தம்பியா தங்கச்சியா?

C is quite excited about the baby. Both Granma and D tell her that the baby is going to a boy. So, whenever we ask her, “what she wants?” she would say “தங்கச்சி” 

However, when she comes to me, I tell her that the baby is going to be girl and she promptly changes her stance to “தம்பி”

These days, tho, she does not want to get into the ‘controversy’ and just says that it is a ‘baby’ and “she wants a baby”, etc.

We have been trying to teach C to share her toys. One of our often repeated statements is “She/he will keep this for sometime; play with it; and then she/he would give it to Chantel”. C typically reluctantly agrees. Yesterday she tells me: “Amma is keeping the baby in her stomach for some time; then she would give it to Chantel!”