Growing So Quickly

As with a child this age, Gabe has been showing much quirkiness in his behaviour that I'm unable to capture in photos or video. It's mostly due to spontaneity; it just happens and it happens so quickly. Otherwise it's because he's learned to be camera-conscious (fyi, in Japan, he'd give a forceful smile every time he's in front of the camera). So I figured writing about it would be the alternative.

Walker
While other kids go for their plastic walkers, our friend goes for our papa-san chair and his cot! He'd try his best to push it forward and pull it back but always ends up doing more of a taichi style maneuver.

Flipping the Board Books
It started one day when I found gabe sitting unusually quietly at a corner with his Bible Board Book and to my amazement, was flipping the pages in the correct right-to-left direction, sieving them with this thumb! He'd patiently ensure that one page is flipped at a time and could sit there for about 15 to 20 minutes straight. But that was a few weeks ago. The novelty's now gone and the skill's more honed, so the book will probably occupy him for a few minutes tops.

Bus-Watching
Still the favourite. With the increased mobility, he'll crawl over to the windows, climb up to standing position, cruise along and back the length of the windows, and yell "ba!" like maybe 40 times a day.

Bird-Watching
Add that to cat-watching, dog-watching, fish-watching... you get the idea. Helps that he can say "bur", something like "mao", "derr" for dog and phoo-sounds for fish.

Body Parts
He can now identify the bellybutton (baby's, mummy's and papa's) and his ears. Can't seem to show us the rest... yet.

Communicate
He'd tug at his grandparents' clothes and yell "dai dai" to get them to take him out for a walk. He'll make grunting sounds or just sound really pitiful to get us to stop being distracted and feed him his next spoonful of food. He tells us "lie lie" in the car and we look around and find some blinking or dangling light decorations.