16 month info

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Laurie Rex wrote:
Tyler loves to babble although he's not yet one with the words. At least not words that we can understand!

A couple of words that we do understand are

Mama
Dada
BowWow
Uh oh (usually said when something falls on the floor. will throw things on the floor just to say it)
MumMum (for food/eating)
Nana (for banana)


He has a better understanding of words and some of the ones that he knows and recognizes are:

1. ears (will point to his ears)
2. hair (will tug on his or mommy's hair)
3. eyes (although he points to other people's eyes rather than his own)
4. feet (will point to or lift feet)
5. shoes (will point at them if wearing them, if not will look for shoes. his or ours)
6. belly button (he knows mommy’s and will lift her shirt to see it)
   
7. ball
8. balloon
   
9. banana
10. lights (will point at the light, lamp, etc ...)
    
11. milk
12. bye bye (depends who is asking, will wave with hand)
    
13. basket (will put ball in basketball hoop)
14. bath
15. up stairs (if you tell him to go up stairs, he will)
16. airplane (knows to look up into the sky)
17. moon (knows to look up into the sky)
18. elmo
19. high five (will high five)
20. fire engine (has a toy that he recognizes)
21. yay (will clap hands)
22. hug (will come over for a snuggle, not really spreading his arms just yet)
23. kiss (will lean face towards yours more so with nose rather than lips. if he does use lips, it will be WIDE open!)
24. splash (if in bath tub or swimming pool, will splash arms)
25. sit down
26. nose/mouth (he often gets these 2 confused, but they are close enough right?)
27. Tyler (if you ask him where’s Tyler he points at himself)
28. fish (in our living room, he will point at the fish tank)
29. Tigger (from Winnie the Pooh)
30. giraffe
31. monkey

He signs for more and uses it also for want. For example, if he is eating and runs out of what he's eating, he'll sign for more. If he isn't eating, but sees you eating, he'll point at what you are eating and then sign for more. This is something he learned on his own and it has been quite helpful to us. Mommy has been trying eat, all done and please ... but he hasn't yet gotten them.