Thursday, December 4, 2008

Owen Vocabulary-o-meter

Update 12/4 - Owen has hit the stage where he's adding 5-10 words a day. So not really going to keep on tracking the progress. Below is our final list of words by Thansgiving time-frame (so almost 17 months).

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We decided it would be fun to track Owen's growing vocabulary. I'll update this regularly and bump it up in the postings when I do. :)

Word count (56)
dog (daddy) - 10 months
uh-oh - 10 months
hi - 10 months
balloon (boonboon) - 12 months
ball - 12 months
door (do) - 12 months
turtle (ttl) - 12 months
shoe (doo) - 13 months
daddy (dada) - 13 months
bottle (baal) - 13 months
bubble (buul) - 13 months
book (bu) - 13 months
toes (doez) - 13 months
hat (ha) (w/ patting head) - 14 months
tree (tee) - 14 months
throw (tow) - 14 months
baby - 14 months
bird (bidy or bee) - 14 months
duck (duc) - 14 months
spoon (poon) - 14 months
football (booball) - 14 months
bye-bye - 14 months
bowl (bow) - 15 months
truck (duc) - 15 months (sounds the same as duck, but he points to pictures separately)
nose (doez) - 15 months (sounds the same as toes, so we're not entirely sure about the word - but he can point to it when asked)
down - 15 months
fish (bi-ssss) - 15 months
bear (bay) - 15 months
bee (bee) - 15 months
boat (bow) - 15 months
cheese (tchee) - 15 months
bib (bi) - 15 months
plane (pane) - 15 months
Mama - 15 months
giraffe (rara) - 15 months
bite - 15 months
more (mo) - 15 months
tractor (dacto) - 15 months
mouth (mau) - 16 months
sock (dock) - 16 months
ear (ee) - 16 months
eye (ah) - 16 months
apple (a-uhl) - 16 months
jacket (jaga) - 16 months
watch (waa-) - 16 months
PawPaw - 16 months
snack (sna-) - 16 months
night-night (ni-ni) - 16 months
bed (be-) - 16 months
car (jaa) - 16 months
owie - 16 months
turkey (tuky) - 16 months
bike - 16 months
frog (ro) - 16 months
hair (hay) - 16 months
bath (bat) - 16 months

Animal Noises (8)
Dog - wowowo - 15 months
Lion or Tiger - rar (but sounds more like gurgling) - 15 months
Elephant - phffft (tries to immitate Robbie's sound which for Owen sound more like a raspberry- this includes waving one arm up and down like a trunk) - 15 months
Sheep/Goat - baa - 15 months
Cow - moo - 15 months
Monkey - ooo-ooo-ooo - 15 months
Cat - mau-mau - 16 months

First Sentence...
2 words - Bye-bye doggy. - 15 months

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am not so sure da, doo, and bu should count. Looks to me like the only 3 qualifiers are hi, ball, and daddy.