Chitter Chatter

Verity is becoming quite a talkative girl. She loves to call out to us and blabber.

She started out at 8 months by addressing us. Not surprising, her first words were 哥哥, since she adores Cavan. even though we always refer to Cavan as kor kor. Her fav call-out was "Catch 哥哥", as it was her fav game. She scored many points with us as her next few words were "Ah ma", "papa", "mama" and not forgetting "mum mum" since she was such a foodie.

But it was funny how she progressed to call Clem from "Papa" to "Ah pa". Whenever Clem appears, she would shriek "Ah Pa!" in a loud shrill voice. So hokkien! My mum said no one taught her to say that as they would also say papa or daddy.

I supposed she took the cue from how she addresses "ah ma" (grandma) and "ah gong" (grandpa which she pronounces as "ah gerng"). Even for Nancy, in tagalog, aunt is addressed as "Tita" but Verity would call her "Ah Ta". Maybe pre-fixing an "Ah" is a form of endearment for her.

It was funnier, cos she would blabber in her normal voice but if she were to say anything with "Ah", she would go falsetto and shriek the names in such loud shrill voice.

So ah-soh!