No!!
In late January, we wanted to test Baby-Ao’s understanding of what we say, in both French and Mandarin.
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Changing nurseries
Towards the end of last year, the Boy and I made the decision to move Baby-Ao to a new nursery …
Reading | Chinese vocabulary: “Bad-tempered ladybird” & “Panda, Panda, what do you see?”
We’re trying to raise Baby-Ao to be trilingual, so the language I’m responsible for is Mandarin Chinese, which is a big ask, since my Chinese is laughably crap. I went back home for my friend’s wedding this past November, and the guys who knew me from back in the days were quite stunned that I was speaking so much Chinese – probably more Chinese in the course of several hours, than they had ever heard from me during the years they had known me.
Songs he sings
By “sings”, I mostly mean “hums”, except for “Ee ai ee ai oh” (from “Old McDonalds”), which he articulates quite well.
For the other tunes, there is often a hint of a shadow of words, which is why I know (or guess) that it’s in one particular language, even if there are songs with the same tune in different languages. The (language-specific) song he hums is listed first, followed by, in parenthesis, songs with the same tune in other languages that he is exposed to.
Home Alone 2
The Boy has been away for 3 days (2 nights) again, because of work, returning home tonight, yay!! Again, I …
Verbalising
In the last couple of weeks and days, Baby-Ao’s vocabulary has just exploded.
From his first word “papa”, probably around 9 months or so, he progressed to saying the following words in quite short order:
2014 review
So, 2014 is clearly a less exciting year than 2013, which is tough year to beat – getting married, giving birth, living in NYC etc.
But with the Boy’s help – because he really does think of putting everything down, whereas to me, my highlights were only ‘added new countries’ and ‘started a new job’ – I have a halfway decent list of “highlights”, albeit some pretty lame ones.
Home alone!
The Boy has left the flat and is taking a flight to Russia for work. He will be away from tonight (Thursday night) and returning Saturday evening (12 April). Which means that I will be home alone with Aodren!! :-O
Sicky baby
Today marks the first time Baby-Ao has properly vomitted. Prior to this, he has only possetted or regurgitated milk post-feed. …
My first treasure basket
Late last month (27 or 28 Feb), I put together a treasure basket for home use. I never would have …