(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)