Night Out - TST

禮拜天晚上，去尖沙嘴看夜景去囉。

School Trip - Botanical Garden

Off we go to the botanical garden this time, but how funny we see more animals than flowers in the botanical garden in Hong Kong?!!

Imagined Train

didi愛上火車之後，就愛把書排成一排然後一直說 chu chu train，還會推來推去，推遠一點後還會說bye bye...，玩具果然不用多，只要有想像力，任何東西都可以變玩具。

Fun Packed Weekend

We all had so much fun this past weekend. Blue sky and white cloud make a perfect summer weekend, but it was so hot, we waited until around 4pm before we headed outside.


We went to visit Peilin and her little girl Christie. Christie has grown so much and now speaks very well! She is a confident toddler with joy and I think Peilin and Iain have done a great job in raising this adorable one.


Christie made sure I take another one from the back while didi looks very puzzled, ha!


Peilin now runs a Mandarin School for kids from 2 to 12 in Sai Kung, and this is a perfect fit for her teaching and linguistic background. didi was so happy when he was there, so hard to drag him out for dinner. If any of you are interested in sending kids to Mandarin lessons, make sure you check out Peilin's school first.

http://www.jumpstartmlc.com/

On Sunday, we met up with grandpa and went to Mega Box in which there is a nice section for kids to run around with joy. There are slides and this platform in the shape of honeycomb where kids jumps up and down. You can see didi joins the party straight away without any hesitation!

Bad Hair Day?

Bad hair day? haha, I think it is about time didi gets his second professional hair cut from the uncle of the Shanghai barber shop.

最愛系列之banana!

Need I say more? didi太愛吃香蕉了，所以英文banana榮登他會說的水果名榜首，yoyo家族的香蕉哥哥應該會甚感欣慰。

不管肚子飽不飽，看到香蕉的didi可以一個人吃掉一大條，我說的是L號的那種喔，從來不會對banana say no。

至於戒奶嘴這件事，第二天就破功，到了睡午覺時十分的煩躁不安無法入睡，嘴巴的吸允狀讓maMi覺得自己太過殘忍，忍不住又給他了...現在「嘴嘴」依然是上床睡覺的代名詞。

Car Lover

Car Lover, uploaded by maMi.

What can I say? This little one loves cars so much, look at that smile on his face! A big happy laugh cracks up the second we put him in the driver's seat!

When we put him in his car seat in the back, he looks at cars passing by and keeps says "car, car, car" as if he is counting how many of them have gone passing by. maMi cannot wait to hear didi say"taxi", "bus" and "van"!

最愛系列之AFV

大概在didi才七、八個月時，maMi就介紹他看maMi最愛看的America's Funniest Home Video這個電視節目，那個時候還是「一舊飯」的didi就已經相當具備幽默感，在該笑的笑點上都會呵呵笑呢。最近這個節目改在禮拜天晚上播出，didi似乎記得這個他「童年」時看過的節目，一看到節目播出就興奮到個不行，廣告時段一出來還會捨不得的小發脾氣，maMi還要一直按奈他說「wait, it will be back」。

看節目的時候，這小子還會適時的加上配音「唉呀」、「oh-o」，積哩瓜拉鬼叫亂笑也少不了。maMi現在可以斷定小子的幽默感一流、選電視節目的品味和maMi也著實差不多，但小擔心AFV裡面的意外鏡頭會不會成為錯誤示範，還有...這節目可以培養小朋友產生同情心嗎？當媽的還真是什麼都能操心一番啊......

戒奶嘴

對寶寶來說，戒奶嘴這回事不曉得有沒有像大人戒菸那樣難「改」，不過就今晚來說，首日的成績似乎不錯。

刷完牙之後，maMi直接跳過到廚房去拿奶嘴這件事，didi似乎覺得睡前routine尚未完成，拖著maMi的手往maMi的書桌上面移動，嘴裏面模糊不清的嘟嚷著類似「嘴嘴」的聲音，maMi當下決定裝糊塗，假裝聽不懂，小傢伙並沒有太大的堅持，在房間裡晃前晃後之後又好像大夢初醒，拖著maMi的手去開門，門打開後直接往廚房進攻。

本來以為他又要喊「嘴嘴」，但看不到「嘴嘴」之後他也似乎沒有太大的堅持，看到水瓶的maMi於是施展打蛇隨棍上的招數，一邊問「do you want some water」，一邊找個杯子倒水，就這樣母子倆你一口、我一口開懷暢飲了兩杯開水後，didi滿意的帶maMi回房間睡覺。

就這樣，關了燈，不看書的說了睡前故事後，didi慢慢的睡去，雖然嘴巴有吸允的動作，但也沒有煩躁不安感，沒多久就睡著了。往後「嘴嘴」這兩個字將會在maMi口中消失，希望也能很快在didi的腦海裡刪除！

chu chu train

Boys are always in love with cars and all sorts of vehicles, aren't they? Whenever didi sees toy cars of any sort, he would just play with it for as long as he likes and if you try to take them away from him, he would put up a fight and won't let them go easily.

Today, on our way home from school the KCR train passed us by in the car park and didi said "chu chu train" gently. I was so happy because I think this little one actually says and knows a lot more things than I think. So, speech delayed or not, I know I need not to worry...he is just taking his time in growing up.

This photo on the left is very blur but didi was so cute that I cannot just keep this one to myself. We attended a Cantonese playgroup the other day and one of the songs was 蝴蝶蝴蝶真美麗, one of my old time favourite too! didi was the blue butterfly and he was so adorable I could eat him right up! hee hee

Press the letter that sounds like...

This past week, didi has been saying all these new words and started to echo back what I say to him more often, which are all very encouraging signs. Apart from his first action word "go", and his two new "accident" impressions - "aiya" and "o-oh" which he absolutely loves, he says "OK" quite often and now "No" is starting to come out of his mouth...a big "O-Oh" for maMi!

Another game we like to play with didi is something that we have learned from the Elmo Alphabet Bus, which is a electronic interactive toy to help kids learn new word and alphabets. I think he remembers the instruction "Press the letter that sounds like...", after we have said it, he will say "Ka" and we would all laugh, it really is very funny. I can't wait to have a real conversation with him but at this stage, this is amusing enough. =D

I also love the idea that he is now less aggressive towards other kids, which I was quite concerned with before. I think didi has grasped the idea of "sharing" and feels more at ease while other kids are around. However, we start to let him go to a Cantonese playgroup two days a week to prepare him for the school life in September. Some kids there are still very "territorial", who would just scream and attack while fighting for toys... didi won't initiate any attack himself but while attacked, he would scream and grab too. I know this is only fair because a kid has to learn how to protect himself and while his vocabularies are still limited, and fighting back seems like the only logical way he would resort to. He is probably just standing up for himself by doing so. I just hope seeing other kids doing this again won't make him regress to the appalling behaviour that maMi was terrified of before.

In the picture, didi was sitting on grandpa's lap and was "acting" surprised while maMi snapped the shot. What a cutie! Oh...yes and he is MINE! hahaha

Going to school in September

We have finally found a school for didi. He will be going to school when he turns 2 in September everyeay for three hours. The original idea was to let him enter school when he turns three next year but we changed our mind hoping that sending him to school early will help him with his speech development.

We only started looking for a school about 3 months back while most parents had done so in last November. The first school we applied has suddenly become extremely poplular in the past two years and his counsin Jovi goes to that one. After two attempts of interviews, the school decided not to take him on. I suppose they want older boys who are relatively more mature in a classroom situation compared to kids who were born later in the year, someone like didi. We then tried a different school which is just next door to Jovi's school and got a confirmed place for him just on Thursday. Dadi and I went to the Parents' Meeting this morning. daDi seems very pleased with the school as he thinks not only the staff and teachers there are nice, the school also offers better support in terms of the building, amenities and teaching resources compared to the playgroup didi is attenting right now. I agree with him. I really hope didi will be happy there.

That will be a new chapter for didi as he will be entering the proper local scholl system where Cantonese will be the medium of teaching and I hope he can then quickly pick up his Cantonese as so far I haven't heard him say a word of Cantonese yet.

I am so glad to see his language skills improving everyday too. It looks like he understands more than I think. Before, I had to use gesture to give him hints on stuff that I want him to do, these days, I can just say "go wash hands" and he'd head towards the bathroom! His first action word "Go" has emerged and I am sure he will soon be a little chatter box with words meaningful to us adults!

最怕系列之媽媽生氣

如果要說didi最怕聽到的一句話，目前應該是「馬麻生氣」。

有一次換尿片，didi硬是不聽話的扭來扭去，maMi累到個不行，於是忍不住打他的小屁屁，然後大聲說，「馬麻生氣」。小子終於知道要聽話，聲淚俱下之餘也肯乖乖躺好，之後每次maMi幫他換褲褲也不敢造次。

現在只要一調皮，「馬麻生氣」咒語一出現，小子就會表演硬擠眼淚這招搞笑戲法，不曉得是真的想裝哭搏同情省被罵，還是在走諧星路線，讓人好氣又好笑，好小子，算你厲害。


didi參加旻澔哥哥的生日party，小丑哥哥還送他一個小狗氣球喔

Let him be who he is

Didi will be 1Y9M by tomorrow, just 2 more months to go before we celebrate his 2^nd birthday. Although he is still a guy of not-so-many-words, maMi does see improvements in his vocabularies and compression skill. He is so in love with the expressions “oh-oh” and “ai-ya”, sometimes he pretends to be clumsy so that he will get an opportunity to say them. He would drop his toys on purpose and says “ai-ya”, I think that’s cute but when he pretends to fall over and say “oh-oh”, that’s not so funny if he does that repeatedly.

He can obviously understand instructions such as:
“Give me/dadi a kiss”
“Give this to mami/jiejie/dadi.” He knows jie jie is usually in the Kitchen and dadi is usually in the study so he just heads directly to these two places after he got this instruction.
“Close/Open the door”
“Sit down and put socks/shoes on”
“Put this/toys away”

Didi went to another interview for pre-nursery school on Friday and this time it looks pretty promising because the teacher was actually quite positive about didi’s behavior and I think that’s more reasonable for a kid his age. He is an explorer and that's perfectly normal for him to investigate places he visit. After all, how could you really expect a 1.5 year old toddler to sit and listen all the time without wondering around? Let kids be kids and I think I can wait for him to grow up in his own pace, because a person can only a kid once!