I think that Alice is starting to pick up some new words. Despite Mom’s cruel doubt I think Alice can now say “Mommy” appropriately, most of the time.
Alice is also starting to point things out in books that she looks at. She’s liked books for a long time but it’s only recently that she’s started to point out specific things on the page and try to name them. Alice particularly likes Look and Find Elmo, probably because she can say “Elmo” (although she pronounces it as “eh-moe”). Elmo is almost always the first thing she points on on each page.
Some of the other new words she uses at least part of the time correctly are
| word | Alice-speak |
| cow | ow |
| more | moe |
| duck | duck |
| TV | tee bee |
I particularly liked the pronouncation of “cow”, which Alice demonstrated while pointing out things in a counting book that had a page spread with 4 cows on it. “ow! ow! ow!” Alice said, jabbing her finger at the cows expressively.
P.S. Current Alice word list:
no, shoe, sock, milk, more, look, kitty, dog, ball, duck, mommy, Corwin, Elmo, spoon, hair