@ 16 months: From one to two-syllable word

A few days ago, Le Xuan showed some improvement in her verbal skills. All this while, she could hardly pronounce any two-syllable word except for words like 'yellow' and also 'purple'.  The turning point started from the word 'orange'.  Le Xuan had always pronounced the word as "O", but a fews days ago while I was encouraging her to pronounce the word properly, she amazed me when she shouted, "Orane."  Haha, although she did not pronounce it accurately, I still felt a sense of pride and achievement.  It also showed that she is learning and developing healthily :) 

Over the next few days, Le Xuan also learnt how to pronounce words like 'Ernie', 'Anana' (Banana), 'Auntie', 'Uncle', 'Okie' (Okay), and 'Ai- Pie' (Hi-five).  Haha, I find her so cute and amusing when she learns how to pronounce  these words, and I sure am enjoying every bit of her development.  

Polliwogs Adventure on our 2nd year Wedding Anniversary

Dear took leave on 8 March 2011 which was our 2nd wedding anniversary. We decided to spend time together as a family before we go out as a couple in the evening for our anniversary dinner :) And since we had been waiting for the day when we can bring Le Xuan to Polliwogs, we decided to take her there for our family outing.

Polliwogs was situated very far at East Coast, and it took us almost 45 minutes to reach there. I was glad that Le Xuan was quite cooperative throughout the car ride when I entertained her with lots of nursery songs. When we reached there, Le Xuan was so excited when she caught sight of all the colourful balls and kept urging us to go in asap. Le Xuan was very happy when she plunged into the colourful pool of balls, kicking and picking them up at the same time. Hubby was also busy taking photos of Le Xuan (and also me) with his DSLR. After playing with the balls, Le Xuan was busy walking and crawling all over the place, while poor daddy and mummy had to follow her closely and with our bodies half bent most of the time. Haha I remembered I had fun too, when I hugged Le Xuan and we took a slide down before plunging into another pool of balls.

Daddy and baobao

Mummy and baobao

We spent almost 2 hours at Polliwogs that afternoon, and we could see that Le Xuan enjoyed herself so much that she forgot it was time for her milk and nap. As it was turning late, we quickly carried her to the small cafe and made milk for her while me and dear dear ate some light refreshments.

Haha as expected, Le Xuan totally concussed when we made our way home. Once we reached home, she was so refreshed and awake again, so glad that por por was there to take care of her as dear dear and I were already very tired. Hehe, but instead of napping, dear was so excited looking through and editting the photos that he took at Polliwogs. At about 7.30pm, it's time for couple time! We went to NEX for our anniversary dinner, and guess what, we went to Ding Tai Fung, again :P  Not just the same place, but the same food that we ordered as well, haha :P (and that's pai2 gu3 mian4, fried rice, and xiao3 long2 bao1).  But we sure were happy and satisfied after the meal. Dear even accompanied me around after dinner to shop for some cosmetics before we went back home. It must had been very tiring for dear as he clocked almost 100km of mileage for that day.  As for me, I had a lovely day spending quality time with hubby and Le Xuan on our 2nd year wedding anniversary :)

Our Anniversary Dinner @ Nex Ding Tai Fung :)