Words Sylvia can say at eighteen months old

One of the coolest things about being a parent is getting to watch my kid learn. I've been meaning for a while to make a list of words she can say, a task that gets harder the longer I put it off. Figuring it was now or never, I finally just took a stab at it with Alex's help. So, here's a list of words we've heard her produce at least once, in a very rough approximation of chronological order, as best as we can remember:

• dada
• mama
• book (well, sort of; we usually read board books just before bedtime, and she'll try to say something like "book, book, book!", but she puts the ending "k" sound first: "kah-boo-kah-boo-kah-boo"</em>. We found this so charming that we started saying it that way, too.)
• bubble ("buh-baa")
• bird ("bihd")
• apple ("appa")
• door ("doh")
• up
• cat ("cah")
• banana ("nana")
• cracker ("cah-caa"; also refers to any kind of biscuit, cookie, or bread)
• uh-oh (a frequent utterance when she or someone else drops something on the floor)
• cheese ("chee", the food of choice)
• baby (She loves babies; every baby must be pointed at and its presence must be announced. She also refers to my phone as "baby", because the lock screen is a picture of her.)
• ball ("bah")
• no
• hi
• bye (usually said about thirty seconds after a person leaving has left)
• more ("mo")
• bull ("buh") (Tash had a sculpture of a bull in her house; I think Sylvia has probably forgotten this word now, but I'm sure I've heard her say it while pointing at the sculpture)
• moon ("moo"; on evening walks home from Tash's place, we'd often see the moon; I would point it out, she'd repeat after me, and before too long, she would be the first to point it out and say "moo")
• key (she says this every time we get to the front door and I get my key out)
• Elmo ("Eh-mo"; we've been watching Sesame Street videos since she was quite young, but I don't think she could call any of the characters by name until after we got a book called "Elmo Loves You" when she was about a year old. After reading it out loud to her pretty often for a few months, she started pointing at Elmo and calling him by name. About a week ago, we watched a bunch of Sesame Street on my laptop, including no small amount of Elmo; a few hours later, she amazed me by actually pointing at my closed laptop and saying "Eh-mo!" I mean, yeah, obviously, the salient fact about my laptop is that it's where Elmo comes from. I've been needing a name for this machine, actually...)</p>
• zip/zipper ("zippah")
• bus ("buh")
• airplane ("ay-pain"; she loves pointing them out in the sky, and will announce one's presence even if she can only hear it and not see it)
• owl ("ow-ah"; she may have seen one in person once at a zoo, but they seem to come up a lot in kids' books; also, she has pajamas with owls on them)
• light ("lie")
• on (usually used when pointing at a light switch that she wants to be flipped on)
• dog (Alex says she used to say "gog", but I don't think I've heard that)
• nose ("noh")
• eye
• "wow!" (I'm not sure if she knows what this means; I think she's just repeated us saying it while looking at something interesting)
• clock ("caa-cuh", while pointing at a picture of an analog clock in a book)
• bath ("baah")
• "rawr!" (the sound that tigers make, of course; she says this every time I point out a picture of a tiger in one of her books and say "tiger". Our theory is that she picked this up from a particular YouTube video of animal sounds that Tash used to show the kids)
• moo (the sound that cows make, of course)
• neigh (the sound that horses make, and also the word for horse)
• diaper ("die-pah")
• go (in the sense of "let's go!")
• bike ("bie")
• head
• hat (somewhat interchangeable with "head")
• coat
• shoe/shoes
• sock/socks
• "ssh" (this melted my heart the first time it happened: Alex was trying to sleep, so I said to Sylvia "Let's let Dada sleep", and she put her finger to her lips and said "ssh". She usually says "ssh" now anytime sleeping is mentioned.)
• frog ("fog", one of her bath toys)
• duck (another bath toy)
• lotion ("lo"; she is very excited about lotions and creams, but she doesn't actually want them on her; she just enjoys squeezing them out of the bottle, or trying to wrest the bottle away from a hapless parent while chanting "lo, lo, lo")
• blimp ("bimp"; there was a Goodyear blimp in the sky over the stadium not far from our house recently, and she was very, very excited about it and wouldn't stop saying "bimp")
• please ("pease"; she also uses (her own very liberal interpretation of) the ASL sign for "please", which I think Tash taught