I am 35 Months Old!

Hi all,

I am 35 months old today!

For the past 2 weeks, I had been using Papa and Mama's handphone much more often. Mama thinks it started during the Chinese New Year season when I started asking for my parents' handphone with the intensity of a pregnant woman doing whatever she could to satisfy a craving. It's like an addiction. One thing that came out of this is that my parents figured out how to turn their phones offline so that I won't call anyone nor send any text messages when I play with their phones. The handphone is really something that keeps me quiet and still. My parents can even eat desserts in peace for some time when I was given a handphone.

This month, I also like to play "stuck". I like to get myself into situations which seems to have me seemingly stuck and I will tell Mama "stuck". After a short while, I will "unstuck" myself. See the picture below, I am "stuck".

And no, it was not an accident but I had purposely put my foot through this grille at the playground. How does Mama know? I said "stuck" to Mama and looked at her to see her reaction. I was not in pain nor in a hurry to free myself. Such incidents had happend a few times.

Mama remembers at least 2 occasions when I put my hand through the handle on the seat I was on when we were in a bus and I will tell Mama stuck. This can be a little stressful if the bus is approaching the bus stop near our place.

At the mention of playground, Mama had brought me to the playground at the void deck of our place more often this month. This is me on my way to the compound below our apartment. I had woken from my daily nap not too long ago and we were going there to blow bubbles.

I am also getting more adventurous. See how I want to come down the slide at the playground. Cheeky, huh?

On a more indoor side, I had been doing more jigsaw puzzles for the past 2 months. I would request to play puzzle and my current favourite is a 16 piece puzzle which has Bob-the-Builder in the picture below. I had remembered the 4 pieces that lined the bottom of the puzzle and named them by a picture on each piece. For instance, the piece at the right corner has a road sign with the number 10 on the board and I call it 10. The piece at the left corner has a road sign with a cat and I call it "cat". One piece has the words "Yes we can" and I call it"Yes we can". i will piece them together in the right sequence and applaud my own efforts. Many a times, Mama will applaud me too when I clap for myself.

Also, Mama thinks I have a good sense of aesthetics in terms of colour combination. Just look at this piece of work below. I chose the colours all on my own! It has yellow, green and brown on it. Pretty, right? :D I can say the names of the colours too. Mama was kind of afraid I might be colour blind when I took longer than others to say the names of the colours.

Papa and Mama also believes I am a technical person. I like robots. Mama discovered this when we went to the Science Centre recently and chanced upon the Robotics exhibition.

I also like to press buttons. I had been asking Mama to take me to the lifts at the void decks along our way home after school. I want to press the button to go to a certain floor and then go out of the lift to see the apartments. Mama was once pretty impressed that I actually knew there was a lift in a hidden corner which I managed to locate without effort. How could it be we both passed here almost everyday on our way to school and Mama did not see the lift but I did?

I am very quick to learn how to operate machines like the DVD player at home. I already know how to control the volume of the TV set as well as mastered how to switch the TV set to the AV mode using the remote control. This is especially important if Papa is watching TV and I want to watch Peppa Pig DVD. I must dictate my want to him by switching the TV to AV mode. Hide the remote control? No worries. I know where is the AV button at the control panel of the TV set.

Last week, Mama introduced me to a new remote control- that of the DVD player and in 1 day, I already know how to navigate the main menu of the Peppa Pig DVD we loaned from the library.

Mama could not remember when but I had started indicating what activity I want to do. For instance, I will say "puzzle, puzzle" and bring Mama to shelf in my room where the puzzles are kept. If I happen to see my water colour on the shelf in the study room, I may want to play with them too though I am not a big fan of it.

I can now jump up and down without holding anything to support myself as I lift both feet above the ground. Unfortunately, I do it mainly when I want to get my way when my parents refused to give me what I want. Sometimes, my parents will give in to me though Mama is trying not to do so because she does not want me to learn that if I do that, I will get what I want. ;p

I can also say all the letters in the English alphabet, count from 1 to 10 in both English and Mandarin though I need some prompting from Papa to do it in Mandarin. I am turning 3 soon... :D