Baby Talk

They tell you to watch what you say around your kids because they will repeat whatever you say. Well, one - or both - of us must say, "Daaawwwwg," 'cause that's one of Owen's favorite words. He was sitting on the couch one day reading a Lynley Dodd book, Harry McClary's Bone; it went like this: "Dawg, dawg, dawg." Turn some pages. "Dawg, dawg." Turn a few more pages.
We've been meaning to make a list of words he says for a while. In May we counted over 35 words he knew. His first and only "sentence" was a while back in July: "Go, pool, water!"
ball (bah)
cat (cat, kiki)
dog (dawg, dawggie)
fan
box
hat
walk
go
pool (poo)
stock
socks
peepee
poop
diaper (dipe)
apple (ap)
butter (but)
hi
bye
mama
dad
Anne
Pa
Roman (Moman - this one was new today)
Owen (very fast - It's new this week.)
baby
Zo
piggy
horse (hors)
chicken (chick)
cow
tractor (track)
car
truck
block
call (for a phone)
mint (min)
bird (bir)
belly (belly, beddy, baby)
nose
eye
ear
hair
leg
pants
bike
pump
rock
slide
mine
bug
butt
broccoli (brock)
juice (He loves to make carrot juice in the new juicer.)
water (wat, water, wader)
cup
beef
hot
cold
out
outside ('side)
five (fi)
play
park
bath
wash
clean
ow!
no
up
down
on
off
foot
toe
shoe
Hulk
man
barn
read
book
soap
coffee (coff)
open
junk (the stuff by the check-out at the stores!)
happy
hide
fire
fork
spoon
spatula (pat, patty)
fish
bow
stop
nurse
milk
more
food
butter
ride
crow
hawk
bacon
soup
moon
star ('tar)
plane
that (dat)

Now that I try to write them all down. It seems I can't remember them all. I'll keep a running list. This is not nearly all the things he says every day. He seems to say new ones more than once a day now. He's such a clever fellow.