Baby words

So far, Penny has tended to want to say things correctly rather than using a baby word, but there were a few things for which she did still substitute her own word. She called Mr. Bear "boo" for the longest time, but that went away several months ago around the same time that she swapped from ma-ma and da-da and wa-wa to mommy and daddy and water. It's kind of funny, but I think that if she can't pronounce something she just won't say it at all.

Early on we got her Boynton's "Belly Button Book" but she has never said bebo for belly button. She has always said belly button. But in the several months that we have had that book and others in the Boynton Hippo canon, she has never once attempted to say hippo or hippopotamus. Just this week she busted out with "what does a hippopotamus say?" (And really what does a hippopotamus say?)

And until recently she knew most of the names of the shapes on her shape sorter except for one - "hexagon" which she started saying this week too. But before that, it was like that shape just sort of got skipped over in naming; rather than say it wrong, she just wouldn't say it I think. Anyway, she's been calling Lindy, "D" and her yellow and blue stuffed dinosaurs "die-dows". This week though she's been saying Lindy and dinosaur more and more. We're going to miss "D". Well, we still have "wed-oh" for yellow, and I'm sure there are more like that. Oh - and "Penty" shows no signs of abating either. :)