Words

Up until 3 weeks ago Jacob hasn't been a hugely verbal child. Most of his requests/demands would be expressed through frustrated screams that would often turn into melt downs. Pretty common for a toddler. But then one day he realized that he could use words to get what he wanted and everyone was MUCH happier. I started making a list of words he had learned to say, and then overnight the list kept growing and growing. Literally overnight. So here is the list I made. I'm sure he can say more than this but this is a pretty good summary.

1. Popcorn

2. Sippy

3. Down

4.Unbuckle

5. Please (this is one of my favorites)

6. Help (also a favorite)

7. Millie

8. Catch

9. Kick

10. Mine (doesn't use this very often for which I am grateful)

11. Yes

12. No (also doesn't use this very often)

13. Gramma

14. Holly

15. Papa

16. Kitty

17. Dog

18. Woah

19. Heart

20 Head

21. Eyes

22. Cow

23. Cheese

24. Ink (this translates to drink)

25. Cracker

26. Ball

27. Poop

28. Amen

29. Hot

30. Shower

31. Baf (bath)

32. Mint

33. Here

34. Go

35. "Cars"

36. "Buzz"

37. Picable Me ("Despicable Me") Can you tell what his 3 favorite movies are?

38. House

39. Ummmm

40. Talk

41. Tom

42. Happy

43. Baby

44. Jacob

45. Go

46. Utes

47. Cue me (excuse me)

48. Hike

49. Show

50. Come

51. Back

52. Here

53. Yee Haw

54. Mommy

55. Vannah (Savannah)

56. Bubbles

57. George (the Curious kind)

58. More

59. Couch

60. Ouch

61. Yay

I am grateful when children start to learn to communicate in a way that I can understand. It's so much more pleasant to help meet their needs immediately rather than trial and error pointing to objects saying, "do you want this? do you want this?" Now if we could just keep Benjamin from torturing Jacob so that the screaming would cease altogether.

The above pictures have nothing to do with words but they do speak for themselves. They love each other. Most of the time.