Bookmark This: Chit-Chat Checklist

There's nothing I love more than a good developmental checklist (except maybe a good recommended reading list), so I love that Pennsylvania researchers have compiled a list of the 25 words most commonly used by two-year-olds. The average two-year-old has between 75 and 225 words, but these are the first 25 words that emerge first (on average; as always with kids, YMMV). Jackson has all of these words, and I think they were all among his first words except for cookie, eye and nose, which came later. We may or may not have a second kid, but if we do, I love that this list exists as a resource!

• all gone
• baby
• ball
• banana
• bath
• bye bye
• book
• car
• cat
• cookie
• daddy
• dog
• eye
• hat
• hello/hi
• hot
• juice
• milk
• mommy
• more
• no
• nose
• shoe
• thank you
• yes