Since everyone keeps requesting video, this is a quick montage of Sunday morning at home, unedited. Watch for:
- the recent role reversal of Margaret and Leonard (formerly known as Ubi2)
- the appearance of a few new birthday presents
- Margaret's new determination to put on her own clothes (particularly one fabulous hand-knit sweater - thanks, Auntie Beth!)
- a continued interest in taking out and attempting to put in her own hair clips
- a genetic predisposition to percussion (her father is a drummer)
In the language field, Margaret's single-word utterances include a few bilingual pairs:
milk = "dede" (Tagalog) and "nainai" (Chinese)
shoes = "shoos" and "xiexie" (Chinese)
This is really cool to a language geek like me, because it shows an awareness that a single item can have more than one name. She seems to utter them indiscriminately, not filtering yet for who speaks which language. She also responds to both "paipai shou" (Chinese) and "clap your hands" by clapping. So cool.
Other single-word utterances include:
"gougou" (dog in Chinese, her first word)
"baobao" (bag in Chinese)
"dada"
"mama"
"yaya" (nanny in Tagalog)
"chiss" (cheese)
Thanks to her new birthday book, she is quite excited about animal sounds, and bounces up and down making an "oof oof" sound when she sees any animal, live or in a picture.
If you ask her "Margaret zai nali?" ("where's Margaret?") she covers her face to play peekaboo. What's funny is that the "Margaret" part doesn't really matter to her, so in the book-reading video the other day when I asked her where the cow was ("niuniu zai nali?") she covered her face to play peekaboo. I only noticed that after re watching.
There were some photos from this weekend, too, which will have to come from John's computer later in the week. Love to everyone.
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6 comments:
so cute! she is growing up so quick!
philip
That "more than one name for a single object" concept is something that I find fascinating too. One of our friends' daughters is being raised bilingually and calls seltzer "spicy l'eau" (which is also funny because V. calls it spicy water, independently). xo
Absolutely delicious!!! No need to edit this kind of footage. It's perfect just the way it is. Being able to watch for 5 minutes gives such a sense of M's personality and instincts- and a glimpse of your world with her, too. Thank you so much!
And I think M's language acquisition is and will be endlessly fascinating- particularly with the two interwoven. Love hearing the details of that so far. XXOO
Your public also requires photos. My current screen saver is over a week old!
What a busy girl, and SO much on her plate! Leonard to take care of (he came into this world exactly one year ago this week in Santa Fe,), hair clips to stay in place, the tambourine to jangle, endless games of peek-a-boo, the ubiquitous paparazzi to contend with...she's swamped!!
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