I am using my blog as a diary of sorts. I need to document things here so that I can look at them in the future and know when something happened, this is why I’ll be writing a whole lot of Andrea’s milestones here.
I’ve written about her words in the past and now I will add to that list
- nana - for banana
- mah ki - for monkey
- mama/mimi/mami - for mommy
- dada - for daddy
- nyinyi - for Nyingnying (my sister)
- Bapi -for my Aunt (whom we call Abap)
- Nyanya - for Nanay (my grandmother)
- Wowa - for wowa
- Wowo - for wowo
- Ttay - for tatay
- ahma - for grandma
- ahney - for Barney
- yanzee - for chimpanzee
- mik - for milk
- dh gee - for doggie
- Umbehla - for umbrella
- Dowa - for Dora
- No, no, no - for No
- Haaaay - for Hi
- Mu - for moon
- Mayi - for Mary
- Cahb - for Crab
- Faweh - for Flower
- Buk - for Book
- Andea - for Andrea
- Baboh - for bubbles
- Mo - for more
- No Mo - for No More
- Bah - for Bath
- Bo - for ball
- Babol - for Basketball
- Digdig - for Tigidig (she says this when she rides on Ruy’s tummy pretending that Ruy’s a horse…hahaha)
- Moo (sound of the cow)
- Qack Qack (sound of the duck — this is accompanied by the arm movement of course!)
- Ming Ming (sound of the cat)
- Ahf - (sound of the dog)
- tik tok - for tik tok (sound of the clock)
- teet - for tweet tweet (sound of the bird)



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