October Update

chloe looks so uncomfortable it is funny!

she is now able to stand up and even walk while holding on to some support.  she not only says "mama", "baba", but also "gege" (brother) now!  and she even waves "good-bye" occasionally.

alan put on chloe's top here and finding it funny, so he started dancing in front of a big mirror!

sit up

at 7.5 months, chloe is able to sit up by herself.  she can even pull herself into a standing position by pulling and holding on to... well... my cloth or my bra... lol

here she's chewing bryan's eye cream.

chloe's 5 months milestones

• chloe is able to army crawl at 5 months
• chloe is able to roll to her back and back to her tummy at 5 months
• chloe is able to say "mom mom" at 5 months
• and she smiles a LOT

tummy time for chloe

at 3.5 months, chloe is already able to roll on to her tummy.  here's chloe watching one of jane davenport's  videos on iPad.

since she learnt to roll on to her tummy yesterday, it's been the first thing she does when she wakes up every time today.  but as she's unable to roll back, she cries in frustration when she's tired.  so funny!

alan sings a song

alan can sing the whole song of "twinkle twinkle little star" and sings pretty well.

twinkle, twinkle, little star

how i wonder what you are

up above the world so high

like a diamond in the sky

twinkle, twinkle, little star

how i wonder what you are

i drew a portrait of him from this photo.  see it here.

alan's first school day

today was alan's first school day, and we took this photo in the morning before we head out.  he was happy about going to school and he kept on saying "qu shang xue" ("go to school" in mandarin).

this is our spiderman school bag, which alan had picked for himself.

we've just returned home as i'm writing.  teachers said that alan had been a very very good boy!  he was the first to finish lunch, ate double servings; and the first to sleep and slept for 1.5 hours, the longest among 4 other kids.  he didn't cry at all.  and when we went to pick him up, he didn't want to leave!

more photos to follow once i received them from the teacher.

fast developing language skills

a visit to a toy store just outside the supermarket.

only a day after my last post about him being able to say two syllable words, he spoke his first four syllable word, which was "qing wa wang zi" (the frog prince in cantonese).  and since then, he's been speaking almost everything.  he copies everything we say, and he now speak short sentences!

last night, we watched the "gongfu panda 2" trailer on youtube, and he kept on saying "gongfu panda", "gongfu panda", until he fell asleep...

by the way, he speaks a mix of english, mandarin and cantonese.

alan's toilet trained

i don't have a photo for this, but at 19 months of age, alan is officially toilet trained.

he is able to tell us in advance that he needs to wee or poo, and he is able to wait for us to quickly take him to the bathroom and take off his pants before he does the wee or poo.

well done, alan!

alan can draw a circle

omg!  alan is able to draw circles at barely 19.5 months of age!  

look at the above picture - the two dark ones on the left are what i drew, and alan follow suit, and drew the two smaller ones next to my circles, and all the rest!  

i don't know about other kids, but just the other day, my mom complained that i couldn't draw a circle at the age of 3, so i just think, "whoa!  alan is so much smarter than i!"

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!

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?

blowing and climbing

this picture was taken on 28th march, showing alan blowing a whistle and successfully.  i really should have posted this picture earlier.

he's become a lot more agile since turning one year of age.

he climbed into this plastic washbowl and sat there to play.

and into this cardboard bucket.  tricky.

apple

we were reading last night, and i as i pointed to an apple in the book and said the word, alan copied me and said "apple"!

a few milestones

by 11 months, alan can say "mama";

by 12 months, he can say "mama", "baba" (dad in madarin), "nai nai" (which meant both grandma and breast, and when alan says it, he means the later), "mao" (cat in madarin) and "bird".

sometimes alan speaks in his sleep - he says "ma ma" in such a sweet and soft voice!  i love it.

5 teeth and others

in the past months, alan has learnt to do the following:

• point at people and things with his index finger;
• ask you to pay attention to him or pick up things for him with his index finger and making the "ah, ah, er, er" sound;
• scream when he doesn't get what he wants, especially at his dad and parental grandma;
• pretend to poo - sometimes he tries so hard to make it look real that a drop of poo would be squeezed out;
• cover his face with a blanket to play hide and seek.

and right now he's growing his fifth teeth.

this afternoon, we're going to our 2nd early education class.  and we're getting a vaccination and our monthly health check, too.  alan didn't cry, didn't even blink his eyes during last vaccination, let's see if he can keep it up.

the hello guesture

alan learnt to do the "hello" gesture last night.

can you see that?  and that's grandma wearing a mask because she had a bit of a cough.

"hello, baby alan."  "hello, mommy." ...

here alan and his grandma were having a big laugh together!  ha ha ha ha!

first teeth

yesterday morning, 24 september 2010, alan's first teeth popped out!

he pulled my finger into his mouth to chew as usual, and yesterday, i felt something different, something sharp!

i'm still breastfeeding him, so i hope he doesn't bite...

alan's first word

yesterday, 16 september 2010, alan said his first word.

he said, "baobao, baobao", which meant "baby" in chinese.

we've been calling him "baobao" since his birth.

when will he say "mama"?