Mama

Mariana can say Mama as of today, much to the delight of her mother. It takes a little prompting but as we walk up the stairs in the morning to wake up Hilary, I ask Mariana if she wants to go see Mama and she says "Mama... Mama!". It's pretty great. Now we have to work on "Daddy". She refers to all animals at this point as "Da Da"- like the cat, the stuffed dog, the stuffed bear. What are you going to do, huh? I am an animal after all. In fact I'm the "Original Sexy Beast" if you remember what my Chinese students used to call me.