B turns 2

Our little baby has turned two.

A little chatterbox he is. He continues to surprise us with the vocabulary that he picks up from our daily conversations. But he still is unable to say his "S" (which he substitutes with a "th" or conveniently omits) nor his "R" which makes conversations with him so cute. 

wheeker (whiskers)

delithoth (delicious)

nino (rhino)

I love how he would come up unexpectedly and say, "I love you, mummy." 

I love how he remembers out of the blue something that we gave him and says, "Thank you mummy, buying it." 

I love that he wakes his sister up in the mornings and says, "Theh theh, want find mummy" and makes K open the doors for him. He would carry his pillows, his bolster and his seal over to our room with some difficulty and then when he sees me, he would say, "Not ee-thee, mummy."

I love how he is readily tickled by the silly things his sister does and he would laugh heartily. "Theh theh funny, mummy!" he would exclaim.  

He likes to growl his answers instead of saying it but when we request that he speaks nicely, he would in the sweetest voice possible.

He loves to pretend that he is a puppy and would go "Arf arf!" and somehow use his head voice to speak to me. It's funny to hear him speaking with a really high pitched voice. 

Any corner to him is a hiding place and his "tee house". He loves trains, fire engines, boats, cars and his guitar. When his video has a song, he would dash off to get his guitar and run back just to play with the song.

Spending time with him awake and asleep brings me so much joy. I love watching him pick up a book and pretend to read it. I love watching his sleep and admiring his long lashes. I love that when he wakes from his nap, he rolls onto me or puts his head on my tummy and continues sleeping. 

Or how he suddenly would sit up and ask, "Where papa?", "Where theh theh?" or "Where Chyna go?"

He has so many questions to ask all the time: What happened? Where go? What doing? Why?

I never thought I would enjoy having conversations with little people so much. :)

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Some pics of his 2nd birthday celebration.

Birthday Lunch @ Bukit

 Pasta

Oranges

Your only toy pressie.

The delicious chocolate cake which turned out really nice. All thanks to daddy for the idea. 

You were so pleased to be celebrating your birthday.

And so pleased that we sang happy birthday to you.

And you blew out the candles like we practiced the whole day before.

A kiss sandwich from all of us.

You did enjoy you cake though you liked the M&Ms more.

You are so tiny that you can fit under the table. Next year this time, you won't be able to anymore.

Very soon, you would be having whole conversations with us all and giving us accounts of your day in school and giving us a hundred reasons why you don't want to do something you were told to do. Slow down kiddo. Slow down and let us enjoy your innocence and sweetness for a little longer. 

Happy birthday, darling. It has been 2 fantastic years with you.