fruity han

lil han is into fruits now. he can consume up to 2 bananas a day which is the max we give him. too much of a good thing wouldn’t be too good either. we’ve also given him grapes. he didn’t really fancy the squeezed orange juice i offered him the other day though not sour. i’ll try that on him another day. yet to give him puréed apple & pear. as for green leafy veggies or beans, he has no problem at all - thank goodness for that!

anyway, ah ma bought him an apple & an orange from the market yesterday morning. it was intended for him to hold & observe the fruits closely, more of a mini social science class. we’ve noticed that with him, anything red is apple & that includes tomatoes!

lil han was clearly happy with his apple & orange. he did look at them attentively for a bit before the poor fruits became his bowling balls! he smiled with glee when he rolled them repeatedly on the floor. tsk! tsk! tsk!

ole brasil!

hooray for world cup 2006!
an is rooting for brasil &
i’m for portugal & korea.

however an thinks that every yellow jersey
belongs to brasil. this is one scenario…

ah kong & an was watching tv together & ah kong wanted to watch some sports, so he switched the channel & came across a football match.
an: ah kong…look…brasil… (exclaimed excitedly)
ah kong: no…columbia…
an: nooooo…brasil…
ah kong: it’s co-lum-bia (tried explaining to an)
an: daddy said so… (he said stubbornly)
ah kong: ok… (gave in)
** the columbian team was in yellow **

talkative han

lil han, who’s coming to 15 months, is fast at picking up words, loves imitating new sounds & does excellent in both. his development in speech began much earlier than big bro an, who only made more effort to speak at the age of 2 1/2. lil han also started to crawl & walk earlier. based on all his milestones, i reckon he’s trying to catch up to his big bro. he adores an & loves to play with him or just be around him. nope, they’re not entirely, 100% angelic towards each other & yup, they do fight over a whole lot of things but they never fail to look out for each other.

han’s vocab includes…
daddy
mommy (sounds more like ma-may)
baby (sounds more like be-be)
bye-bye
papaya (fav word)
banana (sometimes he calls it a-na-na)
apple
egg
duck
bird
bus (he says bu first, then pause for a second before the s-sound comes out)
button
tank
gine (short for engine)
star
wow! (he actually says wow! when he sees something he likes)
watch (sounds more like atch without the w)
ouch!

in hokkien he can say…
ah kong (grandpa)
ah ma (grandma)
ah ku (uncle)
titi (younger bro - referring to himself)
tia-tia (painful)
teng (light)
ee (chair)
bo (none/don’t have)
mai (don’t want)
oi (shoes)
bang (mosquito)
pah (beat/hit - normally used when he sees a mozzy & wants to smack it)

he makes sounds for…
cat – mau mau
dog – wou wou
lion - oar
car - bur bur
heli - po..po..po..po..
water - shh...shh...

last but not least...
mo-mom for food & ne-nen for milk!

han amazes me every single day!

when i grow up...

an & i was lazing on the couch last night after i put lil han to bed. he was busy scribbling & doodling on his wipe-clean book & i was watching one of my fav program, project runway season 2. i was thinking to myself that if only i'd the skill & patience to sew, i'd love to be in their shoes. i like the thought of designing clothes, bags, shoes, jewelries, well hey, the entire collection for that matter! why not if i can actually do it! *wishful thinking*lol*

i turned to look at an & wondered what he'll grow up to be. so i asked him, "what would you like to be when you grow up? " he gave me 3 answers in the order below...

feet up

this was a fluke shot! it was taken a while back, in the middle of the night to be exact, when lil han didn’t want to sleep at all! he was so energetic & simply wanted to do his thing! i was trying to stay awake while he walked, tiptoed like a ballet dancer, stumbled, mumbled, hummed, did his lil dance move in the room almost all nightlong. then bingo! i grabbed my camera & tried getting candid shots of him.

i like this picture of his lil feet up. they were up for a mere second & it went straight down. cute lil feet! but very soon it won’t be that small. big bro an wears a size 13 - it’ll be a full-size 1 in next to no time!