OMG my jealousy of a baby who now understands short chats. *___* Someday, maybe!
No, in honesty I know he's understanding more and more. It's pretty awesome. He doesn't always listen, though.
One thing that I found was fascinating is that cartoon shorthand for animals is culturally specific. My friend's wife is Chinese and she was pregnant when I was as well and we were looking at baby clothes & stuff and it turned out she couldn't tell what the hell the cartoon animals were on the clothes. She'd be like, "...a bear?" and Mr. E and I and my friend would be all "No, see, the ears are on the side of the head! It's a monkey, OBVIOUSLY." And she was all, "If you say so. Side ears = monkey over here, riiiiiight." It is now astonishing to me that babies pick up on cartoon abstractions of animals as amazingly fast as they do.
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No, in honesty I know he's understanding more and more. It's pretty awesome. He doesn't always listen, though.
One thing that I found was fascinating is that cartoon shorthand for animals is culturally specific. My friend's wife is Chinese and she was pregnant when I was as well and we were looking at baby clothes & stuff and it turned out she couldn't tell what the hell the cartoon animals were on the clothes. She'd be like, "...a bear?" and Mr. E and I and my friend would be all "No, see, the ears are on the side of the head! It's a monkey, OBVIOUSLY." And she was all, "If you say so. Side ears = monkey over here, riiiiiight." It is now astonishing to me that babies pick up on cartoon abstractions of animals as amazingly fast as they do.