I taught her how to stand and project in front of the camera, but I guess it’s uber na! Hahaha! Whenever she sees me holding the cam, she would pose on her own, without telling her. I was able to capture them all this morning. Take a peek!

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++ Whenever she farts, she’d say “atot“. Hahaha! She insisted to wear her new pair of shoes that makes a sound (like a fart). As she makes her steps, she kept on saying “atot“.

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Situation 1:

The only way for me to stop Deye watching Barney is to tell her that Barney will soon go to sleep so she’d better say goodnight. Everynight I would always tell her “It’s bedtime, time to sleep. Say goodnight to Barney! He’ll sleep now too!”

Yesterday, I was really eager to watch MMK abut my little one was watching her favorite Barney. I asked her “Deye, can Mama watch Wowoyi please?” (I had to tell her Wowoyi coz that’s the TV Show that she knows).

She quickly answered “Barney, sleep. Night!“.

Situation 2:

She refused to have a bath yesterday. My husband had to tell her that we were going out so she would listen. But my husband went straight to the kitchen and not to the main door.

Deye said “Dada???? Tsk tsk tsk! She literally made that sound tsu tsu tsu! :p

Situation 3:

We went to the local market yesterday morning and saw a wide variety of birds on display, in their respective cages. Deye got frightened. We told her to say hi. But instead she said “Babay! Dada come!” telling him that we should go hahaha!

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Deye, my 21 month-old daughter, is now on the stage where she demands and talks for whatever comes in her mind.

On demanding

Mama, bo kayi? She meant “Mama, bo carry” referring to her favorite pillow named bo as in “baho” stinking literally and figuratively. ;-)

That’s what she said this morning when I asked her to get her slippers and be ready coz the babysitter will be in anytime now to take her to their house. But why would she ask for her pillow to be taken to her babysitter’s house? She was actually having his morning bottle of milk, and a peaceful milk feed won’t be done without it!

You see, with toddlers like her, there’s a morning, lunch and bedtime rituals. They don’t exactly understand what time it is. A routine makes them understand what’s exactly going on.

On talking – too much and interpretation

Deye tends to get uptight when I can’t understand the word she says. To help me understand each otherbetter, I tell her to repeat what I actually understood from what she just said.

Two weeks ago, I was leaning on the bed headrail when she said “si me”. I first thought “see me” but she was pushing me while saying it as if trying to tell me “get up and let me pass through”. Then, I thought “ah, maybe she meant “excuse me”. Instead of me getting up, I asked her to say “excuse me” after me. She quickly said “si me”. Gotcha!

Just right after my 2D’s came back from India, there were words that I never heard from her. Like the word “pom pom”. The night they arrived, I came to the airport to receive them. While waiting for the cab, a bus passed by. She yelled “pom pom!”. I was like “what??!!!”. Before she could look back at me, Derrick butted in to translate “she saw the bus passing by”. So she calls it pom pom? “Yeah, buses in India have that sound – pom pom!”, my husband said.

Oh? In just a week that I didn’t see her, she’s got many new words that I heard for the first time. As usual, whenever I have unanswered questions in mind, I run to Google.

And here’s what I found out:

19-24 months > May learn 7 to 12 new words a day; begins to use short sentences.

There goes another “oh?” in my mind….

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