First word

I’m not sure if that was his first word, but it was the very first time he intentionally called something – duck!

See, we walk that same route every other day to the supermarket or to the city centre, and to the play groups, and we see ducks along the way – either swimming or sleeping, making a lot of noise. We fed them once, and Nathan adores them. Then came that day when he pointed at the ducks and said ‘uck’.

One friend commented that Nathan actually spoke ‘hokkien’ before English or Chinese, strangely, neither of his parents r hokkiens.

Another day, he did the same for ‘dog’, dropping the‘d’ at the front again.

Sadly, he hasn’t called me ‘mama’ yet, often calls ‘dada’, for everything, not just for daddie, so that gave me a little comfort, well, even if he does calls daddie first, no big deal la