Showing posts with label wordy wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordy wednesday. Show all posts

Wednesday

Wordy Wednesday

Since passing the 100 words milestone, now seems a good time to stop with the weekly lists (not that I was great at keeping that regular anyway!). Ivy is still learning new words at an amazing rate so I'm going to use this regular post to record some favourites from the week (or longer...). Ivy-isms:

Ivy is getting good at copying words, or at least making a good effort. This week has included parmasan ("parma") and recycling. How middle class toddler is that?! Also attempts at saying platypus! 

Ivy's word for blueberry is "booboo".

Since getting an amazing Animals book (thank you Emmelie!) which Ivy is really interested in she has learnt more animal names. Her pronunciation of zebra is "ba-ra" which took me a while to figure out what she was saying.

She says 'come on' now. She started saying it as she pulls her wheelie Charlie dog along and turned to him to  gentle tell him to come on. So very sweet. Now she tells everyone to come on, including trying to get Kwojo out of bed in the morning! She has a bit of a bossy streak. She'll take someone's hand and instruct: Walk. Sit. Book. Read.

She uses the word "some", but after the other word she is talking about. So, babies some, milk some, cheese some. She also uses some to offer you something, so she'll hold her beaked to my mouth and say some to tell me to drink some (again with the instructing!). She may also use 'bit' in a similar context when asking for or offering a bit of something.

Wordy Wednesday

About a months worth of words (which have been scrawled onto a post it note). I'm pretty sure this take Ivy over the 100 words mark.
Open
Sorry (she usually says this when she has hurt herself, or when someone else should be saying sorry to her)
On
Stairs
Noise
Peepo
Eve
Home ("ome")
Rabbit ("ratdit")
Bite (as in, asking me to bite an apple so that she can then eat it)
Thank you ("ek oo" and usually said with the sign for thank you)
Grandma ("dan-ma" for Great Grandma Dora)
Sit
Steps
Bucket
Elephant
Eggs
Ready go (when she wants to go out, or get on and do something like bathtime)
Pen
Phone
Soon
Balloon ("boon")
Water ("war-ty")
Bin
Sleep
Sandles ("sandys")
Charlie
Flower (started as "flowy" now flower)
In
Grass
Out
Up
Down
Eyebrow
Put
Play
Ear
Peach ("peachy")
Nipple
Tummy
Bellybutton ("belly")
Close
Camera
Garden
Hands
Walk
Window
Sky
Bath
Toilet
Pepper
Cream
Necklace ("neck-lee")
Dropped it ("dropdee")
Stuck

Ivy no longer says "appy" but "apple" - it was a sad-proud moment!
Her most used word at the moment is yeah/yep/yes.
She takes my hand and says "walk" when she wants me to go with her somewhere.
I am so amazed by how quickly she learns and starts to use a new word.


Wordy Wednesday

drink
Sophie ("so-tee")
sorry
see
sit
in
out
walk
pasta
stairs
monkey
fly
stuck
ant
Annie
pat

Ivy seems to be talking a lot more this week, using the words she already knows a lot more than before. She used to master a word and unless it was particularly important to her she'd then just not use it for ages. Now she is picking all those words back up.

Friday

Wordy Wednesday

Sore
Towel
Ear
Grandad (sounds like "nan-da")
Bus
Steph (sounds like "sdes")
Fork
Cake
Jake
Arm
Sit
Cup
Hand

Ivy has also been saying her own name ("aye-ee") more, and starting to pick up on familiar people's names quite quickly. She has been saying "Mummy dan Daddy" (dan=and). She has renamed her bee backpack, Backbee. It melts me every time. Another melting word this week: Mummy. She has been saying it LOADS, and it is just so sweet.

Thursday

Wordy Wednesday - 18 months!

This weeks words (and possibly some I forgot to mention last week)...

Eat
Wall
Map
Back (used for when she wants a piggy back, and also instructing Charlie-dog to back off)
Buzz (as in Buzz Lightyear, as well as the sound a bee or fly makes)
Down
Hot
Night
Out (this is replacing "door" as her way of requesting going outside)
Feet
Wet (also for water, like "dog wet" = "dog water")
Tights
Pop (as in "poppers")
Yeah (Yes! Finally to balance out "no"!)

Ivy is also using more words together, like, "Daddy, milk!" and "Down please" and "more, yeah?".

She is using "yeah" to ask for something, which is a nice replacement to pointing to something and demanding "me!". So it's like she's saying, "Yeah I want that please?".

Still big on saying Daddy, now "Daddy's". Apparently most things are Daddy's. Hmm.

Wednesday

Wordy Wednesday

I have neglected my Wednesday posts, but with good reason. So here is two weeks of words (or at least the ones I can remember...)

Button ("butty")
Knock Knock
Man (but still not girl or woman!)
Biscuit (her pronunciation on this varies, sometimes just "bisc", sometimes two syllables)
Push
Brush
Juice (sometimes pronounce "douch")
Bowl
Mouth ("mao")
Nappy
Nose ("Nes")

She is attempting to say her own name, like when she sees herself in the mirror or a photo. She says "Eye-ee". Also, Emmelie is "Am-ee", and Granny sounds like "Nanny" - oh dear (my Mum thinks Nanny sounds old ladyish)!

Ivy is also starting to put words together. She saw a picture of a baby breastfeeding (on the spine of a book), and said "baby" several times, then "milk" a few times, and then "baby milk" (actually it sounded more like "bee-bee mulk"). I'm impressed that she recognised that the baby was having milk, especially as the picture was small and not close either!

One of her most used words at the moment is "Daddy". It is sweet and sad that she thinks of him so much when he is not here. Mostly she points to his things and identifies them as belonging to him.

She is pronouncing "Mummy" as "money". Which reminds me that she has decided on Mummy as what she will call me, and I am rarely called any of the variants any more.

She has said "monkey" and although I'm not sure she knows the meaning yet, I was impressed with her clear pronunciation. She copies lots of words now, like when Kwojo and I bumped into each other and said both said "sorry", she copied and said "soz". Oh dear, internet generation!

I love the way she is saying words at the moment, I keep meaning to get some videos so we can record this stage of language learning. This evening we managed to get one - "no". I actually find it really cute how she pronounces it...

The video also illustrates just how much she understands of what we say.

Wordy Wednesday

Car
Teeth
Me (as in, "give it to me please" or "pick me up please")
Bag
Bang
Ow (not used when she hurts herself, but she is saying 'ow' on behalf of someone else, like when she bashes us!)
Poo (!)
Boy (although this is used for any child, learning the difference between a boy and a girl won't be easy!)
Look

Wordy Wednesday

In an attempt to keep up with the pace that Ivy is learning words, I'm making a note of them through the week and posting the list on Wednesdays. This week (or since whenever I last listed):

Socks (started off as "shucks" which was adorable)
Tick Tock (for a clock or watch)
No (manage to delay that one because we hardly say it to her!)
Milk (started off as "Mum" and then an amalgamation "Mulk" and now mostly "Milk")
Mouth
Coat
Peas
Hair
More (said while signing "more")
Beep (to tell us that the washing machine/microwave/etc is beeping)

She isn't putting words together yet, just using them to request things or to tell us what she can see. With prompting she has said "Milk please".

She also says "hamy" for car. This is because the car sound is "harrum", so she ended up saying "ham" which became "hamy"!