First Words

Nora's vocabulary is exploding! She says about 25 words now, and they are coming fast. I was thinking the other day that I don't remember Zeke's vocabulary expanding this rapidly at this age, and it didn't. He was 20 months before he said a total of 25 words (Nora is not quite 17 months). They said their first words at around the same age (14 months). In the two top-25 lists, there are 8 that overlap: cheese, fish, cracker, socks, shoes, mom (mama), dad (da), and kitty/cat.

Zeke                Nora

yes	bye-bye
cat	hi
cheese	cheeeese
jet	fish
cracker	cracker
truck	shoes
shoes	socks
socks	cheese
sit	go
fish	chocolate
hugs	train
hat	cookie
shirt	marshmallow
chicken	pretzel
baby	cup
Cheerios	m&ms
color	dad
dad	uh-oh
mom	mom
chalk	ball
soup	down
church	apple
kiss	car
hand	bottle
hot	kitty

It's fun to see how the lists reflect their personalities and our situation. In Zeke's list you can see our jet rally vacation and evidence of the chickens in the backyard. Nora's list shows her love of food (particularly sweet treats) and evidence of having and older brother playing cars and trains. Both of them love their goldfish crackers and socks and shoes [shoes mean going outside, after all].