Gabe's first word was "hello"-he said the word when he was two months old. When I was in Thailand, I got a chance to babysit my little nephew, Ford, can't remember how old he was then but I was able to teach him to say a couple of words and since then I realized that baby can start talking when they're that little.

I found Gabriel always tried to copy things I said since he was a couple of months old. He was able to ask the question, "what's this?" since he was about 6 months and that was when I started to take time teaching him words, telling him what they are and how they relate to our daily life.

Being able to communicate has made him a happy boy.(That's what we think anyway) These days he's able to say "peace(please) and ta(thank you) when he asks for stuff. Recently just learned to say kyou kyou(Thank you) and it sounds so cute. He's also learning to put words together and sometimes he gets it right, and sometimes we just have to guess what he's trying to say.

Last Sunday at church, he's finally old enough to join the other toddlers upstairs where parents are allowed to be with them for 5 minutes then they'll have to leave their kids and go join the service. It was pretty emotional to me, thought he might cry, but it turned out so well. He just said "bye bye, Mom" and gave me a kiss and he was fine. I couldn't concentrate on what Ray was preaching cuz I wondered whether Gabe would be crying or when those ladies were going to come down to get me, but thankfully that didn't happen. After the service I ran straight up and Gabe pointed at me and said, "Mom" with a big smile and I was happy then to know that he had a good time. At women's church, he's going to join the bigger kids next week, so I'll be able to just concentrate on the study. That's such a blessing!

Oh, well! Anyway...this video shows our routine after giving him a bath or a shower, that's when we learn more words together. Sometimes it's a little bit tricky though cuz I breastfeed him right after putting the clothes on him and he's often can't be patient enough to have his tucker. :D

It's been a while...

Today's our 3rd wedding anniversary and I got the most beautiful card ever with a very surprising gift. Dave and I took Gabe to the park this morning and had a good family time together before he headed off to work.

Gabe's 17mths old now and he's really into drawing, coloring and saying words and putting them together. Every number used to be 'six' and every alphabet 'W', but now he's recognizing more and able to tell some differences. I often take him down the road and he'd walk to people's mailbox and points at them then reads the number out. We made a new friend down the road about 4 houses from ours. Coral is such a lovely lady. She invited us in and showed us her lovely backyard and the 2 cute birds.

Gabe knows that Tuesdays and Sundays we go to church, so in the mornings of those two days he often says to me, "...church," which I gathered he means today we're going to church. I'm happy that he's able to communicate a whole lot more, which makes things easier for me. We're recently joining a playgroup, which takes place on every Friday morning where we join other ladies and their kids in the morning and the kids get to play and learn new stuff and the moms get to catch up and chill out.

Well, I added new slide show down at the bottom of this page, hope y'all enjoy 'em :)

Gabe= 16 mths.

We took Gabe to get his pictures taken. It took quite a long time, cuz he kept pointing at stuff around him and asked the lady what they were...hehe Well, finally we've got TWO versions and we think he's adorable. (I know we're bias)

Gabe's saying a lot more words these days and I've better write them down so we can come back and look at them together when he grows up: aunty, uncle, mama(Grandma), Papa(grandpa), Ah-gong(Grandpa-Chinese), Ah-po(Grandma), Gege(older brother), Jiejie(older sister), Ah-yi(aunty), Teddy Pooh(he calls all the teddies Teddy Pooh, basically mixing Teddy bear and Pooh bear together-you can blame Daddy for that), bread, yuck, chunky, bye Dad, Bob(the tomato - from VeggieTales), ball, bib, burp, bird and a few other words we can't think of right now.

Pics From the Christmas holidays

Gabriel's words

The video explains it all :)