These are the three latest words spoken by Sofia. It is really funny. She will point to whatever dirt on the floor and says "DirTY!" with much emphasis on the ending, while wriggling her fingers under her chin (American sign language for dirty). So you can imagine how "dirty" the kitchen was when we came back from the wet market. Sofia would point to the vegetables bits on the floor and keeps saying "DirTY! DirTY! DIRTY!".
"Book" is another new word and if you happen to be reading a book, she will point to the book and says it loud and clear "BOOK!". It certainly makes some things easier, for example, during meal times, she must have some sort of "entertainment" like books, pen and paper to draw or bottles with some little toys. So when she wants her storybooks or notebook for drawing, she will say "BOOK!" so we know what she wants.
Another powerful word she learned recently is "DAK!". Initially we thought she was saying "duck" since she will verbalize it when a picture of a duck is shown to her. But she starts saying "DAK!" when we ask her if wants milk/food/sleep. Then we figured out there are actually two words here: DUCK and TIDAK. Tidak is "no" in Malay and she must have picked it up from my Indo maid. I wished she had picked up "boleh" instead cos now she knows how to strongly reject milk/food/sleep by saying "DAK!" and if you insist her to do what you want, she will go "DAK! DAK! DAK!"!
