Up

Insight into my daycare working side.... haha. :-)

Up: a common word uttered by wobbly little one year olds.

It is just one syllable and a very easy word to say, so I think they learn to say it fairly quickly once they start grasping the concept that what comes out of their mouths can communicate their wants a lot better than other previously used and mastered methods.

It can invoke several feelings in the person it is said to. Sometimes it is a word you like to hear... If you want to pick them up and cuddle and are not doing anything else it just makes you melt inside that they want you. It just makes them seem so irresistibly cute. But then, other times, you are in the middle of doing something productive, like cleaning peanut butter off the table before it gets all over the rest of the furniture or toys.... Or holding another child whose hair was just pulled to the point of tears, etc etc.
Such a simple word, a sentance all in itself when spoken by toddlers. Yet I think it is the one word that can change your mood for better or worse depending on the circumstance and which child is saying it...