All About Bryan and Dylan

Since I have been really busy, I haven’t had the time to document his growth & milestone properly.

Vocabulary
It is really difficult to track what he is able to say. It seems that he is learning new words every day.

-He can count from 1 to 12 in English. Although some of the words sounds a bit like French…haha
- Mandarin – he can do from 1 to 10, his favourite numbers – 5 & 8
- Clock & Shi-Cong (mandarin). He will show you the clock (or the watch) if you ask him what’s the time
- Chi- Cie (self- mandarin). Hubby was soaping him yesterday, and he pushed hubby’s hand away, saying Ci-Cie. Meaning, he wants to do it himself.
- Mo Mo (mandarin – touch)
- Pah-pah (mandarin – crawl). He took his BB Einstein caterpillar toy and showed us how the caterpillar crawls.
- Mak (mandarin – mop/ wipe)
- Chuo (mandarin – sit)
- Kai Kai
- Chou (go, walk)
- Playground
- Chuan Sieh (wear shoe) – Usually it is “chuan sie, chou, playground”
- Lai (come)…eg, “Ee-ee…lai” or “Daddy, lai” when he wants someone to go to him.
- Yes
- Table
- Duck
- Oval
- Blue
- Bicycle
- No
- More
- Raisin
- Berry
- Pis (please)
- Biscuit
- Egg tart
- He can call
o Kor kor (hubb’s elder sister
o Ji Ku (hubb’s second bro)
o Ji Chim (hubb’s second bro’s wife)
o Ah Chor (great grandma)
o Ee Poh (grandaunt)
o Ah-cle (uncle)
o Auntie – this little guy can tell between Auntie and chie chie ok.. The pretty young ladies will be awarded the title of chie-chie

- Points and say the different parts of his body

o Face
o Ear
o Nose
o Eye
o Mouth
o Teeth
o Tongue
o Elbow
o Leg
o Foot
o Finger
o Toe
o Tou fa (hair)

Other accomplishments
~He can finished the sentences for the songs that I regularly sings to him, usually saying the last word for me
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – Last word of almost all the sentences
- Edelweiss
- Old Macdonald – Esp the E Ya E Ya O, and when I make the chicken sound….”Chick chick here,….”
- The other more complicated songs….he’s getting there – Over the Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, River of Dreams,

~Diaper training in progress. We are now training him to wee-wee into a cup. And when he does, the reward is, he gets to flush the toilet after we had emptied the cup into the toilet bowl. We will ask him, Bryan u want to Shee-shee. If he wants, he’ll say “shee-shee”, else he’ll say “mai” (no). If he says no, I don’t force him.

~ He knows how to wriggle his arms out of the car seat belt, and back into the seat belt again, when we scold him…*cheeky boy*

~ He can mop the floor

~ Recognizes the shapes of Triangle, Square, Oval, Star, Circle