21 Month Old

At 21 months old:

Vital Stats:
Height: 13.6kg
Weight: 88cm
Teeth: A lot!

Dietary:
Milk: 3x per day at 7oz each feeding
Meal: porridge (lunch) + rice(dinner) + snacks in between. This guy loves bread

Development:
- Speech development would be the biggest milestone for this month because he is starting to repeat after what we want him to say. this is really a fun time because we get to laugh whenever he says something funny. The latest that we are teaching him right now is numbers in 3 languages - English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

- He is still that bad temper when it comes to "I want my thing'! He will 'show' his anger by raising his hand and hit us.

- I have started naughty corner on him. He was "more than willing" to stand at the naughty corner for a good 20+ minutes and entertained himself (dancing and sitting doing something). Really cannot tahan with this little boy. Only after I 'confronted" him if he could repeat his act, then baru he cried, ran to me and hugged me for forgiveness. VERY stubborn boy.

- His learning speed is faster compare with his che che. On most occasion, I just need to teach him once and he is able to do things. For example, I just need to show him once on my iPhone how to play a baby puzzle, he is able to slide the animal and place on the right box.

- He is able to balance himself well and ride on the kiddy bike alone, operated by battery type. He is able to move the 'sterling" although the sense of direction still out a bit! Considering at this age, not bad. Talking about bike, I told his daddy this boy will grown up a "tekan minyak kaki" because he moved his body forward and lift his butt up during the ride, as in to help him speed up!! Will see.

- He is able to play the puzzle set pretty well. The puzzle set that i have introduced to him are 1) matching the animal with their house 2) pair the same animal of a mother & child (like dog and puppy). I am in the midst of teaching him 'opposite'.

- When it comes to the last night feeding (around 9pm), he is willing to drop the toys/books that he is half way doing, took a pillow and lye down waiting for us to give him the bottle. it's fun seeing that actually...but i tell you, if he is not coping well, there is NO WAY we can force him to even drink a sip! So we more or less know this guy is someone cannot be 'forced'!!

- He is in the stage of mimic what his sis is doing. Mimic EVERYTHING and at times, they will fight after playing for a while. So we will hear 1 crying (Sean) and 1 complain person (his sis). It's noisy at times but that's part of sibling growing up together.

Scrapbook Credits:
Flower by krista
Stitch by Cynthia Sanchez
Papers by Sharon Kenealy

Yay!!!

Honestly, taking children photo never easy! It needs lot of patience , especially when you need to get 2 kids (or more) together in a picture!

The composition you had in your mind on how you want to take a picture can hardly happen on young children because they RUN everywhere and get distracted easily!! Just when you about done on the setting on your camera, they are gone! So, it's all about impromptu!

I love the facial expression of Sean in this picture! He is SO happy.

I brought the kids to the nearby park one of the Sunday evenings. I find this is a good outdoor activity because I can drain the kids out (of coz they have their share of fun) and call a day off early like 9pm.

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.

He Is A Real Cool Boy

Sean started to become cool(like his daddy) after turning 14 months, I think.

He doesn't smile or react to strangers but just stare. Even I asked him to say hi, he didn't want to but just 'entertain' his mum by lifting his hand up to say hi. You know, just like how we the adults say hi to somebody from far type. Because of that, it makes him a little less 'popular' & adorable compare to his Che Che, Ching Ern.

When he doesn't smile, it makes him look VERY cool and 'fierce'. He only smile and say the word "hi" to the family members and nanny's family! He has "preference'.

Because of that, taking his photos are challenging. Most of them are no facial expression (like the above) from him!!!! hahaha...

This has sort of become his trademark!

My Angel, My Devil

He can be a sweet boy and an angel to you. His innocent smile can melt your heart down:-)




The next minute, he is like a little devil that drive you to the wall!

18 & 19 Months Updates

I was VERY tight up with personal and office work. Timing is always that bad when you need to go on vacation, then something pop up! It has been always the case! *argh!*

Honestly, I can't recall what were his exact accomplishment for Month 18. So I decided to combine this 2 months together.

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

Dietary:
Milk: 3x per day at 7oz each feeding
Meal: porridge (lunch) + rice(dinner) + snack in between. He likes "Siew Mai"

Development:
- He almost stopped pinching on our arm in order to go to sleep. As long as we sleep next to him, he is ok.

- He is a strong boy because whenever he pushed his sister, either she will fall down or go out of balance.

- He can be a big eater as he can finish 1.5 plate of porridge. BUT...when he is sick, he eats like a kitten. So I labeled his tummy as 'scalable tummy', just like his dad. Can eat a lot or eat very little type!

- His vocab is slow although he understands FULLY on our instruction. At times when we ask him to repeat after us, we easily need to say 5 times, then only he say once!

- He doesn't say the word "bye" to strangers but only to the family members. He will just raise his hand to say bye, the type where you say bye to someone far from you. Cool boy, I tell you.

- He doesn't smile to stranger even if he is being tickle/play with. All he does just stare at you! Just like his daddy!

- He enjoyed brushing his teeth sessions twice per day (i haven't introduce toothpaste). Just brush the teeth and gaggle. Oh well, he did very well on the first day when I asked him to gaggle. I only use boiled water for 3 days on him. Now, he is fully on tap water as we know he won't swallow down.

- He is a book lover, even he can flip the book upside down!

- After seeing his sister on coloring, he is into it too! We are careful on him for now, worrying he may accidentally get poke from the crayon/color pencil. So he needs to be supervised whenever he is coloring.

- To certain extend, nanny said he is a very "organized" person. When the usual stuffs are not display in the usual order, he will 'ask' us to put things back, like our floor map, keys, etc

- He loves chocolate and knows when to ask from Kong Kong!

- He gets VERY excited whenever he sees any animal, especially bird, cat and dog! He will shout, move and point, 'telling' us to look at it.

- He is a stubborn head. He will whine until he gets the things he wanted. It's not easy to divert his attention or we substitute him with other thing. Most of the time, we give in because he cried SO LOUD!

- His concentration span is still short. He is more visual than listening. Well, at this age, I don't expect much.

- When he fell down and hit on something, he will go to tell EVERYONE in the house. :-)

- When we play a fast beat music, he will move his butt and 'dance'. His dance = bending both knees!