Juan Or's Vocabulary

Juan Or's vocabulary is still very limited - most of the words are his baby language. Baby words that Mommy normally hear from him are:

• Noi, noi (while pointing his finger at something)
• Oookk (while pointing his finger at something)
• A-de
• A-be
• Ai-yai-yai
• Ne-neh (sounds like he's asking for milk or the breast, yet if Mommy gives him, he will protest!)
• Tu-kok, tu-kok

Juan Or also knows how to say "Papa" and "Mama" but he will only say it when he is in desperation.

Only in one occasion did Mommy hear Juan Or calling his Great-grandmother "A-tok" (in Hainanese language) and his grandmother "Po-po". Then other time, Brother-in-law was holding Juan Or in his arms, pointed to a moth and taught Juan Or how to say "moth". Juan Or said,"Moh".

Recently also, Juan Or showed signs of tiredness, so Mommy took him in the arms to put him into the spring cot. Juan Or saw his comfort towel hanging nearby and so pointed at the towel saying,"Tow." Mommy was surprised to hear it considering that Mommy hadn't mentioned any 'towel' word just before that. So looks like Juan Or probably knows most of the object words we speak, only thing is that he will only say it when he wants to!