Alice's July list of new words

7/6- blue

7/7- eat

7/9- car

7/10- gonna get you, get up

7/11- bite, boat(we took the ferry to San Juan Is.)

7/12 top pot- "where da top pot doh?"(we hid the donut box before church), slide

7/13 money, swing

7/14 I want one, stop!, butt, jump

7/15 blackberry(excited on finding some in our backyard), spoon

7/16 yummy, pillow, Jane, back

7/17 outside, bug, okay, stop, egg.  (She said "I want egg" then pointed to her hand and said "hand".  It was hard to deny her wishes- so smartly stated, but eggs and her don't agree.

7/20-out(get out of the pool), dead(a bug at the pool), helmet(found while cleaning my room)

7/21- john(don)

7/22- com'on(leading me up the stairs), I don't like it! (Peanut butter on Apple), uh oh- dropped it!(I heard her say it and looked down from chopping veggies to see her picking up all the cherry tomatoes that scattered when she grabbed the box upon the counter)

7/24-can I try?, can't get me!, here I come!

7/25- 

7/26- rain, 

7/27- bread, breaked (she brought me glasses that were broken and said "breaked"), run, okay

7/28 "sit table", "boots dirty", "hold hand", "get purse mommy"

7/29- "the bunny hide and seek" (she was reading a curious George book- when he holds a bunny and it runs away and hides.)

7/30- Angels(blue Angels are in town and she hides when they fly over because they are so low and loud), right here, chips, I don't know

7/31- wet, plate, yellow hat(another curious George reference)

And a notable but I can't remember when exactly she started saying it(sometime in July) is "yeah".  This is pretty huge because before she could say "yeah" the answer to everything was "no" whether she was in agreement or not.  You'd have to read her body language to see if the "no" meant "yes" or really meant "no".  

Also can't remember when she started this but she counts things- "two, one,two, one, two". She always begins with two.  And if there is more than one item it's always "two".  Three flowers are "two fwowahs".  Four dogs are "two doggies".  

The main rule for the list was applied especially with Frances.

She would always spoon feed alice a word and turn around and say "alice said elephant!"

So the rule was laid down early- no parrot words allowed.  They had to bubble up from Alice's more mid-term memory and not so much short term.  So if she just repeated what someone said - which she does often now- it didn't count.