The Oxford Edition of the Jamey Lexicon

Wow, I am guilty of not updating in quite a while. Inspired by the requests of a number of people to keep writing on my blog, I have decided that I need to keep a record here for myself, of Jamey's funny moments and growth.

As many may know, Jamey's first word (beyond Mama and Dada) was "dog", although we don't have one. That was in July and in the past six months, his vocabulary has ballooned out of control. He is now our little parrot, repeating the last word of a sentence, whether it be "butt", "dying", or "why". I realize, however, that the majority of what Jamey says is a mystery to anyone beyond Glenn and I. At times, it is the difference of a stressed syllable to show what he is saying. A little bit like Chinese.

Also contributing to the confusion is Jamey's occasional mix of German and English. Thus, I have created a dictionary of common Jamey words that may be mistaken.

-"angle"= triangle
-"dadot"= square; Jamey uses part of the German word "quadrat" for square
-"arnch"= orange
-"Gaga"= Jamey is requesting to hear Lady Gaga
-"adown"= up or down, based on the context
-"eye"= drei, the number three in German
-"un" = one
-"Monsher"= Monster, more specifically the name Jamey has Glenn's Ipod Touch
-"daw"= draw, Jamey wants to color
-"Monca" or "Monga" = Monica, which he seems to say every time I get on the phone, like I am always calling Monica
-"hummer"= hammer; usually this means he wants to hear the hammer song from our dance group
-"Bubby"= Jamey wants to play with his toy Bugsby
-"oh"= show
-"Namey"= Jamey; this is what he calls himself
-"mink"= pink
-"ite"= white

These are only a few of the many words that he says. Some are simple sounds, like when he makes a horse noise, meaning he wants to hear the song used with the horsey dance in our dance group.

He also has a one-word name for almost every book he has, and he loves them all. From "Bar" which is any book featuring a bear to "Em", which for some reason is the book "What Does Baby Do" to "Bubar" which is "Are you by Mother", he knows what book he wants without even seeing the cover.

The latest revelation is his ability to recognize letters. Through various toys which have age limits 3-5 (and many of which he got from Aunt Lindsay and Uncle Jim), Jamey has been encountering his letters left and right. I am guessing this is how, he can now identify at least 23 letters of the alphabet and name them. Every day he points more and more at letters on tshirts and signs, and every day I am still shocked by it.