Duck's progress

If I counted right the word list below has over 130 words. I'm sure there's a lot more that he uses in school, though.

hi
bye
hewo (hello)
Mama
Dada
Daddy
Papa
Nana
nana (for banana)
Money (Mommy)
Baby
boy
grrl (girl)
hat
cat
dog
doggie
bunny
hop
chinin (chicken)
cow
howse (horse)
house
barn
bwue (blue)
yewwow (yellow)
geen (green)
wed (red)
puhpl (purple)
bwue cwue (Blue's Clues)
mmeeeehhhhh (how he identifies a sheep)
pen-in (penguin)
eh-way (elephant)
ion (lion)
bug
sidey (spider)
hipooo (hippo)
zeza (zebra)
Jambo! (hello in Swahili thanks to Go Diego Go Safari Rescue)
Cece (this is the babysitter)
uh tun Mama (your turn Mama)
skoo (school)
bus
car
tuck (truck)
choo choo (can mean either a train or that he wants The Polar Express dvd)
tain (train)
book
ousigh (outside)
in
down
up
open
close
how you (how are you)
Dooby-Dooby (he wants me to read Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin)
atsoo (achoo)
we-come (welcome)
thank you
buh-byee! (with attitude, totally different than bye)
kwa-kwin (Franklin)
bear
Pinky
Dago (Diego)
Oobi
Uma
Kako
Ampu (Grampu)
dance
jump
sake (shake)
snake
wuuurm (worm)
duck
pig
piggie (his stuff at school is labeled with a pink pig)
owie
boo-boo
flower
Zee (the bird on Noggin)
wow
pee
poop
poh-yee (ptty)
mee-mee (pacifier)
I want ......
waz that sou? (what's that sound?)
wazis? (what's this?)
bay-el (bell.......like a southern belle would say bell)
eye
nose
head
hair
ear
belly (and he knows that there's a baby in Mommy's belly)
pee-pee
feet
hands
happy
sad
Jo-Jo
geoge (George, as in Curious George)
mo (more)
all done
down
peees (peas)
sceered (scared)
So..... (like Dory in Finding Nemo "so, what's......")
bruke (broke)
Pa-lo (Pablo from Backyardigans)
sruit (fruit)
sfoot (foot)
han (hand)
fwush (flush)
Henny (Henry, figure we better start working on it now)
Pam-pa/Pom-pa (Grampa)
gwass (grass)
soos (shoes)
sock
sirt (shirt)
pizza
wa-wa (water)
cup
staw (straw)
hep (help)
yup
no (snow)
baff (bath)
dino (dinosaur)
dah-no (dolphin)
boak (boat)
bee
owl
seet (sit)
cheer (chair)
Oosy (Lucy, my MIL's dog)
ware dog go? (Where'd the dog go?)
ware go? (Where are you going?)
toos me (excuse me for burps)

• he can/will now identify himself in a picture as "Sam" not baby
• can eat cereal from a bowl WITH MILK! (lots of milk down the front, but i'll take it!)
• eats from a bowl in the car without spilling.....this is big for those long trips
  
• when he's done with his plate/cup he hands them to us
• he's consistently asking for help
• knows that words on the screen of a tv program means it's over, so he tells it bye-bye. (like bye-bye kwa-kwin when Franklin is over)
• he can correctly identify the letters N, M, O, H and A
• he can identify and match red, blue, yellow, green, and purple. still has difficulty even attempting to say orange, but he can match it
• knows the potty routine of pants down, potty, pants up, flush, wash hands
• knows to cover his mouth when he sneezes
  
• We're seeing a lot of inflection in his voice these days
• has yet to figure out what to call my mother-in-law. Grandma is too hard yet.....and he just inserted an "m" in Papa for my father-in-law. I'm sure he'll come up with something
  

I'm still not convinced he's hearing CLEARLY. there are certain words that he says that make me think he's hearing something muffled or because he had ear infections/untreated allergies for so long that because he always heard them muffled he thinks they are supposed to be that way.

Hency, why I hate toddler hearing tests. They only test THAT they're hearing, not WHAT they're hearing.