All about words

Baby can say some words and recognize names of things now.

He learnt that star shaped things are called "star" so he point to them when I ask him "where is star?" and he will also crawl excitedly to star shaped patterns and tell me "Tar!"

He also know that apples are called "apple" when I take one whole red apple to let him hold and explore. Then I scrap and feed some of the sweet juicy apples to him! He can point to an orange instead of an apple when I ask him "Where is orange?" but he calls all round and reddish fruits "Per".

His first word of all is actually "bah" for bus. One fine day, he goes around saying "bah" the whole day and we realized that he was pointing to passing by buses and pictures of buses on posters and books and saying "bah!". Now he is starting to call daddy "bah bah" too.

And after that, he also call "bear" and "bird" by modifying the "bah" sound a little bit.

He points to cars when I ask where is car? And he calls cars "Tar", same as stars.

He can say bubbles as "ber ber" now when I blow bubbles and tell him they are bubbles.

One day, he spends the whole day making growling noises and we don't know why he's doing that until I help him put on a pair of socks with a lion picture on them and he pointed to the lion and said "arhhhhh". Pretty amusing for me!

We showed him a wedding picture of hubby and I as bride and groom and grandparents, and my sisters. When asked "Where is papa? Where is ah gong (grandpa)? Where is ah mah (grandma)? Where is yi yi (my sister)? Where is xiao yi (youngest sister)" he got them all right! He pointed to the correct person in the picture. When asked "where is mummy?" he pointed to me instead of myself in the picture. Lol! Perhaps when mummy puts on make up she looks different?

He learnt names of facial features in mandarin first. He points correctly to 头, 鼻子, 眼睛, 耳朵 but he can't say them.

He also knows how to clap when I ask him to clap and he will raise his arms above his head and wave when I ask him to do taiji.

Here's to document what he can say and know at 12 months :)