My son said his first intelligible word today, both my wife and I heard it clear as a bell.
We each spend a lot of time saying “Mommy” and “Daddy” to him in the hopes he’ll echo it back to us.
So how were we rewarded?
He’s recently taken to holding out his finger so that one of us will hold out our finger and tough them together. When I do that, I first touch his finger and then reach over and touch his nose and say, “beep.”
Today I did that and he looked right at me and said, “beep.”
I suppose an onomatopoeia is a word and we have to count it, don’t we?