Her Understanding Amazes Me

Recently, I've come to realise that actually Joey understands alot of things that we say. It is simply amazing because she doesn't speak anything other than gibberish, and she calls me 'Meee', not even the full version, 'Mummy', and she doesn't really follow me when I ask her to repeat after me. So, when I slowly realise that she has been taking instructions from us readily nowadays, I was truly amazed.

For example, when we change her clothes, we would tell her, 'Pick up your clothes and put them into the pail.' (There is a pail we use to contain her dirty clothes and accumulate for a whole day before we wash everything in one go.) And trust me, she will do it immmediately. She knows where the pail is and she reaily drops in her clothes. Then give herself a few claps. Haha. Super cute.

Then we would say, "It's time to wear your shoes. We're going out." And she would immediately sit down wherever she is, and stare at her feet, waiting for you to put them on for her. She can understand basic things like, 'Come, mum mum (eat)', 'Wear your socks', 'Sit down', 'Stand up'. When we ask her to give something to papa, yeye, nainai, she does it correctly.

She also has a thing for dustbins! She likes to go to a dustbin and pick out things from them (yucks!!). But then when we ask her to, 'Throw this into the dustbin', she would take it from us and throw them into the dustbin (and not the pail!!). Goes to show she understands lor!

When she sees a handphone, she knows it's for listening, and proceeds to place it to her ear and say something gibberish into it. When she sees a remote control, she knows it's for the TV and points it at the TV. When she sees ear-phones, she knows it's for listening to music, and she puts it to her ear & put on that 'listening-intently' expression. Haha. Smart girl.. I mean, to me, the handphone and remote controls all look the same, anyway!

The most amazing thing is we switch between chinese & english without realising it ourselves, but still she understands both ways. Wow, right? hee...

This is getting exciting, cos I know she now knows what I am trying to tell her. =)