Natalia and Laurence sat down the other day while Skyping Pappou (grandfather in Greek) and wrote down the words that Irini is able to say. It began slowly as we tried to remember, but when Irini realized what we were doing she started adding words to the list, blurting them out for us to write. At the final analysis we were up to 50 words, but the number is growing exponentially by the hour, it seems. Here they are, in no particular order:
- Uh oh (first word she every learned, taught to her by our Sydney-based friend Chechi)
- Mama
- Baba
- Chao (ciao)
- Bye
- Hi
- Down
- Coming
- No (of course!)
- Yeah
- Kaka (Popo in Greek)
- Peepee
- Popo (Kaka in Spanish)
- I
- Want
- This
- Jugo (juice in Spanish)
- Scott (actually pronounced "ska")
- Beka (Irini's short version of "Rebecca")
- Zizzie (Izzie, her best friend now in Maine)
- Agua
- Tete (short for "tetero"; Spanish for baby bottle; Irini's way of saying "milk")
- Koko (short for verikoko, apricot in Greek)
- Cold
- Hot
- Shoes (pronounced "shus")
- Daddy
- Please
- Pappou (grandad in Greek)
- Wet
- Raining
- Painting
- Cheese
- Baby
- Ouii (when hurt)
- Dos (two in Spanish)
- Kitty
- Danny
- Pan (bread in Spanish)
- Thank you
- Yummy
- More
- Off
- Con (short for air conditioner)
- Money
- Door
- Clean
- Nose
- Eyes
- Boom
- "I want more"
- "I want paint"
- "I want this"
- "I have money"
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