By the time Wan Qi is ten mths plus she is able to say a few words dad dad, ball (her favourite toy) bird (which was taught by her gong gong) , milky or Xiong ah which is my goody goody dog mama, fish, purple, red, quiet
A short story on how she learnt how to say "bird" hua4 shuo1 that day when my dad brought Wan Qi to the playground at kallang, suddenly a flock of bird flew up to the tree and my dad said bird bird fei1 so Wan Qi began to associate the flying creature as "bird" haha thanks to my dad.
Subsequently, she knew how to say dog cos I have one spolit girl in my house lo. hee but later on Wan Qi began to call her by her name which made us laugh cos she will call her Milky or Xiong Ah sometime. Why did Wan Qi call my dog Xiong Ah cos she heard my mum scolding my spolit dog who likes to run out of our house. In fact, Wan Qi actually copy my mum's tone of voice when she call Xiong Ah.
In fact, thanks to my goody goody dog Milky, Wan Qi actually learnt a lot of her language indirectly from her. For example "Quiet" if we want Milky to stop barking. So who says having a dog at home with a baby is no good :P
Then there was another occasion, I saw Wan Qi holding my red rubber stick and pointing to my Milky and guess what she said Bian4 Bian4 Bian4 meaning change change change.
Why ????????? I thought to myself . Suddenly my maid and myself cant help laughing cos she is actually copying a storybook character in the story WU1PO2YU3HEI1MAO1 where the witch wanted to change her cat into multicolours. So Wan Qi actually want to change my white maltese Milky into multicolours haha with red head pink tail purple legs .