the 200th word

Okay, so I don’t really know which one was the 200th word because I was having too much fun using the sort feature to alphabetize the list, eliminate duplicates.

Sometime in the last few days, Jonah said his two-hundreth word. Let’s pretend that it was “Honey.”

Our mornings go like this: Jonah wakes up, Scott goes to greet him.

Morning. Hi. Dog.

Scott changes Jonah’s diaper, while Jonah cries and wriggles.

Mama! Nurse!

Scott brings Jonah to me in bed.

One! he says, meaning I would like one Boop to nurse on now, thank you. Scott goes into the kitchen and makes coffee.

Usually, if Jonah is done and Scott isn’t back yet, I’ll call out “Honey?” — this is my laziest part of the morning. I don’t get out of bed but send Jonah off to the kitchen with Daddy while I get an extra few minutes of sleep and a meditation in before Daddy has to get on the bus and go to work.

Only, this week, it was Jonah who stopped mid-nurse, looked up towards the door and called out “Hon-ee-u-leh?”

I’m toying with giving up on keeping track. It’s getting way too hard. He’s picking up and trying out new words all the time.

Another new favorite is “Bug-uh” which means ladybug. Tonight he was saying it and tugging at his shirt, saying “Shurt!” and looking down. Nanny explained that this is because a ladybug landed on his shirt a few days ago. He’s either checking to see if she’s still there, or just trying to chat about it. You know, those ladybugs? How they always land on your shirt? Me too!

So just for fun, here’s the alphabetized list of all the words he has been saying, compiled since the first word which was on or around September 20, according to my records here. Hopefully I’m only counting the ones he says independently, rather than when he’s imitating us. That’s a rule I made for myself because that makes it seem more official:

Apple, Avocado, Baby, Back (as in, put “hat”), Ball, Banana, Bath, Beans, Bear, Beep, Belly, Bellybutton, Bird, Block, Blueberry, Boo, Book, Boom, Boop, Boot, Bottle, Bounce, Bowl, Box, Boy, Bread, Bubbles, Bunny, Burrito, Burt, Butterfly, Bye, Candle, Car, Cat (and Bambino “Bo”), Chair, Cheese, Chick, Chin, Clap, Clock, Closed, Clothes, Cock-a-doodle-doo, Coffee, Cold, Computer, Cone, Coo, Cool, Cow, Crab, Cracker, Crayon, Crocodile, Cup, Daddy, Dance, Diaper, Dog, Don’t, Done, Door, Down, Drum, Duck, Ear, Eating/Eat, Elbow, Elephant, Eye, Fishie, Floor, Giraffe, Girl, Go, Goat, Goose, Green, Hair (and the phrase: “brush hair”), Hat, Head, Heart, Hi, Hippopotamus, Home, Honey, Honk, Hoooo hooo, Hop, Horse, Hot, House, Huge, Hurt, Ice, In, Jam, Jonah, Kiss, Knee, Knock, Lap, Leaf, Lid, Light, Lion, Mama, Man (superheroes), Me, Meat , Meow, Monkey, Moon, More, Mouse, Mouth, Music, Nana (and Pop Pop), Nap, Neck, No, Nose, Nurse, Oh, Oink, One, Oo oo oo, Open, Orange, Out, Owl, Paint, Pants, Park, Pat, Peacock, Pear, Peep, Pen/Pencil, Penguin, Phone + ringing, Piano, Pig, Play, Play, Plop, Plum, Poop, Pop, Potty, Puzzle, Quack, Queen, Red, Roar, Roll, Room, Rooster, Round (and round), Shayna, Sheep, Shhhhhhh, Shirt, Shoe, Shower, Sky, Slide, Sock, Soft, Spider, Spiderman, Spoon, Stairs, Star, Stop, Swing, Tea, Tickle, Toast, Toe, Top (as in jar and box), Town, Train, Tree, Truck, Tub, Turtle, Two, Up, Violin, Wall, Wallet, Warm, Water, Whale, Wheel, Woof woof woof, Wow, Yay!, Yellow, Yes, You, Yum/yummy, Zebra.