The littlest princess is very wide awake on this humid Sunday morning, busy exploring the house and engaging in small talk.
Her small talk (kids at this age are incessently talking) can send us into fits of laughter. Her ability to combine words (both English and Malay) is just amazing, "Ibu, I ter-fall down...". We have never taught her that kind of sentence structure so I guess Chomsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky) is right...Kids have an innate ability for languages...
Just the other day, after hearing a hari raya song, she told my BH, "Ibu, I like this raya-raya song...". She makes her own songs, combining what she has learnt with other songs. For example, she uses the tune from 'Twinkle-twinkle Little Stars' and sings it using her own words. Priceless...
Oh...she has passed the "Ibu, magic word...pleeeease", phase...
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