Before the month closes I better get in the photos and latest updates on CJ. One of the big things of this month was Allan’s birthday. We celebrated with dinner on his actual day – which I cooked and it turned out a bit disastrously (but that’s another story!). At least I managed to decorate the place a little to make it more festive:
And CJ loved hitting the balloons.
We got Allan a few bike tops since this is his latest hobby (and he’s doing really well at keeping it up – and losing weight too!) so in this pic he looks like a road-worker! Don’t look too closely at the cake – it was undercooked and cracked so the balsamic strawberries were leaking through. It was meant to be a ricotta cheesecake but took a bit of imagination to actually recognise it.
Allan wanted to take CJ to Taronga Zoo so a few days after his b’day we went for another treat out to the zoo. CJ is at a great age where he can recognise and name a few animals and appreciate them so it was just the right time to take him along.
These animals have the best view in Sydney!
CJ liked these sun bears – the smallest bears in the world.
The new baby hippo:
Other things that CJ is getting into this month is standing on the port-a-cot and playing the piano. He loves to look up at the photo board above the piano and also dance to the ‘demo’ music on the keyboard.
He has also been sitting down and reading his books or looking at photos. It is truly amazing to see him doing this because only a few month’s ago he was hardly able to sit still for more than 2 seconds. Now in the morning we either find him doing this:
Or this (we found him like this yesterday – he’d managed to climb up onto the chair, reach for a book and sit down to read it):
The developments have been quite remarkable this month with so many more words and comprehension and communication. He even has started asking for particular songs (especially one called “Tractor, tractor” – which is slowly driving me insane because we’ve listened to it repeatedly for over 100 times) and knows how to go into the bathroom to wash his hands (0r ‘say sau’ as it is in Cantonese) and get his own banana and water bottle in the morning. He hasn’t yet started showing signs of tantrums or demanding things to the point of tears which is a relief as the Terrible Twos are just around the corner.
So there we have it – CJ’s 16th month of life.
