Rylie's words

I have wanted to write down Rylie's growing vocabulary since Ry's speech therapist suggested I record her words, and I thought I would do it here in case anyone is interested. I'm going to predict that by the summer this list will more than double. Rylie is babbling so much, and she really wants to converse. It's fun to listen to! The criteria for a word to make the list is that Rylie has to be able to say it without just copying me.

• Dad
  
• Mee-mee (Mommy and sometimes also Grandma)
  
• dog
  
• nie-nie (night, night) 
  
• shoes
  
• Julie
  
• na-na (banana)
  
• hi
  
• bye-bye
  
• yummy
  
• wow! (this one is my favorite)
  
• mmmm (more)
  
• kitty
  
• Ernie (from Sesame Street)
  
• toes
  
• nose
  
• eyes
  
• knees
  
• tree
  
• baby
  
• no
  
• yes
  
• ing (swing)
  
• ba (ball)
• een (green)
• boo (blue)
• pink
• poop 
• pee
• drink
• eat
• change (for diaper change)
• sips (chips)
• dry
• tee (teeth)
• naa-naa (knock)
• do (door)
• spoo (spoon)
• star
• peez (please)
• ank yoo (thank you)
• Moe-moe (Elmo)

Letters she says (and sometimes can point to): A, B, C, D, E, I, J, L, M, O, and R

I'll probably be editing this list since I know there are probably more that I just can't think of. Rylie's speech is really taking off now, and we are so fortunate to have a good therapist and a willing student. Rylie loves to repeat words (or try) when I ask her to. She knows at least over 70 signs, and she uses them frequently to tell me what she wants. I ask her to tell me what she wants as she signs, too, and it really helps. I'm very glad we have worked with Rylie on sign language, but I must admit that almost all of her sign language skills are from Signing Time videos. They've been a very good thing for us this last year, and it is the only reason why Rylie can recognize letters and say so many of them (Signing Time ABC Signs). Whenever she hears the ABC song, she moves her hand really fast like she is signing the ABCs. It's one of the cutest things!