Emerging words

These are words he says, or at least he regularly says something that's supposed to mean the object even if in some cases it sounds very little like the actual word the rest of us use:

• alligator
• book
• broccoli
• butter
• clock
• dirty
• down
  
• hot
• milk
• mouse (computer)
  
• sock
• wheelbarrow

He may not say these words as regularly or as consistently, but I can see them off on the horizon of emerging speech:

• ant
• bath
  
• bow (on a present)
• brush (teeth)
  
• CD
• diaper
• DVD
• Joel (his uncle)
• Oma (his maternal grandmother)
• toaster

Soon it will be difficult to make a list like this. For one, we'll soon be at a point where he learns new words so quickly that I won't be able to keep up. For another, right now he's in a hilarious parroting phase -- even if he doesn't quite grasp what a word means, he tries to copy the pronunciation. Then he repeats it a few times and the pronunciation degrades even further, like a copy of a photocopy, until eventually it's complete gibberish.

Isaac just learned his first family-only word. (Anyone else have these?) Craig plays a complex game of fetch with Walt called Moo-Hah-Hah, which is played with a ball and a rubber tug-of-war toy also known (at least around here) as a moo-hah-hah. Part of the game involves egging Walt on with loud and enthusiastic use of the phrase "Moo-hah-hah!" Isaac has learned to say this phrase quite distinctly, and clearly enjoys doing so as he taunts Walt with the eponymous toy. Thus Isaac begins the process of being unable to communicate with anyone outside of our household.