Bonus 15 month photos

Luca donne papa un coco-bong.

Luca helps mama with the laundry.  Or, Luca 'helps' mama with the laundry.

Luca likes beef cheeks!

15 mois

15 mois - Sydney Road Luca

This month:
- drawing!
- saying mama as well as papa
- riding with papa on his bicycle!  And learning how to move on his own little trike.
- eating curry - getting in touch with his Malaysian side
- another perforated eardrum, another round of antibiotics :(
- climbing - the stairs, the chairs, the bath, the sofas...
- getting down from the bed and the sofa by himself (mostly without incident)
- standing up, sitting down
- weaning himself
- talking non-stop
- starting to like daycare
- cruising around the furniture and walls like an expert

Luca is a trendy inner-city babycino baby.

Luca is a left-wing greenie cyclist baby.

Luca is a multicultural curry noodle slurping baby.

Luca is a little elf baby.  Who is, erm, training to compete in the luge at the next winter Olympics.

Luca is an intellectual literary baby.

Luca is a tired baby.

Some of Luca's favourite things this month:

Superballes!

His garden from the toy library.

Standing up in the bath.

Nutella and bananas.

Luca Chan, le Canadien

Finalement!  Admire the high-tech video store membership card technology!  LAMINATED.  Canadians deserve nothing better.

Is it... me?

Truly?

Yes!  Let me bite it to be sure.

l'appartement

Our apartment has two walls and a floor!  And a ceiling!  Nothing else though.

Can't remember which one is ours.  Will have to find out before we move in or it could be embarrassing.

14 mois, 1 semaine

Because it seems a long time between updates.  Just a few photos from the past week.

14 mois

14 mois - beau garcon

This month:
- saying papa and possibly actually meaning it
- taking his first real steps!  But not very confident about it.

- dancing!  Like Stevie Wonder!
- waving (for real now)
- pulling to standing
- starting daycare
- two colds, a flu, an ear infection and a perforated eardrum.  Two rounds of antibiotics!

 A month of snot and ickiness.

But still a happy monkey.

Luca's pompom hat gets lots of compliments.  Thanks Colin!

Mama makes Big Butt Baby Pants!

Luca likes books very much.

Luca also likes pots.  And crying.

Luca usually carries something around with him as he explores the apartment.

Luca has new mittens!

Luca is a little Bhutanese baby!

Luca is a demon on wheels.  Luca also likes sticking out his tongue this month.

13 mois

13 months - ack!  Where does the time go?

So much happening...
- cruising around the furniture
- singing along to twinkle twinkle little star, making the hand movements (some of them!)
- talking all the time in his own language
- exploring like a demon
- really likes opening and closing doors
- batting his eyelashes and flirting madly
- complete cuddlemonster

Some of 13 month old Luca's favourite things:

Rearranging the bookshelves.  Onto the floor.

The telephone (ongoing).

Remote controls (also ongoing).

Lemons.  No, I don't know either.

His special Luca laptop.

Chatting to papa.

The swing!

Banging on tables with his hands.

Exploring fruitbowls.  Also fruit baskets and fruit boxes.

Plates.  Also bowls, cups, spoons.

Other things Luca has done this month:

Cried.  (Quite a lot).

Eaten.  (Also quite a lot).

Sung Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with accompanying hand movements.

Had a birthday party at Kheng Ee's house.

Eaten a whole piece of birthday beetroot chocolate cake himself.

Gone swimming in the spa!

Hung out with the guys in the spa.

Gone for papa's birthday dinner at Mabrown and had fun with Mei Ling Ee (Uncle Jerome slightly less impressed).

Grown his hair, just to see how it looks.