- [ba] "ball", including round fruits like peaches and watermelons
- [ba.ba] "bye-bye"
- [bap ~ bab ~ ba.bu] "bottle", including baby bottles, a little catnip scent spray bottle we have for the cats, and possibly a fire hydrant that we passed once
- [hː ~ ha] "hi"
- [mam ~ ma.m̩] "Mom" (baby's mother, my wife)
- [m̩.ma] both "Ima" (baby's mother, me) and "Oma" (baby's grandmother, my mother), since baby can't make the different vowels well
- [pa.pa ~ ba.ba] "Papa" (baby's grandfather, my father)
- [ba] "baa" (while holding a toy sheep)
- [bʌ.bo ~ bʌ.βə?] "bubble"
also today it sounds like baby's been trying to work on the pronunciation of "ball", some of the times it's been like [baw ~ ba.u ~ ba.ɯ]
- [bɛ.ho] "bagel" can also refer to a soft pretzel, and possibly a hamburger bun
- [bɛ.bɛ ~ pɛ.pɛ] "pepper"
possible new onomatopoeia:
- [u ~ mu] "moo" (cow sound)
- [buːː] "vroom" (car sound)
- something like [æiʊ] that was possibly an attempt to meow at a cat?
possible attempts at imitating food words that I don't think count as known words yet but hard to tell:
- [bababa] "banana"
- [bawamama] "watermelon"
- [bu ~ bup ~ bu.bu] "poop"
I've been unsure this is a known word for a while but I'm pretty confident now, baby's been like "bu bu bu!" and then I've changed a poopy diaper. Unclear if it's only being used for "I have pooped" or if it's also "I am about to poop". [ↀ͡r̪͆] has already been in use for a while to communicate "I am about to poop" some of the time, but I think sometimes baby just wants to blow a raspberry without it being about poop? unsure
yesterday baby might've said hewwo??
- [ɛwo] "hello" ??? (i'm not counting this one but it was right after i said hello so like. hm...)
- [amamam] "OM NOM NOM" (now often said by baby while eating something delicious)
when baby was littler and just starting to try solids, I would make om nom noises while eating a lot to draw attention to how I was eating and because it turned out to amuse them greatly
- [bβ̩ːːː] "buzzzzzz" (said to some bees baby saw)
- [bæ.bə ~ bɛ.bɪ] "baby" ?? (so far only said on this one page of a particular book where there's a picture of a baby?)
- [hæ̥.hæ̥.hæ̥] (panting) (baby's response to "what does a dog say?" and also now any other questions about what other animals say besides bees who apparently get to have their own sound)