Lil man turns 11 months today

See that toothy wide smile?

That’s my 11-month-old!

Updates on the lil man’s life:

  • His 3 teeth are much more visible now though the last front tooth is still pushing its way through.
  • He gave up on porridge somewhere mid-10mths only to come back to porridge some time last week.
  • While porridge was relegated to the hate-to-eat list, he ate rice(!), yummy mashed potato, pasta stars with pasta sauce, pasta stars in stock and mee sua in stock.
  • He has started on wolfberries which I steam with his cod (he grew a lil weary of the plain steamed cod).
  • Now that he’s back to porridge, he’s eating double his portion prior to stopping porridge. I’ve not brought back pumpkin or sweet potato to his diet for the moment though.
  • He’s officially snacking on organic puffs and vegetable crackers for crawlers.
  • Gross motor skills: He can stand unsupported for a few seconds! Sometimes he doesn’t even realise it as he’s too engrossed in his activity. πŸ˜›
  • He’s showing great understanding of the world around him – he knows when to wave goodbye and even add a badly-pronounced babyish ‘bye bye’, he can respond to questions and instructions (e.g. Where’s your water bottle? – He would look around for the bottle and point/crawl towards it and he’s even said ‘there, there’ (again, badly pronounced) while he points at the bottle for a few times; go and drink your water – he’d move to his bottle for a drink).
  • He loves clapping to the beat and would shake his bum bum to the music (while seated too!)
  • He can click his tongue(!)
  • He calls his sister ‘cheh cheh’ (meaning elder sister)
  • He calls mama, mama when looking for me! (I heard a ‘mummy’ twice!)
  • He’s unfortunately still not sleeping well through the night… sigh.

So what did I do to make him smile so cheerfully? Just calling his name and speaking in a cute mum-sy tone! That’s all it takes to make a baby smile!!! πŸ™‚

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Learning Chinese at home

Not sure if you remember, I went on a long long hiatus from my blog since I was pregnant with Alex and only regained my blogging mojo not long ago. Hence, plenty of my homelearning with Alicia was documented only on my Facebook page but not my blog.

I decided that I would try my best to compile what we have done over the months, though for obvious reasons, I may not have in the first place documented everything we did, in case it may seem very little to you. πŸ™‚

We did quite a bit of cutting and pasting during that period of time because she really loved that. So, try to observe what your child likes and leverage on that when you do home learning.

I have decided that instead of placing all that we did into one post, I will break it down into different posts and you can refer to all my learning Chinese posts at one click. All future posts will be linked there too so it’d be a one-stop station for sharing my teaching of Chinese at home. πŸ™‚

Stay tuned!

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