At 25 months,

He loves:
1. To Climb Up and Down the Stairs By Himself. When we try to hold one of his hands, he would shake our hands away or protest.
2. To play with toy cars or buses. He plays very often with them nowadays. And he would move them to go left and right or up and down ramps instead of just always turning them over and turning the wheels. He would even mumble to himself and do some imaginary play. His favourite is to turn the cars upside down and go “uh oh!”
3. To point to things around him and ‘name’ them. He would look at us and we must acknowledge it, going “yes…it is this” or “yes.. right.” Otherwise, he keeps chanting non-stop.

His favourite video on YouTube at the moment:
They took away the Dr Seuss Videos! *sob sob. Now we have nothing to watch…
but previously, he was liking,
1. Go, Dog, Go!
2. I can read with my eyes shut!
3. Owl Babies (still on YouTube)
I had since gotten him the books and he must get us to read Go,Dog,Go! at least once a day.

He has learnt to read these NEW words and pronounced them (some not so accurately) the past 2 months since my last update at 23months:

(After I tested him in reading from the books, I took out a notepad and wrote each word and asked him, “What is This?” . He was able to read most and not all. This is to make sure he really knew how to read and was not just memorising the pages, sequence or pictures in the books.) Was surprised to do a calculation that he reads about 134 words now!

1. Texts from books, videos or flashcard such as, ‘Eat’, ‘Sam’, ‘Dark’, ‘Eyes Shut’, ‘Diaper’, ‘Cup’, ‘Moon’, ‘Peter’, ‘Shop’, ‘dig’, ‘Hot’, ‘Pot’, ‘Cot’, ‘Cold’, ‘Duck’, ‘Can’, ‘Hand’, ‘Zebra’, ‘Yoyo’, ‘Walk’, ‘Jump’, ‘Eggs’, ‘Bike’, ‘Igloo’, ‘Monkey’, ‘Rain’, ‘Owl’, ‘Mommy’(from Owl Babies).
2. From ‘Go, Dog, Go’: ‘Sleep’, ‘Up’, ‘Down’, ‘Out’, ‘Party, ‘Night’, ‘Work’, ‘Play’, ‘Stop’, ‘Train’, ‘Top’, ‘Over’, ‘Under’, ‘GoodBye’, ‘Go’, ‘Do’, ‘And’
3. From ‘Great Day for Up’ book: ‘tails’, ‘men’, ‘feet’, ‘me’, ‘sun’, ‘up’, ‘day’, ‘me’
4. Colour words: ‘Black’, ‘White’, ‘Pink’, ‘Green’ (he pronounces it more accurately now)
5. From ‘In A People’s House’ book: ‘bird’ , ‘bathtub’, ‘bottles’, ‘ceiling’, ‘floor’, ‘bed’, ‘door’, ‘paper’, ‘key’, ‘TV’, ‘shoe’, ‘table’,'wall’, ‘clock’, ‘fall’, ‘bread’, ”hats’, ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘people’, ‘fork’, ‘spoon’, ‘telephone’, ‘shirt’. (still doesn’t know how to read sofa though he knows what it is).
6. Days of the Week: ‘Friday’, ‘Wednesday’, ‘Sunday’.
7. Body parts: ‘Hair’, ‘Hand’, ‘Fingers‘.
8. Numbers in Words: ‘One‘, ‘Six’, ‘Five’, ‘Seven’, ‘Nine’, ‘Eight’, ‘Ten’.

He is able to recognise NEW Chinese Words such as:
1. 小 , 明明， 丽丽 (though he pronounced it as ‘di di’ as he is still unable to sound the ‘l’ sound).

His favourite books at the moment:
1. ‘Go, Dog, Go’ -P.D. Eastman (Great for learning opposites, like in, out, over and under!)
2. ‘Great Day for Up’- Dr. Seuss
3. ‘The Enormous Turnip’ -(usborne) retold by Katie Daynes.

Activities he did for the past month:
1. He went to the Children Festival at the Singapore Art Museum.
2. He saw Fireworks at Marina Square.
3. He went to natural places such as, Sembawang Park and Punggol Park.

Notable Words He Said the past month and current:
(He is still not able to speak in sentences)
1. He says ‘Mummy’ and ‘Teacher’.
2. He says “Bye Bye” as “Yay Yay” and waves both hands up and down.
3. He says “Good Morning” as “Ah..Ma..Ning!”
4. He is able to say and do the actions, “Open” and “Close”.
5. He is able to turn on/off the tap and says, “On” and “Off”.
5. He is able to say and do the actions, “Pull” and “Push”.
6. He is able to say, “Sit Down”, “No More”， “洗手”.
7. He could say most of the days of the week except, Thursday and Saturday.
8. He could say his name in English and Chinese one syllable at a time when prompted.
9. He finally says “One”, “Two” and “Three” and is able to count his fingers up til 10.
10. He can say ‘pee’ and ‘poo’ but doesn’t say them in context.
11. He could say and point to body parts such as “knees”, ‘”shoulders”. Especially loves pointing and saying “belly button”(not accurately pronounced).

For development:
- He could take off his shoes now but still need help with socks.
- He is able to sing a few sentences of the song, ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.
- He could clap in beats according to the song, ‘Happy Birthday’. (probably due to celebrations in school)
- He understands and points to “眼睛”，“耳朵”，“手”

{physically}
Height: 91cm.

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