Friday, September 14th, 2007
Hmm I wonder where she get these genes
Last night I was reading stories to Fiona and Sebastian (Chinese storybooks, read in Cantonese). As usual, they have a million questions to ask regarding each page, especially Fiona. She has been asking WHY for the last month or so already. I don’t recall Sebastian started with the WHY stage until at least 6 months older than her.
One of the pages showed a pair of tigers. One tiger didn’t have ears, while the other didn’t have his tail — I promise, the story is not violent at all! Being the observant girl, Fiona pointed to the tiger and questioned (in English) “why he has no tail?” in which I answered, (in Cantonese) “maybe he was born without a tail.”
She was deep in thought for a moment. And then asked again. I answered again.
I thought everyone was ready, so I proceeded to turn to the next page. Fiona then turned the page back with a slight force, and said “LET MEEEEEE TALLLLLLLK” and then asked yet another (similar) question.
on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am:
ROFL!! She sounds like a pistol.
I have found that each child starts asking why a bit earlier.