39 mth - Focused 13 mth - Loves walking while we hold his hand, press button, give, imitate

Kor kor has a performance for deepavali in school this month. The teacher taught them the dance steps and Keath was so attentive throughout! He was the only one who followed the teacher's dance steps from start to the end. The rest of his friends were either overdoing things or just standing around looking restless. That's why his teacher put him in the first row in the middle. Good job Keath!

Didi is getting more playful and cheeky now that he has past 1 year old. He loves bullying korkor and doing things that are wrong and then specially look to see what our reactions are. The more korkor complain, the more he will do. Jialat. He is also getting more active. Zeth likes us to hold his hand and walk about. Can see that he likes walking now. Instead of crawling, he will tend to cruise along furniture or wall to walk about. When we hold his hand, his weight is not on our hand anymore. He is obviously able to balance but just lacks the confidence to do so. When we let go of our hand, he will sit down. But I think by next month, he should be able to walk already :) One thing about him is that he loves his shoes, didnt try to remove them even from the first time we put it on for him.

Zeth is also more playful now. He is able to properly play with a toy car now. Instead of just throwing the toys or putting it inside his mouth, he will push and crawl alongside the toy car now. WHen he sees an obstacle on the floor which impede movement of the car, e.g. carpet, he will lift up the car and move elsewhere instead of trying hard to move the car on the carpet. Seems flexible and street smart. Zeth also knows how to press lift buttons and switches now. Luckily we still do not have to mediate between who should press the lift buttons now.

Zeth understands many things already. He knows when we say give, take, go out, leave and simple instructions like drink water, throw ball, no more food etc. He can say a few words now - mama, mum mum, gai gai, bao, and makes the sound effect uhm whenever he put food into this mouth. He is a snacker, really loves the snacks, who doesnt =p He shares though, will put food into my mouth. Didi loves water, he drinks a lot of water everyday and we are constantly changing diapers for him. Approximately once every 3 hours! Didi is also into imitation nowadays. He loves to imitate people coughing, effect from korkor saying woahhh, our actions etc.

Didi is a brave boy! We brought him to the hairdresser 12 months from his first month shave. Haha, you must be thinking what is there to cut when he has no hair. Well, since his hair grew at an uneven speed, we decided to cut away the longer strands of hair to make it look more even. Zeth was amazing, he was ok sitting on the seat himself, did not fuss when they put on the hairdressing cloth on him, when they cut his hair with the scissors or the shaver. He basically just sat independently throughout the session without crying. Granted that he was moving here and there, turning his head here and there, it was a totally different experience from korkor cutting his hair when he was younger! Could still remb myself to be filled with hair last time cos i would be carrying Keath standing up while the hairdresser cuts Keath's hair while he is crying from start to end. Didnt help that Keath has lots of hair and we had to go once every 3 months. Thanks didi for helping us save money on hairdressing hahaha.