the jellyball family blog

There was a great deal of celebrating after every successful trip to the potty, especially at the beginning of Noah's potty training. Noah loves the wild clapping and cheering, and does this awesome dramatic bowing in the midst of the celebrating.

(Also, here is Caleb test driving his new shoes.)

So I tried to get the boys to sing one of their favourite songs together, but it would appear that Noah is quite adamant (a la "talk to the hand!") that he only does solos. In the video, he says "Non, Noah chanter, Caleb!" ("No, Noah sing, Caleb!") while waving his little diva hand.

Also interesting to note is that Noah sings the song in English but subs in French animal names. Sometimes when I try to correct him with the right English name, he gives me attitude.

Sorry for the weird video size, I had to do some weird stuff to compress it down from 175 megs.

Back by popular demand, I give you, Pamplemousse: The Sequel! (It's a sequel to this.)

Heck. Why stop there - let's make it a trilogy! Noah gives "pamplemousse" (French for grapefruit) a try.

Boy, is he ever getting good.

It's official - Noah walks! from knguyen on Vimeo.

Noah walks, then goes ba-boom from knguyen on Vimeo.

Every once and a while, there is a word that Caleb really mispronounces. This, one, however, really cracks us up so we have him say it all the time.

(Pamplemousse is French for grapefruit, and in the video below, Caleb keeps saying "voir photo", meaning "see photo" because he thinks I'm taking a picture.)

How you really say "pamplemousse" from knguyen on Vimeo.

Are we the only ones who find this funny?

Over a year ago, a friend of a friend turned us onto a site called Starfall, which has a great section that teaches the alphabet. We got hooked on this alphabet song, which goes through the entire alphabet, stating first the letter, then making the sound, then giving a word that starts with that letter. A year later, and lots of singing later, Caleb knows the entire song by heart. A few weeks ago I shot this video of him singing the song with me.

It probably helps to have this cheat sheet of what it is he's actually saying:

alligator, ball, computer, doll, elephant, fingers, gumballs, helicopter, itchy, jump, keys, lollipop, monkey, no, octopus, pizza, queen, rain, snake, tiger, up, vacuum, windows, ox, yawn, zipper

Caleb's rendition of the Starfall ABC song from knguyen on Vimeo.

And during a recent visit to a friend's place in Montreal, Caleb dazzled the crowd (ok, maybe just me) with his unplugged version of the song:

Caleb hits the mike from knguyen on Vimeo.

This kid cracks me up.

I am guilty of taking videos of Noah but not having time to compile or produce them into anything decent. Ah yes, the dreaded second child syndrome.

But! The other day I captured some footage of him babbling away and thought this one would be simple to share - no post production required!

Noah's got a great little voice, it's so sweet. There's a lot of juicy purring, blowing of raspberries, high pitched squealing, and this almost whisper-like "fa fa fa" and "va va va" kind of sound that he makes when he's content.

Noah's little voice from knguyen on Vimeo.