Mouth like a hippo

Yes, Liem can open his mouth just like his hippo does.

Putting soft toys to sleep

Here's Liem putting his soft toys to sleep. If you look closely, you can see that all the toys are sleeping face down just like Liem.

Riding Thomas

Sometimes you just do things to see that smile on your child's face.

Grace visits

Liem's buddy Grace came for a visit and he talked about Grace for days..."Grace bed", "Grace car", "Grace home" etc.

Kiss kiss

Now he gets two dolls and gets them to kiss each other. Where did he learn such a thing???

Putting Man on Giraffe

This might not look like a strange thing to do but Liem is usually knocking over his animals. This was the first time he set them upright and then proceeded to put a human figure on an animal.

Taking Dog for a ride

Liem taking Dog for a ride on Horse or Car.

Symbio Wildlife Park

These pictures are a bit late. We had a joint birthday party with the Mother's group at Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh. It was VERY COLD there. Liem loved his cake - couldn't keep his eyes away from it.

Letters and words

We were playing with a spare keyboard the other day and Liem showed off his knowledge of letters. The letter "i" is his favourite - it's everywhere and he pointed all of them to me. "I", "1", "!", "-", "_", "\", "/" and "|". "O" and "0" are "circle"s. "T" and "+" are both "t"s. The letter "v" can be found at "^", "<" and ">" as well. Yesterday he pointed to the fridge and said "LG" (the brand of the fridge) and then brought his wooden letters "L" and "e" to match up with the "LG". They do look quite similar...

Liem also swaps some of the consonants in words and is starting to put 2-3 words together. For example:
"Limen water" - Liem's water
"Limen chair" - Liem's chair
"Limen egg" - Liem has egg for breakfast
"Orjen shirt" - Orange shirt
"Mummy orjen jumpon" - Mummy's orange jumper
"Beer" - beer
"Daddy orjen beer" - Daddy's whisky
"Orjen soup" - pumpkin soup
"Orjen mook" - orange milk (juice)
"Orjen ball" - orange

And of course, he knows a lot of food words:
"kaka" - rice crackers
"bikkut" - biscuit
"tanas" - sultanas
"flake" - corn flakes
"bubbul" - "rice bubbles"
"hice" - rice
"mook" - milk
"froot" - fruit in tub
"dried froot" - dried fruit
"sauce" - tomato sauce
"sauce-edge" - sausage
"broc" - broccoli
"tato" - potato
"carrot" - carrot
"corn" - corn
"noonel" - noodle
"shell" - mussels. (Khiem made mussels one day and Liem has been asking for "shell" ever since).

He also came home one day and started saying "mine!" a lot. And then it changed to "mines!" At least he can say "bubbye" now although he still likes to raise his arms and say "caro!" (to get someone to carry him).

Yesterday we had a conversation like this:
Liem (brings over a toy calf to mummy, waves it in the air): Cow
Mummy: Baby cow
Liem: Cow, baby cow
Mummy: A baby cow is also called a calf
Liem: Cow cow-cow cow-cow
Mummy: Calf
Liem: COW!
Mummy: Calf
Liem: COW! COW! COW!
Mummy: Alright, it's a cow.
Liem (triumphantly): COW!

Opinions

We are now getting opinions from Mr Liem on:

Daddy's fried squid - "Daddy cooking make good"

Mummy's fashion sense - "Uh oh Mummy red pants".