Currently, she's walking across the dining room pushing her doll stroller (with a banana in it), saying "Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!" Iz, that's how I feel all the time.
It's been two and a half months since the first word. Let's recap.
"No" She's getting a lot of mileage out of this one. Usually she says it all breathy; imagine Marilyn Monroe going "noooooo" with a head shake. But more adorable, and less sexy. Most excitingly, she's learned that saying "no" when you really mean "yes" is funny. As in "Can I put this away?" "Noo!"
"Ma" & "Da" She's settled on one syllable most of the time.
"Bye!" Usually accompanied by a hand wave. Adorably, she pronounces it like "Die!" She's learned to wave at airplanes as they fly overhead, waving and calling out "Die!"
"Hi!" Whenever someone comes into a room or she sees them again. Pronounced more like "Aye!" which gives our house this extra piratanical nautical vibe I'm liking.
"Eye" Proving that the bit of the brain that handles pronunciation is different from the one that resolved homonyms, she's can also identify the eyes.
"Wa Wa", and occasionally, something that sounds a lot like "A wa". Something tells me we're going to be calling water this for the next decade.
"Fooh" I can get behind this - why learn words for different kinds of food? It's all just food.
"Nomah" I have no idea what this means, but she says it ALL THE TIME. It's clearly not a negative, and it's not about her mom, so it's not a constructed word. It's a puzzle.
Yesterday, when she saw something that surprised and delighted her, she said something that sounded exactly like "Oh, Sit!" She felt like she had to sit down to absorb the surprise, maybe?
(Footnote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_signal)
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