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.

19 mois

19 mois - Luca grand garcon

This WEEK:
- first real words!  'bas' (sock!) et 'non' - 19 Dec
- Nina kicks papa - 21 Dec
- Luca throws a ball - 21 Dec

This month:
- walking - of course!  also running, turning, lots of exploring
- lots of attempts at words: in English, daisy, bubbles, ball, baby; en francais, ballon, train/tram, pomme, pingouin, bavette, dix;
- gastro - ew
- climbing on and off the sofa
- lots of reading with mama and papa and ah ma
- carrying things around, particularly bears
- very good at pouring imaginary tea, although from the handle, not the spout

That's the creamer, but no matter.  Thank you Santangus!

Luca is a regular at Europa.

 Luca et papa apres un autre cafe a Europa.

Hmm, that is an interesting philosophical point.  Let me ponder it.

Ou sont tes bas Luca?  "Bas!"

Luca pyjama.

Un autre Luca pyjama.

Luca matin.

Luca spaghetti (encore).

L'appartement est presque fini!

18 weeks, I think.

20 week scan

Apparement, 2012 est l'année de La Niña.

NB: if you talk to Francesca, PLEASE don't tell her about this post!!  She wants to be told in person when she gets here on... SATURDAY!!!