This is me after school when I am a little more than 27 months old. Nowadays, I am getting more cheeky. Just about last month, I actually said "hee hee hee" and faked an asthmatic kind of breathing with it. When Mama first heard it, she thought I had an asthma attack but I didn't seem to have any breathing difficulty. In fact, I was not even ill. How about that for an aspiring actor? :)
I am also learning to imitate the actions I see on TV. There is this Okto channel advertisement which features a crying toddler girl and the question "What can make the girl happy?" will flash on the screen. When I see this crying toddler girl, I will also whine and pretend to cry. Mama knows this is because I had understood what I had seen on the screen. I see the crying toddler and I understand she is crying. That said, sometimes, Mama is concerned I may pick up wrong ideas from the TV programme I watch.
(Mama took the above photo when she was supposed to be preparing lunch and left me to the "care" of the TV agai. Nowadays, I just love to turn up the cushions on the sofa or put them on the floor so that I can sit on the wooden structure)
Papa also commented that I seemed to have understood more of the content of the TV programmes that I watch. One of my current favourite shows is Super Why which airs at 12noon on weekday. It's a cartoon programme that features fairy tales being read and there are 4 super characters who may do things such as change the ending of the story, or switched the words in a sentence around to change the meaning of the sentences. 1 of the characters will initiate the spelling of some words that appear in the story. Mama suspects I am saying more letters like "r" and "k" because I had seen these letters being read out on TV.
Last month, Hi-5 came back to Okto Channel and now, I usually watch Hi-5 from 12.30pm to 1pm. Wait, no, I don't usually watch Hi-5. I DAILY watch it when it's on air and if Mama and I are at home. Mama is such a TV addict and she enjoys watching Hi-5 too.
And, this month, I am pointing to more things too and Mama will read them to me. For instance, I will point to the prints of ladybugs and flowers on my bedsheet and Mama will say the name of the object that I point. Once, I pointed to the sweets in a book and Mama gave me a sweet to help me learn the idea of a sweet better. Alas, I learnt that if I want to eat a sweet, I will point to the same page in the book. But Mama does not always give me a sweet to eat.
At 27 months old, I love to play hide and seek with my parents in my own house. I love the thrill of locating my parents.
Sometimes, I will initiate a game by pretending to close the door of my parents' room or the study. Just this afternoon, I was in my parents' room and brought the door almost to a close. I wanted to see how Mama will react to this. She just closed the door for me such that I was alone in the room by myself and I cried. Mama quickly opened the door for me. I am still afraid of being "locked" alone in my own room. The good thing is, I can reach the door knob if I tiptoe and it will probably be a few months' time that I will be able to open the door on my own.
Sometimes, Papa's mischievous self will manifest and he will hide behind the door with Mama. But they hide in such a way that the door seemed open as normal and I can't figure out they are actually behind the door. At times, I will cry a little maybe because I thought my parents had disappeared.
This month, I am pretty intrigued by the law of conservation. I sometimes put small toys or my tutu through my collar into the T-shirt I am wearing and they would seemed to have disappeared. It also seems to Mama that I had also discovered that the small toys can reappear through the hem of the same shirt or I can retrieve the "disappeared" toys from the collar where they went in.
Last week, there were a few cool evenings and Mama decided to let me wear a long-sleeved shirt after my evening shower. It's a pretty amazing shirt, you know, almost like magic. Mama will pull my hands through the long sleeves and at times, after wearing the shirt, it's as if my hands had disappeared because I can't see them but I know they are still there under the long sleeve.
My song of the month is Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Mama recently bought me a CD with nursery rhymes and she made sure this song is included. This is me, at Kiddy Palace at the end of June.
I was playing with the toy fixtures on some walkers when I heard Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes being played. I actually stopped fiddling with the fixtures and started pointing to various parts of my body as mentioned in the song lyrics. Mama quickly snapped a shot because she thought it was so funny of me.
My parents are currently finding it difficult to dine outside as I seem to refuse to sit in a babychair and wait for them to finish their food. We ate at Mayim restaurant last Sunday and perhaps the food was not to my liking but I actually wanted to leave the table after a few mouthfuls. In the end, I managed to have my way when Papa quickly finished his dinner to take me out to the mall for a walk. Before that, I actually dropped my plastic drinking cup from my high chair and it made a loud noise that could be heard in the entire restaurant. Papa said his "face" had been "totally thrown away" by me. That was a loose translation of his complaint that I had thoroughly embarassed him. ;p
Hopefully, things get better when I am 3 years old. Meanwhile, my parents just have to live with me, for better, for worse. haha.. :)
