My recent craze is reading the Peter and Jane books that were passed down from Papa and Mummy's time.
Here I am struggling to read the book on my own :
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Milestones at 23 mths
Realised that I've been really bad at updating toto's blog after zy nagged at me the other day - and was horrified to find that my last update was in Feb!! gosh.. but i've got a real gd excuse :P No 2's on the way and due on Aug 9 2009, and we found out abt 1.5 mths ago that it's a boy :) Am certainly not sexist, but it's good to have 1 of each gender isnt it? Only concern is that the 2 kids wont be too close cos 1's a boy and the other's a girl...
Since this blog is all abt capturing Toto's milestones ( yeap.. so that we can have something to compare 4D's development to.. and STRESS HIM MORE hyak hyak hyak... ), thought it's high time to note down the things toto can and cant do at the grand age of 23 mths..
She:
- cant feed herself very well still.. might be related to not liking to eat her main meals too much. The only meal she can feed well is Macdonald's hotcakes!! THAT she finishes quickly and without any mess!
- is not toilet trained (wrt peeing)... is pretty much toilet trained since abt 20 mths old for poo bzness (usually poos in toilet bowl on kiddy seat abt 95% of the time, unless she's got a bout of diarrhea). In fact she doesnt even wanna go in her diaper anymore, and wld rather hold it in until she gets home when we go out!
She can :
- speak in sentences of up to 8-9 words in Mandarin (thanks to my in laws)
- speak in 3-4 word sentences in English (hangs head in guilt.. mummy is the only one speaking English to her in the house, and hence responsible for her slower development in English)
- knows the names of most animals in English and chinese
- Can count from 1-20 in English, 1-30 in Mandarin, 1-20 in teochew, 1-10 in Jap
- knows the value of numbers and can count meaningfully up till abt 10... anymore than that and she cant keep track of the items she's already counted
- knows her A-Zs very well and can give me eg of words starting with each letter, eg A for apple, B for ball/balloon, C for cat, P for Peter/Pat *characters in her current fav series of Ladybird books Peter and Jane, etc...
- able to read a few words in her favorite books.. eg include Peter, jane, and, is, this, tree, toy, shop, book, ball, sweets, dog, Pat, water (recent achievement at abt 22.5mths)
- able to read MANY chinese words (dont even know how to list.... and one of the words she can read, I cld not even read myself.. of cos that's cos my chinese is LOUSY)
- has learnt to talk nonsense and disturb pp.. more egs later...
- asks questions - why, what is this, what are you doing (this qn usually targetted at her fav toy dog)
- mimics whatever we say
- gives nicknames to weird inanimate objects like pens/markers
- has average writing abilities - can trace dot to dot pictures, trace numbers on her own - only 1 and 2, draw circles and straight lines (recent achievement at 23 mths)
- runs and jumps on her own now.
- able to climb up stairs but needs to hold on to a railing
- knows her colours since abt 18 mths.. eg red,blue, yellow, green, purple, pink, orange, brown, black, white
-shows affection very easily - climbs on my lap for hugs and kisses me very frequently for no reason, and without being asked to (heart melt.. hehe.. wonder if boys will be like this too?)
She is also getting very very cheeky and mischievous recently.. has taken to targetting my FIL and says naughty things like "bu yao ye ye zuo zhe li", " bu yao yeye qian1 shou3", and when asked to kiss my FIl, she wld go ard and kiss everyone except him!! so odd, cos both my ILs love her lots and dote on her like crazy!
When asked questions or to do something, Toto has started to respond by making cheeky faces at me, or jabbering at me in baby talk while grinning away all the time (intentionally, as she is able to answer questions with short replies for quite a while now). when she mispronounces something and i correct her, she wld keep on repeating the word the original wrong way.. and its worse when I look exasperated/amused! argh... that's the terrible twos for you!
Toto has also started to show some signs of jealousy towards her little bro.. although she does kiss my tummy of her own accord now and then, she seems to know that this little one will take time and attn away from her!
Recent eg of conversations between zy and her :
ZY : yao4 bu4 yao4 ba3 toto mai4 diao4 ah1?
toto : bu2 yao4
ZY : yao4 bu4 yao4 ba3 Biao3 mei4 (my sil is expecting a little girl) mai4 diao4 ah1?
toto : bu2 yao4. Ba3 didi mai4 diao4 (sell didi) ...
Eg of conversation between myself and toto yesterday :
Toto : (hugging a care bear stuff toy) Mummy hug care bear (then offers the toy to me to hug)
Me : Mummy hug care bear, and hug toto too ok?
Toto : Mummy hug toto, mummy hug care bear, mummy dont hug didi (??? where did that come from???)
Really hope its just a phase... * keep fingers crossed*
Since this blog is all abt capturing Toto's milestones ( yeap.. so that we can have something to compare 4D's development to.. and STRESS HIM MORE hyak hyak hyak... ), thought it's high time to note down the things toto can and cant do at the grand age of 23 mths..
She:
- cant feed herself very well still.. might be related to not liking to eat her main meals too much. The only meal she can feed well is Macdonald's hotcakes!! THAT she finishes quickly and without any mess!
- is not toilet trained (wrt peeing)... is pretty much toilet trained since abt 20 mths old for poo bzness (usually poos in toilet bowl on kiddy seat abt 95% of the time, unless she's got a bout of diarrhea). In fact she doesnt even wanna go in her diaper anymore, and wld rather hold it in until she gets home when we go out!
She can :
- speak in sentences of up to 8-9 words in Mandarin (thanks to my in laws)
- speak in 3-4 word sentences in English (hangs head in guilt.. mummy is the only one speaking English to her in the house, and hence responsible for her slower development in English)
- knows the names of most animals in English and chinese
- Can count from 1-20 in English, 1-30 in Mandarin, 1-20 in teochew, 1-10 in Jap
- knows the value of numbers and can count meaningfully up till abt 10... anymore than that and she cant keep track of the items she's already counted
- knows her A-Zs very well and can give me eg of words starting with each letter, eg A for apple, B for ball/balloon, C for cat, P for Peter/Pat *characters in her current fav series of Ladybird books Peter and Jane, etc...
- able to read a few words in her favorite books.. eg include Peter, jane, and, is, this, tree, toy, shop, book, ball, sweets, dog, Pat, water (recent achievement at abt 22.5mths)
- able to read MANY chinese words (dont even know how to list.... and one of the words she can read, I cld not even read myself.. of cos that's cos my chinese is LOUSY)
- has learnt to talk nonsense and disturb pp.. more egs later...
- asks questions - why, what is this, what are you doing (this qn usually targetted at her fav toy dog)
- mimics whatever we say
- gives nicknames to weird inanimate objects like pens/markers
- has average writing abilities - can trace dot to dot pictures, trace numbers on her own - only 1 and 2, draw circles and straight lines (recent achievement at 23 mths)
- runs and jumps on her own now.
- able to climb up stairs but needs to hold on to a railing
- knows her colours since abt 18 mths.. eg red,blue, yellow, green, purple, pink, orange, brown, black, white
-shows affection very easily - climbs on my lap for hugs and kisses me very frequently for no reason, and without being asked to (heart melt.. hehe.. wonder if boys will be like this too?)
She is also getting very very cheeky and mischievous recently.. has taken to targetting my FIL and says naughty things like "bu yao ye ye zuo zhe li", " bu yao yeye qian1 shou3", and when asked to kiss my FIl, she wld go ard and kiss everyone except him!! so odd, cos both my ILs love her lots and dote on her like crazy!
When asked questions or to do something, Toto has started to respond by making cheeky faces at me, or jabbering at me in baby talk while grinning away all the time (intentionally, as she is able to answer questions with short replies for quite a while now). when she mispronounces something and i correct her, she wld keep on repeating the word the original wrong way.. and its worse when I look exasperated/amused! argh... that's the terrible twos for you!
Toto has also started to show some signs of jealousy towards her little bro.. although she does kiss my tummy of her own accord now and then, she seems to know that this little one will take time and attn away from her!
Recent eg of conversations between zy and her :
ZY : yao4 bu4 yao4 ba3 toto mai4 diao4 ah1?
toto : bu2 yao4
ZY : yao4 bu4 yao4 ba3 Biao3 mei4 (my sil is expecting a little girl) mai4 diao4 ah1?
toto : bu2 yao4. Ba3 didi mai4 diao4 (sell didi) ...
Eg of conversation between myself and toto yesterday :
Toto : (hugging a care bear stuff toy) Mummy hug care bear (then offers the toy to me to hug)
Me : Mummy hug care bear, and hug toto too ok?
Toto : Mummy hug toto, mummy hug care bear, mummy dont hug didi (??? where did that come from???)
Really hope its just a phase... * keep fingers crossed*
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