Valente's day

Yup, that was his day on Saturday but we did nothing significant to mark the day - perhaps next time when he's older and definitely a skirt-chaser then will the day be of greater importance (?). Anyways, a way overdue post this is. Been superbly busy at work - finishing up an inaugural issue of a magazine for a *challenging* client and also trying to finish up my second Gender essay for the semester (yes, still late and past the deadline... again). tomorrow will be the day i sit down and eke out that essay. So yeah, after this week, i shall have the time to blog and update photos of my lil man who has been growing (not so much sideways but definitely vertically) and now seems TOO much for his own good. I feel like i have to invent a new language so that he won't understand what we're saying. In fact, there are times i've resorted to spelling words out while talking to my mom. The koala bear still clings onto me at times, but much much less so compared to when i first started working outside the house. But he really cottons on fast - whenever there's a brief mention of me needing to change my clothes or to go toilet, he latches onto my leg sometimes crying blue murder. thankfully, he's very easily distracted - yes, by BALL! so we have a permanent friend in BALL to always rescue him from tears. He's started talking a lot more these days.

Sounds he makes now:
FISH - - phisshhhss
Bus --- but
Lion - - grrrrrrr
Tiger --- grrrrr
Aeroplane --- errrr (plus hand sign)
Bird --- psst ( plus hand sign)
Ball --- ball ball, ball ball.... BALLLLLLLLLLL (plus hand sign - like patting a basketball)
Bye -- a high pitched bye! and elaborate hand waving
mommy - - short abrupt MA!
No --- sometimes he goes "bu yao" we don't know if this is a coincidence but he's done it more than once!

Antics he gets up to:
Blinks his eyes in a really funny way to tease us
scrunges up his nose, flattening it, to snort like a pig
waves his hand infront of his nose to say his shit is smelly
pretends to give you something but takes it away
if you hold his nose, he snorts like a pig too

Surprising things he knows:
Our chinese names!
he points out my clothes (including the bras) and pronounce them as mine

well, that's about it for now, as far as i can recall. will blog more when i have energy......