mother-toddler bonding

just read on dr. ducan jefferson's blog that poor mother-toddler bonding was linked to teenager obesity, because these kids lacked a secured pattern of attachment, which may develop an unhealthy way of response to stress later in life (read his post here).

i must make sure this does not happen to us.

christmas 2012

the three generations of men, standing next to a musical santa claus, in the christmas evening of 2012.

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.

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!"