Sammy picks up various phrases from watching cartoons. Sometimes he understands them. Sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he almost does. He recently picked up ‘hot cocoa’.
One day while holding his cup of cold orange juice:
Sammy: Mummy, my hot cocoa is cold!
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A couple of months ago, Pia got some drawing paper, drew a necktie, coloured it with crayon, cut it up, punched a hole in the paper necktie, tied a piece of string, and presented it to Daddy as a gift.
Pia: (beaming and proud) Here Daddy, I made you a tie.
Daddy: Thank you, Pia. It’s beautiful.
The inevitable question came up today:
Pia: Daddy, how come you never wear the tie I made?
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Sammy has started to want to pick up the phone each time it rings. And when he grabs it, it’s very hard to make him let go and pass the phone to Mummy. It’s starting to become a struggle between Mummy and Sammy. Each one is starting to devise techniques to make sure they grab the phone first.
One day, the phone rings. Sammy runs to the phone and picks it up. He sees Mummy coming.
Sammy: (stretches open palm towards Mummy) Stay! Stay!
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Sammy calls an apple ‘apoo’. One day, Sammy and Pia are seated beside each other at the dining table, eating apples. Sammy started coughing, and directed his mouth towards Pia and her apple.
Pia: Mummy! Sammy is coughing at me!
Mummy: Sammy, stop coughing at Achie.
Sammy: No! I coughing the apoo!
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