| # | Date | Word | Notes |
| 100 | September 13 | Cow | She reaches 100 with her favorite word category: ANIMALS! |
| 99 | September 13 | Chair | I thought she'd have this one earlier, what with the "three little bears, sitting in chairs". |
| 98 | September 13 | Keys | She's always liked chewing on them (while cutting teeth). Today she named it in a book of objects. |
| 97 | September 13 | Clock | She actually said this awhile ago, in Pasatiempo Inn, where they have LOTS of clocks on the wall. |
| 96 | September 12 | Bath | She heard the water running and ran into the bathroom saying "bath, bath". |
| 94-95 | September 11 | On, Off | We've been working on some prepositions for awhile. More to come soon, no doubt! |
| 93 | September 11 | Bubble | She learned this one in the tub with Mommy. |
| 92 | September 11 | Cookie | She's probably known the name of this cat for awhile, but today she saw her and called her by name all by herself. |
| 91 | September 11 | Tickle | She saw Karin scratching Abraham under his chin, and she laughed and said "tickle!" |
| 90 | September 10 | Spaghetti | Well, more like "ghetti" but close enough. One of her favorite foods! |
| 89 | September 10 | Tony | She recognized Grampa Tony in her photo album! |
| 88 | September 10 | Step | She climbs up the steps at the playground to the slide, and says "step, step, step." |
| 87 | September 10 | Sit | Once she gets to the top of the slide, she reminds herself to "SIT!" Which is a good thing, because more than once she's stared off into space and walked right off the slide! |
| 86 | September 8 | Crayon | There's lots of different flavors! |
| 85 | September 6 | Broom | She likes watching Mommy sweep the deck, and now she has a toy broom that she drags around. |
| 84 | September 5 | Food | At daycare, Nicole said she asked for her food all day. She would point at the fridge and say "food." |
| 83 | September 5 | Eat | She's been saying this for awhile, but only when we do first. At daycare today she said it on her own. |
| 82 | September 4 | Rhino | Rachel and Mommy went through some of Mommy's animals, and she learned rhino. (Although sometimes she says rhiny.) |
| 81 | September 4 | Pinny | A nickname for Princess, which is a nickname for Norma Jean Baker (one of the cats). |
| 80 | September 4 | Rachel | Finally! She says her own name now! She identifies herself in a picture with Ssssssarah! |
| 79 | September 4 | Tunnel | Rachel's FUN Mommy made a tunnel out of chairs and blankets today! |
| 78 | September 3 | Joey | Looking through her picture album, she named her cousin Joey! |
| 77 | September 3 | Tuq | And then she named Tuq! (aka Robin -- tuq is Swedish for crazy) |
| 76 | September 2 | Step | While walking up steps in the park. |
| 75 | September 2 | Park | On the way to the park after dinner to play. She likes watching older kids run around, and tries to do what they're doing. |
| 74 | September 2 | Giraffe | It's still kinda one syllable, but she's pretty close. |
| 73 | September 2 | Box | We've had a few boxes around, and we hide toys in them. |
| 72 | September 1 | Cheese | One of her favorite foods! |
| 71 | September 1 | Block | She has a cylinder with shape holes and she likes to put her blocks through the holes. |
| 70 | September 1 | Truck | She likes her toy truck out on the deck. |
| 69 | September 1 | Feet | We've worked on foot for awhile, but feet came first. |
| 68 | September 1 | Pop! | She pulls along her popper (the classic toy!) and says "POP! POP! POP!" |
| 67 | September 1 | Diaper | For a long time she thought a diaper was a yuck, but now she knows better. Kinda. |
| 66 | September 1 | Shirt | She tugs at Daddy's shirt and says shirt. |
| 65 | September 1 | Squirrel | She sees lots of them on her way to swimming, and also out on the deck railing. |
| 64 | August 31 | Welcome | At the park this evening she kept handing me wood chips. I would say "Thank you" and she would say "Welcome". SO CUTE!!!! |
| 63 | August 31 | Juice | She's always called liquids milk or water, but finally she's saying juice. |
| 62 | August 31 | Eye | She points at your eye and says the word VERY cutely! The cutest word since bear! |
| 61 | August 31 | Shoe | We've been working on this one for a long time. Today she picked up a shoe, showed it to Mommy, and said shoe. |
| 60 | August 27 | Fiki | Well, Biki, actually, but just because she has trouble with 'f's. We were brushing her hair and teeth, and suddenly she pointed at the mantle and said "Biki!" And then she said "Papa!" |
| 59 | August 27 | Ear | We're starting in on body parts now! |
| 58 | August 27 | Drum | She's loves her drum for weeks, now she knows the word. |
| 57 | August 25 | Button | Meaning belly-button. She likes to pick up your shirt looking for yours! (She's said "butt" for awhile which was even funnier.) Great for breaking the ice at parties! |
| 56 | August 23 | Window | Sarah has taught her this word so that when Sarah leaves in two days, Rachel will be able to ask us to open the blinds! |
| 55 | August 22 | Buckle | She always stops after getting unbuckled and studies her buckle. |
| 54 | August 21 | Cracker | Always one of her favorite foods. |
| 53 | August 21 | Done | She tells us when she's done with dinner now. Fiki would say "done is for cooking; she's FINISHED." |
| 52 | August 21 | Bunny | She has many very cute bunnies in her books. |
| 51 | August 21 | Draw | Rachel has a new desk & chairs, and she likes to sit and draw! |
| 50 | August 21 | 'Becca | Sarah's friend Rebecca was visiting (no, the other Rebecca), and Rachel loved her SOOOO much she shared her virus with her so she would stay an extra THREE days!!! |
| 49 | August 20 | Bee | She has them all over her nursery, and she hears the word all day. But now she recognizes both real and drawn bees. |
| 48 | August 17 | Helmet | She knows football, now she knows helmet. |
| 47 | August 15 | Watch | I've told her about my watch quite often, as she likes to play with it. But today she pointed to it out of the blue and called it by name. |
| 46 | August 13 | Whale | She has a book with a big whale in it. Seventeen animal words now! |
| 45 | August 11 | Door | She was just walking by a closet at a friend's house, and pointed to the door and said "door!" I had no idea she knew that word. |
| 41-44 | August 10 | Deer, Horse, Goat, Owl | She's learned a lot from her pop-up barnyard book! Deer is now tied with bear for her cutest word. |
| 40 | August 7 | Hippo | She has hippos in her books, on a nightie, and now on her tongue. |
| 39 | August 5 | Football | Karin taught her this one as a surprise for me and Fiki. She showed her all the pictures in her NFL books with footballs. She pronounces it "Buttball" though (still can't do 'f's). |
| 38 | August 4 | Fish | She has some trouble with 'f's, but she definitely calls fish by their name now. |
| 37 | August 2 | Lyle | She's been playing with her best friend, Lyle Vachon, for a year, and now she says his name, too. |
| 36 | August 1 | Bug | We've been decorating her nursery, with lots of dragonflies, butterflies, and ladybugs on the wall. She pointed at a ladybug and said "Bug." |
| 35 | August 1 | Bobbie | One of her favorite teachers is named Bobbie, and this evening Rachel can't stop talking about her! |
| 34 | August 1 | Bar | Sarah opened a cabinet, and Rachel saw food bars we like to eat (and she does too). Rachel pointed to them and asked "bar?" |
| 33 | August 1 | Uh-oh | She threw a shoe over the banister, and said "Uh-oh!" |
| 32 | July 31 | Paper | She's always loved to eat it, now she can call it by name. |
| 31 | July 31 | Bottle | Great. Just as we're weaning her off the things. |
| 30 | July 30 | Pig | We hadn't said pig in hours, but Sarah (on her birthday) was carrying her through the study, when Rachel pointed at the guinea pig and said "Pig". |
| 29 | July 30 | Car | When Daddy picked her up from day care and got to the car, she called it by name. |
| 28 | July 29 | Meow | When she chases the cats, or when she sees an image of a cat, she likes to say "meow". |
| 27 | July 28 | Happy | She has a picture of a happy baby in a book, and now likes saying the word. |
| 26 | July 27 | Bear | She's learned bear from some of her books. |
| 25 | July 25 | Blow | You can blow in her face, and she says "Blow!" |
| 24 | July 25 | Walk | She holds out her hand to you, and asks "Walk?" |
| 23 | July 23 | Apple | She's always liked apples in her books, and now uses the word for the actual food. |
| 22 | July 22 | Hat | Maybe now she'll finally wear them! (Hat. def: anything that goes on the head. Ex: hat, bottle, book, ...) |
| 21 | July 22 | Down | Now she can ask to go up AND down. |
| 20 | July 15 | Water | She recognizes it both in a cup and in the ocean. |
| 19 | July 13 | Bird | Outside, on the deck, birding with Mommy. |
| 18 | July 12 | Boy | She's learned it looking at books with Sarah. |
| 17 | July 4 | Batgirl | She followed Batgirl up and down the hallway steps TEN TIMES say "BAAAAT-girl! BAAAT-girl!" So cute! |
| 16 | July 2 | Up | First adverb! AND first two-word day! They're coming fast and furious now. She's doubled her vocabulary in the last month! |
| 15 | July 2 | No | Well, I guess she had to learn it some time. |
| 14 | June 29 | Banana | Usually more like "nana". |
| 13 | June 28 | Milk | Now her favorite word, replacing duck! She pronounces the final 'k' very strongly. |
| 12 | June 22 | Sarah | Sarah and I were saying "Sssssarah!" and she said "Tha-uh!" |
| 11 | June 21 | Boom! | We (with Sarah and Tony) watched her toy truck crash into the deck railing. We said "boom!" and she immediately said "boom!" Now EVERY time it does that she says "boom!" |
| 10 | June 16 | Turtle | Aunt Lucy gave her a turtle to play with, and taught her the word. She repeated it almost immediately, and would say it over and over again whenever she saw it. (She even got to KEEP the turtle!) |
| 9 | June 4 | Book | Gramma asked her to bring a book for her to read, and she DID! Soon she was saying "book" all the time. |
| 8 | May 14 | Dog | Robin taught her this one, showing her a big wooden puzzle piece with a dog on it. |
| 7 | April 8 | Duck | She was playing with her rubber ducky in the jacuzzi, and she started saying "Duck!". The next morning when she saw the ducky again she started saying it constantly, for everything she likes. |
| 6 | March 13 | Ball | She loved playing with balls at her playgroup, so we bought her a big one for home, and she definitely calls it by name. |
| 5 | March 1 | Baby | Whenever she was playing with her new baby doll (see Milestones for this day), she would say "baba, baba". |
| 4 | February 22 | Papa | He was visiting, and has a very easy name. |
| 3 | February 18 | Mama | Finally! |
| 2 | February 10 | Dada | She leaned her head on his chest and said "Da-da"! So Sweet! |
| 1 | January 11 | Cat | Well what ELSE could her first word have been, with SIX cats running around? She said: "Cah! Cah! Gee-Cah!" when one walked by. (We've been saying "Cat. Cat. Kitty-Cat.") |