the bean defies mummy

for some weird reason, the bean has decided that she would rather not say the word green anymore.

lately (past 3 days or so), whenever i point at something that's green and ask her what colour it is, she would mumble something that sounds like "yellow" (a much garbled "grau grau" sound). and one time, she even made an annoyed "tsk" sound before ignoring me.

this comes after she kept blissfully saying "gweeeeeeeeen" for a few days. i wonder why she's turned off "green" and if she's turned off more from the questions about the colour.

she would, however, happily tell me the name of (most) any other colour: purple, red, blue, on occasion even yellow. she can't pronounce orange yet; i just accept whatever utterance she gives me even if it sounds nothing like it.

btw, a note on poop. lately, she has decided that if she is too busy watching tv or playing with her toys, then she would prefer to say no to the potty and poop in her nappy! it's happened at least twice in 2 weeks.

just 2 days ago she was fidgeting whilst playing with her peg board, so i told her i would get the potty to her. she made a sound of protest but kept focused on her activity. when i came back to her with her potty i made a perfunctory "do you want to sit on your potty?" to which she replied, "no."

my rejoinder was "of course you'd say that" and proceeded to put her on it nonetheless.

her po po, who is visiting us at the moment, laughed and said that the bean had nodded her head to the same question when she asked her a minute ago though.

anyhow, even though she told me "no", the bean did very successfully fill the entire potty - whilst playing with her peg board game.

my mom said that the bean's asserting her will now and to brace myself for more protests, confrontations and back-talks.

sigh...the terrible 2s have really begun.