Mama, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I'm pasty white girl, married to seriously handsome Chinese man, with two kids (BBJ aged 2 and Siu Jeun age 6 mo.) I KNOW I'm more neurotic about teaching the kids Chinese than he is...mostly because he looks at us and sees White People...which, of course, forces White People Words to come out of his mouth. We do have one advantage - I am fluent in Cantonese. Still...that means that our daughter speaks pidgin CantoneseEnglish with a bad accent. *sigh* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come over to my blog, listed above. Every Tuesday I have "China Talk Tuesday" and talk about all things Chinese Culture. I'd love to see you over there, and we can compare notes on Cantonese speaking Children. (By the way, I think the words your son was saying were "pou pou" (pick up) and "bau bau" (i'm full). Just a guess...because those are the phrases that OUR Ma Ma uses with my two year old. ;-))