Jo and I have been using What to Expect the Toddler Years as the instruction manual for The Toddler. It’s a pretty good book, and it has milestones for each month so you can tell how your kid is tracking against expectations.
Currently, according to the book, The Toddler should have a vocabulary of 50 words. Jo wasn’t sure The Toddler had than many words, and I said that she had at least 100.1 As I was at home sick yesterday, we decided to compile a list.
First, some notes.
The list is not complete for two reasons. First, there are some words that she knows that I don’t want to include on the list. Think body parts relevant to potty training and you’ll get a good idea of what’s missing. Second, after we finished the list we thought of several more, but didn’t bother to add them.
She can speak all of these words, but unless you are one of her parents, you probably wouldn’t know what she was saying. For example, ‘umbrella’ sounds more like ‘belu’, but Jo and I know what she means because it’s what she says when she points to an umbrella. Pretty much everything except for maybe ‘chocolate’ is shortened to one or two syllables.
Here’s the list, in no particular order.
- soup
- tea
- cookie
- cracker
- toast
- egg
- cheese
- pea
- chocolate
- juice
- milk
- water
- ear
- mouth
- nose
- toe
- foot
- knee
- eyebrow
- eye
- sock
- shoe
- coat
- hat
- shirt
- bow
- boa
- boot
- bye
- hi
- coat
- chair
- yes
- no
- snake
- monkey
- baby
- may
- please
- thank you
- hot
- cold
- umbrella
- red
- blue
- green
- pink
- bubble
- ball
- bath
- tree
- mommy
- daddy
- nana
- bottle
- flower
- bird
- kitty
- dog
- moo
- quack
- squeek
- neigh
- O
- T
- I
- Madeleine
- more
- pretty
- Kayin
- Kendall
- Lilly
- car
- guy
- truck
- big
- book
- Minnie
- bug
- crayon
- color
- draw
- booboo
- teeth
- star
- twinkle
- bear
- girl
- boy
- towel
- swish
- duck
- potty
- boat
- fish
- turtle
- frog
- candy cane
- pumpkin
- cloud
- pear
- apple
- blanket
- toot
- like
- up
- two
- walk
- belly button
- bed
Not too shabby for a 17 month old.
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There is some dispute as to whether I said, “at least 100″ or simply, “100.” I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which it makes more sense. ↩
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