2 years & 1 month old - Successfully potty trained

Started taking you to the toilet since 1 year old + & occasionally, you still pee on the floor thinking you have your nappy on or sometimes you just forgot to tell. You confused because sometimes we still put your nappy on for you when we go out. Occasionally, you refused to let us take you to the toilet especially when you're engross in your toys. Then I'd remind you that you'd pee on the floor if you don't go to the toilet.Only then, you'd follow me to the toilet. Hmm.. So ever since you go to Vital Years, we let you tell us by yourself rather than bringing you to the toilet every 20 minutes so that you recognise the feeling of wanting to pee. Although you accidentally pee on the floor few times, but then you know, in the end, how to tell when you need to go for a pee. Some boys age 2.5 years old are still on their nappy according to your teacher. I'm so proud of you. Muax!

2 years 3 months old - Weaning off & new words

In the middle of the night, you said no more nen nen. "I finish mommy nen nen, mummy no more nen nen oledi". You know how to use the word because & answer ... & that makes me laugh. One day you asked me. " Mummy! Where daddy!?". I said "Daddy is still working. You go and call daddy".. despite knowing that you don't know how to dial the number. You ran to the phone & picked it up. You pretended to press some numbers & said "Hello daddy!". You looked at me & said "Daddy no answer!" & you ran back to the table to put back the phone. Hahahaha!! THe other day you made a long gun from Lowe. You sat on it, pretended you were sitting on a horse & you accidentally hit your willie. You went "Ow!! My Ku Ku Chiow!". Everyone laughed so much. Daddy thinks you're really funny. Jie jie too. Sometimes you just do alot of silly things that made us laugh. You're very polite. You say thank you when someone help you. You used to like to make songs out of the word "Ku Ku Chiaw". Gosh! That's very unacceptable. I'd carry you and put you 2 steps away from me whenever you say that word. THen you'd say sorry mummy. I'd tell you "Ok, JK cannot say kkc anymore ok? Mummy love you" & I would hug you after that. Lately, you tell me "Mummy I no say kkc anymore, not nice". Hahaha!! So after few times of reminder, you have cut down on the frequency & sometimes when you forget, & when you remember, you sort of turn the words into other words which sounds like kkc. Granny said you're very cheeky but never fail to make her laugh. Another word you like to say is "GO AWAY". You didn't someone, you tell them "GO AWAY". I'm also trying to get you to stop saying that by telling you that it's not nice and you make people sad by saying that. Lately, you tell me "Mummy I no say go away anymore" which means Mummy I don't say go away anymore. Hahahah! YOu like to simply walk by crossing your legs left and right. SOmetimes you slip & you'd cry. Hahaha!! You don't like getting your clothes wet, not even a single drop of water & you'd get me to change your clothes. WHen it comes to brushing your teeth, urgh!! I've to put one finger in your mouth so that you don't close your mouth. You didn't like it at all. Lately, mommy pretend to be koala. I'd change my voice & ask "Can mummy koala put a finger in your mouth to brush your teeth?". You'd coorperate with mummy koala more than me. You can recognise number 4,5 & 6, a & I.

9 Days Before 2 Years Old - First Day of School 2 July 2013

Initially, nai nai said to send you to Vital Years on the 1st July, reason being you're feeling bored at home when Sue Lyn goes to Vital Years & you're alone. Mummy called teacher Nicole in the morning to inform her about it, mainly to explain to her your character and behaviour so that the teachers won't scare you off on your first day at school. You are shy and a little timid towards strangers. I just don't want them to be too hard on you, just incase. Seriously, Mummy wasn't ready to send you to school as you can only say 2 words sentence, occasionally 4 words. Lucky for me that teacher Nicole said that there's a crying boy who just starting again on 1st July and she's afraid you will be influenced by him. So she suggested that we let you join only on 3rd July. Hence, I called yeh yeh to inform him not to send you over that morning.

To my surprise, yeh yeh sent you on the second day, 2nd July. I knew only after daddy called me and told me your class had ended. Yeh Yeh called daddy actually. That's how he knew. You went into the class with kakak, explored the plays comfortably. Kakak sneeked out without your notice. You weren't sticky to kakak nor Sue Lyn. Occasionally, you will go out and pull kakak in, but you didn't cry, just calm. During the music period, you joined in with the girls to sing 'Fly..fly...". You didn't like to part with you water bottle. When the teacher insisted, you almost cried and looked for kakak. I guess you're afraid you might loose it. Teacher Nicole read a book with you and she said you didn't reject but sit down and listen. You said 'frog' so she knows you can speak a little, fast but soft, she said. She noticed you like to eat too. During snack time, you walked about a little to see what your friends are eating. You saw one of them having chocolate creamy biscuit and you wanted it. But of course, teacher didn't let you have it but only gave you some plain biscuits. You also had grapes which nai nai packed for you. Kakak said you ate up all by yourself. She's very proud of you. You showed her and teacher your empty container after finishing your food. Teacher said you're just a bit shy and you can understand instructions very well. Kakak said there was a boy who wanted to throw toys at you but Sue Lyn blocked him to protect you. She's a wonderful sister just like ZY and you should also always look out for her later when both of you are older.

Second day at school:

You hugged teacher and went straight into your class when teacher told you so. Most of the time, kakak stayed outside the class & you were fine with that. Teacher sent me a video of you observing at what teacher was doing, very carefully while others were dancing and singing. Teacher said sometimes you walk with one foot on your heel. She couldn't remember which foot but probably it's your right foot. Sue Lyn told her that her bro is so handsome, then you touched your shirt. You cried only once when your friend took your ball.

Third day at school (today):

Teacher said you're a good boy and didn't cry at all. You read, colour, play and eat. She sent me 2 pictures of you standing infront of the class looking at a book teacher was holding. I can tell that's a book about Spot the puppy, your favourite. Everyone else was sitting down. Teacher said your favourite word is "see..". I told teacher that when you say "Hep me pees", you mean help me please. Hehe!

Mommy is so proud of you darling. You didn't cry and you're so calm. Nai nai said you're happier at home when you come back from school and you never cry when ZY and SY go out to Bao Bei.

Last night, mommy exchange your thermos stainless steel bottle with a plastic barney bottle, requested by teacher as she's afraid you'll drop your stainless steel bottle on your feet and it might be painful. But seriously, both bottle weight the same and it'll still feel painful if you drop whichever on our feet. I gave you a little mickey mouse bag too to put your extra clothes. You love your Barney bottle so much that you drank the whole bottle up even after your supper(bread with marmite & butter & half cup of milk). After mommy refill it, you continue to drink. So last night, mommy had to change your nappy twice. Both nappy were very full. Hahaha!

This morning when you reached condo, yeh yeh put your water bottle on the table without telling you. You were saying 'where..where..' and looking very upset. You didn't want yeh yeh to put your bag at the table too. You just want to hold both. Hahaha! I think you're afraid to loose them.

I hope teacher would send me more pictures and videos of you in the class.

1 year and 11 months old - Buckled up in the car

Yesterday, 31 May 2013, Sunday...
Mommy had to send kakak Soyi to Wawasan to clean our house. No one was home so I had to take you along. I tried my luck, I put you next to the drivers seat, buckled you up and told you to sit properly and I'll put on your favourite song "The whale sneezes". Kakak sat behind and we dropped her at Wawasan. When The journey to wawasan is about 10 minutes. After dropping kakak off, when I was driving, heading to the exit of the condo, suddenly you turned your head to the back seat and cried "where kakak", as if we forgot to bring her home with us. I told you kakak had gone to work. Then you calmed down. Your facial expression showed that you were relived.

After that, we went to pack your lunch. The journey from Wawasan to Tien Yew is about 15 minutes. When we reached Tien Yew, I told you to wait and I'll go to your door to pick you up. You waited. I put on your shoes and unbuckled you. Then we walked into the shop. While I ordered our take-aways, you happily wandered off by yourself in the shop. After awhile, you noticed that the waiter and owner were looking at you. Your expression went like "oh oh" and quickly ran to me. You told you to greet the owner and the waiter. You just whispered "poh poh" & "aunty", then pointed towards the door. Everyone laughed.

Done with the take aways, we head off to pick up jie jie from her art class. The journey from Tien Yew to art class is about 5 minutes. When we entered the class, you pull me and wanted to leave. I told you jie jie is inside. Then you paused and peeked if jie jie was really inside. Once you saw jie jie, you went in. Then we went back to the car, buckled up and return home.

Your were yawning but you didn't fuss. You just sat there with the buckle intact. You're amazing.

At night, when you got up the bed, you saw jie jie sleeping there and you went to stroke jie jie's hand, stomach, legs and fingers. You love your jie jie very much. You even whispered "jie jie sleep".

You will take my hand and place it on your back, then move my hand up and down if you want me rub your back. Last night I closed my eyes and you woke me up by touching my forehead with your fingers so that I can rub your back. Hahaha. Words you can say: hep me pees= help me please, gun, where gun=where is my gun, I baby = I'm a baby, I scared dark dark = I'm afraid of the dark, bye bye nai nai, I feed poon tuck = spoon stuck, whisper I want nen nen pease=I want milk please, phant= elephant, fish, mouse, rice, I eat, nice egg, kakak. You love to play cooking and serving food. You're afraid of lizard & you like to be cuddled.

1 year and 8 months old

You're getting funnier each day. You like to manja with everybody.

You can say mama, I want, nen nen, daddy, jie jie, kakak, dog, bit ( bird), rarrot (carrot), beh (bear), kok kok ( knock) and xie xie(thank you).  Other words like good night, bye bye, fall down, come, etc not so accurate yet. I think you can say more than these words I've written down here but I can't recall all. 

You're really good at describing incidents with your hands, body language and expressions. For example, you knocked your chin against the bed frame. You showed us exactly what happened and we could tell from your sign language. Hahaha!

The other day, you came to mommy with tears in you eyes, unlike the normal cry when you fall down. I was anxious. You held my finger and pulled me along, from the kitchen to the living hall. There we stood infront of guilty looking jie jie who was playing with the mega blocks. You pointed at those blocks. Jie jie hasn't finished playing with those blocks but you wanted to play with them and jie jie wouldn't give them to you. So I held your hand and took you to play with other toys and you seemed alright after that. You're so cute :)

There was another day, you saw a black thing on the floor. You made an expression that shows you're afraid & went to yeh yeh for a hug. He carried you on his lap and listened to your complains. You were frowning while explaining to him about that scary thing. He patted your chest and told you there's nothing to be afraid of. The next minute, you came down and picked up that black thing to throw it into the rubbish bin. I took it from you and you got angry. So I had to give it back to you and allow you to throw it by yourself.

The way you use sign language to express the word 'change' is very cute. Also, the way you call mama makes me melt.

Sue Lynn loves you very much and will hug and kiss you so many times a day. Sometimes you try to run away and fall down.