On Tuesday when I fetched him back from school, he was in home clothes because he wetted his cloth diaper and it leaked unto his uniform. (erm… BumW is not trustworthy when the toddler is active). As I had the compact camera with me, I took a series of photos of our daily walk back to home.

I’m glad he enjoys walking and climbing stairs because he’s really too heavy for me to carry all the way to home. Initially we wanted to get a lightweight stroller for me to fetch him back but since we couldn’t find one, he got used to walking by himself and only needed me to carry while on the bus up and down.

He has even got used to stepping on/off  the escalator at the overhead bridge beside the MRT station and doesn’t need me to carry him anymore. He just stands by me and hold my hand. That happened because I got tired of carrying him everytime and ‘forced’ him to step onto the escalator though he was very afraid. After a month, he is now stepping on with confidence. Now that we have gotten the lightweight stroller, it seemed unneccessary to let him sit on the stroller going back.

His legs are well-trained now to walk a long distance and for a long time. Sometimes, we go for an evening walk and he could walk for an hour plus, just exploring the surroundings. The consequence is that the next day, he would be unable to wake up early and sometimes dozed off during lunch in school. Still, I prefer him to go outdoors and run about if I have the energy to bring him. When we go out during the weekends, he also spent more time walking about than sitting in the stroller.

For the sake of photography, I let him walk up by himself. Usually I hold his right hand to walk up the three flights of stairs slowly, counting all the steps. Now, he starts to count by himself too as he walks each step but he starts from 11…hee. If he walks by holding onto the railings with both hands, he takes ages. At the last flight of steps however, he would shake off my hand and walk up the steps by himself. As I exclaimed, “17!” He would do a little clap and “Yeah!”. By the time we walked up the steps, all the people who got down from the same bus as us were long gone. He would then start running along the deserted path of the overhead bridge, looking at the vehicles moving underneath. I’ll carry him down after that because he is not that adept at walking down the stairs yet and would take a long time.

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