Joshua's words

I was in the doctor's office the other day, and waiting FOREVER for the doctor to actually come in, so I probably read every word of every poster on the wall. One of the posters was about child development, and it said that normal development for an 18-month old child is that they can say 8-10 recognizable words. This made me realize that Joshua's language development is really pretty remarkable. So I tried making a list of the words he says (most of them he says often and consistently, though some of them he's only said a few times, but I of course count them anyway!).

So here is the list of words he knows, and he picks up new ones each day (really!)

• Jesus
• Car
• Mama
• Dada
• Papa
• Mamma
• Banana
• Mindy
• Ball
• Baby
• Bird
• No
• Bath
• Book
• Milk
• Brush
• Meat
• Pillow
• Help
• Door
• Yikes
• Uh Oh
• Whoa
• Wow
• Eww
• Mmmm
• Amen
• Loofah
• Man
• Water
• What's that?
• Bottle
• Cracker
• Cookie
• Feather
• Bye-Bye

***Later addition of some words that I forgot, and new ones he has learned***

• Rowan
• Bumbo
• Apple

And then his signs:

• Yes
• Milk
• Eat
• More
• Please
• Thank you

And animal noises that he can make quite consistently:

• Cow
• Sheep
• Duck
• Elephant
• Walrus
• Baby
• Snake
• Horse
• Lion
• Dinosaur
• Monkey
• Fish

That was all - just wanted to brag about my genius baby. He amazes me.