First words

The bets were running on whether mum or dad would be the first unprompted word from the boys, how wrong could we have been. Today Samuel's first word was Mingyu or 'Gyu'. It was while he was in his mothers arms in the living room too that we heard Mingyu talking from his bedroom and Samuel simply said 'Gyu' in a kind of 'I know who that is' tone.

Samuel loves Mingyu and despite the way Mingyu holds him askew and plays a little roughly often resulting in a grizzle or tears. There are times when Samuel will belly laugh at the slightest thing Mingyu does. Including pulling faces, playing fames or speaking in gibberish to him. 

In the afternoon we drove Mingyu to summer camp for one week, living in Indian tents with 40 other kids at a place called Rubigen near Berne. After leaving Mingyu at the camp Andrew then chimed in with a 'Gyu" acknowledging that Mingyu was no longer in the car with us.