17 months - munchkin update!

So I've been totally slack with my blogging, but unfortunately time is a very preciously rationed thing these days and is split between work, cooking, eating, showering, chasing the munchkin around the house with either a bottle of milk (which she still refuses) or some food, and the teeny tiny remainder of my day is a toss up between catching up on an ever mounting backlog of TV shows on my TiVo box or reading. Blogging has had to take a back seat!

Anyway, little munchkin is now walking like a proper toddler (and developed an obsession with shoes... she insisted on wearing wellies 1 size too big round the house all morning yesterday), eating better (although still nowhere near a point we can stop worrying) and saying quite a few words (although a lot need a bit of deciphering and some are a bit of a stretch!). She can say:

No (a LOT)

Please (psss)

Ta (da)

Spoon (poon)

There (dere)

Mine (myyyyyyy-ne)

Me (meeeee)

Book (bu-K with a definite KUH)

Girl

Egg (egg-guh)

Yum (usually accompanied by belly patting)

Dad (to her Goong goong!)

Dada

Daddy

Mama

Popo (bo bo)

Yee Yee (ee-ee)

Pea

Bee

Hat (had)

Sid (ssssee - my sisters rabbit)

Wow

TV (dee dee)

Shoes

Banana (nana)

Apple

Up (uppa)

Open (uppa or uppen)

Bird

Tomliboo (boo)

Go go

Baby (Baba)

Nose (noooo)

Head (het)

Bum bum (baba)

Gor gor (at Aiden my BFFs little boy)

Goong Goong (goo goo)

Duck

Birdie

Emily (em-ee - patting her chest)

Ballon (boon)

SIGNS:

Friends (holds her hands together and shakes them)

Yum

Ohhhh (sore)

Finger wagging - no

POINTS TO/SIGNS/UNDERSTANDS:

Tummy

Head

Feet 

Toes

Hands

Ears

Mouth

Tongue

Fish

cow

pig

star

egg

Girl

She can also understand and points to pictures in Cantonese when asked where's car, horse, sun, duck, pig, ball