Daniel's words at 14 months

Words he can say without prompting:
Yes ("yeahhh")
No
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Water ("wa")
Dog
Dada
Mama
G.G.
GrandDaddy (sounds like "glhdada")
Bye Bye
Ball
Duck
Ruler (I know this is random; he has a ruler that G.G. left here, and he plays with it in the bathtub)
book
moo


Words he can say with prompting (Do you want cheerios?)
Cheerios (chgee-ah)
up
down
in
help ("bop" or "dup"--all words that end with "p" start with "b" or "d" when he says them)

I pause after I say words so that he can try them. He likes to try. He will try almost all one and two-syllable words. Sometimes he gets the beginning sound or the intonation. Most of the time, it's another sound, like "ba" or "da". It is SOOOOOOO much fun to play with words with him.

He responds to "splash," "dance," "jump" and "love." In fact, he loves to dance right now. It looks like a cross between the cha-cha and running in place. I can say, "Would you please dance for me?" and he will just dance it up. Most of the time he just spontaneously starts dancing, often for Calvin. When he "loves" something, he puts his head over on it. Sometimes he says, "mmmm." He loves ANYTHING. He loved the blueberries tonight at dinner. He loves Calvin 100 times a day. He loves the phone when I'm talking to G.G. The other day at the playground, he walked up to a random little stranger boy and loved him. The boy thought he wanted a turn on the equipment he was sitting on. I said, 'No, I think he just really likes you." This morning we were playing with his tape recorder, and he loved the microphone. Every morning when we come into the playroom, I say, "Do you want to love Charlie this morning?" (Charlie is the big stuffed chipmunk). And he goes over and loves Charlie. It is precious. We have a sweet boy.

I can ask him if he wants me to read him a book. If he says yes, I can say "Bring me a book and I will read it to you." He will bring me one, and he usually lets me read at least two pages before he is off doing something else.

If I say, "Do you want to ride your horse?" he will go over and get on the horse. Then I sing the tune to Bonanza and he rides.

I think he knows LOTS of food words, but I haven't empirically tested that. Most of the time, if I say "Do you want to eat X?" The answer is yes. So, he may be responding to "eat" instead of the food word.

Life with Daniel is great. One day he is going to start talking and he will probably never hush.
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