Monthly Archives for September 2007

Life isn’t always fair when you’re 18 months old

This weekend, we went to the Puyallup Fair, and Ruby had a great time seeing all the animals. She got to touch a cow and a rabbit, and hear some animals making their sounds for the first time (instead of an adult’s imitation).

However, we were disappointed to find that there were NO RIDES that we could take her on. Absolutely everything, even the carousel and the ferris wheel, required you to be at least two years old (or a minimum height of about 36 inches). It wasn’t fair! Ruby would have had a lot of fun on some of the gentler rides. I guess we’ll have to wait until next year.

She did, however, enjoy a famous Fisher scone (a fair tradition):

Scone

205 Words

Ruby’s vocabulary has exploded in the past month. When it comes up, I’ve been saying to people, “she must know a hundred words already.” Today I decided to count and see how accurate that was, hoping that one hundred was not an exaggeration.

Imagine my surprise when I came up with 205 words! These are all words that Ruby not just understands, but says. They’re all words that I’m confident she knows and have heard her say at least a few times. (I left off some of her most recent words in case she doesn’t really know them yet.)

I poked around online and found that the toddler “vocabulary explosion” or “linguistic leap” is a known milestone, and after it begins, children learn about 10 words a day until adulthood.

The list of words is an interesting window into Ruby’s world. Here they are:

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