Since my last post, Baby CP has had a few more firsts. He attended a birthday party at gymboree, but those photos will come later. He had a lot of fun climbing and crawling all over the place with the other kids.
Baby CP also got his first haircut and made it through without crying, which was a relief. I was expecting him to shake his head around or demand to be taken out of the chair.
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Baby CP likes to draw. We have had to hide all the pens and writing utensils so that he doesn't draw all over the house. His nanny had a good idea though and suggested we buy a magnetic doodler for him. He uses his right hand to draw most of the time.
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| One of Baby CP's early works. |
Baby CP's vocabulary continues to grow steadily. A few of the recently acquired ones are jees (for cheese), pie!, gu (for ku-zi/pants), mut (which is the second half of the cantonese word for glove). He also seems to be learning some of the hand and arm motions of the itsy bitsy spider. Baby CP also understands things that are going on around him. Everyday when I get home from work, within a short period of time, he turns to his nanny and says "bye byeeee." He knows that it's time for her to go home. Today, as a conversation about needles was going on around him, he started to whine. I thought he was just being fussy, but then I realized he was pointing to his arm and saying "gut" which is the Cantonese word for being poked/stabbed with a needle. He was telling us that getting shots sucks and makes a person cry.
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| One of Baby CP's favorite places. |
Baby CP can reach all but the top drawer now, so we've moved all of the knives up there. Little trouble-maker.
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| First forward facing ride. |
This week we installed Baby CP's new forward facing carseat. His former carseat is only for babies up to 30 inches tall and Baby CP is almost 31 inches tall. I thought he would be excited about facing forward, but he didn't really seem to have any excited or adverse reactions. It does seem that he falls asleep more quickly though.
Finally, this week is the first time where I have seen Baby CP really watching television. I've mentioned before that his attention span for television is relatively short and he usually prefers to watch only when some attractive music comes on and afterwards return to his playing. This week he was introduced to a DVD from his grandparents and he was mesmerized. He really likes to watch little animals and kids eating fruit. I limit him to two viewings a day...usually while feeding him lunch because then at least he's pretty cooperative while eating.
