Monday, May 26, 2008

Angel's Astonishing Progress



Right, an Angel Update. There’s just soooooo much difference, so much progress during the past month, it’s incredible! The biggest news is that she’s started to cruise (walk against furniture) and is very close to walking. In fact, just this weekend, she took her first ‘5’ steps unaided! The video below of her in a diaper was at the end of the first week of starting to cruise. She’d made very impressive improvement that first week. We were all amazed. We were also very tickled to see her doing that ‘hind leg up to pee’ action (something she still does now!)! She’s very quickly learnt to cruise along / over all obstacles to get to where she wants. Her favorite is Daddy’s CD tower so that she can throw all the CDs on the floor; Especially if you say ‘NO’ to her; she’s a very determined and strong minded trouble maker this one. The other day, I noticed that she was inching towards the CD tower, and as I was at the dining table, I turned and said ‘no Seraphine no”, while standing up to get to her. What does she do? She let out a peal of laughter, moved at lightening pace, and practically pounced at the tower and managed to throw a few CDs on the floor (with big force I might add) b4 I could get to her… all while looking at me and laughing at me. Sigh.

Ok another really big favorite in our house (and which really delighted Kongkong and mahmah) is her love for music. Just like her sister and Daddy, she’s quite musically oriented. Whenever any music pops up, she’d automatically move to it, even if she’s strapped down in her car seat, she’d wave her arms and clap them. If she’s standing, she’d give his hilarious dance, moving her bum. It’s gotten us all in stitches. And I bet you too, when you watch the videos (or even better, come and see the real thing yourself!)

As you can tell by the photos, the little one LOVES to eat. She’s a little greedy piglet too, and sometimes you’d see her ‘begging’ by her sister’s chair for a bite of Bibou’s ‘pain au chocolate’ in the morning. She drinks out of a cup already, and at night, she holds her own bottle, though fortunately, hasn’t asked to use the spoon by herself.

Though she hasn’t spoken yet, she’s very expressive and vocal. She’d ‘tell’ you immediately if she doesn’t like it. She does wave ‘byebye’ when you tell her byebye. Unfortunately, it looks like she’s a little bit too expressive in terms of action. She hits (very hard) too often when she gets excited though I’m sure she’s not ‘hitting’ per se, as in hitting in response of her anger, she’s just using her hands to be expressive. I THINK I got a kiss the other day too from her. She reached over and opened her mouth over my cheeks (without biting). Awww.

Oh we put her on the back of Daddy’s bike the other day. It was just toooo cute as these pic show. Though I don’t think she was that excited yet, and was wondering what was happening! She didn't utter a peep though! Just sat there, wide eyed, and allowed Daddy to fiddle with her helmet and adjust her seat belt. Unlike Bibou who let off peals of giggles the first time she was on the bike, Angel was quiet. However Bibou WAS a lot older.

Like her sister, she seems to like animals as the very first time she encountered an animal (Mika the neighbor’s cat) she immediately, reached out and very gently stroked it. I’m so thrilled about that.






Finally, Daddy and Kongkong took the kids to a photoshoot organized by the MESSAGE magazine team. Bibou was on top form of course, given that there's a camera (she likes posing!). Angel, however, wasn't too impressed and preferred to be in kongkong's arms. I actually love the pix of the two babies looking at each other and crying! Daddy did managed to catch a smily pix of her in front of the flower beds!



Until the next update, we’ll see how much she changes.





















Some recent videos of Angel










First, one of her just starting to cruise


















































The hilarious video of her dancing whenever she hears music. (and of course her famous 'throwing down of things')
































Another one of her dancing :












































And here's one of her using her little play table as a portable thingy to walk.



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