Speech Development

This is more for me to pen down the growth journey of Sean in his speech development. All along, we had always have the WRONG impression that Sean is a little slow in his speech development. We were wrong because when I checked back on Ern at the same month, her speech was around the same!

Er...or both my kids are slow in speech actually??!!! hahaha...nvm, I know very well each kids have their own pace in their growth milestone. :-)

Things that he can say now:
- Ng (balloon)
- Pai Pai (Pray, and he sure put both palms together whenever he says this word)
- Ka Ka (My maid)
- Pa Pa (daddy)
- Mah Mah (Paternal grandma)
- Por Por (Maternal grandma)
- Teh Kong (Nanny's hubb)
- Poh ( Nanny)
- Ma Mu (Mummy)
- Arm Arm (eat)
- Chit Chit (pacifier)
- Eh-es (Yes)
- Mana Mana (macam mana)
- Ball
- Kah (car)
- Animal
- Mao Mao (cat)
- Cow
- dog
- Fitsh (fish)
- Bird
- deer
- bear
- Ant
- Bee

I hope I capture most of it but I truly enjoyed the moment whenever he learnt new words, especially with the funny pronunciation. These days will gone after he turns 3.

At 20 Year Old

At 20 months old:

Vital Stats:
Height: >13.1kg
Weight: >86cm
Teeth: A lot!

Dietary:
Milk: 3x per day at 7oz each feeding
Meal: porridge (lunch) + rice(dinner) + snacks in between. He loves papaya and banana.

Development:
- When I came back from my vacation last month, Sean has improved a lot on his vocabulary. Words that he can say out (like 80-95% accurate): ant,bear,bee, bird, mao (Cat in Mandarin), cow, deer, dog, fish, etc.

- He found another new love other than flipping the books --> coloring. Of coz our little friend just 'conteng'.

- He is able to draw in circle, means his motor skill has improved than just drawing straight (not 100%) line.

- He is still close to me when it comes to night sleeping me. I guess it was me who tugged him to bed most of the time.

- He fights over whatever his sister is taking. If he didn't get it, cry!

- He loves going grocery shopping with us and we have no problem put him at the cart for the entire trip. One bad thing about him is, if we give him something to hold, that's it! He wouldn't let go that thing for us to pay. In the end, we need to let him cry in order to get the item scanned. We are still in the midst of teaching him "must pay money"!

- He loves playing stickers in 2 ways: peeling & sticking.

- To certain extend, I do find him a 'organized' person. If things are not placed at the usual spot, he would 'asked' us to do that. For example, the floor map that we forgot to put it back after mopping the floor. Or the keys we didn't put at the right place.

- He is able to differentiate the shape of the key to open a padlock vs a "handle lock: (don't know what's the right term)

- He is able to remind us to put his shoes on for him the moment we get out from the door.

- When he is about not feeling well, his first reaction is 'reject milk or drink very little milk'. So whenever he doesn't drink, we will need to start monitor him. I threw away a lot of milk because of this reason but I am glad this is a good 'indicator' to tell us how is his body coping.