Word Diary

I've been reading the book How Babies Talk. The authors are specialists in infant language development. One stage of development for children 18 - 24 months is the "language explosion." When they've reached a vocabulary of around fifty words, their speech takes off. Since starting to talk at around twelve months, it may have taken them six or nine months to acquire fifty words. But after the language explosion they can learn up to thirty words a day.

Malcolm's words so far:

1. Mommy
2. Daddy
3. Ball
4. Balloon
5. Baby
6. Shoe
7. Sock
8. Elmo
9. Eat
10. Milk
11. "All done"
12. Book
13. Hi
14. Bye
15. More
16. Crackers
17. Toast
18. Water
19. Night-night
20. Outside
21. No
22. Yeah
23. Show (as in TV show)
24. Jack (as in Jack's Big Music Show)
    
25. Berry (as in "strawberry")
26. Teeth
27. Nose
28. Fish
29. Fan
30. Bike
31. Natalie
32. Tucker
33. "Oh, man!" (Like Swiper on Dora the Explorer)
    
34. Waffle
35. Slide
    

Do animal sounds count? He seems to use them as the name for those animals. If so, then add ten animals sounds to the total. (Actually, add twelve, because a Lion says "Roar!" and a Monkey says "Oooo-ooo-ooo!")

We're getting close.

(P.S. I started writing this post April 27, but kept adding words until I decided I just needed to go ahead an publish it or I'd be adding words for the rest of his life!)