vocab inventory

in the last week or two m's vocabulary has more than doubled. almost every day another word comes out of her mouth that i have never heard her say before.
"¿acabas de decir 'coffee'?"
("did you just say 'coffee'"?)
complicated of course by the fact that she is learning two languages at once, i am amazed that she is talking at all and not simply overwhelmed and mute.

i thought i would make a list of all the things m is saying these days to mark this moment (just a few weeks over a year and a half old!) so that when i look back i can remember where she started... and to find out, "what words does she know?" like so many other questions, sometimes i don't know the answer until i stop to write it out...

her school taught her a few words in sign language that she was using before being able to vocalize anything so those were officially her "first" words, they were:
more, all done, please, thank you, milk, apple, and help (which she expressed by using the same sign for please)

in english:
hi, bye,
no, yeah,
up, down,
hot, cold,
slow, go,
baby, yum, shoes, ball, car, door, pants, eye, nose, ear, apple, top, coffee,
sit, sneeze, play, read, row
dump (usually said before dumping a container of some kind)
all done,
help please,
wash hands (sounds like  "wash he")
one, two, three, four (which she says in order while pointing to things - even though i know she is not actually counting anything, it's pretty amazing that she gets some part of this concept)
back (from wheels on the bus when the driver says "move on back")

in español:
mamá, papá,
caca, pis,
dinosaurio (the green stuffy she sleeps with - sounds like sari, but its consistent),
manta, noni, upa, más, agua, pan, teta, leche, mano, mono
pasta, pizza, banana (yes, we are counting  these on the spanish side)

she also says the names (again, sometimes her own version of the names) of most of the people in her extended family, in which there are over 20 members including her dogs buster and chloe (bussy and koh-E), and all the kids in her class (of which there are five - my favorite is "jack" which she says backwards; "kah")

even for the words that are not quite the words that we speaking adults use, the way that she is still able to COMMUNICATE astounds me. i learned that she knew the word "row" only just this week through the following interaction:

she was sitting on her tush with her legs out in front of her tapping her thighs with her hands in a way that looked like some sort of routine, so i asked her,
- ¿eso es lo que haces en 'morning meeting'? (is that what you do in morning meeting?)
-yeah
-¿cantas canciones en morning meeting también? (do you sing in morning meeting too?)
-yeah
-¿cuáles canciones cantas? (what songs do you sing?)
and this is when she started to rock back and forth and sing "row, row, row, row, row, row...."
-row, row, row your boat?!!
-yeah!! (with an enormous smile)
i couldn't tell which one of us was more excited and surprised that we managed to just conduct a full conversation. it was awesome.

watching her little brain develop is fascinating.