Second hair cut

Mommy was surprised today when I was home to see your short short hair.

Apparently ah ma brought you out for a hair cut. It was a second visit to the salon for you since birth. Mommy didn't like the first proffesional hair cut you got the last time, so since then was quite relunctunt to bring you to salon. Instead I cut it myself.

Anyway, I think ah ma still find your hair too long and required a cut, especially you sweat so much the past 2 days coz you caught a cold.

Mommy still prefer your old hair style although it look "chang chang' in hokien :p. But you do look neat in the new one.

before ...................................... after

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.

Bananas !

Jojo loves banana :-)

When Jojo was really really small, everytime we called out the word 'banana', he will stared at you (almost without fail). So I always joke that he would grow up thinking his name is 'banana' instead of Jojo...Hmm, till now I can't figure why he was so into 'banana'

By the time he started solid food already..banana is no doubt one of his favorite item :)

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) :-)

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY !

My baby is turning ONE today :-)

Anyway we celebate on his eve. The beautiful morning starts with me decorating the living hall for Jojo's 1st party with lots of ballons and also I was putting up "Happy Birthday Joshua" from my own creation of 3D wordings on the wall. So it looks like picture below ..ta~da~~



Then about 12noon, we proceeded to the Jenny cake house to pick up the most beautiful cake ever :-) I just love it at first glance. In fact it turns out better than my expectation! The kids love it, the guest too, so definitely worth every penny..




Food arrived at 4pm sharp. All together there were 8 dieshes inclusive of one fruits plate. Looks more than I expected too, and the fact is we have almost half left at the end of the event. Next time I know how to weight between amount of foods and number of guests, ha!

By the way, ah ma also make some 'red eggs' for Jojo to mark the occassion. And Jojo get to eat egg yolk on his 1st birthday :)

I also have some little 'party bags' for the kids, which I packed the night before. When the guest arrived, I took them out to distribute to the little girl, and Jojo was so BB (busybody)..he also join in the fun of throwing all the bags around :-)

Luck thing we have a little helper there to help him clean up the scene, and kept remembering Jojo not to throw...how cute !

Cake Cutting ceremony :-)

1st birthday cake for Jojo and first time holding a 'plastic knife' to cut the cake. See how he posted for his cake blowing :-) so bossy punya baby.

Open presents !
Definitely the most exciting moments for all kids!

Jojo received a beautiful car from Ah Ma.....isn't he looks stylish in it :-p

anyway he just know how to press the hon and buttons, and still required 'full time' supevision from adult to operate the car. After all, the car is meant for kid > 3 years old..

p/s: the car was the most popular item among kids during the party

Towards end of the day, we have a 'present tearing' for Jojo with little helpers around him. It sure looks fun being them :)

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