firsts

[smittenbyu]

D consistently kept calling out (even in bad mood mode) "amma", "emma", "ma" for several hours today! Of course, she doesn't know that in Telugu (our mother tongue) it means mom. So, she probably didn't understand what all my excitement was about. yay!

And she is completely dazzled whenever I make clucking, whistling, clicking sounds, even when she is in a cranky mode.

We already got the jumperoo delivered and assembled. She was in heaven! She figured out how to spin about (or it just happened by chance) and she loved it. Hope she doesn't bore too quickly. We haven't put in the batteries yet. Will do that slowly over time. She napped so well. Why didn't we get this earlier?! Why did I procrastinate? I am glad we got it at amazon - they sent a note of it being shipped last night and it was here within 12 hours!!!

Speaking of deliveries... I hope that the UPS, USPS, FedEX, Delivery folks get extra pay for this season! My goodness they are lugging about cartloads of deliveries for each building!! Or at least a full body massage every week of the holiday season!

Comments

[pienin-kukka.livejournal.com]

Awwh! :D That's so cute!

You know, in Swedish (Jens's first language), 'amma' (as a verb) means 'to nurse, to breastfeed', and 'mamma' means 'mom'. :D And in old(ish) Finnish, the word for a mother is 'emo'. (Nowadays it's only used for animals, and humans have 'äiti'.) I find it awfully interesting to see how most languages in the world have chosen that kind of words - the first set of sounds that a child produces like that - to mean the baby's main caretaker. :)

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

I agree it's pretty neat that way. In Cantonese (and in other Chinese dialects), "mama" is mother, "baba" is father. We've been trying to get our daughter to say "dada" (for Daddy), but she just says mama, baba, and... kitty cat. o.O;; I told my husband that perhaps we should just get her to say baba since she already says that :-P

Smitha, did you sign up for Amazon Mom? It gives you 3 months of free Amazon Prime and you can even add these free months to your Prime account if you already have Prime :-)