A child's laugh

I asked Sarah to bring me some books so we can read them together before bedtime.  She took a long time. When she returned, she had three big books in her hands. I was surprised that she could even hold that many....then she started to laugh uncontrollably and couldn't stop! Absolutely precious that we caught this on camera!

Soup Baby

Sarah is a soup baby.  She loves to drink soup. She loves all sorts of soup and she drinks them out of the bowl.  She doesn't care if the bowl is hot or whether the soup will burn her tongue or not.  She finishes all you are willing to give her.  She has been practicing drinking liquids from an open cup at daycare, so she's putting her learned skill to good use.

Sarah's 15.5 month old vocabulary

Sarah has been communicating to us a lot lately, which is great! I am surprised everyday with the new words she's picked up.  The other night, she pointed to the sky and said, "oon" I didn't know what she was saying until I finally saw the crescent moon.  Where did she learn that?? How did she know that was the moon?? Sure, we've read "Goodnight Moon" to her many times, but was she really able to figure out that cartoon picture of the  moon was the same as the real moon outside in the sky?! If she did, WOW! 

A Letter to Sarah at 14 months 2 weeks

Hi mao mao
Boy, you are growing by leaps and bounds! You've learned so much in 1 month!

• You are able to follow instructions/directions now... you understand when we ask you to bring us something, sit down, stand up, go someplace, put things back, etc. The only thing we can't get you to do is to stand still!
• Your vocabulary is improving substantially.  Sometimes we are surprised you even know the word! You are able to say: baba, mama, ose (for nose), circle, "gor-dough" (Cantonese for 'over there'), bye-bye, mum-mum, duck, nai-nai (for milk), dog, uh-oh, "deet jor" (Cantonese for 'it fell down'), po-po (Cantonese for 'carry me').  I'm sure they are more words that I'm forgetting or haven't discovered yet!
• You don't seem to be afraid of anything (exception may be the iRobot).  You get on slides and swings, and monkey bars if you could.  Not afraid of heights or falling. 
• You are a little bit better at playing with toys. You know what the buttons do and hand-eye coordinate in stacking up boxes
• You are eating all sorts of table foods now.  We're not even keeping track of what you're eating - hopefully, you're not allergic to anything...'cuz if you do, we wouldn't know how to trace it back to the source!
• You are pretty much bottle-free.  You drink most of your milk in a straw cup (Lollacup).  The only time that you don't is in the morning...and that's mostly our fault/choice because we need to get out of the house in a rush!    
• You have 9 teeth. 4 on the bottom, 4 on the top and a molar!
• We are in the beginning stages of letting you feed yourself with a spoon/fork. You already mastered eating finger foods, so now onto the utensils! Your first self-feeding was a success. You got most of the rice cereal into your mouth. Practice makes perfect!  I can tell that you're kinda like a clean freak because you don't like getting your hands dirty. 
• And you think you can dance!  

Sarah loves taking baths!

Sarah's First Steps!

Sarah took her first few steps at my parents' house this past Thursday!!  She has been standing alone 'hands-free' for about a couple of weeks now, but making that first step was such a daunting task.  I see her little toes curl up and her body swaying back and forth trying to make her foot move forward.  It looked like her foot weighed a ton. When we open our arms to entice her to walk to us, she would end up just lunging into our arms instead. So I was floored on Thurs when she took not only a step, but a few steps!! When I put her a distance away from the sofa, I was convinced that she would just lunged her body into the sofa, but nope! She took her time, step by step and walked to my mom, who was holding a remote control to entice her.  Of course either SQ and I captured Sarah's first steps on camera.  We weren't prepared!

But I was able to record this video of Silly Girl walking this morning.  She's still pretty wobbly but doing great!! I'm so proud of you, silly girl! You started to walk at 11.25 months!!

Sarah is Dancin'

Sarah's Giggles

Sarah loves to laugh and she laughs all the time. But the hard part is to capture those moments on video because Sarah is extremely camera-shy.  Once she sees the camera, she freezes.  Her smile turns stoic instantly.  So I am happy that I finally got a decent video of Sarah giggling.  Enjoy this video…

And if you’re wondering what I was doing on the other end of the camera to make her laugh… I wasn’t making funny noises or had any toys with me. I was purely just shaking my head side by side.  Yep, that did it.  She’s just silly like that.

Sarah ABCs

Sarah loves to hear us sing the ABC song to her. Watch for her “bored” expression before and after the song…and all her smiles in-between! Enjoy

Meet Sarah

I wished I had remember to post this video earlier. My sister MT made this for me when I was in the hospital. It's of little Sarah when she was only 2 weeks old. I absolutely love it! I enjoy every second of this video - where has time gone?? She looks so different already. *sniff* *sniff*