Diaper free ...OR not yet "P

Time flies....just in a flip of eye, you are now 4 years old.

I know many toddlers @ 4 has stopped using diaper however I do not wanna push things if you are not ready. Although u have not used diaper during afternoon naps but at nights it is still a necessity...until yesterday night, you just decided you would not want to wear it to sleep anymore (how delightfull :) when mummy hear it...my boy has grown up). So mummy follows your will....and hope for the best !! hahaha...

So I kept on reminding you ...remember don't wee wee on bed, ok. Please call mummy when you wanna go...ok...

Occassionally I woke up (sleepily of coz) touching your pants just to check on you....well...things were going on well. When both of us woke up the next morning, I checked again by touching your pant..hmmm....good job! It's dry! Eeeyeah....i turned and told your papa, hey our boy has successfully stayed dry the 1st night ...yeah yeah yeah........

hahaha..happiness does not last too long....then suddenly papa saw a WET SPOT at the corner of the bed, which is almost dry.. hahaha so we guess that Jojo has wet his bed but nobody knows, as he was all dry in the morning! Kesian Jojo...you must have slept throught the night with your wet pant and it got dry itself.....I hope you didn't catch cold for this :)

Nevermind....don give up...let's try again TONIGHT :)

Jojo reading :)

Wow! Jojo can read now....I am so proud of you darling :D

Mommy found out that you can read during our bedtime story session last night. We were reading the leapfrog sing-along read-along series, and then only I realised you can recognise some of the words and even reading the word one by one (althought not the whole book)...but it's more than enough to get mommy truely excited to see you reading!!

Here's a video clip to keep the moment in mind.....">

Bye to pacifier.....

Today is the 5th day Jojo saying goodbye to his 'chu chu' (pacifier)....hoooooraayyy!!!

How this happens?
Last monday night, we waited for Jojo to ask for his chu chu....and we already got one old pacifier ready to be "sacrified" upon his request :P
What we did was to 'dip' his pacifier into a sambal bowl, and then handed it over to him. So when he saw the dirty pacifier, he just said YUCKKKK!! and turn away, even calling out "mai mai' in hokien which mean NO! LOL! pretty cute :)
However, my initial thought was this would not last long, as he will ask for his chu chu again the next day and probably smart enough to ask for another new one.
But to our surprise, even now giving him the clean pacifier, Jojo also says yuck....

Hope this continues and he wouldn't ask for it again! :D

自问自答........

Jojo woke up this morning, bright and happy. And surprised mommy with his newly 'acquired' skill....wonder what is that?

自问自答

Jojo open his fav story book, and start pointing at each pictures...
Jojo: is this gingerbreadman? (point at bear)
Jojo: NO~~~
Jojo: is this gingerbreadman? (point at pig)
Jojo: NO~~~
Jojo: is that gingerbreadman? (point at house)
Jojo: NO~~~
Jojo: is that gingerbreadman? (point at gingerbreadman)
Jojo: Yeeeahh...hehehehe..

So cute! Jojo just make my day again. Mommy really enjoyed every moment with you, darling!

Jojo's words

These are the words coming out from Jojo as far as I can recall..... and more & more each and everyday!

First word : BO liao(mean finish/no more)
People - Papa, mama, ah ma, ah kong, poh-poh, kakak, chek-chek, ah ku, autie, aucle,
Fruits - apple, nana(which is banana), guava, pear, plum
Animals - fish, yak, duck, cow, dog, ant
number/aphebet - randomly : 2, 5, 6, 9, 0, A, S, X, Z, R, P..
food - ice (Jojo's favorite!), Oh-ya(junk food, spoilt by daddy), boh(which is bread)
body - nose, eye, ear, hair, mouth
others - out, MAI-MAI(which means NO!), see u, night-night, kun(means sleep in hokien), moon, star..
TV show - Pat (postman Pat), Bob(baby bob/bob the builder), and MAT(kampung boy..OMG!)
4 days ago - want mama (first time 2 words!)
2 days ago - aircond

some which I forgot ( :p sorry baby!) and lots more baby talk which I don't understand..LOL

Eating by himself

Somehow my dear boy decided to start eating by his own!! Actually we didn't plan to start training him eating unaided yet....BUT he refused to eat when we spoon him. So no choice! got to let him messes up his food :P

You can see he was being wrap up like an arabian..haha to avoid porridge falling on to his clothes. look funny rite :) well, the bib can't cover all ma....

And his Ah Ma said that Jojo is a 'China boy' coz he really loves soup. If he can't finish his porridge, we will add in soup / make it soupy then he will eat the whole bowl..and even do his yummy yummy sound .....hmmm~~~

I miss you, Jojo

After 2 weeks in Shanghai, I came back home amazed by how different Jojo has been since I last seen him.

1. He grew taller & more handsome :)
2. can now consistently call out the family members like ah kong, ah ma, ah por, mama and nana (mean milk) etc...love milk & willing to hold the milk botol himself


3. request for 'junk' food and say 'mai mai' (mean no) to food he doesnt want


4. drinking from straw. I know some babies can do it from 6 months onward but not Jojo. So it's a great milestone for him as this means he does not have to drink from the botol anymore. I let him try when we went for breakfast on the wednesday morning(Thaipusam's holiday) and he managed to suck the drink using a straw:)

I missed out lots of Jojo's fun moments and mommy really miss you baby!

Walking unaided

Monday 22-Oct-2007. I need to remember this day.

Reason : When I was home from work today, it was to my surprise to see Jojo was able to walk unaided all the way starting from the coffee table at the hall infront, to the last room behide, next to kitchen. In fact, I counted his steps - 80 more steps at ONE GO...wow! he really did not hold on to anything all the way, of coz the steps were slow and small. But yesterday he was just taking like 20+ steps top only. My hubby was amazed too, his comment : "how come suddenly Jojo can walk already??!!"

I am not sure if other parents shared the same experience, but to us it was like suddenly our baby just grown up 'so fast' and begin wallking instead of the usual crawling he does. And we were still cannot believe it happaned over a night..

Looks like very soon we will start the chasing game...:p time to get fit, haha

(video captured on 27th Oct)

More steps...

Latest count updated by my MIL....13 steps (small small steps la) !


I almost get to 'witness' it coz just as when I opened the room door and I saw him walking towards my mother. Aiya, too bad I only have a glimpse of his last 2 steps.


When he spotted me (just back from work), he decided to crawl instead...


never mind, never mind, I know you gonna be walking sooner or later. For now, mommy is okay to see you crawling around like a little seal (especially in your pajamas) and you look so adorable :)

My first step

Jojo has been able to make his first 2-3 unsteady steps at around 13 months + ( 2 weeks ago)

Too bad I didn't have my camera around to capture the moments.

We were trying to encourage Jojo to do more of these steps by calling at him and using his favorites toys/books to get his attention. but most of the time, it back fired coz he got too excited and decided to crawl instead of 'walk'..

nevertheless, it still bring great excitement to us whenever Jojo make a step or two..hehe

By the way, just for the record he can now squat up and down himself without support.

Now when i look back, I really feel that life has passed by so fast. It seems that Jojo was just a little baby yesteday and now my baby has grown up to be a young toddler. He is even taking his first step already, and over the past one year, he has achieved so many milestones in his life....

Several days ago, I went to see a friend who has just gave birth to a baby girl. Looking at her cute angel, the memory of Jojo when he was a tiny little baby just flashed over in my head, and how I missed my Jojo baby whom once I cradled in my arm...(sign) time really flies....^"^...

Car rider ??

Ah ma taught Jojo to do this, get in and out his toy car.

Butt down!

After some ‘trainning’ mommy copy from the method by mommy WS and some ‘hard lesson’ of falling head down the bed twice, now Jojo learn how to go down from higher level by turning his butt down first RATHER than head down…..phew ~~

But sometimes he still FORGET, so we need to reinforce from time to time

I think he learn doing butt down just a few days before his birthday. (sign..) I can’t remember the exact date anymore, too bad. This is how bad my memory is and since I didn’t get to update Jojo’s blog for almost one month, so lot’s to catch up now.

Here's a video clip I just capture today on his act. Oh dear, mommy so proud of u (actually more happy that I managed to get him doing butt down, hehe) :-)

2 days count down to ONE , wit Milestones Summary

As Jojo is going to be ONE soon, it just prompt me to think that maybe I should record down the milestones he had achieved over the past 11 months, even though some of them may have been blogged by me earlier. At least at one glance, I would be to see how he has become over his first year.

So I sat down and trying to recall back all the progress & development stages Jojo went through, and then I am so glad that I have created this blog for Jojo. Or else I wouldnt be able to remember the exact time and details of his milestones. And I definitely have to thank Joyce, she was the one first sharing her blog with me, which introduced blogging into my life and planted the first seed of interest into me. Thus today I am able to have a blog for Jojo and it helps to note down all the small, little, big and precious memories we had with Jojo until now.


11 months till now

1. can crawl very fast now, even trying to 'race' with ah ma & mommy from one location to another
2. recognizing some object, eg fan, apple etc
3. like to stand up and clap hand
4. waive bye bye to mommy and daddy every morning when we go to work (so sweet)
5. picking up 'chu chu' to put into mouth
6. sayang his favarite pets (elephant and horsy) - patting & biting them hard, ha!

10 months+

1. master the act of clapping hand
2. waive bye bye when asked (if he is in good mood la)
3. walk a few steps, left, right, left, right, while we hold his hand and guide him forward..
4. still like to drop objects for us to pick them up for him..and give us a wide grin
5. I think he started to understand a wit bit of simple instruction, like "no". Last week when we were back to my mum's place, I said 'no' while he was crawling towards a 'prohibited spot', he stopped and looked at me, & then turn and move away from the spot...(but not always works !)

9 months+

1. trying to climb while standing
2. clapping with one palm closed, sometimes both closed :)
3. waive bye bye sometimes
4. a chatterbox whom make lot of ahhhHHH~~ noises to show his excitements
5. start asking for foods from our plates
6. start to accept milk when fed instead of crying and rejecting them ( thank god! )
7. first sight of his 2 lit white caps :)

8 months+

1. standing up - holding to something, yeah!!
2. sit up at his own
3. more banging
4. still hate milk

7 months +

1. master the act of rolling over here & there, wherever he wanna go..
2. start lifting his little butt..
3. do a lot of 'push ups' and moving 'backward" & 'merry go round" :P
4. begin to introdue fruits to his meal, and he loves them (apple, pear etc..)
5. enjoy & clapping the floor while watching his baby enstein vcd
6. loves banging on just about everything
7. start 'cubit-ing' the adults :p
8. YIPEE~~first move 'forward', well i mean creeping la..
9. more expressive ( refuse to be placed down from our arms )

6 months +

1. sucking his lips
2. shake his legs, to hear the sound of his 'long long'
3. more babbling now
4. shaking head (left right left right..as if no no no..)
5. trying to grab hanging object instead of hitting it. better hand eye coordination now

5 months+

1. playing with his tougue
2. pulling his legs towards his month for licking, ha :)
3. able to sit for a few mins with support of cushion on the back
4. lifting shoulder higher with arms' support

4 months+

1. sucking his whole hand, i think he was trying to suck his fingers actually :)

3 months +

1. lift his head when place him on his tummy & lift up his shoulder a wit bit with his arms
2. able to roll over by hiself
3. amaze by his own voice and oohing away by ahh~~ah~~ahh~~
4. hitting a haning object but cannot grab/hold it yet..

1-2 months ++

1. drink milk & sleep
2. smile & cry
3. whole face turn red like tomota coz mommy slow in preparing milk :p
4. signal us with "hmm hmm' sound when he wanna do buisness

15 counts record

This is just to mark the day when Jojo is able to stand up without support for up to 15 counts...yipee!

Exactly how many seconds, tat I don know. ha :)

2 weeks ago, the record was just a count of 5.

Now I am imaginating the day he is walking on his 2 little feets...wow, time really flies.....

Climbing stairs

Jojo started climbing stairs...

So far he only know how to go up, but not coming down.

so he will stop at some levels and cry for help...")

Crusing?

Not sure where Jojo learn to cruise like this.

First he will pull himself up holding on to the edge of his bed, and then slowly place his hand to the our bed before he moves over. (or the other way round)

Isn't that clever ? :)

Climbing

Jojo was climbing up the table which I placed infront of him

My intention was to let him hold and stand on the chair

To my surprise, instead he was climbing on to it so fast..

My mum was watching on him while I tried to catch his act on camera

After the photo session, immediately we removed him from the table

It was just too dangerous...

(I guess soon it will be the stairs..time to buy stair gate)

First sight of white cap

At last we see Jojo's first white cap just before he reach his 10 months. When we were back from Medan on 9th June, Sunday, grandma proudly informed us on Jojo's development :) what a good news!

Jojo has been drooling for quite some time (long enough till I can't remember when) and everyone in the house was looking for "THEM" since then ..haha. well, now that Jojo sprout his first bottom two middle teeth, he drools even more..OMG!

Good thing is that he didn't show much discomfort on the teething so far, and I hope this continues and he would be able to breeze through the process even in later stages..

I was trying to capture his 2 little shinning caps, atlast managed to shoot the picture after a week. As I was writting this only 2 weeks later, I saw his upper cap is coming out too but couldn't get a good shot.

Clap clap hand!

Another acts which Jojo amused us for the last few days were clap clap hand and waiving bye bye.

Haven't get the chance to video down his bye bye-act coz most of the time he will waive bye bye to others when i carried him, but refused to do so to me...so will have to post that next time.

Jojo was trying to clap hand but yet to learn to open his palm thus most of the time he was more like 'knocking hand' by holding his palm tight :)

Ada..ADA..ada~da~~

ADA is a malay word. In English it means "have/own/possess" but I prefer to translate it as "plenty or rich"..haha, coz Jojo start to mumble this word over and over again so I hope it means something good la !



Also, yesterday we heard him say "mum mum"...(eat in hokien)
Ah Ma told me that he could be trying to address me (mommy) coz he said this when he saw a lady in TV whom looks a bit like me hor...really??!

Other words which I heard him mumble before were like..."tata'', "dada","aiyo" or "aiya", something sound like 'helo' etc......so you see, Jojo "talk" a lot now....haha!

by the way, he copies too! (so we got to watch out what we say now...hmmm..)

what do i mean?

Let's say I cough, he will start 'coughing' too...

or I make noise with my tongue with 'tuck tuck' sound, he replicate it :P, so amusing..