Word to Your Mother

Our little active toddler has become a fountain of language the past few weeks! As Virginia began to speak, I took the advice of a work colleague, and sent an email to myself documenting each new word that was added to her vocabulary. I'm at the point where I don't think I can keep up anymore, so here's the list of Virginia's words at 16 1/2 months:

• Uh oh (first word on April 23, 2010)
• Num num (food)
• Mama (also Mommy)
• Hi
• "Dis" (this)
• Bye
• Juice
• Book
• Dada (also Daddy)
• Wawa (water)
• Baby
• Hat
• "Dat" (that)
• No
• Shoes
• Nose
• Up
• More
• Eye

Virginia also has a number of animal sounds in her vocabulary. I think the sounds are actually what caused her speaking to really take off. Here are the sounds Virginia will say on demand:

• Wuh wuh (dog)
• Grrrrr (lion, also the Whiffenpoof dragon apparently makes the same noise)
• Ah-ah-ah-ah (goat, also a monkey and a horse say something similar)
• Meow (cat)
• Baa, baa (sheep)
• Sssss (snake)
• Cack, cack (duck)
• Booooo (cow - Virginia obviously prefers ghost cows)

Virginia also opens and closes little pursed lips to refer to a fish and sticks out her tongue and says "Ah" for a frog (just like the Uh-ah Little Green Frog song).