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.

Reading in Bed

Originally uploaded by k1rsty.

I took this pic this afternoon when Miranda had fallen asleep for her nap.

This evening she picked up a board book Poppy Cat’s Farm on the way to bed and had a total fit when I tried to put the book in her cot for morning and give her a teddy bear to hug instead. The result of which was that she’s fallen asleep this evening hugging a book.

Bibliophilic tendencies are fine by me.

• 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)

grow your own knitwear model here’s one i made earlier. the purple cardigan was actually finished before she was born.

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!