(how come Daddy has a knack of disappearing right before dinner is served - bring's back memories of my own darling daddy). Anyway, so I tell her he's just stepped out and will be right back and then I said to her in Chinese, you eat first - ni xian chi - which is literally - you first eat. And she says to me, mmmm you eat first - back in English. And this kid has only just passed her second birthday. And sometimes she'll say something in English and then say it again in Chinese. After researching bi-lingual kids we reckoned each of us speaking in our native tongue was the best approach. Though we aren't completley rigid with it, obviously with the above example. But I really find some of the things that come out of her mouth quite bizarre, she's a natural mimic. But now she's started translating I think it's a bit more than that?
Today she held onto the pram while we walked to the supermarket. Inside the grounds of the supermarket I told her she could walk without holding, no cars bikes etc. She started following a painted yellow line on the ground and just kept going. I yelled out and nothing. She started picking up pace all the way around to the otherside and nearly out onto the road. I've already given up being curious as to how far she will go without me, she'll just go. I was already running after her and then yelled STOP in my most anxious voice and she laughed and turned around - you know which is just plain naughty. Anyway, back in the pram for her which she found very annoying. But tonight in bed I talked with her about it and told her why that was such a dangerous thing and how she was not to do it again and that she'd lose her freedom of walking if she did it again. And I said, do you understand? And she said, mmm yes mama, do not run.....
I love conversing with her. In the mornings she says the sweetest things. "Hello darling, I'm getting up, I'm hugging mummy." She's nuts.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
What's the go with that?
Tilly seems to have started translating? This evening at the dinner table she asked, where's daddy? And I said, He's gone to the storage (how come Daddy has a knack of disappearing right before dinner is served - bring's back memories of my own darling daddy). Anyway, so I tell her he's just stepped out and will be right back and then I said to her in Chinese, you eat first - ni xian chi - which is literally - you first eat. And she says to me, mmmm you eat first - back in English. And this kid has only just passed her second birthday. And sometimes she'll say something in English and then say it again in Chinese. After researching bi-lingual kids we reckoned each of us speaking in our native tongue was the best approach. Though we aren't completley rigid with it, obviously with the above example. But I really find some of the things that come out of her mouth quite bizarre, she's a natural mimic. But now she's started translating I think it's a bit more than that?
Today she held onto the pram while we walked to the supermarket. Inside the grounds of the supermarket I told her she could walk without holding, no cars bikes etc. She started following a painted yellow line on the ground and just kept going. I yelled out and nothing. She started picking up pace all the way around to the otherside and nearly out onto the road. I've already given up being curious as to how far she will go without me, she'll just go. I was already running after her and then yelled STOP in my most anxious voice and she laughed and turned around - you know which is just plain naughty. Anyway, back in the pram for her which she found very annoying. But tonight in bed I talked with her about it and told her why that was such a dangerous thing and how she was not to do it again and that she'd lose her freedom of walking if she did it again. And I said, do you understand? And she said, mmm yes mama, do not run.....
I love conversing with her. In the mornings she says the sweetest things. "Hello darling, I'm getting up, I'm hugging mummy." She's nuts.
(how come Daddy has a knack of disappearing right before dinner is served - bring's back memories of my own darling daddy). Anyway, so I tell her he's just stepped out and will be right back and then I said to her in Chinese, you eat first - ni xian chi - which is literally - you first eat. And she says to me, mmmm you eat first - back in English. And this kid has only just passed her second birthday. And sometimes she'll say something in English and then say it again in Chinese. After researching bi-lingual kids we reckoned each of us speaking in our native tongue was the best approach. Though we aren't completley rigid with it, obviously with the above example. But I really find some of the things that come out of her mouth quite bizarre, she's a natural mimic. But now she's started translating I think it's a bit more than that?
Today she held onto the pram while we walked to the supermarket. Inside the grounds of the supermarket I told her she could walk without holding, no cars bikes etc. She started following a painted yellow line on the ground and just kept going. I yelled out and nothing. She started picking up pace all the way around to the otherside and nearly out onto the road. I've already given up being curious as to how far she will go without me, she'll just go. I was already running after her and then yelled STOP in my most anxious voice and she laughed and turned around - you know which is just plain naughty. Anyway, back in the pram for her which she found very annoying. But tonight in bed I talked with her about it and told her why that was such a dangerous thing and how she was not to do it again and that she'd lose her freedom of walking if she did it again. And I said, do you understand? And she said, mmm yes mama, do not run.....
I love conversing with her. In the mornings she says the sweetest things. "Hello darling, I'm getting up, I'm hugging mummy." She's nuts.
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I love your blog and keeping up! I knew Tilly was smarty smarty! She will run circles around you in just a few years!
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