lemme out.......

Unstoppable Val now crawls at the speed of lightning, enjoys chasing after ants, and terrorising dogs, and laments at the gate when no one wants to bring him out. Sike. Actually, this is just him feeling a bit helpless after he had pulled himself up, and then discovered he didn't know what next to do. He was scared of landing plop on his bum so he just held on for his dear life until grandma rescued him and gently taught him to land on his bum. Of course, knocks are quite common these days. Not one day go by without the munchkin hitting his coconut on something.

back in action

Many things happened in the past month... too complex to explain... just wanted to finally blog that Val is now expert-crawler and also have started to 'cruise'. He has also discovered a penchant for MY toes, so if i don't pay attention, he'll sink his sharp teeth into them! He now has 4 teeth, with 2 more popping out which are giving him lots of pain and waking him up from his naps. Poor thang. The munchkin is babbling lots too --- babababa, mamamaa, dadada... he likes the fish windchime we have so whenever we say 'fish' he looks up at it. Sometimes he cranes his neck up too high, and then topples over. Have not weighed him since he was 6 months old, but i suspect he hasn't gained much weight considering the high energy level he has and that he DOES NOT STOP once he wakes up.

Here's a funny photo of him after he plopped face down on the beach in Jimbaran. That was also his first mouthful of gritty sand. pwppppt... And doesn't he look grown up???