I am 29 Month Old

Dear all,

I am 29 months old. The month that just passed, I had been venturing quite often into the the forbidden area in the house - the kitchen. Somehow, the gate was not locked and I had been able to find my way in. But you can see from the picture below that I am not welcomed in the kitchen. ;p

The song of the month is Where is Thumbkin. I will ask Mama to sing it by saying "head" in a slightly higher pitched voice but at the same time, I will curl my fingers as it's part of the thumbkin song action. So Mama will sing the song for me. When she comes the ending part of the song which goes "run away, run away", I will put my hands behind my back. :)

For those who are unfamiliar with this song, the tune of the song has a set of very well-known Mandarin lyrics and is titled Three Tigers (三只老虎) .

Mow, Mama is trying to share another song with me. This song is titled God is So Good. It has simple hand actions that I can follow. Hopefully, this will be my song of the month in the coming days.

This month, I am really talking a lot more by babbling and not only that, I am really picking up words after hearing them. For example, when a character on TV says Hi, I said Hi as well. This morning, when Mama gave me Oreo cookies, Mama said this is "oreo" and I said the word"oreo" after her. Then again, I had not said "oreo" anymore and Mama is not exactly sure if I had really learnt what "oreo" is about. Still, this is a very exciting time for Mama and Papa. :)

Last month, I also learnt to pick up more in the area of reading. I can now recognise the letters, "E", "R", "I", and "P". Mama had shown me these letters from sources such as her bus card, posters on the wall and I had been able to point them out. Mama would very often applaud my efforts and I had also learnt to do so myself. On my own, I would actually point to some letters and read them out and then applaud myself. Mama is always amused to see me doing this. Who cares about self-praise is no praise.. ;p

Also, I have this book titled First Book of Letters and it shows many objects inside. When Mama opens this book with me, I very often point correctly to apple, bear, boy, ball, balloon, bear, banana, cat, dog, car (and even say the word "car"), jelly and mushroom. There are other objects in the book that Mama will read to me as I point them out to her.

2 weeks ago, Mama borrowed a lift-the-flap book titled No Bed Without Ted. It was about this girl who could not find her teddy bear when it came to her bedtime and finally, her mum took it down from the laundry line and she could finally go to bed with her Ted. This is supposed to be a nice bed time story and Mama did read it with me for quite a few evenings. But the story did not make me feel sleepy. What Mama found interesting was how I remembered the content of the story.

There was this page about the girl who sat at her bed but she will not get into it as she could not find Ted. She had a tear drop on her face and Mama told me she was crying. It seems like from then onwards, when we read the book together, I will turn to that page and then pout and pretend to cry (whine). Mama is impressed that I had remembered the mood of that page.

There was this page when the mother of the girl asked the girl to open the shutters and there were 2 flaps which were meant for readers to lift as if one is opening the shutters. Somehow, I will always turn to this page too whenever I read this book. I even pulled out one of the flaps from the book. (oops, don't tell anyone)

This month, I also took the initiative to turn off the TV when I had enough of it. Mama noticed this when I once turned off the TV on my own after it had been switched on for about 2-3 hours. Perhaps I am not really a TV addict afterall. It's just that no one switches it off and so I will continue to watch or leave it on while I play with my toys. Once, Mama let me watch TV while she prepared my bath but I actually switched off the power and came to see Mama prepare my bath. Mama is happy that I can switch off the TV without she telling me to do so.

Talking about having enough, last month, I actually informed my parents that I had enough ice cream. We were eating gelato ice cream at Yew Tee Point. After a couple of spoons of ice cream, I just refused to eat anymore. Mama wondered could it be that I belong to a rare breed of kid who did not like ice cream. That will indeed be very unusual. Perhaps, the flavour was not to my liking because a few days later, my parents and I shared a Mac Donald's ice cream cone. Perhaps, I really like my ice cream to be really sweet. :D

Last month, I also succeeded in blowing out candles on my own for the first time. It happened last week when Mama and I were at home on our own. But that will be another post for another day. Mama took a video of it.

Ok, thanks again for reading so far. Mama will update about my development when she can. Do feel free to drop a comment. See ya. :)