You Lift Me Up

For most of her life C-bao has had to tolerate being suddenly lifted into the air by her older sister K-bao and swung around like a rag doll.

Occasionally, C-Pop is an accomplice, singing along to give K-bao a rhythm to swing to. The song below is the old Taiwanese folk tune GeGeBaBa, which K-bao learned at a young age herself.

Carbs

Here is C-bao enjoying her onion-oil noodles once again. Fruits, vegetables and meat C-bao can do without, but carbs? All day, every day.

Equinophilia

A couple of weeks we ago we showed C-bao the video of her riding a pony at Lemos Farm. This turned out to be a mistake. Since then, whenever she sees C-Pop, she starts yelling Ma! Ma! 馬!馬! or Horse! Horse!) to strongarm him into showing her the video again. 

And who could resist? Just look at the big smile and the declarations of "Yay!" and "Good job!" from the little one once the video starts playing. And as you can see below, watching the video once is not enough (Hai yao! More!). She also likes to demonstrate the act of riding by rocking back and forth and saying "Qi! Qi" (Ride! Ride!). 

By the way, other videos of kids riding ponies also hold her interest, to the point that C-Pop is on the verge of making a Youtube playlist just of pony riding. He also tested her interest in watching other animal videos. Generally after a few seconds, C-bao looks disgustedly at C-Pop, shakes her head, and says Ma! Ma!

Eyes Ears Nose Mouth

C-bao has become a regular chatterbox and is now generally able to understand most things her parents tell her - though at times she pretends not to hear or comprehend some of the more annoying commands (e.g. "Don't play with the toilet").

In those moments she will, with a huge, impish grin on her face, ignore whatever is being said and plunge forward with her mischief, though not without looking back with a sly look to make sure her naughtiness is being observed.

In general, though, C-bao is fairly compliant with parental directives, and will indulge her folks when asked to smile, sit down or come here. She also is able to express herself reasonably clearly - bao-bao (pick me up), poo-poo (which she says excitedly and repeatedly while she points at her diaper), xie xie (thank you), yao-yao (I want, I want), roof-roof (whenever she sees a dog on the street), etc.

Here she demonstrates her command of her various body parts and happily points out her appendages (or raises them, as appropriate).