PonyTales

Can I have another fawer, Mr. Clown?
(at a friend son’s 1st Birthday party, they hired a clown to entertain the kids, brilliant!)

Zoe has been watching Baby Einstein for quite some time, if I remember correctly, since she is about 7 - 8 mths old…Baby Einstein can bore an adult out of their skull!!! …but it can make a baby sit quietly watching for 1 solid hour…amazing!

Nowadays, she watch Barney too (her America’s most fames idol!). Thou one part of me worries that its too much TV for her at her tender age, I cannot deny that some of her communication skill improved from watching these children TV programs.

The followings are words and things she learned in random:

• Saying "Hi!" and "Bye!" to people, even strangers…while waving her hand
• Muak! while kissing her palm - another accompanying gesture from her when saying goodbye. Especially to her babysitter and Daddy…
• Dog…bow! bow!
• Cat
• Faa-wer - Flower, she points and tell me flower
• Bus - she repeats after me when I point and said "Bus!" while sending her to the babysitter
• Aa-dee - Andy the Ants - a story book given to her by Auntie MY and Uncle SL
• Car
• Teee - Dirty…that she learned from me cause she likes digging the rubbish bin
• Eee-yerr - I read that kids learned to say "No!" at around her age….but my Zoe is saying, "eee-yer" at me very often
• Oh uh! - as if something drop and someone said "Oh uh!"….she like to purposely drop something and say "Oh Uh!"
• Oh More! - means No More! while twisting her palm
• Mai! - means "dont want" in Hokkien - this I suspect is her 2nd word and built into her at birth….hahaha…I wonder where she pick that up?
• Daddy - very fluent
• PaPa - very fluent
• Mama - when she likes it
• Maa Meeee - when in distress
• Pao-pao - she wants to be carried or when she is carrying her teddy bear
• Mum mum - when she is eating with us
• Nen nen - asking for her milk
• Penn - means Open

Instructions she understands from me:

• Sit down
• Wear shoe - I have to wear for her, she just sit and wait
• Oi Oi - sleep
• Let’s go
• Pom Pom - take bath
• Watch Barney - she goes to the TV
• Take - she take the thing I point to her
• Put down - she put down the things she is holding
• Nose, eyes, mouth, ears - she point at her own nose, eyes, mouth or ears…but sometimes she point wrongly and laugh
• No! Cannot! Arrrrggg! - negative words she understand from me and she will stop when I said those…
• Eat rice
• Lie down
• Change change - changing her diaper
• Sayang who and who - she will gently sayang others

She only respond to her name "Zoe" and not her Chinese name…must make it a point to use her Chinese name more, afterall thats her real name. Sigh…its even difficult for me to change that myself now…