Reuben has started calling me "Mama" when he was about 13.5 months. But I would want him to call me Mommy specifically so that he will not be confused with "Mm-Mm" which means Eating and "Ma-ma" which means Grandma. At about 19 months, Reuben started calling me Mommy. He does it with such gentleness, really melts my heart. In the video clip, you'll hear him saying "Eddie" which means Elephant. He said that because I was video recording him using my handphone and there was a sticker of a zebra on my phone. He spotted that when I was filming him and he said Eddie. In fact, at this age, he's applying the rule of generalisation. Every creature that is big and has 4 legs is an Eddie to him. He sees zebra, he calls them Eddie. He calls the hippopotamus Eddie. The giraffe is an Eddie too. But strangely, he recognises dogs and cats and rabbits. And when he sees a tiger or a lion, he says Roar. He loves the zoo and that's where we are going tomorrow morning to celebrate our Deepavali, to look at his Eddies. :)
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