flashcards, allergy and ikan bilis

Wow, its been a week since I last wrote - my sister would think I'm slacking LOLs!!!
Its been a busy week - I've been focusing on Lucas and trying to talk and sing to him as much as we possibly can and we are starting to see results! Lucas has started with more new words, tho some words are mispronounced like LEAF he says "if", CIRCLE comes out as "Kirl". He has also started signing new signs! The progress this past week has been astounding!
I have been teaching him via flashcards and baby signs via DVD (I know, TV as a babysitter is a big no-no but he learns through watching the baby signs DVDs)

Lucas actually asks for his flashcards this morning during playtime. I thought he was asking for the TV and the DVDs are stacked with the cards but he rejected the DVD (I normally give him the whole stack for him to choose what he wants to watch) and pointed to the flashcards. I think he said APPLE this morning ("ap") and also tried to say TRIANGLE but I'm not too sure.

Fred took me to the other grocery hypermarket (Casino) - it was a lot cheaper but by the time we got there (Friday evening) they ran out of vegetables and turkey and chicken meat. The hypermarket was big but not as nice and clean as the ones we used to go to. Today we will try Carrefour near Mamy Anita's house which is a 7 min drive.

Well, its confirmed that I am allergic to the SUN!!!!! Yes, the sun! Me, from Tropical Malaysia am allergic to the sun. Its weird I know but thinking back how I used to get "heat rash" everytime I sunned myself by the pool, it makes sense. Everytime I came to France I'd get a nasty itchy rash starting on my fingers and quickly spreading up my arms. We used to come to France during Summer and we'd go out in the hot sun. And last year the rash got so bad, we went to the local pharmacist for some anti itch cream. And when she said that I could be allergic to the sun I laughed! I thought that I was maybe allergic to Fred's mom's dishwashing liquid - and since everyone thought the same, I didn't have to do any washing up after the rash appeared :-)
Anyway, last Wednesday I decided to take Lucas for his walk early in the afternoon around 3 pm and the sun was blazing hot although there was a nice breeze. That night the rash started, all the way up to my arms...

On Saturday as Fred was working Lucas & I went to the bakery for bread and as we walked past McDonalds, I saw that they were having a bazaar so we went to have a look and ended up buying 2nd hand toys for Lucas. It was a charity bazaar, and I got Lucas a VTech "laptop" that sang songs in french and said french words for a mere 4 euro! What a bargain! Lucas has been playing with it constantly since. I also got a Winnie the Pooh bead maze for Lucas for 2 euro.

My books finally arrived - I'd ordered some English novels from Amazon.Com. So I've been reading the past 2 nights after Lucas has gone to bed instead of watching a DVD. AND my ikan bilis and har mai and Bovril have also arrived, all intact :-)
So this afternoon I will make fried rice...