I Am 3 years Old

Dear all, I am already 3 years old!

2 weeks ago, I started saying "thank you" whenever something is passed to me. If my parents pass me my pacifier, I will say thank you. I can say thank you many times a day because many things are passed to me in the course of a day.

I am also continuing in my quest to be independent and for the last 2 weeks, I had been telling Mama "go away" as I want to try some things on my own. For example, when Mama helps me to wash my hands, I will ask her to go away after the tap has been turned on. I want to wash the hands on my own. Sometimes, Mama will let me but if I don't succeed, Mama will help me though not without complaints and many a times, a scolding from Mama.

According to Aunty Esther, Uncle Eugene's wife who is now teaching in a kindergarten, I am now using sentences. Mama has also noted that I am using more words now. She read that at the age of 3, I should be using sentences with 4 to 5 words and I am doing it occasionally as I am still using 3 word sentences mostly. Last week, I surprised Mama when I climbed onto the chair before the computer and said softly to myself, "Be careful, don't fall down".

Teacher Sharon showed my parents my progress report. Though she had already said it may not be accurate as this is only the first term, my parents still took the report somewhat seriously and that was why they disagreed with some of the things she had reported.

From my interaction with Mama, up to the point when the report was given, I could at least count object to 2. If I see 2 birds in a field, I will say, "1, 2. 2 birds" but teacher said I can't count. This morning, we walked past our neighbour's place and I said. "1, 2,3, 4. 4 birds" I had counted the birds correctly. There were 4 cages hung at the walkway and a bird in each cage we saw.

I also got a little confused with my pronouns. The past few days, I had been telling Mama "help you" when I meant to ask her to help me with something. For example, I had yoghurt just now and I wanted Mama to help me with the little bit of yoghurt left in the cup and so I said "Help you". Mama thinks I said "help you" because Mama will always say,"Let Mama help you" before rendering me assistance and hence I learnt to say "help you" when I need her help. But never mind, I will soon straighten that out.

I still like to share food with Mama. When we went Mac Donald's last week, Mama wanted to drink my coke and this is how I held the drink for her when she drank.

Occasionally, I like taking pictures. This picture was taken when we went Swensons' for dessert. Mama actually removed her glasses to prepare for a shot with Papa but this was what she found in her handphone after the evening.

This was probably an accidental shot of my knee at Swenson's.

This was taken when I was in my 4th granduncle's car and he was driving.

Not bad huh?

This month, Mama also discovered a small problem that needed correction. I am not putting my poop into the potty but I move my bowels only when I am in a diaper. After my daily lunch, Mama will give me a shower and put me in a diaper to prepare me for my nap. She discovered it was then that I will do my poop.

Today, I asked to wear a diaper after lunch even though I had not yet showered. She tried asking me to sit on a potty and I refused to do so. Even after putting my diaper on, I still refused to get onto my potty. Mama decided to leave me to do my business in the living room with my diaper on and went to the kitchen to do some wash up. She was quite amused that moments later, I actually went into the kitchen with the potty in my hands to return the potty to where it was supposed to be placed. Yes, such is my strong desire to keep things in an orderly fashion.

This month, I also brought home quite a few pieces of craftwork from school. These are my foot prints and Mama thinks they are quite cute.

After watching a Peppa Pig cartoon titled Eye Test, I actually tried to imitate what I saw. In the show, Peppa Pig's friend wanted to give her an eye test and asked her to close her eyes, She did as told and said she could not see anything. After watching this for a few times, I closed my eyes and started saying,"Can't see anything."

Ok, that's about all Mama has to say at the moment. She will update more when she has more to add. Thanks for reading thus far. :D