First friends in UK

It was good to have our longest friends in the UK, visit us all the way from Dundee. It seems surreal that this may be the last time we see each other in UK. As usual, you are very very happy when there are visitors, especially if they are children. Similarly, this means that there were no longer nice dinners, and chatting the night away like student days. Rather, we had to think of places to go to keep you all entertained. So, we all went to Farmer Ted's. To be honest, I think the adults had a good time too, although the weather could have been better.

Our birthdays

Both our birthdays came and went quietly. I suppose not many people celebrate birthdays after 30?

During mine, Richard's pastor and husband from Malaysia were visiting us, and volunteered to babysit, but celebrating without you just didn't feel right. So, we all went out for a nice Italian meal (another italian birthday ;)). For Richard's, we went out for his favourite food, Sushi (I forgot the camera). Are a mixture of us, as you love pasta and sushi, or do you just love ALL food? ;)

Sudden word spurt

In just about a month, you went from hardly saying anything to constantly babbling to yourself and us, and certainly getting lots more confident with talking. You can now count 2-6 (not sure why you refuse to say 1), although you can certainly say 'one more', know your colours red (your favourite), blue, yellow, green, black, pink, purple, and recognise 'O', 'A', and 'B'. You also command 'mummy sit down', and point to objects and shout out, eg: bird, pink 'wowwer' (flower), TV, big dog, and 'yed' (red) car. Excitedly, you will call out, yed car, blu car, yed car, car, 'bai' (bus), car, again and again when you pass them. The maximum words you string is 4 (eg: dada one more please).

It's funny to see you saying big in front of everything. I suppose everything is big to you? But when you see a few together, you will go 'big star, big star, small star, big star', pointing at each as you decide whether they are big or small. It's also amusing how you use your limited vocab to convey a message (eg: You say 'more down' when going downstairs to tell us that there are more stairs to go down). Hearing you communicate really do sometimes makes us laugh till tears in our eyes. I am still trying to teach you your name.

Surprise visitors from Malaysia

This is the first time your gong gong and popo made such a last minute trip to UK. They bought the tickets on the Thursday and flew that Sunday itself to arrive on the same day :) They really must have missed you.. Hopefully they had a good holiday too as we sure had a good time.

Some things that we did:

Annual kite festival in Wirral

Loving the bell on the train in the fun fair

Taking strolls and getting swung while walking

We then spent a week in London (I went along as I had a course there), visited your friend Isaac also, and you went to the London zoo without me (boy, you've been there before your mummy and daddy)

Your idea of a big fishes - penguins

The farewell game of peek-a-boo was fantastic, thankfully there was no crying involved this time

Malaysian tummy

We have a reason for the diarrhoea after our holiday back in Malaysia - Salmonella :) Probably a stomach of steel now??

Facial Injury

My little 'hooligan'

You had your worst accident in nursery so far. Your carers called me in the afternoon to say that someone pushed you in the outside play area, you fell, and had a few scratches to your face. They wanted to warn me about the scratches so that I would not get a shock when I picked you up. They definitely underplayed the scratches!! I was in shock when I picked you up (it looked worse in real life than in the photos). Obviously I asked them to be more careful and they apologised profusely. But, I suppose accidents do happen everywhere, even when I take care of you, and have to accept that you're a boy and probably will have lots of battle-scars.

Then, this week, you came home with another scratch/cut, this time on the left side.

By the time I completed this in July, you still have a small scar on the side of your face. In the span of that month, you had 4 accidents. Why? How? But, the funny thing is how your carers always say to me or richard when we pick you up now: 'no accidents today'!!

First Birthday Party Invite

3 weeks ago, you attended your friend's 2nd birthday party. It was the first of its kind for you and you had a good time, especially with the bubble making machine. It was probably like 'nursery time' for you coz there were games, and food, and other kids your age, except there was the bonus of having all the 'mummies and daddies' around.

PS: this post was started in May, and then completed only in July