Gabby's Child Talks (4)

Gabby loves dogs. One day when they were riding bicycles in the community they met another family who was taking a walk with their dogs. Gabby was excited to see the dogs. “Hi, Doggy! What’s your name?” asked Gabby. All the people laughed.

Gabby loves to read. If she sees animals in a book, she will say the big animal is Mommy and the small one is the baby. If there are two small animals, she will say the other small one is the sister. If there are two big animals, she will say the other big one is Daddy. One day Mommy was reading a book to Gabby. On one page there were some dogs and one pig. Pointing to the dogs, Gabby said, “This is Mommy, this is Daddy, this is Sister, and this is Gabby.” There was still one dog left without a person related to it. After thinking for a little while, Gabby pointed to that dog and said, “This is Auntie!”

Gabby loves to color. She is very diligent when she is coloring a picture. One day she was coloring pictures when Mommy was cooking. “Mommy, I am drawing dinosaurs.” Mommy walked over to see the picture she was coloring. It was a picture of two cute dinosaurs. Gabby was coloring it with pink. Mommy was amazed to see Gabby drew all the color inside the lines. “Good job!” Mommy said. “This is Sister, and this is Gabby!” Gabby said, pointing to the dinosaurs. The two dinosaurs were the same size and didn’t look like Mommy and Baby. So they were sisters.

Gabby is good at identifying objects. Some objects in her coloring book are not easy for Mommy to tell, but Gabby can tell Mommy what they are. One day Gabby wanted to eat watermelon. Mommy took out the watermelon from the refrigerator. Then she used a spoon to scoop some watermelon for Gabby. Gabby watched while Mommy was doing that. “A giraffe!” Gabby said, pointing to the watermelon. “Is there a giraffe on the watermelon?” Mommy and Rebecca were puzzled, but soon they agreed after they saw what Gabby was pointing to. On the watermelon, there were some brownish scars. One of them was long shaped and did look like a giraffe.