13 and 14 months.

Sorry folks... we have been travelling so not much updates but at least photos are up on flickr on our trip to Humen/HK!

Some recent developments:
- My two top front teeth are out and I am spotting another two below! Tally is now 6! Now i can BITE! (Mami being the first 'test' subject)

- I am eating adult food now and I enjoy buffets!

- I am saying a few words: flower, ball, tree, laolao, byebye, ahro (hello)... I call a doggie 'woahwoah' and I can sort of sing the last words of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" ('tar'-star, 'ah'-are) with abit of 'action'.

- I can relate picture of objects with the real thing, and see the similarity in two same pictures (i.e. pointing to picture of ladybug and pointing to the ladybug on my bib).

- I can point to my family and friends when their names are called.

- I can climb up the stairs (but not down) and walk when supported.

- Finally i learnt that 'kiss' is not to knock others with my forehead but plant my lips on them! And i will kiss anyone!

- I ask for help by giving others the object and pulling their hand. Sometimes, if Mami happens to be sleeping, i may need to tap tap her face too.

Finally, a post from Dadi!

Observations of The Kiddo Dec09-Jan10

The Wife maintains a blog for the kid. in fact she does a pretty good job at it and i've just been plain lazy to contribute my observations. but of late, she'd grown to be more interactive and expressive....e.g.

• she's certainly not reserved in literally pointing out to you what she wants. she will also make short 2-syllabic 'commands' when she points
• she shakes her head and pushes item away when i get the wrong stuff for her
• she understands 'give' and of late will assert her refusal to give by shaking her head rigorously and spinning herself in circles (when she's seated)
  
• she pouts and frowns when i think she's thinking hard enuff
• she joins in the conversation, often exclaiming with outbursts of 'hahahas' & outstretched arms
• she does some imaginative play with her toys, 'talking' to them
• she treats everything with buttons as a phone (she used to just press n bite on them), placing them next to her ear and mumble to it
  
• she is proactive in getting us to play with/demo to her. sometimes when she can't get a desired reaction from her toys/wants our participation, she'd take our hand and place the toys in them (e.g there was this once when she took her tutu as a phone and stuffed it in my left ear)
• she crawls fast and explores new places a lot more
• she associates certain sounds to some animals - cow says, moo, sheep says baa, tiger& lions says hraarrr, cat says meoow, dog says woowoo
• she waves byebye (& the odd mumble of byebye when she remembers...tho she can't do flying kiss)
• she kisses by doing a forehead knock on us
  

i'd also like to think that she'd gotten more discerning and exhibits different behaviour when she's with either of us. for example......

• i'm the iphone guy & she'd come to me for her sesame st-on-the go kick. she no longer likes The Elmo Song...now she prefers Bert & Ernie's Lalala Song, Diana Krall's Everybody Song & The Pointer Sister's 12 Pinball Song
  
• i'm the carry-me-hi-hi guy & she'd try to get onto my shoulder when i carry her

but she's still pretty much the same in other ways.....

• she has only 2 grown teeth
• i hope she'd learn to stand and maybe totter around as she builds more confidence over the weeks.

12 months 3 weeks

I am 1 year old now!

Okie, maybe 1 year 3 weeks old (it is so hard to get Mami to update my blog!).

So what did i do on my birthday?

Mami made me a small elmo cake and i saw my first birthday candle! I also had some chicken rice which Dadi made and took photos with all my furry pals at home. After that, Mami and Dadi took me to the park and we blew bubbles (they blew bubbles and i chase after them la). It was a nice day with great sunshine and i get to spend it to the two people i love most: Mami and Dadi. Of course, i also had all my new presents to play with too! Mami said Dadi went crazy on Ebay. Not that i mind cos' i really love my new toys! Esp the table with singing Elmo!

Then on Sunday, we went on a picnic with Aunty Phyllis, Uncle Mark, Korkor Owen and Korkor Liam, as well as Aunty Wendy and Uncle Laurence. It was another nice day. Mami made me some more cupcakes and egg sandwich. I also had my first mashmellow from Aunty Phyllis! Wahh... sweet!!! After that i watched the two korkors played with bubbles and had fun trying to crawl to the tree and pick the flowers off it. It was another nice day... Aunty Phyllis was suggesting that we should do this more often, maybe next time at the beach. *nod nod* i think that will be really nice.

So...

Now that i am 1 year old has anything changed?


Not really!
Hahaha!

I still only have two teeth but Mami say she can see my top tooth is coming out. Hmm maybe that's why some nights i feel so uncomfortable and don't sleep well. But other than that, Mami said she is glad that i am beginning to sleep through the night! Well, i guess i am a big girl now, so have to TRY to be more independent. I still like to drink milk milk from Mami but sometimes i am just more interested to look at my toys, look out the window at the cars or do other stuff! Anyway, Mami will always be there. She say she is like my milk kiosk, or 7-11. Ah.. not sure what is that, but its good! I can self-serve too! Heh heh

These days i particularly enjoy listening to people talking and singing. I found that i can actually 'lalala' along with them and my body seems to move to the music beyond my control! Dadi thinks i am a groovy baby... well, i love grooving! Besides singing and dancing, I also like to listen to Mami make animal sounds, which i try to follow. I especially like the lion's roar. It goes like this.. "rroooooaaaaarrrrr". "moomoo" is another nice sound. It always makes me laugh. Nowadays, Mami will play "hunt for the animal" with me. She will say an animal name and then i had to go around the mat to look for them. I love pointing at 'zebra', 'elephant', 'monkey' and of course, 'lion' *rooarrrrr*. At night, i love to do some reading... sometimes i read on my own (Mami say she dont understand what i am saying but that's because she doesnt understand baby-lish) or i will bring the books to Mami or Dadi to read with me. Mami hopes i will enjoy reading as much as she does. Well, i do.. though i wish Mami will let me read HER books. Hmmm..

Okie... next week i will be seeing Korkor Aaron and Didi Andy when Aunty Angie and Uncle Max come for a visit. We will be celebrating Aaron korkor's birthday too! And hopefully, Mami wont get so lazy and update my blog soon! :P

11 months 3 weeks old

So sorry everyone for not blogging for such a long time! Mami has been lazy with updating even though "I" wanted to... (Avery has been really interested in grabbing Mami's laptop keyboard).

I am going to be 1 year old soon! This is an important time for baby because this is the first ever birthday and so that's special! I wonder what Mami and Dadi will do to celebrate this special day with me (Mami: Hmmmmmmmmmmm........). Small QQ came the week before and it was nice to see him again after so many months. I love to crawl to QQ's room to visit him because he also have a laptop and it is always on the floor where i can reach it! Yay! And he also have a PSP which i was eyeing. Hahaha. Dadi say i am a gadget girl. Yessireee... I love Dadi's iphone too because it has my favourite Elmo song on it. "la la lala la la lala Elmo song!" Then there are the sesame street podcasts on Dadi's macbook which are also very nice! I think i prefer these to watching the children's song vcds that nainai gave me. I am so in love with Elmo (Dadi: Then you will like your present. Heehee).

This month, Mami has been cooking up a storm for me. Some of the new things i have tried are, Cheesy Tuna and Pasta Gratin (I love cheese!), Pumpkin Risotto (*Smack lips*), Steam Egg with Chinese Mushroom (I ate it with rice!), Apple Crumble (Sweet!) and Chicken Pasta (Chicken is yummy!). There are others too but these are a few of my favourites. I think Mami has a new cookbook, that's why she is so hardworking. I like these more than i like porridge. Dadi say i eat like an 'ang moh'. Hmmm what's an 'ang moh'? Anyway, Mami say as long as i am eating well, it is okie already.

I am not sure if i've learnt much new things this month. I am still pooing in the toilet bowl and drinking from my straw cup. Mami got me a new straw cup but this is much harder to drink! I think it because the straw is longer. Anyway, i dont like changes. *sulk* Why can't i just keep to my old cup? Sometimes i can hold the cup and drink on my own but after that, i love to fling the cup around and watch the water dribble all over my table. Hahaha. But Mami doesn't like that very much. Oops. I am doing alot of standing, cruising, holding to squat and getting up but Dadi still ask me how come i am not walking. Well, let me just say that, i will walk when i am ready! Dont hurry me please.

I think Dadi will get more headache IF i am walking because i am so ready to let him chase after me while i go around and meddle with his stuff. Already he is always complaining about me pulling my books off the shelf (I love to count them as them fall down) and pressing the buttons on the PS3 and DVD player. Now my new target is trying to get to the kitchen! Dadi thinks he can stop me by putting the shopping trolley infront of it but that's not going to stop me for very long. ESP if i am walking. Hahaha. (Dadi: Nevermind.. i got a GATE already!).

I am still going to the playgroup and sometimes we meet my friends in the park. My friends are all older than me by a few months but i am taller than most of them! But of cos, i am also skinnier. Laolao seems to be abit upset with Mami for not making me fat fat... but then i think taller is better. Heh heh Dadi say he hopes that i will be taller than him but Mami say like that hard to find boyfriend. Dadi say i am too young for boyfriend. Hmmm...

Anyway... I am all excited thinking about my birthday, so much so that sometimes i wake up in the night and laugh to myself. Of cos' that means Mami will have to come tuck me in to sleep again. She wonders how come some days i can sleep through and some days i can't. Well, i can't explain it either. Sorry Mami! Well... hopefully i can sleep through and only wake up in the day. Dadi say Mami is very tired if i keep waking up at night. :/ Well.. i will try la.

Okie. That's all for now. When i write next, i will be one year old! Will tell everyone how my birthday goes.. :)

10 months 1 week old

This past month I've been very busy because I had alot of visitors coming to see me! We also went out quite a lot. Here's a picture of me with Dadi and Mami at the Tesselaar Tulip Festival. We went with Nainai, Zhorzhor and Gugu when they came to visit us for a week from Singapore. It was nice how suddenly i have so many people in the house to play with for the whole time. Nainai they all also went to see the Great Ocean Road and Philips Island but they didnt bring me along because i am still too young. Sigh. Mami promise that we will go when i am older. Actually its okie... there's always a next time. Anyway, Wabit Jiejie also came to visit me one day and she bought a bitbit bear for me! Now bitbit bear is my best friend and i love to munch on his ears. Heh heh. Aunty Kat also came by one weekend to see me. Mami says that Aunty Kat flies on big aeroplanes to many different countries. Wow... i wonder if next time i will also get to do that. The last visitor we had was Aunty Jenny and after she visited me, she invited us back to her place to play with Isaac again. Isaac also had his hair cut... like me!
Some of the new things i've learnt.
1) Letting go to stand on my own for a short while.
2) Sitting up from a lying down position
3) Crawling on my knees

I love to see Mami and Dadi's faces when i suddenly do new things. They always wonder if i have been practising at night. Speaking of night time, i think i am still driving Mami nuts because i will wake up 2-3 times during the night. She is wondering when will i stop that and just sleep through.. Hmm all in good time Mami! I think i am just busy 'learning' all night so my brain activity is just moving non-stop! Heh heh..

Oh oh before i forget, i must talk about the potty! Hahaha...Now i can sit on a toilet to poopoo!! Really! Dadi thinks that it is a big change from when i was just a tiny little infant. Dadi say i used to poo 6 to 7 times a day! Can you believe? I don't remember it at all! But apparently, once i even poo on Dadi and Mami just as they were cleaning me up from my previous mess! The poo came 'flying' out! Wah.. like some rocket like that. Hahaha! But now i am very guai la... At most i poo twice a day. Mami says i am like Dadi. Very regular. She ask me how come i always poo in the middle of my meals at lunch or dinner. Well, i don't know also. You know, when you have to go, you have to go. So now, whenever i feel a poopoo coming, i will do the 'ng-ng' sound and Mami will bring me to sit at the toilet bowl (of course i have my own special seat on top so that i don't fall down). Initially i was rather scared of it (sitting on a hole is new to me then!) but Mami sat with me (behind me actually) to get me used to it and now she don't have to anymore. I can sit by myself and once i am on it, i will 'ng-ng' and there! Poopoo! And if i dont have to poo, i will just put my hands around Mami to let her know i want to get up. Mami then show me how to wash and wipe hands. Dadi is very happy cos' he say i save alot of diapers. :)

When i turned 10 months old, Mami and Dadi cut my hair. Aiyo... I miss my fringe! I thought i used to look quite cool but now... Dadi say i look like "ah wang" (I don't know who) and quite 'doot doot'. :( Alot of aunties saw my photos said that i look nice because the 'slanted' hairstyle is trendy but.. but.. i still want my fringe back! I really didnt like to cut my hair and struggle alot. Mami say that's why now my hair is lopsided. Sigh... Why can't i keep my hair?

After the haircut, Mami and Dadi brought me to the Zoo... i guess they wanted me to forget about my hair cut. Heh heh. The zoo was quite nice. We had lunch there and Mami bought me a hat because the sun was shining so brightly. Luckily i put on sunblock or else i would have gotten sunburn! I saw quite a lot of animals at the zoo but halfway through i fell asleep (afternoon nap time mah). Dadi say nevermind because he signed up for membership at Friends Of The Zoo. It is free entry to all the Melbourne Zoos throughout the year! I think i will try to stay awake the next time we go. Today we went to Scienceworks which Mami says is abit like the Science Centre in Spore. Dadi wanted to see some Star Wars exhibition... Well, not very interesting for me because i cant really touch anything... maybe i will understand it if i am older.

Well, Gonggong and Laolao will be coming again this week and we will be having visitors again! It is spring time so the weather has been getting warmer so i get to go outside more often too! I wonder where will Dadi and Mami bring me next...!

9 months 1 week old

I am standing! Well sort of anyway. I can pull myself to stand and even started to cruise a little by holding on to the sofa (sometimes Mami will also hold my hands because there is only _that_ many sofa in the house). Mami likes to hold me by my waist and then let go to see if i can stand on my own. Sometimes she counts along before i fall laughingly into her arms (she hasn't let me fall on my bumbum yet.. heehee). The best i can do is 10secs! But i wobble alot too. I think i still cannot balance very well. Mami say nevermind.. maybe next month i will be able to. :)

I still only have two teeth but its okie because i can still chew and munch my food very well. Nowadays Mami don't have to puree my food already and i am having lots of fun munching through sugarless apple/cinnamon muffins...

and also lotsa other dishes like beef/veggie stew, pasta, couscous with soup and salmon/veggie porridge...
I love eating and usually finish up the whole bowl. My favourite is the yummy porridges, esp if Mami add meat to it (very sweet and nice to munch!). I think i am putting on weight but QQ say i look thinner. I think maybe because i am taller? I don't know but the nurse told Mami that i put on 500g over 1 month which is very good already.

This month, Dadi and Mami also brought me to the Botanical Gardens and it was the first time i sat on "Grass". Its green and prickly! Mami laughed and laughed because i didnt dare to move once i was sitting down. *sulk* But it felt so different from my mat and the floor at home!! Mami say she will have to bring me more often to sit on the grass so that i can get used to it. When the weather is warm, she will introduce me to "Sand" also... hmm *frown* i dont think i will like that very much either. :P Anyway, Mami/Dadi showed me alot of things and let me touch them.. like flower petals (nice!), tree bark (very rough), tree cone (weird)... But i dont think i will mind if they make me touch them again.. it has been quite.. ermm interesting... heh heh

After the nice weekend at the Botanical Gardens and just before nainai and ah zhor come to Melbourne with Winnie gugu, I fell sick. Mami and Dadi also dont know why but suddenly i had fever and was super cranky. Actually i dont really mind it because that means Mami and Dadi will carry me AT ONCE when i cry (heh) but it was HORRIBLE when both of them made me drink this "stuff"! Sometimes its pink, sometimes its orange. It taste abit sweet but... so WEIRD!! At first Mami use the spoon but i refused to drink it, thinking then Mami will stop forcing me (it usually works for food i don't like). BUT she didn't stop! She got Dadi to help and he try to put the stuff into my mouth while Mami carry me in her arms. I cried and sometimes i ended up choking and throwing up. I really really hate it! *sniff* I had to drink that every 6-8 hours for the last two days... No matter how much i cry and spit the stuff out, Mami and Dadi just continued giving it to me. Don't understand why they must be like that... but when it is over, they always end up just hugging me because i was so sad and crying so much. Of course i forgive them but doesn't mean i like drinking that stuff... sigh..

Mami say she hope that i won't fall sick again... well.. i hope so too.. yuck yuck YUCK!

8 months & 2 weeks old

It has been over 2 months since we have arrived here in Melbourne and during this time, my food journal has been growing. Right now, Mami don't need to puree most of my food anymore, just need to mash it up lightly and i will gum the rest on my own. My favourite food is still avocado but i am also enjoying the beef pasta and cheesy veggie stew that Mami has made for me. Sometimes Mami try to let me eat on my own with bits of cheese and bread. I can pick them up with my fingers but it is so hard to get them into my mouth! *grrr* So you can imagine that i am not a very happy baby when most of my food get crushed in my hand or fall to the floor. Luckily Mami is there to help me but i wish i can do it on my own!

This month Mami also introduced yohgurt to me and it tasted so funny! Eeeuuu... i don't quite like sour and yohgurt is so sour! Even after Mami mix it with fruits like bananas! Mami was quite sad that i didn't like yohgurt because she had to finish the rest for me (Dadi also didnt like it. heh heh heh). She was also very sad because i was giving her a hard time refusing to drink much water or milk from the sippy cup. *hrump* I don't see why i have to drink out of that "thing" when i am perfectly fine having milk milk with Mami. But Mami says i have to start learning to drink from a cup and also to drink milk (not Mami's) because when i am older, i wont be getting milk milk from Mami already. *sulk* So everyday she will keep showing me the cup and getting me to drink abit from it. But most of the time i just let the milk dribble out.. heh heh heh.. but i did 'drink' some when Mami fed me with toast soak in milk. Guess i really like bread huh? :D

This month I've learnt a few things and made a few friends. I have started to creep (leopard crawl) around the house and this is so much fun because sometimes Mami will chase after me shouting "No!" whenever i got close to the TV or bookshelf or table. I am not sure what "No!" means but it was really funny to see Mami's face when she comes around and carry me away. Sometimes i will do it a few more times just so i can see what Mami do. The other thing i enjoy doing is standing in my cot or by the sofa. Wow.. you can see alot of things when you are higher up! I also realize it is so much more fun to 'bounce bounce' on your feet than your bum! But i think i still need to practise a bit more because once i pull myself to stand up, i can't sit down on my own again! Hmmmm... a few times i even fell down in my cot or on the mat. *ouch*

When i am not busy moving around, i am busy with my toys. I finally realized what that little green thing can do on my toy toolbench! Now i can play with it all on my own for a while, pulling, sliding and pressing on the buttons. And i figured it all out on my own! Mami was very proud of me because i am not trying to put the toolbench into my mouth now (anyway, it was also too big). Sometimes Mami will play 'hide and seek' games with me using a little ball. Most time it is quite easy when she use 1 cup... but sometimes she used 2 and moved them around! That's confusing! But if she does it slowly, i can find my ball most of the time. Heh heh that is quite fun but i must really really concentrate alot!

Last week i've met a few friends of Mami's with their babies. I made friends with Miguel, and Kieran over lunch and Isabella, Ollie over playgroup. Their mummies are all very nice and baby Kieran and his Mami also came over last friday, and we all went out for a walk at QV market. It was very nice to meet with other babies but most time it is still just me, Mami and Dadi. Mami hopes that i will get to meet more friends soon so that i can have friends to play with next time. I hope so too... :)