Wobble Bear

This week, the flat seems very full with Little Gugu (Aunty Helen) here and with Big Gugu taking a well-earned rest from work last week. I took my first steps on my own during this week. I performed for Mama and Papa when they logged on for a video-chat.

Little Gugu has become my shadow, she gets up every morning when she hears me sing along to Wheels on the Bus so she too could sing along too ...she doesn't know how funny she looks when she's bobbing along with the music ;-). When we are finished playing we sit and read together. Sometimes, I bring a particular book for Gugu to read to me - my current favourite is "Lets make a noise". She read me this a couple of times this week. I enjoyed this so much that after both sessions I would push the book towards Gugu with the pages open for an encore.

Gugu likes to read Wobble Bear to me as she thinks I look like Wobble Bear. I like Wobble Bear cos I'm wibbling wobbling all over the place at the moment. Gugu's promised to send me more Wobble Bear books when she gets back to London.

Everyone is horrified that I put everything in my mouth to chewing: chairs, my playpen, my books - poor Thomas & Maisy :-( , shoes if they are left out. Gugu had to put her foot down when I tried to eat the skirting board. It's been so much worse at the moment as I'm growing more teeth near the back, and my gums are sooooo itchy. Apparently, I now have my pre-molars, whatever they are (?)

I have been a lot more active since Gugu arrived from London. I enjoy rushing around here at home, repeatedly climbing the sofa, playing throw and catch with my balls, playing bricks and playing combat underneath the dining table or baby-gym. With all the activity, I now need to eat more. When we were at dim sum yesterday after I'd eaten a big lunch of my own, I still managed to eat two char siu baos - without the char siu :-). Then I had a whole jar of tropical fruit for pudding at dinner. Grandma is thinking to adding fruit to my dinner menu going forward, yummy ;-O

Easter Monday

Little Gugu arrived from London Friday afternoon, and we have been inseparable :-) She plays with me all the time and shows me how to scoot around the floor properly ;-) ...the floor is so much more fun, and tasty too. I'm quite nifty on my feet now but I still prefer to scoot around on all fours. Apart from being extra speedy, everyone loves it when I go army combat style on my tummy & elbows, and are so proud of me when I reverse out of the way. They think I'm a little dog cos I like to rush to the door when I hear someone arrive, then reverse, rear up and bounce on my knees to say hello. (I have to bleat a lot to remind them I'm a little ram!)

Gugu has taken me out a few times already. For instance, we went to the Jockey club, we also went to visit Gugu's friend Auntie Elsie and her family. I was on my best behaviour and Uncle Lam was so impressed he spent the whole time entertaining me and showing me their beautiful home in Hong Lok Yuen. They have two children - Ollie, who had his 9th birthday yesterday, and his sister Jade, who turned 7 at the beginning of April - three little doggies that didn't stop barking, a pond full of fishies, a smaller pond with turtles and a lovely lap pool. Maybe Uncle Lam will let me use the pool if I promise to be very good and to wear the grown-up swimming pants Papa bought me?

I'm now sleeping eleven hours straight every night without waking; I also sleep one and a half hours in the morning and maybe another one and a half hours after lunch. Little Gugu says it's a sure sign I'm a Cheung. I tell Little Gugu that I need to sleep lots so I can grown big and strong like Papa.......

Not yet walking

I am now 13 and a half months old! Grandma & grandpa think I should be walking by now, but I won't. Why should I when I can get across the room on all fours at top speed? How else could I have slipped into the kitchen unnoticed several times?!

These days I prefer to practise my climbing skills. I can climb onto the sofas and chairs AND get off them safely now. One day I managed to climb onto Grandpa's desk :-)). I'm hoping to get on top of the sideboard any day now because I think there are lots of goodies there ;-). Grandpa can't keep up with me, so keeps putting me back in my playpen.

My feet are very big now and the sheepskin slippers are getting small. Last week, Gugu bought me my first pair of proper shoes, made of very soft white and beige leather. So now I wear it for half an hour a day, just in case I feel like walking. Gugu says I'm a big boy now, so has started cooking me grown-up foods. I love the wild salmon kedgeree and beef bolognaise with pasta. Can't understand why grandma says "Ai Ya" everytime I spit my food into my hands, squish it around my fingers before putting it back into my mouth.

Grandma reads to me everyday. Gugu didn't believe Grandma when she said that I know how to hold a book the right way up, so she tested me by deliberately giving me the books upside down and back to front. I flipped them back correctly everytime! Ha! I'm going to really practise my skills hard this week so that I can show off to small Gugu and Papa when they come to HK next week.

MMR

Although I celebrated my first birthday last week, only now I am now officially 1 year old!

It's been less fun since Papa left for Paris. Grandma took me on my second visit to Dr Bean, a children's doctor. She noted that I weighed 11.1kg, and measured 78cm tall. She also gave me an injection called MMR with a very big needle. The injection mad me feel poorly for two whole days. Gugu says that my body was hotter than usual, and she gave me plenty to drink. Gugu made me drink this medicine which she put in my milk, and makes it taste strange.

My second birthday

It's turned cold again, Hong Kong has not been so cold for over ten years, and I have to wander around the house in a quilted jacket. I'm not so numble when crawling around, but at least I keep warm. It's too cold to go swimming, according to grandma.

I'm chuffed to bits at a present given to me by a friend of grandma's: My very first Mercedes Benz sportscar (of many, I hope) revs, runs and stops all automatically when I push the start button. I particularly like the little man who I can pull out from the driver's seat so that I can drive it myself ;-).

This afternoon, Papa and Gugu organised a birthday party for me, and invited all the family, plus Ella and Lulu. They put up balloons, and banners which said 'Happy Birthday Theodore'. Gugu made my chocolate birthday cake herself, decorated it with a bear, chocolate icing, and put one duckie candle on it for me! I'm sooo lucky: not many a child these days has a cake made personally with so much love and care! Gugu also prepared lots of other goodies for me and the guests, so we all had a wonderful time. I love my gugu!

I said goodbye to Papa before he went back to Paris tonight. He gave me a big hug and made me promise that I would be good while he was away.