Little 时旭

I realized that I’ve skipped the updates on Shi Xu development for few months (After the previous update on language development and his milestone ).

I want to pen down some updates on his development before my memory goes rusty.Over the last 6 months Shi Xu fine motor skills ,language & cognitive development improve steadily.

Scribble ,drawing & colouring
He is able to scribble vigorously although his scribbles yet taking discerbible shape .he's become enthralled by anything he can draw with — crayons, pens, and colored pencils.He also start attempting to incorporate language into his drawings.He always attempts to tell me that this is rainbow ,star ,moon ; that is ant ,spider,circle ,triangle ,singapore flag ,bla bla bla ...Although his draw wouln't look like any picture I recognize ,I totally indulging him in this .He show interest in colouring as well ,despite his colour does not match the real thing , I just let him colour by his imagination .

Cutting
He’s so good with scissors by his 23 month .He refused any help for cutting out the shapes.Most of the times the pieces he cut are out of shapes , but he is dexterous and quick in cutting .

Self-dressing
Shi Xu start do some self-dressing after he started his school life at his 23 months . Sometimes he can wear his pant without any help from us .But he still need to have more practice on this .
He also begins developing his own taste and personality .He will pick out what he want to wear and even sometimes he will mix and match his clothes in front of mirror.He is often drawn to clothes which has his favourite Thomas engine print . Occasionally , he will like to put on his Bob-the-Builder sun glasses and self praise "handsome boy!"

Feeding
After Shi xu start his school life at 22.5 month,he is not as picky and fussy as he was .The previous food strike seem to be far from me now . Especially come to his favourite food , he will happily munch aways them and request to eat more by his favourite "somemore! " . I like to asked him if the food nice and everytime he will give me the standard answer by nodding his head and say "nice!" . I’m so delighted to see him eating. No words can describe it .
Shi Xu has started self feeding with fork & spoon after he started his school as well .He smears over the plate , dish the food up and skillfully put good amount of food into his mouth .
Apart from bottle , Shi Xu had started drinking water directly from our cup with our help since he was 17 months .By he 21 months ,he started using straw to drink . He sip yagurt and my mum's home made Rebena happily by the straw and since then he love them so much . And he is confident drinking directly from cup by his own around 22 months .

Potty training
I started Shi XU potty training quite late . Again , is after he started his school .
Teacher started training him and as a parent , i have to participate in his training as well.I seldom encourage him do a dozen toilet sits each day to get him to learn to relax while sitting on the toilet.As such ,he still has pressure to have a bowel movement on toilet sometimes .
Last month he even has pressure to pass urine .I think he has confliction between diaper and pant because he is diaper-free in school while at home , i let him wear his diaper when he sleep and go out with us .Nevertheles , now he will tell us when he need to urinate ,however accidents do happen occasionally.

Language & Speech development
Shi Xu grows very well in his language development ,he utter his first word at his 9 months old .His Vocabulary explodes tremendously fast .He can name a number of objects to his surroundings since his 16 months .He started speak couplet at his 18 months and phrases/sentense by his 19 months .He pick up the words from us and everyone else around him . he knows to speak teochew( learn from his nanny's neighbour )in simple word , manderin ,english and even cantonese (few words ) when i brought him back to malaysia at his 21 months old .

He is become more of chatterbox ,interactive and curious now. He's likely asking questions in an attempt to keep a conversation going and loves to answer simple questions as well.For instance , when he looks at a new thing ,he will ask in astonishment" wow !what is this!? " .Everything is new and waiting for him to explore .
He is able to answer "What is your name ?" " where do you stay? " and "how old are you ?" now .
He has the cognitive skills to remember what he had seen . For instance ,he will tell me that elephant was spraying the water and the tiger was sleeping after few days we had visited the zoo .He knows to use his growing vocabulary to share his "personal experience " and what he is doing in school .

Wheh he turn to 22 months , he loves to sing and knows the words to several songs.Sometime he will hums the melodies when he forget the lyrics .He is a little pop star in our family .

Personal development
Shi Xu is growing more independent after he started his school , he can take care of his own .He always insist on doing the things himself.Self feed ,dress himself ,brush teeth etc,althought sometimes he is notoriously messy ,but it is fine .He start to follow some basic rules of hygiene as well .He wash hand time to time .Sometimes he probably doesn't remember to cover his mouth when he cough , but when we remind him , he will do that .

He is growing at such an amazing pace. It just a little slower for me to relish the moments .

Shi Xu @24 month