a few more milestones

it took 3 days to completely wean alan, and he slept through the night (from 10.30pm to 8am) on the 3rd night, and has been able to sleep through the whole night till 8 or 9 the next morning ever since;

a few more words added to his vocabulary: "lanyard", "作者" (pronounce "zuo zhe", meaning "author" or "writer" in mandarin), and i think there're more but i can't recall right now - will add to the list later.

unfortunately though, we have a fever today.  :.(  i'm not sure whether it's because of the weaning, or that he's growing a new teeth, or what else.

please get well, dear baby alan!

bald bald bald

we went to the hair salon yesterday, and have alan's head shaved!  how cute he looks!

it's a chinese tradition to shave newborn babies head several times - when they turned one month, one year, and any other time you want.  it is said that they will grow better hair after shavings.  true or not, i have no idea.

but alan no longer looks like a baby with a bald head.  he looks a toddler.

bryan missed alan's baby hair, though.  he kept going on and on about it last night.

15 months milestones

my dear boy has added a few more words to his vocabulary.

"a yi" - "aunt" in mandarin;
"duo xie" - "thanks" in cantonese;
"bye bye" - that's the same in all three languages, mandarin, cantonese and english.

and he's now growing his 9th teeth.

14 months milestones

time to record a few milestones of baby alan:

able to walk by himself by a bit over 14 months (and that's bryan in the background video taping him walking for the first time on the night of 28th of april)

added a few more words to his vocabulary

"ya" (which is "duck" in mandarin), and 

"wolf", which he can pronounce very well and enjoys saying very much.  he also learnt to say "lion", although pronunciation is still baby-like and he only says this word occasionally.  did i mention that he could say "tiger" as well in earlier posts?