23 words

Laurel likes to babble and vocalize, but when it comes to speaking "real" words, she is cautious. Even with the words she does know how to say, she sometimes seems doubtful. But she has added a few since my last posts on the subject, so here is an update on Laurel's vocabulary!

New words are:

• berry (pronounced "shaw," short for strawberry)
  
• car
• Ma (and she finally means me!)
  
• [snoring sound] (sound of someone sleeping)
  
• sock
• star

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They join existing words:

• arf (sound of the dog)
• ball
• caw (sound of the crow)
  
• cup (pronounced "up")
  
• Da-da
• eye
• gobble (sound of the turkey)
  
• hat
  
• hi
  
• hoo-hoo (sound of the owl)
• Isaac
• moon
• out
  
• owl
• shoe
  
• uh-oh
• up

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I've been telling her all day today: if you can pronounce the C sound in "caw" and in "car," you can pronounce it in "cup"! But so far she just laughs at me; I probably do sound ridiculous repeating "Car! Cup! Car! Cup!"

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The word "shaw" started out as short for "strawberry," which makes it the first food she ever asked for by name. But then she had some really wonderful sweet blueberries, and now "shaw" usually means "blueberry."

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Is a snoring noise a word? Maybe. We went to the library yesterday, and I gave Laurel a book to look at during our drive home. Then, as I was buckling Isaac into his car seat, I heard Laurel making a snoring noise. Sure enough, when I glanced at her book, it was open to a page with a photograph of a sleeping baby. She still loves to look at photographs of babies.