Jacob's words, 17 months

I followed him around with a pad of paper yesterday trying to record all these. It also seemed like everytime I sat down I remembered one or two words he can say that he didn't have the opportunity to use. The final count in this list stands at 58 (for now). If you combine that with the words from the last list I made (which are not duplicated here), you get a Jacob vocabulary of 88 words. Clearly, he seeks to surpass his big brother in wordiness, as Isaac enjoyed a similarly large vocabulary at 18 months.

***NO***
mine
cat
cow
dog
bunny
brother
Papaw
Meemaw/Mamaw
Dadaw
hello
bye
truck
tractor
bug
stick
park
playground
door
garage
chair
bed
wagon
lawnmower
chalk
bead
key
potty
piano
boat
book
marker
color
TV
remote
button
Wiggles
Mater
Woody
Boobah
Pooh
James
Gordon
moon
one
two
three
milk
water
noodle
grape
cracker
egg
pancake
juice
tea
cheese
berry

Absolutely 100% of this is uttered as single-words, most in near-unintelligible form. He has a few words that sound exactly as they should (water, Daddy, Mama, cracker, tea, potty, tractor), but the rest can be pretty easily understood in context. If he points up at the sky and says "MOO!", he's probably found the moon. If he runs up to the fridge and starts banging on it crying "Muh! MUH!", and that probably means 'milk'. If he's downstairs (where the digital cable box lives with its On Demandness), climbs up on the couch facing the TV, and sways his upper body back and forth, shrieking "Boo! Boo!", it's because he remembers that most nights he and Daddy fall asleep watching on-demand Boobah. You get the picture.

But to tide us over until his pronunciation gets a little better, Jacob has also added the head-nod to his repertoire, and uses it with great success. He figured out how to do the nonverbal 'uh-huh' just before we left for Indiana, and now is so good at it that he can correctly answer 9 out of 10 yes-or-no questions with an appropriate head gesture. So handy, that. It's amazing, the dialogue you can have with another person just through head shakes.

"What do you want? Do you want this car?" (shakes head no)
"Do you want this Buzz?" (shakes head no)
"Do you want the basketball?" (nods emphatically)
"Do you think Lindsey Lohan is going to jail?" (nods emphatically)