17-Months-Old

When I looked at this photo, I was like "wow, my boy grown up so much liao!!!".

This will be the last few digital scrapbook layouts that I will scrap both my kids. I have decided to drop digital scrapbooking but focus on paper scrapbooking. I find more fascinated on paper scrapbooking because I get to 'see' and "tough" my work. Although my work is very simple and 'lau beh", I get a sense of satisfaction every time I completed 1 page. Like one of my pal said:" WS, this is priceless! When you kids grow up, they will appreciate it one day!".

Back to Sean. My manja boy turned 17 months 1+ weeks ago. At 17 months:

Vital Stats:
Height: Last measure in June was at 89cm. Should be taller as I see his PJ pants is getting shorter.
Weight: I don't expect much jump than 12.7kg.
Teeth: 12 in total (6 top & 6 bottom)

Dietary:-
Milk: 3x per day at 7oz each feeding
Meal: porridge (lunch) + rice(dinner) + whenever we eat!
Snack: fruit, baby + adult biscuit + junk food!!!
Water: He have no problem feeding plain water on him now.

Development:
- He is sleeping with his sister in their own room. First few nights get up few times looking for me. After 1+ weeks, he slept through. I hope I don't jixt it by saying here.. LOL

- Although his speech development is slow, he understands what we are talking about.

- He loves rice and dislike fried egg, totally opposite of his sister!

- When I am angry at him, he will hug me right, by crossing his arms on my neck and lay his head on my shoulder. Really mummy's boy!!! :-)

- When daddy is angry at him, he doesn't shed any tears but just show him the 'i am sad!" look. If I add on to daddy's scolding, he will cry real loud!!!

- He is testing his limit in touching the things that we forbid him to touch. He will try to touch it (without touching it) and turn his head and look at us. When we say "no no", he will mumbled something and pulled his hand back. Real naughty!

- We are slowly correcting his bad habit of touching our hands to sleep. Slight improvement but still long way to go!

- He doesn't hold his milk bottle during feeding time. He tends to play and shake the milk bottle. This fella has to feed his milk in 1 go. If not, he will not take his milk if we ever take out the milk bottle! Fussy pot!

- While we are struggling of getting him to hold his milk bottle, he has no bottle to drink his own water bottle. Strange huh!!!

- He is a 'complaint king'. He will go and "tell" every single one in the house whenever he falls down!

- He knows how to fight for his own right, by pushing his che che away to get the things he want! oh boy, I never teach but somehow he picked up!

Vocabulary:
- Cow (the real cow!)
- Burke-Keh (book)
- Che Che (his sister)
- Mah Mah (Mummy)
- Pah (Daddy)
- Poh (His nanny)
- Yao (Want in Mandarin)
- Kah (Cat)
- Mum Mum (eat)
- Dog (dog!)
- Fit (fish)

New vocab that he picked up this few weeks:
- Bird
- Deer
- Meow Meow (refer to cat)

Scrap Credit:
Owl boy: Victoria Stegalll
Diamond: nani_cailloux
Paper: Krista
WordArt: SCARLETHEELS

Picnic

Sean is a morning person and he normally gets up before 8am. Sometimes, he can started to roll around like 7am!!

After waiting for his sister to finish her milk, I took the kids to the nearby park for the picnic. I just prepared biscuit (fish shaped) for Sean as the nyonya kuih is too 'oily' for him to consumed. He was more than delighted to eat his own fish shaped biscuit because that's his favourite!!

He was as thrilled as his sister about the picnic and couldn't wait to RUN and RAOMING around!

I let him run on the grass without need to worry much about fall. I purposely put him on a longer pants to avoid cut if he really falls. Well, he didn't fall on that day even he was running so fast on the uneven field.


I tried to put him on the swing but he didn't seem to like it. After only 3-4 swings, he wanted to get down.



He did enjoyed himself very much at the 'tunnel'. He walked in, stoped, picked up dried leaf and walked out again. Repeated for many times until we need to distract him to elsewhere.

Good workout for the kids and enjoyed morning sun shine! Love it!

Climbing Phase

Yup, Sean had started to phase of 'climb up climb down'. His current favourite is Poh Poh's sofa!

The photo above was his first time climbing on the sofa. So, you can see Kong Kong was giving him a hand to push his body up in 21st June 2010. After a day or two, he has mastered the 'skill' and 'techniques' of climbing up without assistance.

If we are not watching him closely, he can really gave us a HEART ATTACK!!! The cushion on the sofa can easily being pushed down by his body when he got down, which could lead to a major fall.

Boy always boy!

Tears No More During Hair Cutting

Hoo..hoo....no more tears during hair cutting session on June 20th 2010. Thanks to FB, helping me to keep track of the dates when I have tons of 'catch-ups' to do in blogging...LOL

If I remember correctly, the 'no tear' only comes in after 6-7 times of struggling/crying/shouting at the saloon.

This time round, he has the best hair cut ever because he sat quietly to let the hairdresser trim his hair nicely...haha....Earlier, we need to shave as fast as we can before the little fella starting to struggle. For all the earlier cuts, it wasn't nicely trimmed because times was up way way before we trim one side of the head!!!

A Book Person

Sean is a book person since he was a small baby. He chooses books over his toys. I can see he finds fascination of flipping the pages. Yup, he loves to flip the pages even the book is upside down! LOL

When he sees the object that he is familiar, he will point and make a sound of his own. Some of the animals, he is able to say it out! Not 100% clear but his caretakers will know what he says.

Because of that, the books that he "reads", most of them already in a very 'chan' look. Either the corner of the book already torn out, or the entire book already torn!! Kesian the books, it reminds me of "Toy Story 3' when Jessy and friends were trapped in the nursery and how the toddlers played them till exhaustion! :-)

I am more than happy to get Sean more books because this is definitely a good start if he can continue this habit of 'flipping the pages' to 'reading the books' eventually....haha

Poh Poh's 60th Surprise Birthday Party

This photo was taken back on June 2nd, which was Poh Poh's 60th lunar birthday. I dressed the kids in the Vietnamise costume that Daddy bought for them! Wanted to wear them as frequent as possible as both of them about to outgrown the suit already. hehe

I thought of throwing a surprise party for Poh Poh since it's her 60th birthday. As the date drew closer, I worked with one of her friends to coordinate with other friends to come to the party. There were 30+ of them!!

Poh Poh's friends pretty cool and they corporated with me in 'acting'..came out with all sort of excuses to ask her to come to the party while I did the same thing too.

On the actual day, I brought the kids to the restaurant earlier to check things in order (although I already booked the place and order the food). Slowly, all her friends came by and chit chat. I only knew some of them as they came to my wedding before.

Then, I have gotten Kau Foo (my brother) to send my mum to the restaurant and giving us signal as they approached the restaurant. We even turned off the light and the moment Poh Poh came in, we all shouted "SURPRISE" !!!!

See, this was Poh Poh's reaction when she came in. Emotional moment, I tell you!!!

We didn't join the dinner but just leave right after the surprise party. Just let Poh Poh enjoys her time without helping me to take care of the kids. It's her BIG day!! Also, with the family around, her friends won't enjoy like usual...