Smiley's Early December Words

In mid-November, Smiley had two vocabulary-related developmental breakthroughs.

First, he began saying many more words repeatedly and correctly. Before then he understood many words but used few himself.

Second, he began the toddler habit of recognizing that certain words had two syllables but incorrectly saying the word by repeating the first syllable (for example, pup-pup for puppy).

Here is a list of the words he uses repeatedly and correctly at this time, for anyone who is curious...

bir (bird)
bike
boot
bottle
boow (bowl)
Bubba
bubble (bubbles)
burmp (bump)
bu-par-par (butterfly)
bye
bus
ca (car)
cheeze
co (cold)
cup
da (dad)
dah (dark)
die (diaper, dice, drive, dry)
dog
egg
eye
go
ha (hot)
ice
joo (juice)
key
knife
ight (light)
mama
mine
tay (okay)
outside
no
no (nose)
po (pillow)
pum-pum (pumpkin)
pup-pup (puppy)
shoe
sta (star)
table
tea
up
up high
aye (yes)
yurm-yurm (yummy)

Smiley probably does not know any colors yet, but he does enjoy repeating the color names after we say them while pointing to objects. He may be using blue correctly more often than not, or that might be a string of coincidences.

He has favorite bits from the alphabet and counting songs. He says "8, 9" and "w, v" a lot while playing or in the car. Less frequently he'll say "a, b, c" or "2, 3" or other letters or numbers. (He gets w and v out of order because I often sing the alphabet song backwards.)

His apparently bizarre version of butterfly is a blend of the English butterfly and the Hebrew parpar. That word is one of the few my wife realizes she knows in English, Hebrew, and Spanish and she enjoys quizzing him with all three when reading picture books ("Where's the mariposa?").