Sophia’s current baby signs are: milk, more, eat, apple, banana and water.

Her actual spoken words consist of: hi, daddy, cheese, hello, no, bye, book, shoes, Petie (dog’s name), kitty, one, two, and apple.

I haven’t heard her say hi or daddy in months, and now instead of saying cheese she does the sign for banana (string cheese sort of peals like a banana). She has also said, “momma“, but only on a couple occasions.

She loves to pull out her book, “Go, Dog. Go!” by P.D. Eastman and babble through the pages until she reaches the somewhat odd scenes of conversations between two dogs. In the book, the dogs greet each other with hellos, and then one asks if the other likes her hat. The second dog always replies with, “I do not” and then they each say, “Good-by!” Upon reaching this section as Sophia reads to herself I hear, “Hello. No! Bye.”

The sound of her hellos range from, “Leh-Low” to a British sounding “Eh-Low” depending on how excited she is, sometimes it is a very clear “hello”. “Book” she began pronouncing, “buh” and now it’s more like “buhk”, and shoes are “shush”.

Sophia loves to help, so even though it slows us down so much that we might as well undo things, we let her whenever we can. Kurt began letting her help him feed the dogs. Her job was to dump the scoops of food into the dog bowls and Kurt would count them out. I think that’s where she learned the words, “one”, and “two”. She began counting two weeks before her birthday, but I’m not sure she truly understands the concept. The first time I heard her, she was flipping through the pages of a book saying, “un, two, un, two” as if she were marching in the military. Now I’ll catch her pointing at things and saying, “un, two, two, two”. That’s how she counts to four.

Her favorite book for a while was, “Mr. Brown can Moo, Can you?” and from that book I heard her say the sounds, “klopp” and “buzz” a few times. Now she really likes a new potty book I purchased a couple months ago, “A Potty for Me!” by Karen Katz. From that book she says, “uh oh”, and “whoosh”. She’ll read the book to herself and say those words on the page they actually appear.

If I count the four sounds, but don’t count the word apple twice (once for the sign and once for the actual word), there are only twenty-three words for the nearly twenty six month old. *sigh* Next on the vocabulary list is Antidisestablishmentarianism. At least it’ll be an impressive word.

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