Krithika in February 2006
February has gone past very quickly. So is Gowri's learnings. Gowri is fast picking up sentences and she is quite comfortable with Kannada and a few words of English.
She picked up the translation to BAALE HANNU as Banaaaaana. Also she earlier she used to just recognise Gandhi Taata on the Currency notes. Now she can pronounce GAANDHI TATHAAAA whenever she sees a currency note with the portrait of Gandhi Taata.
She has become so popular in the street, everybody says "Hi" to her when she is going for an evening walk. She has more friends than us in the neighbourhood.
Gowri has becoming very demanding. She nods her head BEKA BEKA for anything she wants and refuses with BEDA BEDA for anything she is not interested in.
Some more words that she has picked up in this month are -KACHHI (for choclate), AALA (for Milk), CHORRY (for sorry), TEE (for TV), DAACHI (for drakshi), PEN (for pen), DUDDU (for money), CHOO (for shoes), ABBOO (for injury)She is able to pick up the tone in which we are speaking to her, especially when I'm scolding her, she comes with a sobbing face to kiss me to pacify the anger. Her ability to understand the tone is so high, she doesn't bother to respond in the same way when her mom scolds her.
Whenever we walk past her school, she recognises the school as CHOOL. When further asked what are you going to do here, she promptly responds PAATA to me and AATA to her mother respectively.
Pinky still seems to be her favourite pass time while she massages the neck whenever feels like meeting PINKY
Gowri has become more proactive to same situations, for which she used to be reactive a few months ago. SHe points out at AUTOs, BUSes, AEROPLANES whenever she sees them. Earlier we used to ask where is bus ? or where is auto for her to point out the vehicle. She can also recognise the different owners of the 4 vehicles that are parked in our premises.
The best of all is her pronounciation of our names - KANYAANI and BADDHI