Use your words!

Josh and I were having trouble sleeping the other night, and instead of counting sheep, we started to log Jacob’s vocabulary. This all started with my weekly e-mail from BabyCenter.com, which said that at his age, he should be using about 50-75 words, and would increase markedly around age two. Convinced that his vocabulary has already exploded, we started to count, and within minutes were drifting off. Here’s what we came up with:

Mama, Daddy, Josh, Caitlin, Uncle, Dan, Jamie, Ariella, JoJo, Pop Pops, Nana, Sabba D, Noor, Daniel, Ben, how about, bath, markers, pooh, tigger, honey, bear, book, read it, bug hair (from when he had lice, which I’ll get to in another post), bunny, calf, car, cereal, chair, Cheerios, cheese, chocolate milk, crackers, draw, choochoo, football, Bret Farvre (don't ask), new diapert, open door, Dory, Nemo, dvd, fish, eyes, feet, hands, nose, Obama head (yes, we have an action figure of Obama, but his "hair" always falls off), grapes, help with this, horse, neigh, I want, Kenai, Koda, light, movie, my turn, no, yes, Nicole, Tyler, out, outré, owie, panda, Po, Shi Fu, Tai Lung, Tigress, Mantis, Monkey, Viper, snake, tiger, leopard, oh, paper, parrot, noodle, penguin, pig, piglet, polar bear, yucky poo poo, quail, Grover, Big Bird, Abby, Zooey, Street, share, shoes, sorry, stroller, train, truck, tv, zebra, lion cub, cheetah, jaguar, finger puppet, Micky Mouse, oopies (oops), bed, c’mon, come out, night night, sleeping, Baloo, Mowgli, Monsters Inc., scary, dinosaur, hot dog, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, Evelyn, Eileen, Bella, Anne Perry, thank you, please, cinqo, ocho, baby, sister, brother, Keiki, belly button, tickle, birdie, airplane, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Ernie, Bert, wiggle, cookie-rocka (Madagascar). . . oh, you get the picture, right?

Have I mentioned that I like to count stuff?