The following is my attempt to phonetically interpret the language of my baby.
- Mama – mother
- Ai-uh – Ariah
- Dada / dahdin – father
- Dada – Aspen (herself) (bear in mind that for many months, her only word for everything in the world was dada)
- dahdin – “that one”, meaning everything she doesn’t know how to articulate
- I – I
- ah / ai – want (interestingly, this was also baby Ariah’s word for want)
- dah – dog / down
- moo – cow
- dut – duck
- dahdin – cat (her favorite animal)
- Bahbah – grandpas and elderly gentlemen
- dahdin – grandmas and eldery women
- Heh-doh – aunt Heather (this was actually taught to her, as baby Ariah would say Heh-doh)
- Josh – Uncle Josh
- Jeez – Jesus
- eese – cheese / fish
- nana – banana
- apple – apple
- up – up
- ice – outside
- no – snow
- plate – plate
- bowl – bowl
- eat – eat
- bye bye – car (this was also my word for a car when I was a baby)
- dath – bath
- puppy – puppy
- peez – please
Interesting facts about Aspen:
- She likes to eat raw coconut shreds and brown sugar
- Once she said to the car, “Bye, bye bye.”
- She plays a game in which she says “bye” to something, followed by a “hi” in a falsetto.
- She loves mama way more than she loves dada
- (As suggested by Ariah) “She’s one.” Actually she’s eighteen moths.
- She passionately hates taking naps and going to bed.