Penny's vocabulary

Penny talks a lot. Sometimes she just has a running commentary going as she plays. That doesn't mean we understand much (any) of it, but she is starting to say a lot of words:

Thank you (da-doo) (she says this when you hand her something or hold the door open for her)

Bye bye

See you (I didn't realize we said this very much, but apparently we do)

See you (meaning cereal)

Okay!

Shoes (she sticks her lips out all the way for this word)

No

Daddy

Ball

Mao (Chinese for cat)

Hi

Hello (on the phone)

Xi xi (this means xi shou (wash hands), shua ya (brush teeth), and xi zao (take a shower))

Nine! (ding, especially when the elevator arrives)

Maine, as in, Maine Maine Maine (boing boing boing)

Dee dee (tickle tickle)

Ya ya (duckie in Chinese) This one is new today.

When football is on TV, she yells and cheers, no matter what the score or who's playing

She also laughs at the wrong times during movies. If someone gets injured or the world ends, Penny decides to laugh then.

And she can identify a lot of things when you ask her to point at them:

yazi (duck)

bizi (nose)

shetou (tongue) (although she gets this confused with toufa, which means hair. We're working on that one.)

zuiba (mouth)

duqi (bellybutton)

She's starting to obey commands:

Put your shoes in the box.

Go get your dolly/doggy and the stroller.

Ba ______ na gei Mama. (That means "Get______ and give it to Mama.")

She doesn't answer to her name or come when I ask her to. I could holler all day for her, but she doesn't even acknowledge hearing me.

She's really good at responding to questions, especially if the answer is no.

"Are you sleeping?" No

"Do you want some more Cheerios?" No

Good thing she always means it when she says it.