End of the World

21 October

Ever since my 3 y.o has started mouthing words, he has been a real entertainment and live wire for the family. Hang on, I should rephrase that - before he was our Marcel Marceau, now he's our Tina Fey/Sarah Palin.

His first word was dada (for dad) followed by mama. Then came duck, more, mer (for milk), bao bao (carry me), no, moo-moo, woof woof, nai nai, popo, yiyo (for yima), yeye, tar (for car - he couldn't pronounce 'k' sound and substituted it with a silent 't'), down, up - in that order. He then progressed to his first 2-syllabus word - obar (open), enuf and started to string 2 words together - big tar (garbage truck). Sentences came next with "Mama, music pease." (when we were in the car) and "Mama, pease make milk for me (that was after he stopped referring to himself as a third person by name)." It took him a while to figure out "here" and "there", though surprisingly, he got his left and right immediately right. " "L" and "r" sounds were the next hurdles he learnt to overcome. Before that pillow was pi-o and we had quite a fair bit of peace (please). Now he's into words with 3 syllabus and beyond - that brings me to his current favourite phrase "To infinity and beyond" (Captain Buzz from Toy Story). But his first quote from the movies was, "Where's my food?" in the sternest voice he could master (but it still came out too sweet because of the smile that accompanied it) - mimicking the grasshopper from "A Bug's Life". His current favourite word is "difficult" (in addition to his usual "what happened" and "why"). He can even say hippopotamus and excavator clearly.

This morning, after having done his no. 2, he went: "Broken. Spoilt already... cannot flush. Everybody dies ..." See the similarity? It's about as logical as Sarah Palin's claim to foreign policy experience. And by the way, the toilet bowl was working fine.