Talking and Singing All the Way

The biggest thing about Emily last week was baby talking and singing. Emily showed eagerness of talking when she was about two months old. At that time, Grandma and Grandpa predicted that Emily would be an early talker. But from three months on, she didn't show any sign of an early talker. I began to doubt grandma's prediction. Emily was quiet until last week. She suddenly took off to singing and talking, starting at "Mamamama" and followed by "Dadadada" two days later. Her voice was sooo cute that she made us laugh every time. David and I realized that the prolonged quiet time was a history now. Emily talks whenever she is awake. Luckily she doesn't scream much. Her talk seems to have meanings too. When she dropped her toys or when she was too impatient for the milk, she would look right into our eyes and "Babadadada ...." with various tones, as if saying:"I dropped my toy and I want it back. Could you please pick it up?" or "I'm starving to death. Can you be a little faster?"... We were not used to this yet. When she was in the singing mood at church when everyone else was not singing, we had to take her out. The most enjoyable singing time for mommy and daddy has been in the car. Emily entertained us all the way from church yesterday.

Emily began to have her own will and she will let us know most of the time. She likes chewing on chopsticks, paper, and hair brush these days. If we take any of them away in the middle of her chewing, she will use crying to warn us. So out of sight, out of mind! The best strategy is to hide whatever we don’t want her to put into mouth and distract her with something else. We were thrilled to see two tiny pearl tips popping up from her bottom gum already. From this picture you actually can see a little bit of the white pearl if you can bring the picture to a full size.


We can definitely feel how strong Emily’s leg muscles are becoming. She's apt to lunge forward onto all fours from a sitting position. During the past week, she did lots of "precrawl" exercise, rocking back and forth on hands and knees or shifting directions by moving her upper body on the floor. These pre-mobile days won’t last long. Better enjoy it now and get the house baby-proofed quickly.

Emily went to a play group on Thursday at Nikki’s house. Friday we met Fred and Fang for Fred’s birthday lunch. Saturday we invited several friends from FriendSpeak to our house for lunch and movie. We had some BBQ meat from a Chinese restaurant and baked vegetable. After lunch, we watched the movie “Facing The Giants”. It was the third time for David and I to watch it. But we enjoyed it every time. All our FriendSpeak readers whom we showed the movie before liked it too. The DVD makes a good gift for them.

Sunday we were invited to Gayla’s house for lunch. We had a long and very delicious lunch between the morning service and FriendSpeak. In order for Emily to take her afternoon nap, David and I drove two separate cars to church in the afternoon. Before we knew it, the weekend was gone again!

Here is a video of Emily talking in the exersaucer:


Babies can be obsessed by the new skills that they learned. Here is a recording of Emily singing as soon as she woke up at 5:30am Saturday morning (Her singing made me laugh so it took me a while to go back to zzzz’s again. By the way, the video below is the monitor in our bedroom):