New Words

It seems like every day Ellie is picking up new words. It's getting harder to keep track of how many she has now, because she just pulls them out and uses them like she's known them forever, even if it's the first time we've heard them. Just now she brought over her bowl from breakfast and handed it to me saying, "bowl." Didn't know she knew that one....

And this weekend we drove down to Yellowstone. When we got there she told Leif "get out" about getting out of the car after the long drive. She also pointed to a waterfall and said, "waterfall" pretty clearly. Her words are getting longer.

Ellie can now identify by name and point to ears and eyes. She can also point to your mouth and nose, but I haven't heard her say those. She can also make a distinction between your eyes and glasses, or "glass" as she calls them. Usually this is something like grubby little fingers smearing on your glasses "glass!" and then the grubby little finger reaching under your glasses and poking you in the eye "eye!" - back and forth. Fuuuun. But it is fun to see her learning.

So let's see how well I can do at coming up with a "complete" list of Ellie words these days:

1. hi
2. yellow
3. blue
4. purple (this is very cute)
5. green
6. bye
7. this
8. that
9. shoes
10. no
11. up
12. down
13. please
14. thank you
15. uh oh
16. what is that (like one big word-phrase)
17. whatcha doin'
18. bowl
19. juice
20. water
21. waterfall
22. window
23. door
24. eye
25. ear
26. face
27. diaper
28. pants
29. hot
30. yum
31. poop (her favorite word for a while)
32. dog
33. cat/kitty
34. pig
35. cookie
36. cheese
37. beep
38. poke
39. jump
40. hot dog
41. ouch
42. wow
43. peek-a-boo
44. cock-a-doodle-do (which is much more like "doodle-do" or "cock-do-do")
45. duck
46. pretty
47. banana (usually "nana")
48. stinky ("tink")
49. grass
50. ball
51. chair
52. Roomba
53. Daddy
54. Mama
55. Mommom (have heard #55-58 at least once in context without prompting)
    
56. Robert
57. Barbie
58. Poppy
59. Zack
60. Lily
    
61. flower
62. zebra
63. cracker
64. fork
65. book
66. read (and "read book" or "read this")
67. kiss
68. yucky
69. more
70. yes
71. yay
72. hat
73. glasses ("glass")
74. bump / bop (it's sort of hard to tell which, but it's when she runs into something)
75. tree
76. dance
77. cow
    

I'm sure there are more that I'm missing, but these are what I can remember off the top of my head. The list is getting longer. She's repeating more words every day, and using them on her own.

Here's an interesting development... she was just hanging onto my leg and whining, so I said "Hey Ellie, go bring me the elephant magnet." I didn't point or anything, just that. She scurried away, ran to the refrigerator, made an elephant noise, and returned to me with the elephant magnet. Well, I guess she understands more than I usually give her credit for. I'm impressed.