Zaria’s Speech – close to 16 months
This is almost the same everyday at our dinner table. Zaria will eat half heartedly, and then after a few spoonful, she’ll start spiting her dinner out. “Pow-Pow! (Chinese: Full)”.
“You don’t want any more?”
“No-want. (Don’t want)”
But then, when we put her down from her high chair, she’ll go straight to the fridge, and shout, “Khuet!! (Chocolate)”; she’ll keep saying “Khuet!” until we give her her doze of chocolate or something else to distract her.
Zaria knows now when she needs things done she’ll go to Jelly.
Once she was trying to take a few pieces of clothings down from my cupboard, but the whole stack came tumbling down. I was next to her, but she went on to look for Jelly, shouting “Ah-tie (Auntie)! Ah-tie! (Put) Back! *pointing to the cupboard* Back!”.
And when she wants her bath, she’ll be shouting “Ah-tie (Auntie)! Ah-tie! Ba-Bath! Ba-Bath!”
I tried asking her, “You like Auntie?”
She replies with her index finger out “Good!” (meaning her Auntie is good, so she likes her Auntie).
When she gets hold of a pair of shoes, a hat, or watch, or even a hair clip, she’ll come to us with the item placed on where it belongs (i.e. place hair clip on the head) “Wear.”
She knows how to correct us when we name something wrongly. E.g. *pointing to my BIL* “Mei-mei, is this Daddy?”. She’ll smile and shake her index finger, “No-no, no-no Daddy. (He is)Uncle “
Of all the things Zaria says, Daddy is most pleased with Zaria constant chanting of “Daddy-DaddEEE..Daddy-DaddEEE” when he’s around. I tried to get her to say Mummy-mummeeee.. Mummy-mummee, but she’ll only be able to say “Mummy” and not like she calls Daddy “Daddy-DaddEEE..Daddy-DaddEEE”.
Thinks kids usually call daddy first, then mummy…mine started out saying “papa” and then slowly progress to “daddy”. After that, its my turn “mamee”
very clever ah, want chocolate, tak mahu rice. hahha
why all kids prefer to call papa first? my eli keeps saying papa lately…*envy envy*
waaa… so cute goin daaadeee… daddeeee… o.O
can’t wait for mine to call out to me, mameeee… mameeee… hehe!
Haha, I would also prefer khuet to rice, but because I am so much older than Zaria, I know I need rice first! Then only khuet!
i realize she was a very fast learner lei … how mummy teach ??
clever girl …. 🙂
at least she call u mummy. Mine is *silent* Only know Dadidi.
can talk very well…well done Zaria..
yeah me second LB!!! i oso prefer khuet!!! yeahhhh!!!
what a clever girl she is…
what’s this with kids…moms spends more time with the kids and they chant daddy first eh!?
Agree… her speech development is really good.. Like sister like sister. Psst… how you teach them la???
She’s a daddy’s girl then… 😉
Daddy’s gal.. 🙂
don’t despair… Brad used to be mummy’s boy and Matt’s daddy but they swapped now!!!
The khuet really makes me smile. Yiu Yiu is exactly like that. Abandoning her rice for khuet.
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