Heh. I wonder if Larry David’s first words were “pretty…pretty…pretty…”
I don’t know what my first words were, but apparently my first sentence was, “What’s the matter?”
According to my mother: “Moon.”
You could have just said “What’s wrong?”
But then again, you are overly verbose.
“Baba” in response to my mother asking, “What does a sheep say?” while reading me a book of baby animals.
My oldest son - “MOO!” in response to his favorite picture in his animal storybook.
Daughter - “Dada” of course, she’s Daddy’s princess. Shortly thereafter, “cookie!”
Youngest son - Not very chatty yet at 16 months old. Will say “Dada” occasionally though.
I don’t remember mine, but I was around for my little sister’s first pregnancy, and lived with them for about 3 years after. She had a rough pregnancy, was off her feet for a few months after, so I was with my niece as much as my sister was for a while.
It’s been 15 years now, but I think my sis might have forgiven me by now for ensuring that my niece’s first words were in cat. She meowed for weeks before realizing that hey, she could make human sounds, too!
My first word was “no,” because I was always in trouble for something. To this day, I’m much more of a let’s-do-it-and-figure-out-why-it’s-stupid-after-we-have-all-the-data-because-maybe-it’s-not-really-stupid kind of person than I should be.
My younger sister’s first word was “RadicalPi,” or my real name anyway, curiously enough for the exact same reason. (My mother apparently said, “RadicalPi, no!” at least once every ten minutes for five years.)
“Oh, Shit!”
My mother was not amused, but had no one to blame but herself.
That’s funny! My sister’s was the same. I and my brother always watched the show, so I guess that’s where she got it.
Are you Tom Cullen?
My daughter’s first word was “no,” complete with head-shake.
My son’s first intelligible word (that is, we could tell he was making a word as opposed to random sounds) was “tickle”. I used to play a game with him where I would tickle him under his chin, then behind his ear, then his tummy, foot, etc. while saying “tickle, tickle, tickle” (I know, unoriginal), and he said it back to me (although his version was “tick-a tick-a tick-a”.
Ditto.
Don’t know about my own, but my daughter’s official first word was Godzilla.
One day during her pre-talk babble stage, I showed her our little green plastic monster, instructed her to say Godzilla, and was rewarded with a fine gahzi.
Unfortunately she wouldn’t repeat it for company, and ultimately decided to specialize in boring words such as dada.
Hah! Thanks, I needed that. 