Vai: 17 months
Our little one is now just one month short of being a 1,5 year old kid!
How time flies!
Anyway, here’re a few updates:
Physical activities
When we’re in the playground, he’s one who’ll happily explore the equipments all by himself (read: doesn’t ask for ‘help’ when getting down the slides, etc).
Thus, coupled with his naturally-into-physical-activities character, he now climbs up vertical steps and goes down the slide all by himself. When he reaches the top of the slide, I’d often stand nearby though, to remind him to ‘sit down’ before sliding down, as he always looks as if he’s going to ‘walk down’ the slide instead!
He’s starting to master the art of going up those not-too-steep stairs without holding onto anything.
Toothbrushing
After each shower, he’d ‘insist’ that he goes over to basin and stands on the plastic stool to brush his teeth. Despite his ‘eagerness’ to self-brush, he doesn’t really welcome the idea of me brushing his teeth though (ie. looking away after three seconds or so).
And so while I let him hold a little toothbrush, I use a finger toothbrush to clean his gum, teeth and his tongue (where possible).
Language
Whenever we’re outside, he’d enthusiastically point and call out the objects he recognises.
He understands when we ask him to do stuff (but of course understanding the instructions doesn’t necessarily mean obeying them. Hmm.)
When it comes to talking, he mostly says one-syllable words, eg. ‘dog’, ‘ish’ (fish) ‘duck’, ‘ca’ (car), ‘Tak’ (truck), ‘fy’ (butterfly), ‘get’ (for ‘kaget’, indo for ‘shocked’), ‘dong’ (for ‘gendong’, indo for ‘carry’), ‘da’ (for ‘sepeda’, indo for ‘bike’).
Some of the two-syllable words he can say: mama, mommy, daddy, mum-mum (eat), doggy, ini (indo for ‘this’) or ek-ek (indo for ‘poop’, hehe)
Weight
He’s now 13,2 kg.
