In the past couple of months, he has achieved quite a fair bit. The most significant of all is that he is able to walk, without assistance, for as far as 20m at one go.
It is hard to pin point exactly when he took his first unassisted step...though G did upload a video when he took 4 unassisted steps. When he grows up, he will just be told that he started walking at 12 months.
And now, he not only walks...at time, he even tries to run (or maybe he is just trying to catch himself from falling forwards so he looks like he is running). And when he is really happy or excited, he does this cute little rapid step-on-the-spot. Then when he is really upset, he stamps his feet too (yes, like a little girl throwing a tantrum...something which G hopes he will not do when he is older)
Separation anxiety is slowly escalating...on an extreme day, he refuses to let G out of his sight. A few times, G has to sneak away to go to the toilet to attend to her business while J distracts Chen An...and a couple of times, distraction fails and he runs after G, screaming and banging on the toilet door. When the anxiety peaks (some sources say that happens usually at around 18month mark), G suspects he will throw himself against the door to try and barge his way through...
Besides physical milestones, he is also achieving a fair bit in terms of language. He can now "accurately" say the following:
Car
Bus
Brroom brroom (motorcycle)
Png....(aeroplane, with hands outstretched)
Mao (cat),
Gou (dog),
Guckguck (duck)
Bearbear (bears)
Kao (Cow)
Meh eh (Goat or sheep)
Gahgah (to go out - Gai gai in Cantonese)
Shehsheh (thank you in Mandarin)
Peh (please, while he is signing it)
Pa pa (scared, while signing it)
Yahyeh (paternal grandfather)
Nainai (paternal grandmother)
A-gerng (maternal grandfather)
Popo or Wa-po (maternal grandmother)
Lah lah (spicy)
Ott (Hot)
Mek mek (milk from bottle)
Ngeng Ngeng (to latch on for breast feeding)
Tiak (to press the button for traffic light)
Tek (while pointing at TV, means he wants to watch his children songs DVD)
Up (to be taken out of the sarong)
Pabao (to be carried)
Kwa kwa (when G's mum is playing mahjong game and she loses)
Mai mai (don't want, in Hokkien)
These are the more consistent ones...many times, Chen An just babbles to himself. The sounds he make are cute and G wish she can just record it all down and listen to it.
Health-wise, Chen An caught his first flu bug and had a pretty bad case of URTI. For 4 nights in a row, he coughed so badly that he threw up...and many times, he woke himself up when he gets a coughing fit. Poor little guy seem to have lost quite a bit of weight over this period of time. Luckily, the coughing has reduced and no more vomiting since yesterday.
And so, while Chen An toddles ahead, growing more independent (and therefore less obedient while he develops a sense of self), J&G continues to blindly find their way through parenthood. It will be a while more before they can even contemplate doing all these all over again...
