Kate is such a happy soul. I really get a kick out of her (most of the time) and am so lucky to have a kid like this to spend my days with. Like I did with Ella, I started to keep a list of words Kate would volunteer more than once. I was somewhat concerned that Kate was never going to reach 50 words. I posted Ella's first 50 words when she was 19 months old, and Kate is near 23 months. Goodness knows that she talks plenty, I just don't understand most of it. Ella does a good job at pretending to understand, and we both frequently laugh at the literal things she says. It is fun to see the words that are the same and different between the two of them. I'm struck by how many names Kate includes and that she has numbers (I attribute the latter to playing hide-n-seek.)
mama dada meow dog woof duck no Jack down bubble Dave Ella up Oma* Opa 'all done' Chris uh-oh oww sit boo apple more bug Elmo Dora one my(mine!) hi bye two three blue red yellow me train yeah honk shoe potty eye run cookie m&m poop ant Jen hot sun book cheese
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| Ice cream chin after helping "clean" the ice cream beater and Grandma and Grandpa's. |
*Oma, Grandma and Elmo all sound the same most of the time, due to this, I'm not sure when "grandma" officially made the list, but it's been in the mix for a while.
