Nothing can prepare you for the non stop banter of your little one. Its adorable and eye opening and all that cute stuff, but its also very tiring. On most days, i wake up to "mumma book" or "mumma dollhouse" or "mumma blocks", on other days, i'm woken up by tiny fingers trying to open my eyes or pull my cheeks. When i'm lucky, she's huddled up into me trying to recite her rhymes! And thus the day begins...
As most mothers are for their kids, i'm the Aanya to English dictionary. I would always wonder how it is that only the mother can understand what her kid is expressing (at this stage), now i know, its a gift! And yet there are days when she repeats a word endlessly, and i just don't get it.
Her first complete sentence was "mumma, please putting TV" (so you know where we are headed!); she jumps on the bed and says "aanu jumping bed!", when she says "minnie mouse house", i'm supposed to sing the mickey mouse clubhouse song, she sees anyone on the phone, she says "uncle/aunty talking phone", she can name most of the animals in her book and also imitate the sounds they make, the latest being "frog says tibit tibit!!!
According to her dad, when aanu stops wanting, the world will come to a standstill! 'Coz "aanu wants" everything, all day.
"aanu want water",
"aanu want more water",
"aanu want bitit" (biscuit),
"aanu want" while nodding her head means "yes" and
"aanu no want" definitely means "no"!
If you ask her where has papa gone, "ossie" comes the reply, "and what has he worn to office aanu?", "thokka thuji", she says, corresponding to "socks and shoosies"! Her pronunciation for her fathers name and umbrella is the same "unvava" and ask her what her name is "aanuputhayas", she says.
This is what happened when i was trying to teach her colours-
"Aanu whats the colour of the sky: Lello"
"whats the colour of the heart: boo"
"whats the colours of the trees: pik"
And when i was almost giving up i asked,
"whats the colour of the sun: lello" (correct answer by fluke and i was jumping with joy)
On most nights we have a night time routine. Once the lights are out, she holds my elbow and i tell her a story and It has to be 'Goldilocks and the three bears' and it always starts with 'Once upon a time...'. One night i decided to let her tell me her version. So she started "Tiiimeee... papa ber, bebi ber, poidge.... foist.... chair boke, stoi finish"... so i filled in the blanks myself and aweed at the little marvel of a baby that i have!
I read somewhere that at this stage, kids pick up 10-15 new words a day. I see it happening. The copycat that she is, aanya likes to repeat every new word she hears. Even with the constant drilling of 'positive' words, she managed to catch the one bad word we accidentally mentioned (shit), and repeated it a couple of times (without context, of course!) and thankfully forgot about it... such innocence i tell you!
Her first complete sentence was "mumma, please putting TV" (so you know where we are headed!); she jumps on the bed and says "aanu jumping bed!", when she says "minnie mouse house", i'm supposed to sing the mickey mouse clubhouse song, she sees anyone on the phone, she says "uncle/aunty talking phone", she can name most of the animals in her book and also imitate the sounds they make, the latest being "frog says tibit tibit!!!
According to her dad, when aanu stops wanting, the world will come to a standstill! 'Coz "aanu wants" everything, all day.
"aanu want water",
"aanu want more water",
"aanu want bitit" (biscuit),
"aanu want" while nodding her head means "yes" and
"aanu no want" definitely means "no"!
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| "Aanu no water!!!" |
This is what happened when i was trying to teach her colours-
"Aanu whats the colour of the sky: Lello"
"whats the colour of the heart: boo"
"whats the colours of the trees: pik"
And when i was almost giving up i asked,
"whats the colour of the sun: lello" (correct answer by fluke and i was jumping with joy)
On most nights we have a night time routine. Once the lights are out, she holds my elbow and i tell her a story and It has to be 'Goldilocks and the three bears' and it always starts with 'Once upon a time...'. One night i decided to let her tell me her version. So she started "Tiiimeee... papa ber, bebi ber, poidge.... foist.... chair boke, stoi finish"... so i filled in the blanks myself and aweed at the little marvel of a baby that i have!
I read somewhere that at this stage, kids pick up 10-15 new words a day. I see it happening. The copycat that she is, aanya likes to repeat every new word she hears. Even with the constant drilling of 'positive' words, she managed to catch the one bad word we accidentally mentioned (shit), and repeated it a couple of times (without context, of course!) and thankfully forgot about it... such innocence i tell you!
Teaching the gen next is an absolutely fantastic feeling...keep gng strong
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