She speaks! At long last, Samantha is beginning to talk. She’s been using sign language since she was 10 months old, and she’s said a few words here and there, but about a week ago she began adding a few new words every day, and is using them consistently. I’m keeping a list. I find it interesting to observe the order in which she develops the new words. I think there are two categories: things of great value to her, and thing that are easy to say. Here are all of her words so far:
- Jinx (our cat, and her real first word at 10 months…started as Ji-Ji, but has developed into Jiiiiiiiink lately)
- Mama (and sometimes ma-mo, but never mommy…sigh)
- Dada/Daddy
- Doggie (this was the word that kicked off her real talking…the day she figured out how to say it, she probably said it a hundred times)
- Up
- No
- Cheese
- Bubble
- Bagel
- Yes
- Shadow (more like, da-dow, but she knows what a shadow is and tries to say it)
- Banana
- Hi
- Yellow (but nobody but her parents would ever know what she was saying…ehh-ow?)
- Keys
- Jeez (I had no idea I used that word so often – how embarrassing!)
- Green beans (gee-bee)
- Boo-Boo (as in ouch)
- Hot
- Bye Bye
Sorry to bore you, but this is BIG!
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