First ever Anya-English dictionary!

Anya seems to be putting on a sort of linguistic spurt. Those random syllables that have been spilling out of her for the last nine months are rapidly attaching themselves to things and concepts, beyond the basic mama-dada stuff. It's hard to keep up with and tricky to decipher much of the time, but here's a first draft of a dictionary:

Mama/Mummy : Kate or woman

Dad/Dada/Daddy : Dave or man. Or, sometimes, Kate.

Yow-oww : Cat. She does this whenever she sees Jasper, as a sort of formal greeting.

Hah-hah-hah : Dog. Also used to express excitement. A sort of puppy-like panting.

No : Every toddler's favourite word, normally accompanied by a shake of the head. She says it with a long vowel, and it comes over as rather genteel.

Ess : Yes. This is relatively new, but she does seem to be starting to express a bit of affirmation.

Num-nyum-nyum : I'm hungry, or food. She can repeat this endlessly as a sort of song accompanying mealtimes.

Diggun-ding-ging : Her favourite toy, the bunny she sleeps with. Another sing-song word. I can see this toy is going to end up being Dickon the bunny or something.

Uh-oh : Remark to call attention to something falling on the ground. She still loves dropping objects, so we hear this a lot.

Buh-be : Baby, or puppy. Probably baby.

Buh-bye : What it sounds like.

Some others that she's used more rarely or tentatively.

Wak : Duck. A favourite bath toy. If it waks like a duck...

Fuh : Fan. She's fascinated with ceiling objects and she seems to have picked up our use of this one.

Buh : Ball. She loves the way they bounce, so I think she's using this to talk about them. But it's sometimes a bit unclear.

After that there's a whole host of words that she understands but doesn't use: "Put on" and "Take off", "Nose", "Mouth", "Touch" and some others that slip my memory. I'll try to update as new ones enter the lexicon.

Anyaish has no word for snot