Saturday, January 14, 2006

18 months: not easy to get his attention

Went to the 18 months assessment, they were looking for 4 things (1)understanding the different body parts (2) kick a ball (3) draw with a pencil (4) stack three blocks. When asking him to kick a ball he went to the bead runner toy instead, therefore we showed him how to stack three blocks and hoping he would copy the task, he was trying to kick the blocks instead, and then when he was sitted and presented a pencil and a piece of paper, he held the wrong end of the pencil to attempt scribbing. Didnt bother me as I think he will learn to do those things eventually its just a matter of time.

Outside of the formal 18-mths assessments, he is able to say the sequence one, two, three(sometimes says hee), four(sometimes says whor), five(something similar), six, eight, nine and ten. I heard him say "F" and "Q" today. He is suddenly very interested in junior puzzles again. His volcabulary is now around 30 words (words that he says and uses) which does not including those he understands and not yet pronounced.

He is now more interested in using a fork to spear the food from his plate and puts it in his mouth, I help him spear his food now and then. No luck with a spoon for jasper yet, however, my girlfriend's 19-month-old daughter has been able to use a spoon for soup and rice quite a while back.