My 22-month old Baby

He's learnt to shake his head to mean "No No". When I feed him, he shakes his head, when I ask him to come over to me, he shakes his head and when I ask him to help get things, he shakes his head! Some of the times he didn't mean to say no, I suppose he did it for fun to see my reaction. And he always has this cheeky face and chuckles after that action! It makes me want to shake my head too sometimes - dunno whether to laugh or cry!


He caught a flu virus which lasted for 3 weeks (recovering now). Not good and the weather is of no help - it's record-breaking hot this month! Baby missed some lessons because of his flu.

He's starting to utter more words from his mouth, some were pronounced rather clearly e.g. hi (raising hand when he says that), there (pointing to the direction), A Ma (grandma), no more (with sign), 灯灯 (pointing to light source), oval, 到 (just before getting off cab), Apple (when he sees one), orh orh (he uses this for sleeping and sitting interchangeably), oh no (when things dropped), etc. Other words include bye bye (he says tata), water (he says ter and sometimes ter ter), hello, 面面 (he says nian nian), gai gai (sounds like his orh orh), 葡萄, 蚂蚁 (sounds rather precise actually), hold (for us to hold the handle when in cab), MRT, 豆腐 (sounds quite clear actually), up, down, amen (only once but loud and clear!), etc.

He's learnt to fold his arms. Not a representation of anger but simply to hold things he treasures, e.g. toys, food in his arms and he smiles very sweetly whenever he does that.

During polling day, we brought him to the beach and he had his first encounter with sand. Didn't really like it, maybe because of the scorching sun. Then, a week later in class, he had a chance to play with sand again, this time he enjoys it better. :)

This baby can now activate the apps in my iPhone and close them as and when he likes! The apps he always open are Talking Carl, Baby Dino and the camera (ha, like mother like son! :P).

He's got two new teeth at the top side and I suspect one more emerging from the front. Appetite has not been very good, maybe because of the teething or the flu or is it that he's sick of his food?

He likes to lay around, always saying orh-orh when he does that and would automatically request to go to his bed to sleep when it's time or when he's feeling sleepy. He takes one nap in the day now but sleeps for 11-hr straight from 10pm onwards. :)

He can do somersault on his own and likes to do it while laying down esp when it's time for milk. Just imagine him doing somersaults when milk is brought to him! Ya, milk is still difficult for him!

I've been taking care of him from afternoons since May and I enjoyed the time spent bonding with him. I'm glad to say his gross motor skills and speech improves much to my satisfaction. He's started to take steps and speak more words. I'm going to miss going home to him after lunch when he starts his childcare sessions next month!


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