In the spirit of posts like this one, Sara and I have been putting together a list of words that Alex knows. We started with a few words, and then we kept coming up with more and more, texting each other additional words for the list, until we realized that Alex knows a lot of words! It seems like he learns a new one every hour or so, so I better publish this quick, otherwise we will never stop adding to it.

I think it is a pretty impressive list of words for a not-even-one-and-a-half year old!

To quote from the post about Oliver:

So I tried to be very conservative in my list, and only include words that he uses often and obviously understands completely. He has a lot of words that he has said just a few times, or that he repeats after you, but has not used independently. So those I didn’t include. He also understands about 100 times more words than this, but I think that’s pretty normal.

Anyway, here is the (partial!) list, in no particular order:

• book
• Eva (Evelyn)
• Oliver
• Mama
• Dada
• Up
• Down
• More
• apple
• applesauce
• avocado
• cracker
• egg
• pasta
• pizza (sounds pretty much exactly like pasta)
• water
• burger
• Guh (cheese)
• Guh (keys)
• Vroom-vroom (car or anything with wheels)
• Ambulance
• Airplane
• No
• Packer
• Girl
• There
• vata?  (flower)
• elephant
• bacon
• pancake
• hammer
• come on
• Nana (cat)
• Da (dog)
• Kwkwkwkwkw (chicken)
• Ba (bear)
• fish sound (fish)
• rar (for lion or other big cat)
• Monster
• Elmo
• Bir (d)
• Who-who (owl)
• Tongue clicking (horse)
• Baah (sheep)
• (ba) nana
• Buh (bottle)
• Buh (bib)
• Buh (bug)
• Buh (ball)
• buh (bus)
• balloon
• bicycle
• elephant

Maybe tractor too. Maybe puzzle. He also inexplicably still signs a few words, but refuses to actually make the noises: bye-bye, night-night, all done, milk, train.