whom do i resemble?

The answer is : mummy! When I was young, mummy knew I resembled her much just that I look more "meaty"....hee! hee! Mummy took out a very old, black & white photo of hers when she was about 5-6 years old in the 70's!!! So do you think I look like mummy? Daddy did not have his young photo so can't compare much.

Mummy now understand being a parent will constantly worry their children's safety and even more now lately passers-by commented I look cute, pretty. Mummy recalled an incident 2 days ago while I was sitting on a round red swing at Ikea after their dinner and daddy went to wash his hands, a man (about early or mid 30's) came and said "hello!" and waved to me in a very friendly-manner, smiling away and sat on the blue swing next to me and wanted to chit-chat with me without asking mummy's permission. Worried, mummy quickly asked me to go over the other side and told daddy about it.

super active

@Ikea this morning, happily climbed up on the bed frame. I am getting more active now. A far cry when I was young. I started to crawl late when I was about 8 months old when most starts as young as 5-6 months old. I only crawled within the playmat area and managed to crawl out from living room to bedroom to kitchen 2 months later (ie. 10 months old). As mummy is into the GD method where crawling is a crucial point and was worried that I might skipped crawling to walking. Now it was in the past and as mummy mentioned, my motor skills has already surpased her expectation. Mummy in fact is happy I am more active than not as she believe certain motor skills set help to activate brain faster.



@downstairs playground, 5:45pm. I am able to climb up the curve-shaped ladder-type without fear and difficulty and it was my first time! And trying to climb on the spiral-type. I refused to go home till mummy had to carry me home for bath and dinner at 6:45pm. Now I got more choices to play in the playground as previously can only played the slide.

pictures taken on camera phone hence resolution not so good

肚子饿 (hungry)

This morning when woke up, I said "肚子饿, 喝牛奶”- "hungry, drink milk." I am now able to express more with words. Previously, from saying "牛奶" (milk), to "喝牛奶" (drink milk), now added hungry words in chinese. I was influenced by my all-time favourite chinese book "可爱的小猫咪”。Mummy gave me 180ml of milk to drink and indeed I was hungry and drank all as lately I drink about 140ml of milk only.

Mummy noticed the past few weeks, I am trying to speak more chinese words eg, 湿 (wet), 坐下 (sit down)，蹲 (squat)，弯腰 (bend waist) and able to said it in english and do the action too. Whenever mummy ordered tea for herself and coffee for daddy after their dinner, I would said "一 杯 咖 啡" (one cup of coffee)，"一 杯 茶" (one cup of tea). Mummy is happy that I am improving my chinese language :)

For english, lately like to say "where is the ......?", "that's the .....", "I like ....".

swimdates

Swimdates at kana's house at about 11:15am with mummy's new friend, Aunt Elaine & his son, justin. Aunt Carol & sis megan joined us later but it was raining soon after they arrived. I swum for about 45mins - 1hr and went up to play with kana for a short while whilst mummy had a good chit-chat with aunt eileen before going back for my bath & lunch.

more : 三子经 & read books

I am getting tired of reading the 1st few phrases of 三子经 and mum continues the next phrases. I like to read out the last word of the 3 characters. I spoke very softly so have to raise the volume high.



Read one of my favourite book "Oh no!" @Ikea

trying to read "crazy crocodile" book as mummy read to me about 3 or 4 times only.

I also have my "mischievous" times. See how I climb up the "8" shape partition at Ikea? Dad saw the video and shake his head. But I was having fun and took it as a slide! Mum didn't stop me as wanted to see how far I can go and gauging on my mobility/agility, mum noticed I am very careful on climbing and did hold my hands to support it. Of course, mum afraid I will fall but I have to learn it by myself.

Zoo / read book

We set off to the Zoo in the morning at 9:30am though it was raining lightly. It was my 1st time to Zoo! And luckily the weather was good after the rain, cool weather!

At the kids world around 4pm+ till closing about 6pm. I was having great fun at the water play. I am getting more and more daring with playing water.

We took a cab home as I was dead tired without noon nap. Slept for a while in the cab but awake when reached home. Surprisingly, I was pretty alert and saw one of my favourite book "My Pet" and read it out. As mentioned before, too many times the word repeated, I will get frustrated as shown on the video below.

“紫 色 的 。。。。鞋子” - purple shoe. I know what mummy will ask me.

I like powder

The moment I came back home after their dinner, I said "I like powder" and went straight to my room, took the powder and hand-over to Mummy. She poured some onto her hand and I dipped it on my knee, legs & toes using my finger.

Mummy asked me why I like powder and I replied "mosquito bite".

"Where did she learn powder ease mosquito bite?" mummy wondered and saw few tiny red spots on my legs. She later realized I might have figured it out as recently she will apply powder on my neck and arm after my bath whenever I have heat rash as I kept scratching it when itchy.

Problem solving thinking-skills summation :

heat rash = itchy - (minus) powder = heal!
mosquito bite = itchy - (minus) powder = heal!

I am using logical thinking (left brain). Isn't it?
ha! ha! mummy can even sum up my thinking!

I'm 2 years old!

I'm 2 years old! "muack!" I love you, mummy & daddy! (as shown pictures below)

Mummy, of course, took tons of pictures of me.

Mummy wanted to bring me to Zoo today to celebrate my birthday but daddy said it will be crowded and to avoid H1N1 virus hence postpone to 22/7, Wednesday. They brought me to water-play at Vivo in the evening instead. No birthday cake for me as they don't really fancy eating cake and I won't eat much too. Nevertheless, I wouldn't care much if there is cake or not as playing water is my #1 now! See how fun I was!

Wonder where is my birthday present??? KIV!

As usual, mummy will pen down my acquired skills set :-

Motor skills (mummy noticed I have improved tremendously in this area)

1) I have no problem crawling under the tunnel-type playground

2) Learning to climb on spiral/ladder type of playground

3) Learning to cut using scissor

4) Manged to press open adult cloth-peg on 2 fingers (mummy hadn't bought the mini cloth-peg as taught by the class)

5) Can take out my diaper without help when it is time for bath

Independence or stubborness?? - sometimes, i refused to have them help me and preferred I do it myself. See pictures above walking up the steep grass and I refused dad to hold me and I walked up myself carefully.

Memory - able to recall some story sequence.

Game - "小天才” - most morning, always ask to play this game though most of the time, likes to play with the number cubes and always said "check answer". But mummy said I must put the cubes into the answer sheet in able to check answer. Mummy suspect I knew how to match it just that I am not in serious mode. As mummy has been playing with me the matching game for quite a while, this time she switched on matching animal shape (not the shawdow but the outline of the animal shape). I am able to point the correct animal outline at 1st try but refused to put the cube into the answer slot.

Vocabularly - mummy can't possible pen down how many words i knew but for sure, I knew more english words than chinese though I am catching up my speaking and words input on chinese. Every morning, when I wake up and will say "早安，你好”- "good morning, how are you?". But sometimes will confuse when I woke up my noon nap and will say "早安" and mum will correct me and said should be "午安”. Aiyo! "伤 脑 筋！" - "headache".

Alphabets and phonics - When bath time, I like to take the foam letters and pronunce both phonics and followed by the letter associated with it. Recently, likes to take the letter "Z" and loudly said it "z" for zebra, zipper, zip, "X" - x-ray, "V" -violin, vegetable, vacuum.

Writing skills - though i have not mastered it, only able to write no. "1" with my freehand from down to upward stroke instead of the normal - up to downward stroke. But I like to write no. 2 and "A" and mummy will practise with me.