hullo again

On sentosa: Val is enthralled by the nicest smelling ginger flower i've ever encountered. He finally decapitates it, not deliberately of course. ;-P

it's been a long while since i last blogged. many things have happened - most notably, my sis got married two weekends ago so everyone was real busy and caught up in that. it was great. We brought Val to Sentosa (where the wedding was held) and had great fun on the beach. I was a "bad" mommy, allowing him to stay up for the wedding dinner which lasted past ten pm. Finally at 1030pm, i couldn't stand the fatigue and finally brought him back to the room. Val was really well-behaved the entire day - he cried once when i brought him up the stage for a 'yam seng'. other than that, he was a real charmer for all the guests. He was the only child there too - since my sis kept it to a M18 affair. Some other parents asked if Val might have a bad night cos he stayed up late. I didn't know. But thankfully, i put him to sleep pretty quickly when we got back to the hotel room. He slept well - no nightmares or anything like that. And we were off to the beach tmw for a morning of good sunny fun.

On Sentosa: The boy is togged out on "resort wear" the day after the wedding.

Now he's ready to tackle the surf! My very own surfer dude!

The babe has really become a boy - i know i keep saying that! but really. these days he's developed a real penchant for toy cars after we dug out those old metal cars that my mom bought for me and my sis almost 30 years ago! he would lie on the bed and go "boooo" as he moves them up and down the bed, enraptured by his own boy world. He sat in a buggy on Sentosa and loved the ride. Now he signs the word "car" by showing the steering motion (he finally understood what i was doing all this while after seeing the buggy driver do it up close) and says "booo boo" for car. yesterday, he finally intoned "kar" with a sophisticated "r" at the back. He's beginning to speak more in Chinese too. Now he says "gou" for dog, and "shu" for tree.

More words he says now:
"may" - moon
"air-pan" - aeroplane
"mama ne?" - where's mama in chinese
"mama - koon" - mama's room (i have no idea why?!)
"cheeees" - cheese
"boo" - book
"coc" - clock
"beer" - bird
"hug" - hug
"tak" - tap

more words he can sign:
train
sorry
sleep
book
aeroplane
kick

it's really fun to be with Val these days - he scunches up his face, making funny faces that guarantee to make me chuckle. He's funny that way. How not to be in love with this lil fella? :-) That feeling of falling in love - yeah - i'm definitely head over heels with ma-boy.