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Here’s Miranda and some of her classmates reading out their monster stories on their class blog. This is what she’s reading:

But the audio is much more fun!

Still unnamed! (My choice: Mo & Jess; Darren’s choice: Frantic Fran & Mellow Mel; Miranda still contemplating: “the black one” & “the brown one”!)

an insight into the life of a 20 month old, as revealed by her 150 word vocabulary:

aeroplane, apple, baaa, baby, bag, ball, balloon, banana, bang, bath, beach, beans, bear, bed, bedtime, bee, beebies (for cbeebies), bird, blue, boat, bob (for bob the builder), boing, boo, book, boots, bounce, box, bread, bruise, bubbles, bum, bus, butterfly, bye-bye, bzzzz, cake, car, cat, chair, change, cheese, chicken, chocolate, circle, clock, coat, cold, cup, daddy, dark, dazzles (for razzledazzle), dig, dirty, dog, doing, down, eyes, fall down, fish, flowers, football, goal, gone, got, gran, grandad, green, hands, hat, hen, horsey, hot, house, hurray, juice, kick, knee, light, milk, mommy, monkey, moo, moon, more, mouth, mucky, mushroom, naughty, ni-night, no, nose, nursery, one, orange, outside, paper, peas, pencil, pennies, peppa, plate, poo, pop, postman pat, potty, purple, quack quack, raining, ready, red, road, sam (for firemen in general not just fireman sam), sauce, sausage, seaside, shoes, shower, sky, sleep, slide, socks, soon, sore, square, stairs, star, sun, sweet, tea, teatime, tea towel, teddy, teeth, tights, toast, tomato, towel, train, tree, tumble (for mr. tumble), two, up, wash, water, weeble, wood, yellow, yes, yoghurt, zan

i’ve been trying to write them all down for a few days. no doubt there are some i’ve missed. there are plenty more things she says when she repeats them after us, or snatches of songs that she sings (“round and round all day long!”), but these are all words she comes up with by herself without prompting.

(Almost) everything is monosyllabic with Miranda at the moment (she’s 17 months). Or not even monosyllabic, just the beginnings of things. We have

• ba = ball
• ba = balloon
• ba = bath
• ba = bag
• do = dog
• do = dolly
• dow = down!
• wa = water
• wa = watch!
• wa = warm (possibly)
• ho = hot hot hot (in big cook little cook style)
• tih! toh! = tick tock
• so = socks
• su = shoes
• su = sun
• sa = sand
• so = sore

other fuller words/phrases:

• dadda (not always daddy)
• momma (rarely for mommy)
• gramma (for grandma enid)
• all gone! (favourite phrase for ages now)
• more!
• no! (very definite about this one all of a sudden!)
• yeah, yeah, yeah
• gone!
• where’s it gone?
• is there!
• woh! tuh! (pause where ‘three’ should be.) (then she jumps, or whatever.)
• nee nah! (= ride on car, it’s red – i think we’re getting muddled up with fire engines in books)
• here-za! (=here’s zan (one of the cats))
• here-he-ih (=here he is, for peppa, the other cat)
• ickle ickle ickle (=tickle)
• ro ro (= row row row your boat or round and round the garden)

in between climbing the learning curve of new parenthood and sitting about feeding the bottomless pit that is miranda i did write something up during march: miranda’s birth. it’s very long and involved. i wrote it more for myself than anything else really. so, read at your own risk.

Our daughter Miranda was born at 0947GMT on 24th February 2005 by Caesarean section. She weighed 2.86kg or 6lb 5oz and was 54cm long.

More details to come! For now go and see the pics! It’s hard typing one handed because the most beautiful girl in the world is asleep on your shoulder!