Little shit

So Mr poor me, I'm just 13 months old was screaming his tits off at 9:30 at night, which he does, but being over the whole night time feeding, tonight I decided he could live with just a drink of water which he took a sip of and then rejected. Well, after considerable more screaming I gave in and made milk, but he would not take the bottle. Eventually I said to him "take it, it's milk" and immediately the tanty stopped and he took the bottle. There was perfect evidence that the little shit can understand what we say, it's just that when we say "go to sleep" he chooses not to comply.