{"id":699,"date":"2009-03-03T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T16:18:16","slug":"sounds-he-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2009\/03\/03\/sounds-he-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan&#8217;s Latest Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan is 16+ months now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I would expect him to speak some words at this age but unfortunately, not yet. Either he refuses to or he thinks he might get his tongue twisted. \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 But he sure can make us contented with his latest act.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ish!<\/em> &#8211; When he wants something he sees, with his hands reaching out\u00a0trying to grab it from the table top.\u00a0 He&#8217;s trying to say &#8220;please&#8221;, I would say.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shhh&#8230;<\/em> &#8211; He\u00a0said it with his index finger pointing to his lips or sometimes his nose. Once, my baby niece was crying and he did this.\u00a0 That was cute. But when I showed the &#8220;<em>Shhh..<\/em>&#8221; action\u00a0during church service, he made even louder noise. *Slap head*<\/p>\n<p><em>No more<\/em> &#8211; He understand this means nothing is left. The cutest part is when he can&#8217;t suckle any more milk from my breast, he says &#8220;no more&#8221;.\u00a0 Sometimes when he finishes his porridge, he will hand me the bowl and says &#8220;no more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blow-act.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-745    aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blow-act-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blow-act-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blow-act.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Fuff&#8230;<\/em> &#8211; When his food is hot or when I warn him the food is hot, he knows how to blow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bom!<\/em> &#8211; When I say, Firecracker&#8230; He will go, &#8220;Bom!!&#8221; He learned this from the firecrackers sound\u00a0during CNY.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pom! <\/em>&#8211; He understand this as &#8220;fall down&#8221;. He will tell me this when I warn him to be careful while coming down from the stairs.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Pen&#8230;<\/em> &#8211; You sure know what he wants when he say this. The &#8220;O&#8221; is missing from here. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lion-roar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-746  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lion-roar-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lion-roar-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lion-roar.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Whoaww&#8230;<\/em> &#8211; When I ask him how does the lion roar, he roars for me with his hands raised and palms open wide.<\/p>\n<p><em>Woof!<\/em> &#8211; When I ask him how does a dog bark, he gives me a soft &#8220;woof&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the above, this boy has started to drive us up the wall. He is getting mischievous and\u00a0throwing\u00a0tantrums.\u00a0 When he is angry or refuse to obey our instructions, he will throw anything that is around him.\u00a0 Sometimes, he will raise his hands\u00a0and trying to beat\u00a0us.<\/p>\n<p>When he wants something but we refuse to give him, he will &#8220;commit suicide&#8221;.\u00a0 Haha&#8230;I sound\u00a0a little dramatic. Well, his &#8220;commit suicide&#8221; act is whine and lie on the floor. But he is smart to know that the floor is hard and he should not bang his head so he lies down very gently.\u00a0He is wrong in anticipating that\u00a0Mommy will\u00a0raise\u00a0her white flag. \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 Dunno where he learn this from.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look at him&#8230;how can I resist loving him\u00a0despite all his nonsense?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/good-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-743    aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/good-sign-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/good-sign-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/good-sign.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is showing us the &#8220;GOOD&#8221; sign with the <em>Gong Pian<\/em> (a type of Hock Chew biscuit) in his mouth and turning his head away refused to look at the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan is 16+ months now.\u00a0\u00a0 I would expect him to speak some words at this age but unfortunately, not yet. Either he refuses to or he thinks he might get his tongue twisted. \ud83d\ude1b\u00a0 But he sure can make us contented with his latest act. Ish! &#8211; When he wants something he sees, with his &#8230; <a title=\"Jonathan&#8217;s Latest Act\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2009\/03\/03\/sounds-he-made\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jonathan&#8217;s Latest Act\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-jonathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}