Zachary’s vocabulary list at 1.5 years old

By now Zachary is talking more and more each day.  Some makes sense and some don’t yet.  Here is a list of what we can understand.

ma ma – mommy or grandma (Chris’s mom) depending on context

ba ba – daddy

paw paw – grandma (Nadine’s mom)

day day – somehow Chinese for grandpa “gong gong” makes him say day day, don’t know why, day day means sister in Chinese

whosissit – talks on the phone this way

bird

hersh – Hershey

fa fa – Chinese for flowers

bao bao – Chinese for bread

star

moon

nite nite – good night

bye bye

gai gai – Chinese for going out, but Chinese for chicken is also gai gai, so we must say chicken to not to confuse him

zha zha – Chinese for dirty

nai nai – milk or drink

pop – cereal or snack cookies

not not – Chinese for hot, he says it when he sees steam, touch the heater, or food too warm (so cute blowing his food to cool it off)

mo mo – more food

po po – Chinese for pick me up

down or sit – mostly used to command Hershey

shutup – recently learned from Daddy telling Hershey to stop barking, we must use “be quiet” from now to stop Hershey from barking

Zachary performs at home

Does Zachary have talent ?

 

Good memory

As Zachary grows into his toddler size, his memory skills are also sharpening well.  Before you look for anything that Zachary might have misplaced for you, ask him first.   This will save you lots of time since he has really creative places to hide things now.  Amazingly he understands the word for most objects to which he has access.  So he will most likely remember the ones who are extra nice to him and give him what he wants.

We just realized that Zachary not only knows his basic body parts by Chinese words, but he also knows the equivelant English words to the body parts.  We found out this last night when I said to Chris, “I want to clean Zachary’s nose, I can see something in his nose.”  Then Zachary put his finger in his nose to try to clean it himself.  We then asked him to point to his eyes, ears, hair, feet, hand, and mouth.  He knows them all.  But I have been trying to get him to learn colors and somehow he is not showing any progress yet.

My poor body

It makes no sense how management spends their money sometimes.  I have been complaining about back and neck problems and management always says that they don’t have overhead money to improve anything for us.  Then they go and buy us all 30 inch monitors, even if some of us don’t really need it.  Great, just more radiation in my face and I continue to see my chiropractor.

Happy 18 months Zachary !

Zachary turned 1.5 years this month and celebrates with Daddy’s  birthday at the end of January.  By now Zachary knows body parts very well and many Chinese words.  He says “zhi gei” – meaning let me do it myself, “mit mit” – peel some fruit to eat, “dea dea” – thank you, and his favorite “gai gai” – going out.  He also started climbing the couches without a stepping object and closing doors.  He makes sure that the dinning room door is closed if we forget to close it when we come into the living room, but the purpose is to keep Zachary in the living room.  And before he comes down from upstairs, he goes to each room and makes sure all the doors are closed, silly boy. 

Here is a happy undressed Zachary singing and dancing before retiring to bed.