Cheeky you

(14 Dec 2007)
Cheeky you...

You are quite bilingual now. You can understand some questions put forth to you in english, chinese and teochew. Example, when we asked you "who is Jovann Teo?", you will pat your own chest proudly. Same when we asked you "Shei shi Zhang Han Ming?". Just today, Ah Ma showed us that you understand "wash hands" in chinese and teochew as well! You love washing hands..and flinging them dry and cleaning them on the towels. So once we say "wash hands", "xi shou" (chinese) or "shoi qiu" (teochew), you will rub your palms together happily.

When Ah Gong wants to bring you downstairs, he will tell you he needs to wear his shorts "cheng kou" (in teochew) and upon that comment you will zoom straight for the rack where his pants are and kept pointing at it urgently with all a lot of unintelligible noise until he puts on THAT pair that you are pointing at.

You understand that mommy's parrot at Ah Gong's place is called "bird bird" or "jio gu" (teochew for bird uncle hahaha). You like to enter the room to look at him though he don't exactly reciprocrate those feelings. :)

When asked "how old are you? (english)" or "Han Ming ji sui? (chinese)" or "Han Ming gui huay? *teochew)", you will point your index finger upwards with a loud "Nng!!" to indicate you are 1 yr old (plus). :P

You learn things fast too. Mommy has been washing your toothbrush under the running water before letting you hold. You absolutely love "brushing" your teeth, and happily move the toothbrush in and out of your mouth, not exactly in a brushing motion but its enough for me. Tonight, Mommy let you remove the toothbrush from the little sheep tooth brush holder yourself, and the first thing you do is hold it under the empty tap, waiting for the water to clean it first before putting into your mouth.

Mommy recently decided to teach you baby sign language coz I know you have been feeling very frustrated when you cannot expressed yourself. Knowing that boys also tends to be late in speaking, I am not worried about when you will eventually start talking. Right now, your vocab consists of "Dad", "Daddy", "mama", "mum mum" and "ah ma". sometimes "ah gng (ah gong)" too. Auntie June suggested I check out the website for how to sign, and that day (9 Dec), we started teaching you some words. To our surprise, when we said "milk milk" the next day, you did the sign for milk!!! so proud of you. Though it was 4 days more later that you start ASKING for milk using that sign. :)

You cheeky boy, for the past 2 mths you have been indicating that you wish to be put down into the bed whenever you feel I have carried you enough during sleepy time. Past few days, I have been putting you in bed, then lying down in our own bed beside your cot, with a big pillow separating us. Tonight, I was resting like this, waiting for you to fall asleep on your own, when I opened my eyes and saw you had crawled up and is now peeping from the edge of the pillow at Mommy. But when I said "Didn't I ask you to sleep?!!", you promptly dissolved into fits of giggles, fell into bed and buried your head on your pillow feigning sleep. Later, I heard movements again and squinted out from half closed eyelids only to see you peeping above the pillow at me. You didn't know I was looking at you and, still with eyes closed, I warned "Jovann Teo, sleep!". You fell into bed laughing again.

I Love you so much. :)

Mommy is on 2 days leave to accompany you for 2 days next week!!! So nice!!! :) :) :)

(some photos taken one Sunday afternoon when Mommy and Daddy trying to capture your rosy cheeks)