Dean says "Bye-bye"!!

Dean, who is now only 9 months old, has learnt to say "Bye-bye"!!

Chiung-Yi bought this ball from Car Boot Sale when he was very young and not able to crawl very well. Actually we don't remember how old he was then. However, when Chiung-Yi brought the ball home on that Sunday morning and showed him on the carpet of sitting room, he feared the ball which was rolling around on the ground so much that he crawled backwards to get away from it as much as he can and, of course, cried out loud.

After that, Chiung-Yi put the ball into a storage box and we plan to take it out someday, maybe one day he will enjoy playing the ball. But we don't know when he will be at that time.

We recently took the ball out and find that now he is not afraid of the ball anymore. Sometimes I find him pushing the ball and pushing the bottons and he seems to enjoy it. One day last week, which day I don't remember, when I was in the sitting room with him crawling on the ground as part of our daily routine after dinner, he suddenly said something sounds like "Bye-bye" in a small voice. I wasn't so sure but after a few days, he said that again.

I was happy but I didn't realise how important it is thus I didn't tell Chiung-Yi at the very moment. Last Saturday when we are both in the sitting room, he says "Bye-bye" again. Chiung-Yi was on top of the world because she soon realise that this is his first word!

We decided to play the BBC nursery rhymes CD everyday and see if he can sing one song or two someday. And now he seems to be able to hum a few notes!!

The ball from which he learns to say "Bye-bye": VTech Crawl and Learn Bright Lights Ball