Outside the nursery, after I placed Yee at the child-seat, she pointed at something and said, "an...man.." I looked at the direction where she pointed and saw a clothing rack full of towels. I thought she was saying towel in Japanese (which I do not know). Then I saw the bell on the bicycle that was a few step away. The bell was in a shape of a famous Japanese cartoon character, ”あんぱんまん” (anpanman). そですね... （I see...)
7pm
Yee and I have been playing "endearing name calling" since on our ride home. Yee would call "Mummy" and each time I would reply with a different names - "Koh Yee", "イーちゃん", "小艺", "sweetie", "sweetheart", etc. After dinner, I was washing the dishes and Yee started to call "Mummy" again, after replying her with different names, I said, "Do you want to help me to wash the dishes?" "No!" Yee replied promptly. I was surprised and wonder if she really understand what I had said. A while later, we played the game again. Again, after replying Yee with different endearing names, I added, "Do you want to mop the floor?" Yee looked at me and shook her head. Wow ... my little girl can understand my words more than I expected.
10pm
At bedtime, as I was lying on the bed, Yee held my hands and stood up. She said, "sh ...shh ... fal... dow..." and fell on the bed. She repeatedly it many times. After a while, I realized that she was singing, "Ashes, ashes, we all fall down" - which is from one of Yee's fave songs - Ring-around-the-rosie". She did that for a good 20 minutes before she finally stopped.
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