1-year ago versus now

This photo of "Little One" was taken in July of last year:

Look at her one year later:

She's walking! (aka: Waddling...hehehe)

Now, we can actually say she's started to walk (aka: waddle). The following are several photos we thought sums up what she has been doing the past month:


1. She's getting pretty good at controlling her remote control school bus around. "Little one" loves to play with remote controls. She's quite a high tech baby. If we allow her, she enjoys sitting in front of the laptop computer pushing the keys and using the mouse, also!

I bet you're thinking that this is the school bus she's controlling. hehehehe.. Nope, this is not the remote controlled school bus. It's a great photo of her laughing and having fun.

2. She enjoys hanging in the pool on hot summer days. This one is a rare photo of her with a hat. "Little One" doesn't like to wear hats.

3. "Little One" cruising around the family room (aka: 2nd playroom). She's holding the Little Einstein DVD but she doesn't really like it too much. We think that it is not enough music throughout the DVD.
Her favorite and only DVDs she watches is "Baby Signing Time" volumes 1 & 2 and Diana Krall's Live in Paris Concert. We don't know why but she seems to like listening to the Jazzy and deep voice of Diana Krall.

3. This photo is "Little One" walking with the guidance of "Daddy" on our front yard. She's actually very curious about grass and the water hose. That's why she's looking down while she's walking on it.
4. This is a photo of her, taking off from the sofa.
5. She's pondering what she wants to do next.
6. On July 4th, we took "Little One" to our city's annual "Kid's Day Parade & Picnic." In this photo, she's waving her American flag and clapping as the parade proceeds.
On the communication side, she's really picking up the sign language. She's signing eat, drink, banana, milk, more, bear, hat, thank you, and a bit more. There are certain signs she knows how to do but doesn't know when to apply them quite yet. Some examples are Hurt, Sorry, and Please. She's mimicking quite well.

"Hubbie" & I think she has a pretty good memory because she'll anticipate what's next in the many books we read to her or on the "Baby Signing Time" DVD. As far as verbal skills, she's picked up a couple more words this month (i.e. bear - "bearbear," bird - "jerkjerk"(in Cantonese) or "birdbird," and flower-"faafaa" (in Cantonese).

Her favorites this month are: (a)Mommy singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and the "ABC" song. (b) putting things in and out. (She's starting to fit the pieces into puzzles and shaped toys now a days). (c) feeding herself (She's making such a big mess on the high chair.), and (d) having mommy & daddy read Baby Elmo's So Big! book repeatedly.