21 Months

Been a while since I updated Josh's blog cos we have been both sick the past month. Josh has been having a slight persistent flu and cough for weeks, and then it turned into a bad one and he was coughing throughout the night. I also caught the virus after having sleepless nites with a coughing and crying toddler on my left side and a snoring hubby on my right, so was on medical leave for quite a few days. I took 2 rounds of anti-biotics before recovering. Wonder why hubby's immunity is so strong that he didn't get the virus from a sickly wife and son.

Just realised my past post on Josh's development was back in May when he was 18 months! Now he's 21 months turning 22 in 2 weeks time. He will be 2 years old in Oct.

Physical growth
Height: 86cm
Weight: 11.8kg
Shoe size: US size 7.5

Social / EQ skills
He is starting to socialise with his peers at Cherie Hearts, and also more attentive in class. Since he is getting along fine with his friends there, I intend to let him stay there till end of the year, and register him either at Little Wings or Creative Thinkers at Toh Yi.

Gross Motor Skills
Still habitually tip toes, but it's getting better now. He can climb the stairs slowing by himself holding the railings, but still a bit wobbly. And now he likes to play the slide after overcoming his initial fear. I plan to bring him to the pool more often, as he is still a little afraid of the water, but is now willing to walk around in the baby pool.

Language Skills
Still super chatty and loves to sing. He picks up songs and words very fast even just listening once or twice. I was pretty amused when Daddy and Josh were watching YOG Opening Ceremony and he could repeat all the country names after Daddy. The longest word he can pronounce so far is Hippopotamas.

Baby loves to sing

What a joy to see my little darling boy grow! Josh is starting to converse in longer sentences and also repeats after what we say like a parrot. Plus we love to hear him sing!


Song: Do-Re-Mi


Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Let me enjoy this wonderful period before he goes on to the "Why" stage :)

ABC & Fruits

Took many tries over the last months to capture these videos....lots of NGs as he will run over and snatch the camera. Surprisingly Josh was very cooperative last weekend.

Josh Sings Baa Baa Black Sheep

This is a rare footage! We have been trying very hard to take a video of him singing but he's either very conscious when the camera is on him or will try to snatch it to view photos. Superstar in the making? :D

Please tune up the volume due to the background noise from the fan.

3 magic words - "Say bye bye"

From a few months back, I've been trying to teach Joshton to keep his toys and books after playing. But on most occasions, they turned into dramatic episodes of tantrums and tears as he stubbornly refused to cooperate, even thou he knew what was expected of him. I would handle it calmly and tell him in a firm tone repeatedly or just walk away if he starts his tantrums.

I haven't had much success till recently when I changed the way of asking. The magic words? - "Say bye bye"... Here's what happened last weekend:

After playing with his building blocks, I told him "Say bye bye" and started to put one block into the bag. He followed suit immediately and kept all his blocks.

Next I tried the same way on his animal flash cards. Usually he would throw them all around his room. So I started with "Say bye bye to your animals", picked up one of the cards, said "Bye bye rabbit" and put the card into the box. And voila...he picked up the cards one by one, said "bye bye (animal name)" and slotted them into the box. Yay!:D

Josh's bath time usually stretches to 30 mins, as he would play with the foam alphabets and bath toys n refuses to come out of the tub. So I decided to test the magic words again. And it worked perfectly! He was such an angel, putting back all his bath toys into the bag and came out of the tub when he was done.

My boy is not quite the obedient type and most times he will do the exact opposite of what you asked him. With this method, he didn't feel that I was telling him to do this or that. It also gives him notice that it's time to move on to something else.

Next milestone for me is to teach Josh his P's and Q's....still cracking my head for a good way to work around that!

2nd week at school

On Monday, I got an sms from Cherie Hearts that Josh tripped and fell on the way to the playground and bumped his forehead. He had a small scratch on his forehead as well. Was quite relieved that it was a minor accident, cos I am still quite tramatised by the last visit to the hospital when he cut his chin.

He was sound asleep when we came to visit him after work. Grandpa said that when he came back home after school, this was what he told them.... "Baby, Kick, Fall, Forehead, Cry". Pretty descriptive, huh!


Josh @ school in uniform

Mother's Day

For this Mother's Day, I got two presents from my darling son. The first gift was a paper flower made up of his hand prints done in school, which I was really surprised and touched to receive. The second gift was a big blue black on my hand :( ...think I got the bruise while playing tumbling with him on the bed. He can be quite rough at times.

On Sunday, we went out to celebrate with daddy's family at Majestic Restaurant in New Majestic Hotel. It's a small boutique hotel located at Bukit Pasoh Road. The restaurant has many good reviews and highly rated, so we decided to try it out. Some signature dishes that we had were Peking Duck, Wasabi Prawns, Shark’s bone soup with fish maw and beijing cabbage and Crispy Durian Ice-cream.

For the Mother's Day promo, a complimentary "Buddha jumps over the wall" was given to my MIL, and the main beneficiary was her dear grandson. After being fed the yummy soup, grandma became Josh's best friend and he kept calling her "Ah Ma". Sigh, this boy is so practical.

The funny faces of Joshton: