I had a pleasant surprised when baby Clarisse managed to call out ‘poh poh’ (grandma) today. Too bad, my mom wasn’t here when it happened. I told her about it and she hopes to hear it soon.

Lately, baby Clarisse is more and more willing to call papa and mama. Everyone in the family is trying their best to persuade baby Clarisse to call them. Unfortunately, none of them managed to do so. Maybe they are trying to hard and also baby Clarisse is shy.

Baby Clarisse gave me the most wonderful Mother’s day present last week. I said to her upclose “I’d be happy if you could just call me Mama’ and I got my wish. The clearest and most accurate sounding ‘Mama’ I’ve heard her call so far.