18 months.

(In no particular order other than the order T.J. and I remember them while also watching the Blackhawks game...)

Mama
Dada
Nana
Doggie
Oh no!
Mine
Mah (more)
Chicka (Chicken)
Abble (apple... though this is in the abstract... she doesn't like apples and I'm not sure she knows it applies to juice)
Hola
Bye Bye (as of this past weekend)
Eye
Nos (nose)
aibane (airplane)
Ouch

Then we have the words that have a few meanings....
Kuck (truck and stuck)
Ah Dee (All done, but can also be Auntie and Andi, a friend at daycare)
Baby (baby, but also Bailey)
Bebe (Binky, often shorted to "bee" but also Toby)

And of course, there are the animal sounds...
We used to know kitty cats went "meow meow meow" but we seem to have forgotten that
But the dogs go "Ruff ruff"
Cows go "moooo"
and Ducks go "Quack"

Her favorite current book is "Moo, Baa, La La La" and she can fill in most of the animal sounds at this point.  If the multiple times a night reading of this book continues, I suspect we'll add horse, sheep, and rhinoceros to our animal noise repertoire.