What follows is a brief, and certainly incomplete, lexicon of our son's burgeoning vocabulary at 20 months of age.
In no particular order whatsoever other than that in which they were recollected from my head.
And of course a picture, since he's just so frikkin' cute!!
Declan's Lexicon -- aka: The Dexicon!!
(Which is such a cool title since it sounds like a Transformer!)
gunka - uncle
bumpa - grandpa
Decka - Declan
'orse - horse
day-doh - Jango, our dog
day-doh - Farley, our other dog
day-doh - any other dog
puppy - any small dog
goo' grrr - good girl (said when gently petting any dog, regardless of gender)
box - blocks (the colourful wooden ones the dogs are decimating)
pig - pig (though the facial contortions are a must see)
mum, dad - self-explanatory
nie nie - night night
ebbles - The Incredibles (his favourite movie)
buzz - Toy Story (his other favourite movie)
BOB!! - you know, the builder
sub-bob - Spongebob, obviously inferior to the builder. (are you seeing a TV theme here yet?)
puh - up (though we have recently been able to wean him off this dyslexic pronunciation)
me-MEEE!! - excuse me! (any time he burps, farts or witnesses his parents doing so)
toot! - sometimes said in lieu of me-MEEE! when he farts
meese - please (picture two outstretched, spastically clenching hands for the full effect)
ball - absolutely anything round (ish)
anna - banana (one of his favourite desserts)
'each - peaches (his other favourite dessert)
tack-toe - tractor (Amy and I are both convinced that this was his first word)
ooooze - shoes
oxe - socks
sis - fish
mewoooooooose - moose (it really is a very long and drawn out "o". Quite adorable)
cacka - cracker (he'll say this as he's prying open the baby-proof cupboard)
joooose - juice (anything not milk)
This list may be added to as The Dexicon increases and I establish some sort of habit to write it down. (read: holding your breath might be a bad idea.)
Ah, parents...we spend so much time and effort teaching our offspring to speak, hanging on their every adorable uttering - only to turn around a year later and spend so much time wishing they would shutup for one damn minute so I can think!
Si, what all we caretakers of older sprogs are holding our breaths for is your posting about the fateful day Dex learns the word which strikes fear into every parent's heart:
"Why?" Repeated fourteen kajillion times.
Good luck, sugar.
Posted by: elizabeth | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 06:16 AM
Ben says "bug's yife." I'm sure you can figure out that one.
Good list. Man, they all develop their own style, don't they? Even after he has mastered a certain consonant in a new word, Ben sometimes holds onto the mispronunciation in words he's known since his babyhood. Example: "siyah twuck" (fire truck). If we ask, "Can you say fire truck?" he pronounces it with an "f" instead, but the next day he'll revert. Oh well. They'll get it eventually.
Posted by: Mark | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 07:40 AM
Little JuJu still has a tendency to put the letter "re" in front of words...such as regrage instead of garage, and restructions instead of instructions. I'm hesitant to correct this, as it is one of the last few remnants of his babyhood speach.
Posted by: JuJuBee | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 01:06 PM
Even more enervating than 'why' is 'NO!', in my opinion. Our personal favourite misspeak was our daughter's 101 'Dognations'.
Posted by: Paula | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 01:27 PM
Sorry - double post:
Mark, I sure hope when you say:
"Can you say fire truck?" he pronounces it with an "f" instead,
you're not talking about the word truck ;). Oh, that's a WHOLE other source of (embarassed) parental laughter!
Posted by: Paula | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 01:33 PM
If at ANY point you EVER decide that maybe you can only handle one child, I get first dibs on Dex. I'm having the paperwork drawn up as we speak. You can visit anytime, of course. :-)
Posted by: Linda | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 04:56 PM
I suspect, Linda, you might have better luck with one of the dogs first.
Posted by: Alec Lynch | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 07:05 PM
remind me, next time we meet, to sing the "Bob the Builder" theme tune the way my nephew used to sing it a few years ago. Having never actually seen the show myself, I had no idea what the words were supposed to be, but I can still remember what he came up with... hilarious!
Posted by: Deborah | Monday, 06 February 2006 at 04:16 AM
I read this post and it really hit home. You want a good laugh? Go to
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=headmutha
and click on "Say Fire Truck"
This is my son saying truck wrong!! The hubby and I had a good laugh with this one. I hope you enjoy it!
Posted by: Rocky | Thursday, 26 October 2006 at 08:14 AM