Copy Cat

Syona is absorbing new words every day. We were just playing bubbles to distract her to eat today and she learned the word POP. It takes one or two repetitions before she gets that once you touch the bubble when it's falling down that it goes pop. This is just one of the few new words she's learned; others include - hat, open, up, down, off, uh oh, tank u, right there, that, this, oh no, all done, on, some indian words like "right here" and "give me", bubbles, balloon, ball, bao bao (pick me up in chinese), book, fish, duck, byebye, beep (pronounced bup), diaper, hiiie, along with all the new animal sounds like baa for lamb/sheep, roar for lions, etc. The words are for the most part pretty well formed- you can definitaey understand her expanding vocabulary. She blinks her eyes repeatedly if you do so, and bounces the toy basketball. She also recognizes people (Ba, Nainai, Dadu, Masi, GouGou, Paul, Shilpa) in picture albums and when they call on the phone, she'll listen and if you ask her to give a kiss, she'll kiss the phone... Today she formed two sentences, "Ooo Ooo mum" - feeding her bottle to her monkey, and "diaper on", as paul was getting her dressed after her bath. She is doing all this all the while even when she has been sick with the stomach flu through the last week. Nothing better than waking up several times in the nights of the past days to clean throw up and then having both parents get sick with the same thing. :)