what were your FIRST WORDS?

[mopaul]

according to my mom, my first words were, 'i want some beans'. she said i didn't talk much, and then suddenly one day at dinner, i spoke out about a subject very near and dear to me. i guess up to that point, i didn't really NEED to say anything.

[JohnKleeb]

1. cookie

[HEyHEY]

13. DUDE - ME TOO!

[Nightowl_2004]

29. "Fire!" (Yes, I'm a pyro)

[Placebo]

2. "I Want Butter On It."

We were eating pasta and my mother asked my father if he wanted butter on his bread and I answered for him. :P

[newscaster]

3. My first word?

I was slightly more than a year old and riding with my mother on a trolley in Miami Fla. I slipped off the seat and got down on my knees, pointing down and said "Knee!" That was, according to my mother the very first word. How I knew anatomy at that tender young age I will never know.

[deadparrot]

4. dada

I'm boring!

[slinkerwink]

5. It was "Mama" "Papa" and the word "Up"

I used the word "up" a lot because I liked my father throwing me up in the air, and he'd catch me and swing me around. That was a lot of fun as a very small toddler, ha.

[VOX]

6. My dad was leaving on a train, and I said, "Go go bye."

My mom couldn't tell if I was trying to say "goodbye" to my dad, or if I had come up with a novel name for the train.

Whatever, those were the first heard comprehensible utterings from these lips.

[fishnfla]

7. Throw the ball! nt

[NNadir]

8. Eleanor.

[koopie57]

9. antidisestablishmentarianism

eom

[Big Kahuna]

10. BEER!

Uh, sorry..

How the hell are you supposed to know what your first words were? You can't possibly remember. Unless there are objective witnesses (there rarely are), mommy says it's "mommy", daddy says it's "daddy".

I am feeling sentimental, because my favorite younger cousin Erica just got married on Saturday. Otherwise the exposure to extended family has been traumatic.

Erica: When she was a baby, she couldn't pronouce her name, so she was YAYA :) I cried when her dad mentioned it this weekend at her wedding... everything else he said was so... him.

Me: I remember as a 3 year-old, creating my own word for those lemon-shaped containers of lemon/lime juice. When I asked what it as, my mom said "it is sour, it will make your lips pucker".. Well, I renamed it "Fuck-em-Puck-em!" It seemed logical at the time. It sent my grandmother and aunt Ruthie into hysterics when I held up the plastic lemon and exclaimed "Fuck-em-Puck-em!"

My son Josh at age 4:

In the middle of the WalMart parking lot (perhaps we deserved it) he yells "PENIS!!!!!!!!!!" at the top of his lungs. :)

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Mess.

n/t

[demnan]

12. Who knows?

I was the youngest of four, by that time the parents don't even keep track.

[HEyHEY]

14. "Fuck Joe Clark"

I was fouth mouthed and politically active by age 1

[Misunderestimator]

15. I have no idea...

...no one ever told me :shrug: Maybe it was profane.

[JVS]

16. "I don'tt like crisp socks"

I had said Candy on a previous occasion when passing a window shop, but this was the first direct communication

[TrogL]

31. What, exactly, does that mean?

[achtung_circus]

17. Kind of ironic, I'm a livestock specialist but was born in a city

But it wasn't Mommy, not Daddy.

We were out for a drive in the country when I pointed and said

Moo Cow!

Emphatic, I was.

[NightTrain]

18. "Fuckin' midget."

Oh, no wait. That was Buddy Hackett. Sorry!

[short bus president]

19. "more cookies"

Giggity!

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. "Eat my ass, Nixon!"

Just kidding...I think it was "no."

[Rowdyboy]

21. "Hotten" after sticking my hand into the grates of a gas heater

[realFedUp]

22. Birdie

yeah.

[da_chimperor]

23. Lasagna

I think my version was more like "la-laan-yaaaa" though.

[AngryAmish]

24. F--- Green Bay

[baldguy]

25. "Let There Be Light!"

[miss_kitty]

26. see shoe

it drove my folks nuts. they would point at other stuff "See car?" my mom would ask. "Shoe. See shoe" i would answer.

[Susang]

27. Mine was "No", closely followed by "Stop" a few days later

They have been favorites ever since. ;-)

[shingashong]

28. "Dog". I kid you not.

Every day my mom and I would look out the window and a guy would be walking his dog. she'd say "Dog" to me, and my first word...was DOG. LOL...

[TrogL]

30. I'm the same way

I didn't speak a word until I was three. Then I immediately started talking full sentences. My first words.. "Mommy, I love you."

[bif]

32. "Mommy, I hate Jesus"

The whole discourse went like this:
Mom: Honey, Say goodnight to Jesus.
Me: Mommy, I hate Jesus.

[soothsayer]

33. "Mine!" n/t

[catzies]

34. YEAH YEAH YEAH

I was learning to talk when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan. :)

[nutsnberries]

35. hee hee

- and maybe those will be my last words too.