andrew pham | The Journeyler

I know I won’t touch all the mental concepts that Katja has right now. But here are some (more noun like concepts) that I can easily remember:

Beard
Bird
Bath
Blueberry
Ball
Bottle
Bye(-bye)
Dad
Mom
Water
<æ> for Andrew

She has some verb like categories or actions that I think are salient as well. Some of these things are tactile motor movement skills which require some sort of mental conceptualization, while others are directional in nature:

up (which is not just vertical, but might include “hold me”, or switch people holding me)
down
open (pull)
closed (push)
More (food)
Turn around to get off the couch or go down a step
Point
Wave bye-bye
Soft hands (as in gentle hands — when she is pulling my beard)
Dance
She also crawls and assisted walks
Feeds herself (we can assume that she can feel hunger)
Takes things off: She doesn’t like anything on her head, can take her pants off
She likes to reach out with her index finger and thumb and experience the feeling of hair
Reads a book while cooing to herself
Plays the drums
She is music aware
She is speech sound aware (she knows she hears a sound she is not making and that it is different than what she is making) for instance the difference between <ah> and <u> but can not yet pronounce <u>.