Reilly's Lexicon

Every morning, I take Reilly to one of the local playgrounds to burn off some energy. Most of the time, we are the only two people there. Lately, however, I’ve been going to the Lake Seminole playground, where there are often other mothers and their charges.

Whenever I meet a mother at the playground, she will always ask the following three questions: “How old is she?” and “Is she walking yet?” and “What words does she know?” Regular readers of this blog will already know how old she is (13 months) and that she is walking (and quite well), but I realized that many will not know what words our daughter knows. So, here is Reilly’s lexicon, currently consisting of 12 words:

Hi
Bye
Thank you (pronounced “bay-doo”)
Elmo (pronounced “el-lo”)
Two (when prompted by the word “one”)
Bottle (pronounced “bot”)
Book
Duck
Bird (she calls most birds “duck” so Shawn has taught her the word “bird”)
Leia (our dog)
Numma-Numma (which is not really a word, but she says it to us when she is hungry)
Uh-oh!