Hello. I'm going to enter into linguistic nerdiness and catalog all of Ollin's current words, mostly because it would be fun to look back after a while and remember which words he started with, but a little bit because I want to make sure I'm actually understanding him as much as possible. I only listed words that he has said in more than one situation, to show that he could apply the new language. Sorry, I'm not feeling nerdy enough to use the phonetic alphabet.
anss ant
app apple
ah da all done
baybeee baby
ball ball
bzzzzz bee
bike bike
bullebulle blueberry
buk book
buud bird
cock clock, sometimes truck & quack
dock duck
cack quack
coe crow
dahh down
foof food
hanna hands
hanga hanger, hang up
hemmut helmet
humma hummingbird
hop grasshopper
hug hug
shish fish
mwa! kiss
mama Mama (finally!)
mehh more (used to be nunuNUnununu)
peeez please
pee pee (accompanied by a sss sound)
popp Papa
pip pencil
payp paper
poop poop
push push
pull pull
fuafua soft (interestingly, the Japanese word for soft, which I mentioned once)
pida spider (sign is a little pinching motion above his head)
shyaddaahh! (I have no idea. Sit down? Fall down? Shut up? JK, he's never heard the last.)
tall tall
dis, dat this, that
chuck truck
wawa water
According to his pediatrician, around this time, Ollin should start using two or three word phrases. He's not doing this yet, but I'm not worried. This is his spoken/expressive language so far, but his receptive language is (in my biased opinion), much more developed. He understands multiple step instructions, new concepts, and that Mama and Papa are actually Shannon and Willow. I want to reread my language acquisition books from the perspective of new language learning, now that I'm a mom. I'm curious how teaching some basic signs has affected his spoken language, if at all. No way to know for sure, but I think it has helped him feel confident in expressing himself. He usually uses one or the other, but not both the sign and the word.
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