mylène daily

Nowadays, it is very funny to listen to Mylène. She knows how to say several real words, and knows a lot of words in her own language. She is quite talkative, especially when she is reading a book on her own. She then imitates us, telling her about the pictures in the book, and pointing at them. She does that too, and she is talking to herself while doing so.

Here is a summery of the real words she knows:

'Dag dag'
This is Dutch and means 'goodbye'. This was the first word she knew. It was gone for a while, but now it's back
'Bye bye'
A big surprise for us, because neither one of us really taught her this. But now, she often says 'bye bye' when leaving, making waving gestures together with it. Of course, when people see this, the melt on the spot :-)
'Gou gou'
Chinese for 'dog'. Mylène's companion for the night is a soft beige dog. She also knows what the dog says 'whooh-whooh'
Other animal sounds she knows, are 'ka-ka' for duck and 'hgrrr' for tiger.
'Baby'
She got to know this from a picture she has of a baby doll. Shiqi said 'baby' and after that she apparently knows what 'baby' is. When she sees a small kid somewhere, she points and says 'baby'.
'Mama'
A real word, but Mylène uses it wrongly. If she wants something, she will point to it and say 'mama'. Well ... perhaps not so wrongly used anyway.
'Papa'
She says it often, but we did not figure out yet, what she is using it for. Sadly though, not for her papa.

Of course, she understands much more. We notice that she already understands quite a bit of both Chinese and Dutch, although she does not always show it. But this is strategy, I guess.