We've just finished filling out the MacArthur-Bates word inventory and identified 426 words that Lily knows and says. Then of course there are hundreds of words she says that aren't on this list. It was only a few months ago that this new word inventory seemed overwhelming. Now it is easy to see the words she doesn't know on this list, because they are getting fewer and fewer.
Of course learning language is never ending. Found a word in a WSJ caption last week that I couldn't even pronounce, let alone understand. Not sure where a kid with normal hearing would be on the word inventory list, but we're pretty excited for Lily on soaking up all this vocabulary.
It's hard to know the words Lily knows and doesn't know. We played "what is this" for hours today because it was so rainy. Lily kept asking for "More." We'd run from room to room to outside to the basement to the garden and everywhere in between asking "what is this" and "what am I doing" or some version of that. I am sure the neighbors thought we were nuts.
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