It's much easier to stand up if I can hold onto daddy!...

Showing off my new teeth...

Discovering the delights of my toy box (so this is where my toys go to sleep)...

Feeling extra thirsty...

Keeping my feet spread nice and wide for maximum balance...

Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks since my trip to Singapore. Firstly, I thought that I was coming down with a fever because I felt really hot for 3 days or so. However I found out later that our air-conditioning in our apartment had broken down. I did wonder why it took so long to fix the air-conditioning but Mummy explained to me that things just take a little longer to sort out in Hanoi... Firstly our apartment manager thought that it was still working because it was still blowing air into the apartment. I know that I'm only little but even I know that air-conditioners are supposed to blow cold air in and not replace the air inside with even hotter air from outside! Fortunately, following a few stern words from daddy, they arranged for two repairmen to come round. However I then got even more confused, as the repairmen came for a short time but then left really suddenly. It turns out that they had parked their motorbikes in the wrong place and the police had come to arrest them. I thought that they must be very talented to park their motorbikes in the wrong place because, as far as I can make out, you can park wherever you like... on the road... on the footpath... directly in front of somebody's front door meaning they can't then open the door to get outside... in somebody's living room... Fortunately for us, the repairmen used their "get out of jail free (or not so free) card" and they were back to fix the air-con the next day. I sure was relieved as it's much nicer when the air-conditioning is working!

You will be pleased to know that since my last blog, I have continued to learn more 'tricks' to impress people with. My latest 'trick' is to climb up a step without any help. Mummy was most surprised because I hadn't seen a step before and she hadn't shown me how to climb one. But hey, if I can figure it all out by myself, why should I slow down?...

You know what, sometimes I don't understand Mummy and Daddy at all. Yesterday they made me traffic light lunch - broccoli (green) finger food followed by beef, pumpkin,kumera and carrot mash (orange) and for dessert, sticks of this reddish pink stuff that mummy called water melon. All very nice, but for some reason mummy and daddy decided not to put me in one of grandma's 'protect-all' longsleeve bibs (and I have lots!!). As I am still learning this feeding myself stuff and sometimes things don't end up in my mouth where they are meant to be, I ended up rather colourful and mummy had to give me a complete change of clothes - you would have thought it would have been easier to put a bib on, but hey, what do I know?

This morning my friends Lydia (too many weeks to count older than me) and Elena (3 weeks older than me) and their mummy came to visit us. They arrived in Vietnam recently so I offered that they could come round and play with my toys as theirs are still floating their way across the Pacific. We had a great time, and between us nearly managed to get all the toys out of the toy basket - of course this made getting around a bit of an obstacle course! Hopefully we will get to play together again soon as it was really fun!