Addendum to Charity-icon

Charity can also say the following words:
Banana
Boy
Soup
Please
Good Girl
Wowee!
Ow!

The Charity-icon or the LexiCharity

On May 14, 2009, I updated my Facebook status to:

Miranda Morley just went to pick up Charity, who threw her arms in the air and said, "Mama!"

Since then, Charity's vocabulary has exploded. Exactly a year ago, I took a linguistics class, and I wrote the first post in this blog about how I studied Charity's linguistic development and concluded that Charity was the most advanced six-month-old on the planet. Although I passed that class in April, I'm still acting the part of linguist when I listen to Charity speak. From babbling a year ago, she now has a vocabulary of around 40 words, and she sometimes even strings them together to make little sentences. Although the 40 words is actually a great deal above average, the fact that she's speaking single words and just beginning to form sentences is actually just about what most babies do at her age. Still, too me, its as fascinating as the International Phonetic Alphabet. (No, really, I do find that very interesting! I just wrote an article on it!)

Charity's Lexicon

(Words she says)

 Names

Mommy

Daddy

Ity (Charity)

Jesus

Animals & Sounds:

Ducky

Meow-Meow

Woof-Woof

Bear

Clothes & Body Parts

Shirt

Jacket

Eyes

Nose

Glasses

Butt-Butt

Shoe

Socks

Food and Eating Words

Crackers

Milk

Ice Cream

Cheese
Yucky
Yummy
Bite

Other Words

Bath

Shower

No

Yeah

Uh-Uh

Uh-Huh

Bye-Bye
Hi

Uh-Oh

Amen

Elmo

Pumpkin Pie

Shut

Toy

Play

Nigh-Night

Bot-Bot (Robot)