Still more new words

As you have no doubt noticed, I've been keeping lists of all the new words Laurel has learned to speak. About a week and a half ago I wrote a master list of the 35 words Laurel could say at that point, including seven words she had first said that very same day.

After that post, I decided I would save up a few words before posting a big list again. I didn't want this blog to get repetitive, after all. (Too late; ha ha.) So nine days ago I started keeping a private list of Laurel's new words. In the first eight days she said 28 new words, and today she said ten more words. That means she has more than doubled her spoken vocabulary in the last nine days, and can now speak 73 words. (Although there are certainly additional words I don't recognize as words yet, or words she has said to someone besides me.)

There are some useful words among them, including "no"!

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The 28 new words:

• baa
• bear
• cat
• chair
• cheers!
• cheese
• Daddy
• duck
• Erica (pronounced "Kuh")
• girl
• go (her first verb!)
• good-bye
• hair
• hush (always accompanied by finger raised to lips)
• Laurel
• meow
• more
• no
• outside
• see you (said while peeking through something)
• toe
• tractor
• yogurt

And today's ten words:

• bee
• bird
• Bob (referring to a "Bob the Builder" Lego figurine)
• book
• bread
• clock
• down
• me
• swing
• Walt

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Here's a little story about one of today's new words. Laurel had a shower tonight (to get off all the sunblock and chlorine from swimming lessons, sigh), and afterward while I was drying her off in the bathroom I asked her, "Do you want to walk down the hall by yourself, or do you want Mama to carry you?"

I didn't really expect an answer, so I wrapped her in the towel and picked her up.

To my surprise she pushed away from me and replied, "Me! Me! Me!"

So I set her down, and she walked down the hall to her bedroom herself.

I'm pretty sure that says something about her temperament.