The Spoken Word

The old saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words" doesn't count if your baby's first words are part of the thousand. I had not blogged about it yet because I wanted an independant listener to confirm what we thought we were hearing. Superman has 3 words!!!

Right around the first of November, I thought he started saying, "mama". Hubby did not think that he was actually saying it. By that week-end, Rosy could clearly hear it also. Finally in the second week, Hubby had to acknowledge that, indeed, "mama" had been Superman's first spoken word. "Mama" remains Superman's favorite and most frequent word. He can also say, "da" or sometimes even"da-da" for "daddy".

While my mom was here, she identified another word that we hadn't picked up on. When Superman wants to be breastfed or when he happens to notice that he is near my chest, he says, "boob". It's almost like a croon, a really low and soft little "boooooob". Hubby and I had never noticed it because he makes cooing noises all the time, but once we listened for it, it was very obvious.

My mom said that my brother could say 6 words by the time he was 6 months old. Superman turns 7 months today, but since he was three weeks early and my brother was 2 weeks late, I think that I still have 5 weeks before they are really the same "age". We should be able to master 3 words in 5 weeks! I think we will shoot for "Roll", "Tide", and "Bama".