"softplay"

I took him to Softplay yesterday, he was gone before I even paid for the session. He said "whats the chinese for many balls?".... I paid for half hour initially and when I tried to remove him from the indoor play area it took me another half hour so I had to pay one hour in total. Next time I will learn I won't bring him there unless Andrew is around to help removing him.

singing

When i said "lets sing the alphabet song", jasper would start singing straight away "ABCDEFG...", he also loves to sing "twinkle twinkle little star", "three jelly fish", "ba ba black sheep" and a few other songs. He still pronounce star as "dar" though.

He has been fighting for the TV channels these weeks, whenever the news is on, he would be upset "want watch banana pyjamas", "want watch playschool", "want watch maisy", "want watch pocoyo".... all these are in chinese as well.. "yiu tai xxx", "yiu tai XXX" = "want watch ..."

He has been asking the questions "what's that?", "what is the chinese for xxx ?" many times a day for many objects. He is able to count in a sequence with less and less hints and help, can read two-digit numbers on the TV such as "64" as sixty-four, not six four. He even asked "what is the chinese for Andrew?".

Other things he has been saying bilingually so far everyday: can name each chess piece correctly. I dont want this, I don't want that, want mummy put cup on table, want mummy press the green button, want andrew sit down, I want to go to playgroup, I want to go to the park, want drink milk, want drink water, where is Xx? it's here. What colour is the xxx? its blue etc. How many XXX are there ? there are XXX ___. Want green chinese book. want mummy clap your hands. want mummy bye bye computer. what sound does a make? want mummy put on socks, want mummy take off socks. want mummy play puzzle, want xxx play buttons, want train,... want in bed, want go to mummy, it's hot!, it's cold, want more water, want brush teeth, finished bath! want xxx help xxx, want hug. want mummy peel open banana. want mummy draw xxxx. want green sticker. its raining outside. its getting dark.

He can read most of the books I have bought him so far, he can read a few of them from cover to cover and some selective pages for lots of them.

I can still see him mixing languages for fun so far... he would say "yiu manzanna", yiu(cantonese-want),manzanna(spanish-apple). ie want apple. He would also ask himself question like "what is the chinese for neko?" neko(japanese-cat).

He can climb in and out of the bath when holding one of his hands. Can translate days of the week from chinese to english ie monday, tuesday... and so on. However, he keeps counting "sing kay yat", "sing kay yee"... all the way past ten, "sing kay sup yat"(day 11)...etc. Can do simple additions. Can wipe spilled water from floor with a piece of cloth/tissue. Can tell left from right.

He enjoys simple imaginative play such as making a toy cow eat the leaves, or lies a toy animal down and says "zebra sleeping".

He knows the word "Oracle" now, as there are quite a few oracle books in the shelf that he would plug out now and then. He has fun turning pages and reading the page numbers from our books.

He can blur out the word "arigatogotzaimash"(japanese-thankyou).

playing with sand

playing with sand

brown mummy

He found my sun glasses this morning, they were stored in the glasses case but he took them out. He put the glasses on and said "brown mummy", "brown train", "brown... "... I found him really cute. Yes my sunnies have brown tint!

long wait

still just another less than 2 weeks to go for the big day .... I have been waiting for this day for so long, those who knows me better will know what I mean... still patiently waiting and at the mean time I have lots of things to plan and do.

Jasper is still asking lots of questions in both languages "what is the chinese for xxx?" ... one of the funniest ones was "mummy, what is the chinese for ooops?", I said "ai-yak". He laughed his head off, i didn't know whats so funny about this word but he seemed to find the sound of it amusing. He is making numbers with his fingers extremely well now.

... I have to record this... out of nowhere, he suddenly said "it's raining outside!" pointing at the balcony. Also, when I offered him milk this evening "Jasper, do you want some milk?", he replied "want mummy put on table" He wanted me to put the cup on the table because he was busy with his blocks at the time.

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28 months -- jasper loves to read....

28 months -- jasper loves to read....
He loves to read books with numbers and simple words. He can read a few simple books from cover to cover such as "follow the monsters", "where is maisy's panda", "teddy bear, teddy bear". He can just about do a 3 x 4 jigsaw puzzle on his own. Can stack a tower of 12 blocks before it collapses. Still left-handed !! He can now make the numbers 1,2,3,4 and 5 with his fingers...and can control to hold or point out individual fingers.

I forgot to mention, other than "what's that?", he likes to initiate conversation by "what's the chinese for XXX ?", he can easily ask questions like this one for everything he sees for nearly the whole morning. Sometimes he asks the question himself and says the answer.

As for toilet training, Andrew managed to get him to sit on the Pooh potty chair at will and he generated a small bucket of p. This is the first time to have something generated in the pot really. I didn't have the strength or stamina to carry his limbs like the other mums do at an early age because he was crawling or squirming around too much. And at 15kgs I can't even lift him, by the way, he is now able to climb in and out of the bath tub. I hope he can be fully toilet trained this coming summer, if not then next summer.