And he sings!

After class today there was a long wait to get out of the Evans Lodge carpark. And the little one was in his singing mood so I managed to video him singing "twinkle twinkle little star".

There's a twist at the end where he replaces the final line with one line of the Chinese version of "head and shoulders". Oh, please be warned that it sounds vaguely vulgar because he can't pronounce the Chinese words properly yet.

Enjoy!!!

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Waaassup!!

Just a little morning fun! :)

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Boo!

Peek a boo. For some reason, kids never get tired of playing it and John's no different. But his "boo" has evolved into a "BOO!".

There's no doubt my little one loves to entertain and when he's got an audience, he'll repeat stuff over and over again to get a positive response.

Here's John playing Boo at CVC:

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Lip rolls

Looks like my little one has learnt a thing or two from mummy's vocal sessions with the choir girls! Here he is doing the lip rolls, a technique used to warm up the vocal cords, complete with the upper lip itch after. Hehe mummy's so proud. *beams*

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Dancing King strikes again!

This one was taken this morning. I love how John breaks into a little dance with just the slightest amount of music. He's definitely got that from mummy.

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Dancing King

One thing's for sure... John loves music and he loves to dance. Sometimes he just starts dancing out of no where, like he can hear music we don't. It's very cute. Here's mummy secretly trying to catch him in the act but he soon saw what I was doing and stopped. Well, at least I got a bit of the dancing!

Ps... this post is my first posted from my iphone! woohooooo :D

Big shoes

After a day of shopping, John found Daddy's new leathers too irresistible. By the looks of it, he's certainly got BIG shoes to fill! We've just got to make sure he wears them the right way round next time.

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This is the second time I'm doing this. The first time it said John looked more like James by 5%. So YAY! John's looking more like mummy now. :)

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Cheerio?

Kids do the cutest, sometimes the most innocent, things! Here's John trying to feed a cheerio to one of the "$2 a ride" bumble bees. I felt horrible having to tell him the bee didn't want a cheerio because it wasn't real (James tells me I shouldn't lie to him.). He looked a little disappointed, but then put the cheerio in his own mouth and walked away. Cute!

Mr Strong

Here's the tod doing some weight lifting. I found it absolutely funny that he was carrying his box of Mr Men books wearing his Mr Strong outfit (courtesy of Aunty Helena in the UK). The box is really heavy weighing about 2.5kg. Even I find it heavy.

I purchased the Mr Men set from a lady doing a bulk purchase on the Singapore Motherhood Forum. And i must say it was a steal! S$90 for for the whole 46-book set and it came in a neat hard cover box. The price printed on the box was 99 pounds! I was very pleased. :)

The "singing" face

Introducing John's "singing" face:

When a familiar song comes on, or when he's in worship rehearsals, John actually sings. The words typically come out as 'ooooh oooooh' (and thus the face), but they come out at the right time. When there's an instrumental segment in the song, he stops and when the singing come on again, the 'oooh oohs' start again. It's uber uber cute.

Eh?

If there was one word i'd use to describe John, it'd be colourful. It's expressions galore when it comes to the tyke and here's just one example.

Eh???

How can anyone not love love love him? *grin*

Photo courtesy of Aunty Gret.

Asterisk marks the spot

I must say it's been a really busy busy busy one month and time has just flown by. Between all the work at CVC, maid troubles, keeping the bub happy and active, I haven't been able to do very much else, let alone blog. So here's my first looong overdue post.

This video was taken about a month back when John had really learnt the joys of independent walking. We were at Novena Square with grandma and soon to be officially aunty Celia (I still can't believe my "baby" brother's getting married! woohoo!), and John decided he'd explore the open space and check out a couple of shops.

It's really funny when he does a little jig when he hears music like in this video. What's also amusing is how he checks out a pretty lady at the end.

Just a little note to myself that I have yet to blog about our little outing to the zoo, transformetion weekend and lovely photos from Desiree (again! aren't we fortunate!).

Little drummer boy

Last Sunday, my brother, who's our church drummer, sat John in front of the drum set and gave him his set of drum sticks. Needless to say, the bub was thrilled and started banging away. Uncle Aaron was pleased to see John interested. He even said John was holding the sticks correctly! So... anyone starting a baby worship team?

ps. thanks Aunty Gret for the video!

The Ch'ngs as sticks!

One way to relax: create my own stick family.
It was really quite fun. Try it!


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(this is thanks to Ps Henson! - check out his stick family of NINE!)

Tea time at CVC

When you're the youngest member of 'staff' at mummy's workplace, you're more often than not the centre of attention. John's constantly has a few pairs of eyes oggling at, i mean watching, him. Here's the proof!

Here's grandma, aunty Marianne and Aunty Gret watching John have his tea.

Tea for John now consists of a cracker or some biscuits. Thanks to advice from my friend Desiree, I bought the munchkin bowls that have a suction base and i put John's food in it to help him learn that food should be eaten off a bowl/plate rather than off the table. And he's doing really well. He's good self-feeding and can put even the tiny rice crispies in his mouth with no problem.

John's now been drinking from a straw for about a month now. It's amazing how quickly he learnt how to do it. His first successful attempt with a straw ended with a sip of soya bean milk from the hawker centre. I guess he figured that the drink was too good for him to miss out on considering he loves tofu. We use the pigeon bottle at the moment, although it has leaked a few times and I'm thinking of changing it. I'm holding it off for a while because John's really comfirtable with the pigeon. He can even open the cap on his own using his bottom 2 teeth!

Here's grandma feeding him water.

As part of the drill, after tea, the ladies of CVC will get him to "perform", clapping hands, raising hands, saying bye bye etc. And even though they've seen him do it a million times, his cooperation still elicits a very boistrous response from them (mummy included). See what I mean in this video:

Sometimes, I can't decide if, on the days we go into CVC, John has more fun or the folks at CVC have more fun. Heh. But as long as everyone's happy, i'm happy. :)

shoes

Of late, my little man's been VERY facinated with his shoes. Before his bath every evening, he'll crawl over to his shoe shelf (yes he has a shelf of shoes - mostly given) and begin a sort of shoe ritual. It's quite facinating, yet funny at the same time.

First he'll take out one shoe, inspect the sole and place it on the floor. Then he'll take out the next and inspect it and place it on the floor. He'll do this till all his shoes are on the ground. Then he'll toss them about like he's mixing a salad and squeal at the same time. He'll do this for a while. And then he'll start inspecting them one by one again until it's time for his bath.

Not only that... when both mummy and daddy are not looking, he'll attempt to put them in his mouth. That's my playful little man for you.

I'm just glad he's finding things to explore on his own, shoes or otherwise, and we don't have to constantly find things to entertain him with. phew!

John's new playmate

Yup, John's got a new playmate at church (aka mummy's workplace). The bub's been rather smitten by the funny man himself... Pastor Andrew and Sometimes I wonder who's having more fun. :D I guess Pastor Andrew has had lots of experience playing with his grandchildren - I think he has 5, and entertaining John comes naturally to him.

Here are 2 videos (courtesy of Aunty Gret) of them in action.

I just love hearing John laugh. Oh, and as usual, Ps Andrew's eating.

Here John's just playing with Ps Andrew's hand. Hope that watch isn't an expensive one.

I'm just really thankful that everywhere I go, there are people who love John and want to play with him. He (and I) are really blessed. :)

Praise the Lord!

John's taken to raising both his hands up in the air. And each time he does it, we say 'Praise the Lord!' and he breaks out into a huge grin. As he does it, we all laugh and this reinforcement makes him do it again and again. It's really cute. I've wanted to take a video of this for a while now, but the moment has always escaped me. I'll continue trying cos it's something i really want archived.

For what it's worth, we hope the bub's really learning to Praise the Lord. :)

Play Time

Since John's been mobile, he's been really fun to play with. It's wonderful watching him grow into a little explorer, taking in everything. He enjoys playing in his play yard, where all the toys are, but he enjoys being out and about way more. Of course mummy's had to do a whole lot of chasing him round the house. John really fast on all fours... turn away for a second and next thing you know, he's chomping down on some magazine or tissue box. I really can't imagine what it's going to be like when he starts to walk!

Here's a pic of john making a quick getaway. I love that he has such purpose on his face. My boy's really a little spirited one!

Here's one of him playing peek-a-boo through the curtain:

I just love play time... sometimes i wonder if i enjoy it more than he does. heh.