Our Family, Wo Men Di Jia

Kiowa Turns Two..

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My baby isn't a baby anymore...

I just ate a raspberrisaurus

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Kiowa Language Update! 19 months

Kiowa is now 19 months old...

He's learnt so many signs, words and sentences in the last few months!

His first sentence was "Where is the Dog?" at the Renoir exhibition! Made mummy proud! In every room there were paintings of a dog so we would ask him, "Where is the Dog?" and help him find it. Then we reached the very last room which he walked into himself, turned around and said with his hands open, "Where is the Dog?"

He also recognized a women breastfeeding an a painting and said "nainai" (milk).

Kiowa's New Sentences

"Where is there..?"

"This is..."

"I want to go!"

"Let's go."

New words

Dinosaur

Duck (for all birds)

Turtle

Go

Shoes

Choo Choo

o-oh

Piano (in Chinese)

Growls whenever he sees a lion or tiger. 

He also makes a poopoo noise when he sees a potty

New Signs He Uses

GRAND MA!

clean up

drink

finished

wait

more

blow kiss

sleep

hug

rock me

hear

baby

bear

ball

cat

bugs (any insect from caterpillars to bees)

leaf

tree

Ape

monkey

hippo

Elephant

Giraffe

frog/lizard

star

flower

fruit

Airplane

sun

He also made up "give me oral gel" and "lotion on my hand," which is part of his bedtime routine.

Sometimes he waves his hands around trying to tell me something, but I don't understand it!

Signs he understands.

gentle

hot

pain

careful

poopoo

change diapers

He can point to his nose, hands, feet, tongue. 

Here is a link to what Kiowa knew four months ago!

http://glutter.typepad.com/family/2009/11/words-signs-and-objects-kiowa-knows.html

Last Photo of 2009

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I woke up just before Midnight, and instead of putting me back to sleep, I watched fireworks coming out of buildings in this far away place called Hong Kong. I wasn't too happy, but I clapped a little, and minutes after 2010 I (where I got lots of kisses) I went right back to sleep..

Christmas Day...

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Mummy, can you open this for me please? I think it's for me from Santa..

Day Trip into Snow...

We drove up to Big Bear for New Years Eve (day) to show Kiowa the snow...

Kiowa's Adventure Weeks.

These few weeks Kiowa has had many adventures!=

He went to the aquarium and saw lots of fish, jumped on a moon bounce at the birthday party, rode on the pony ride at Griffith Park, went to the park, walked to the library by himself with his cart! He visited the bubbles man at the farmer's market, learned to walk and finally rode a train to the North Pole to visit Santa at Travel Town! Even mummy is exhausted.

More photos and videos soon!

Oh and I forgot. Today while I was putting him down for a nap, I accidentally fell asleep, while he didn't. He then climbed down the bed, opened the door, turned on the TV, found the trash, went through it. He came back and woke me up while holding an empty gallon milk container and pointing to it. What next? Walking to the store himself?

Walking walking walking!!!!!

After taking a few steps or going long distances with his cart (from the library and back!) Kiowa is ready to take on the world in a whole new way.

Words, signs and objects Kiowa Knows.

Kiowa is 15 months old and starting to walk and talk! He took a few steps today when he wasn't paying attention!

He's also bilingual understanding both English and Cantonese and some baby signs. :)

I just wanted to write down the words he knows to say, and the words he understands so I remember it!

Words He Can Say (recognize, point to etc)

Mama

Dad

No (accompanied with shaking his head a lot)

Yes (yeas -accompanied with moving up and down with his hands out)

num num (food)

nainai (milk)

Dog

Cat

Yu (fish) (his favorite right now)

Car

nananana (banana)

Dung (light)

Wha--t dat (we think)

Things he can  point to in books or real life if asked

Where is? hai been do ah?  (in Cantonese)

Ball (In Cantonese)

Bear Bear (in Cantonese) 

Bird/jek jai (both)

Train/for che (both)

Things he recognizes in books and real life

Trucks (he LOVES these)

bicycles

balloons

bubbles

Giraffes

Phases he understands, can do

Stop/ting (not for long)

pak sao/clap (clap his hands)

Say Bye Bye (waves)

Dung (Wait, for two seconds only!)

siu sum (be careful)

Dance (bounces up and down, but only if music is on)

Up (he stops going down to crawl if I say "up" and stands back up again)

Go over there (only when daddy tells him. He ignores me)

Lei la (come here, if I am signing as well)

Signs he understands

Come here

Train

Big

Finished

Turtle (starting to)

I also gave him a really bad hair cut today. Traditional Chinese Bowl Cuts don't work on his soft hair.

Little Drummer Boy

Kiowa is really musical, he loves to sing (badly), dance (bobbing up and down) and play musical instruments (yes he does.) Here Kiowa is practicing for his future plan -to become the next Blue Wiggle...

After the hard drive hit capacity, I couldn't upload any photos and videos. Then it died (don't worry I got copies of the photos) so now the blog is up again.

Kiowa is the Great Pumpkin.

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Smiley Kiowa

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Kiowa plays with his friend Zowen

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Mother's Day

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Am I a Fish?

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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!