Category: Kids

Lia learns to blow a kiss!

One day Lia just started dancing to music! Then toward the end she catches herself in that state and thinks, “what am I doing?!”

Meant to post this on Easter, but the week of Lia’s birthday had tired us out. Here’s a Happy (belated) Easter with a clip of Lia and the Easter Bunny!

Here’s a clip of Karen playing horsey with Lia!

my one year party… there were lots of nice decorations by mommy and grandma…

i was a little overwelmed at first…

but then i was better and put on my hat…

and was happy to play with my friends…

took some picchers with dady and momy…

granpa and granma…

and saw many uncles and aunties celebratin with us… here are some of them…

there was a quiz about me… 

then dady showed some highlites from my first year…

there was an icecreem cake that was on fire. daddy and mommy put it out…

 

the icecreem was good. it was a fun day! thanks to evryone who came to paty for my bery first birday and made it so special!!

Here’s the little kiss given by Lia…

Lia knows where the nose is, but apparently not the mouth…

Here’s Lia’s sign for being scared…

Lia loves playing Patty Cake…

Babies grow so fast sometimes I don’t even remember what happened. Here’s a little flashback to when Lia was only one day old just to see how far she’s come in this past year…

Let’s review Lia’s progress at this twelve-month milestone against what’s listed in What To Expect The First Year:

By first year, Lia should be able to:

• Walk holding on to furniture (cruise). Yup.
• Use a few gestures to get needs met. She points to things.

Lia will probably be able to:

• Play patty-cake (clap hands) or wave bye-bye (most by 13 mo). Both.
• Drink from a cup independently. Yup.
• Pick up a tiny object neatly with tips of thumb and forefinger (many not until 15 mo). One of her favorite hobbies is to scan the carpet for specs of dust, crawls to it, picks it up with two fingers, and says “dirty”.
• Stand alone momentarily (many not until 13 mo). When we went shoe-shopping, she stood more than 20 seconds by herself.
• Say “dada” or “mama” indiscriminately (most by 14 mo). Yup.
• Say one word other than “mama” or “dada” (many not until 14 mo). She says “apple” all the time.

Lia may possibly be able to:

• Play ball. (many not until 16 mo). Yes, although sometimes it goes backwards.
• Stand alone well. (many not until 14 mo). Starting to.
• Use immature jargoning. (many not until 15 mo). Yes.
• Walk well. (3 of 4 not until 13 1/2, good crawlers tend to be slower to walk).  Not yet, only cruising.

Lia may even be able to:

• Say three words other than “mama” or “dada” (half not until 13 mo, many not until 16 mo). She regular says “turtle”, “ball”, “dirt” (dirty), “duck” (ducky), “apple”, “up”, “eeyore”, “bear”, “bird”, “wow”, “baby”, “boobey” (blueberry, once), “book” , “doggie”, “pahn pahn” (means scared in chinese), “milk”, “mouth”, “oh-oh” (with a cough), “heel” (hello), “butt” (bunny), “computer” (only twice), and probably more we forgot.
• Respond to one-step command without gestures (“give that to me”, most until 1st birthday, and many not until 16 mo). We can point to something and have her give it to us, but recently she decided it’s more fun to keep it.

So overall Lia is doing very well with her progress. She is so much fun now. We look forward to seeing what else she picks up, and hopefully she won’t starting walking too soon!

Happy birthday Lia!