Chatty Cathy

I'm back again! And it was nice to see a comment from another Rett mom that I didn't even know read the blog!


In an effort to make the reporting of this blog fair and balanced, today will be all about Isabel. Specifically all the talking. You may have noticed that my daughters are about as opposite as opposite gets and so it only makes sense that non-verbal Brooke would be complimented by never-shuts-up Isabel. But believe me I'm not complaining. So as she reaches the 18 month mark here is a list of current words (if significantly different the "Isabel pronounciation" has been included):



Mommy
Daddy
Brooke (can be easily confused with book)
Book (see above)
Grandma (ama)
Connie (although she rarely calls - every time the phone rings it's Connie)
Tom
Julie (dewy)
Dog
Puppy
Kitty Cat (kit cat)
Neigh Neigh (this would be horse - it's the only one that is referred to by it's sound rather than name)
Cow
Bird
Fish (fishy)
Duck
(she also makes all the appropriate animal sounds to go with each - well except the fish)
Pancake
Banana (nana)
Yogurt (ogur)
Juice (all drinks are "juice" right now)
Hot dog (dot dog)
Chicken
Cracker (kaker)
Applesauce (abus)
Bean
Dora
Elmo
Potty (sometimes sounds like buddy)
PeePee
Stinky (tinky)
Booger
Color (colur - comes out with this weird, almost French accent)
Diaper (diapur - same thing with the French accent)
Crayon (can)
Bubbles
Push
Bus (there's a little lisp on the s)
Shoes
No (this is the verbal answer to everything, if the answer is yes you get a head nod)
Spoon (poon)
Pumpkin (punken)
Ball
Flower (fower)
Open
Broken (boke in)
Play (she's just starting to get the "L" in there - it's pretty funny looking)
Baby
Blanket (bankit)
Brush (sounds very much like bus)
Train (tane - and corresponding choo-choo)
Plane (pain)
Messy
Dirty
Up (uppie)
Night night
Kissing
Bottle (baba)
Nose
Eyes
Uh-oh
I don't know (I no-no)
All done
Shopping (dopping)
Purse (pursh)
Corn (orn - only in referrence to our cornstalk decoration outside)
Swing (hwing)
Apple
Pretties (dittys - this means jewelry)
Swimming (whimming)
Hi (as said to every person that walks by every place we go)
Bye (as in goodbye_
Bye Bye (as in we're going someplace)



And my new favorite:

Awesome (awthummmmb)


I'm sure I'm forgetting some (and I'm sure Mom will add them in her comment!)