Our "Dim Dim Dik Dik" :o)

One more month and Jayden will turn 2. As Daddy is not home most of the time, Mommy gets all the chances to see and experience each and every way Jayden picks up everything.. including words.

It is such a blessing that I can be there for him, to experience and witness every 'first' event in his little life.. Tears fill my eyes now as I am typing this.. I must have done something right in my passed life that God is being so nice to me.. I am so touched and grateful that God has granted such a blessing..

At 23 months, my beloved baby (still my baby!) starts to speak more, in the language that Mommy and Daddy can understand.

Jayden shows extensive interest in talking lately, he will initiate (signal) me to sing some nursery rhymes with him (he doesn't sing yet but he shows his dance move which is unique for each song).. otherwise he will say the keywords of the song he wants me to sing..

For example, he will say 'star' when he wants to hear 'twinkle twinkle little star' and 'ow' (cow) when he wants to hear 'old mac donald has a farm' and so on.. And when he heard the word 'cow', he will say 'ow'.. other words are moo, dog, bark, duck, quack, pig, oink and the list goes on.. He still can't quite pronounce quack, oink, neigh and some others that I added in i.e. meow (cat). Hahaha..

Lately he has been good in responding to me with his favorite 'no', 'ng-moi' (don't want in Cantonese) and 'mou' (no in Cantonese).. He would also follow words that I said which may be new to his vocab such as board, chair, table, fan, fork..... He got some of them right away and some still need to work on for sure.. But Mommy is already very proud of this little baby's skills.. :o)

Nose Bleed

This morning, I discovered one of Jayden's nostril was having some stain, I couldn't remember he got the stain from the chocolate drink last night. Then I saw Bluey (his fav bear pacifier) has dark-chocolate-like stains too. Again, I remembered it was clean when I passed it to him last night!

I tried to smell on the stain and oh noooo... I think I smelled blood! Kinda worried, hubby asked me to check on the bedsheets. Alas! There are really some blood stain on the bedsheets!!

Trying to ponder why Jayden would be having nose bleed, I think it is the chocolate drink that I've given him last nite. It must be too "heaty" as I put quite a bit of chocolate powder (it was meant for me and I love it strong). He had half cup of it as he loved it so much..

Little did I realize it will cause such "heaty-ness". I guess I need to be extra careful in giving him strong adults food next time.

Close your eyes, take a nap

Since sometimes ago, Jayden has been quite a good boy in taking his naps.. He will initiate when he needs a nap, unlike previously it was hard to get him to nap!!

Not just that, whenever he is in the cradle for about 5 minutes and yet to fall asleep, I will ask him to close his eyes. Obediently, he will listen and force-close his eyes.

Normally within the next 1-3minutes, he will be asleep. Bliss... :o)

Alphabets

Jayden can identify not all but some of the alphabets.. sometimes he can get more right by these are the 100% confirmed that he can identify all the time:

A, B, D, E, I, M, O, V, W, X, Y, Z

Talking More..

These few days, Jayden suddenly talks more, in the language that I understand.. It is quite sudden and I am very surprised. And he normally repeats the words after me..

As I forgot to note down words that he learned lately, I can only remember a handful of them..

Words that he picks up:
1. more - when he want something more
2. mou jor (mojo) - means finished in Cantonese
3. bus (ba)
4. cup (ka)
5. Alphabets - A, B, D, E, I, X (sounds more like 'act')
6. fish (sounds like "ish", was it??? I can't really pronounce the way he did)
7. bubble (babu or bubu)
8. hop (he will try to hop whenever he says it)
9. bee
10. butterfly (but)
11. there
12. o' dad (daddy)
13. bag
14. baby (bebe)
15. mommy (mami)
16. next (net)
17. bowl
18. bar co (bicycle)
19. ant
20. doll
21. no
22. moto (motorbike)
23. one more
24. more "things" such as 'more dog', more bus', etc