{"id":1513,"date":"2011-10-02T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/02\/baby-talk"},"modified":"2011-10-02T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:26:00","slug":"baby-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2011\/10\/02\/baby-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>We hear about other friends’ babies talking and worry that Jack doesn’t talk yet.\u00a0 It’s not that we’re fretting, but there’s a twinge of “oh! why isn’t MY kid saying words yet?\u00a0 So I made a list to make us feel better.\u00a0 Apparently, speech therapists include signs and animal sounds in their word count.\u00a0 Jack just turned 16 months old.\u00a0 And he’s still the best, even if he doesn’t have many words.<\/p>\n

Words<\/b>
Jack’s only, but much repeated, word<\/u>
Da<\/i> = dog, dad, cat, animal, baby, . . . thing<\/p>\n

Said a few times but not consistently<\/u>
Buh<\/i> = ball<\/p>\n

Said once<\/u>
Joo<\/i> = juice
Nana<\/i> = banana
Bohk<\/i> = book
Weeza<\/i> = weasel\u00a0<\/i>
Kittah<\/i> = kitty<\/p>\n

Animal sounds<\/b>
Strongly knows with animal name verbalized OR shown picture prompt<\/u>
Wolf<\/i> = howls with head back
Tiger<\/i> = roars with claws (kind of a “raaah”)
Monster<\/i> = growls with claws (more of a “graaaw”)
Dog<\/i> = woof<\/p>\n

Knows weakly with verbal sound demonstration AND picture prompts<\/u>
Monkey<\/i> = ooo or hah with body bobbing
Owl<\/i> = haaa
Sheep<\/i> = bah<\/p>\n

Signs<\/b>
More<\/i> (which he morphed into “want” and uses when being polite, kind of like “please”)
Drink<\/i> (also morphed to “want” when he strongly wants something)
Sleep<\/i>
Thank you<\/i> (with prompting)
Up<\/i>
All done<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Left: Wolf<\/i> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Right: Monster<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hear about other friends’ babies talking and worry that Jack doesn’t talk yet.\u00a0 It’s not that we’re fretting, but there’s a twinge of “oh! why isn’t MY kid saying words yet?\u00a0 So I made a list to make us feel better.\u00a0 Apparently, speech therapists include signs and animal sounds in their word count.\u00a0 Jack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}