Joey is now at the stage of wanting to express herself. For no apparent reasons, she would scream and shout. When she doesn't get her way, she would struggle and wriggle and scream just to let us know she doesn't like it. It really gets on my nerves sometimes, cos I feel that she is behaving like a spoilt brat who is not afraid of discipline, and only wants her way.
Then I read about this in the babycentre website that babies of her age has a strong desire to express her likes & dislikes and she would scream & misbehave to get her parents' attention. The only way to stop the behaviour is to keep telling her patiently that we will listen to her if she speaks normally and not scream. Slowly, she would understand that she needs not scream to get her point across. I tried it on her today, and it seemed to work. She immediately stopped screaming and looked intently at me and muttered some gibberish. Haha... although I don't understand what she is saying, at least she is making some effort to communicate through words than actions. keke..
Her vocabulary is growing. Slowly but surely. She understands a lot of things we say now and would respond yes and no by nodding or shaking her head. It's getting easier now cos I just need to ask her whether she wants to drink milk, and she would tell me yes or no. No need to make milk and waste it.
Saying the words is much harder of course. She is catching on and each time she pronounces a new word, it surprises us.
Her first words were PAPA, MAMA or MUMMY, MUM MUM & BYE BYE. That day at a friend's condo, she saw some gym balls in the gym, and she muttered a soft, 'BALL'. haha.. so cute. She even repeated it twice. Yesterday, I also realised that she has been saying the word 'THERE'. When I am carrying her, she would point to one direction and say 'There', and I was supposed to walk towards that direction. Today, she said a new word too. 'NANA', which means banana... heee... looks like the effort in repeating certain words to her has paid off slowly... :)
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