Wednesday, November 28, 2007

 

The mystery of the "Pa-poose"

Recently, Morgan's becoming more interested in more than a few words. He is really keen on knowing and naming objects, animals and people. Thanks to 婆 婆 for freighting those Mandarin flashcards over as they came in real handy on a rainy day! Now he can respond to naming and pointing to various parts of the body like the nose, the eye, the ear, the mouth ... but also the 眉 毛 mei mao or eyebrow which he repeatedly touched and called out to while having his bath! If you ask him to point out family members to you, he'd name his daddy, mummy, his Welsh grandparents - tadcu and mamgu, and his Singapore grandparents - 婆 婆 po po and 公 公 gong gong. Actually he's just learned to say Morgan today for the first time because he's always called himself Baby!

Lately Morgan is obsessed with a new word which sounds like "pa-poose" when he says it. And he goes around saying "pa-poose, pa-poose!" for the whole week, which left me to wonder - what sort of animal or thing is this "pa-poose"? I looked through his animal toys, books and stuff and tried to see if anything matched the name. Then I thought, I don't know any animal vaguely by that name - he probably meant something else! So I looked up in wikipedia and found this, which isn't helpful is it!?? I mean Morgan can't know that - it's not even a real word!
FINALLY - the answer dawned on me yesterday morning. While I was seated in pensive mode on the throne, a little voice rushed in and interrupted my thoughts. It was Morgan holding a bottle of soap water - and calling out "papoose, papoose!". I then realised that he wanted me to blow him BUBBLES!
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