Appartement, pantalons

The view from our apartment now:

The view from our new apartment:

IKEA!  But a balcony!

Et la chambre de Luca (et oui, sa petite soeur):

Hey, Mr Wilson, check out my pants!

21 mois

21 mois - Luca et maman

This month - so much!
- lots of new words: en francais - main, poire, noix, pi-pi, ananas, pates, pied; in English - star, no more, up, down, bubbles; franglais: parc/k, bye-bye, bol/bowl - there are probably more but I've lost track
- blowing kisses (or, slapping self in face while saying 'mwah!')
- climbing on everything
- answering the phone, Ali-G stylee - 'aiii?'
- new favourite toys - jewellery box with twirly ballerina, duplo tractor

La Nina: does not stop moving.  Takes up a lot of room.  Really into startling mama.

"Aiii?"  The first person to have Luca answer the phone when they called - Leong koo.

Favourite word - "more" (OK, no - favourite word, "non", second favourite word, "more")

Coucou!

Bunnings Luca.

Fed Square Luca.

Luca est tres fier d'avoir une robe de chambre comme papa - merci Nonna!

Apres Luca citron, Luca limette - mais il aime beaucoup les limettes - juste comme papa.

3...2...1...

Luca bubbles!

Luca crayon.

Luca cheeky monkey.

Luca prawn dumpling (still)

20 mois

20 mois - keeping the faith alive.

This month:
- chatty chatty chatty.  Distinguishable words include: bas, no/non, mama, papa, nonna, more, mine, bye-bye, bleu, bouton/button but pretty much everything else comes out as 'peh-teh!' or klingon.
- Mr Pointy, pointing at everything.
- All shy with people he doesn't know that well
- drinking beautifully from a cup and doing really well feeding himself
- likes the slide very much
- favourite toys are his tea set, his duplo and mama's pyjama pants
- enjoys running his hand along fences and gates as he walks by
- laughs at others' misfortune, the cad!

This month for the Nina:
- kicky kicky kicky - a mostly afternoon and evening baby, but has morning bursts sometimes
- some massive growth spurt going on, just like Luca

Getting some early training in to help the Canadiens maybe actually win a game in 2030.

Nonna teaches Luca how to use an iPad.  No, wait... Luca teaches Nonna how to use an iPad.

Rrrrrarrrgh!

Luca is all about the pamplemousse - 6 kim poh's pamplemousses!

Miam!

Babycino connoisseur.

Cin cin papa!

Luca aime papa beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup.

Les nonna-bacis, les meilleurs!

Nonna fait le coui-coui.

Luca enjoys taking everything out of Ah Ma's cupboards and putting them on the floor.  Her noodles will never be the same again.

Luca stegosaurus doesn't get shampoo in his eyes.

Fardoche raconte l'histoire de hibou!

La plage!

Et oui, la premiere creme glacee!

Luca chachacha

Our little boy has many adorable and winning qualities, but rhythm is not one of them.

Cheers!

Luca is very chatty these days, he can say 'bas', 'mama', 'papa', 'nonna' and, of course, 'no/non'.  He tries really hard to say other things too, but they all tend to come out the same - tram = 'peh-teh!', fleur - 'teh-teh!', chien = 'peh-teh!'  We'll get there eventually.

He has also learned to do the cheers.

Noel 2011 #2

Le lutin de noel arrive!

Lutin et maman sont contents.

Un gros camion lutinale!

Lutin donne Nonna un cadeau.

Auteur Lutin.

Check out our awesome tatts.

Noel 2011

Joyeux Noel tout le monde!!  Nonna est arrivee!!

Les cadeaux de Luca - des livres en francais de papa et maman.

A HUGE stocking from Kheng ee!

An awesome marble/pinball thingy with sorting drawers from Ah Kong.

Ooh - duplo from Aunty Jenny!

A break for mama's Christmas beignets - MIAM.

Possibly the favourite thing of the day - a carboard packaging triangle from inside the big truck that Ah Ma gave him (although he also loved the big truck, but you can't go past triangle-shaped cardboard).

Boxing Day duplo time.