HK Ocean Park

we went to the hk ocean park in september, and i forgot to record it here.  it was a very nice day.

alan can say the names of most of the animals, like "monkey", "penguin", "dolphin", "panda"... all those two syllable words.  he just copies whatever we say!  so cute!

two syllable words

over the last months, alan has learnt to speak many many two syllable words - real words, not just ones he makes up himself (and he keeps making up words, too, multiple syllable words in that case).  he copies everything we say!  it's really funny!

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!"

lucy's 29th birthday

it was my birthday last wednesday, 28th Sept and to my big surprise, bryan got me a kindle!  whoa!  i'd been wanting to get a kindle ever since its release like almost 2 years ago.

alan grabbed the knife with lightening speed and tried to cut my cake.  but i, the birthday girl, had to do the first cute!

here's alan enjoying mom's birthday cake.  he loved it!

and after he made a mess on his face, everyone wanted to have a picture with him.

as far as i could remember, this was the first time i spent my birthday with my mom.  

first time swimmer

last weekend, we went to the suburb of nansha, 1.5 hours drive from guangzhou (or canton) cbd, to visit my dad for the mid-autumn festival.  and on sunday, grandpa drove us to this newly opened five-star hotel, where we dived in to this beautiful pool!

at just a bit over 18 months, alan went swimming for the first time in his life!  hooray!  he really enjoyed it!

look how happy alan is!

and what was dad pointing at with this funny face?

father & son