Little Tiger Growing Up

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Painting: Fun With Stencils

I have lost count of the times he asked for painting during my confinement period.

Now that we are back in business,

we gathered his bottles of paint, stencils and brushes for some messy art goodness.

Boy, was he excited!

Yes, you may stack the bottles while Mommy was reaching for the camera..

Mommy's not required to squeeze out the paint anymore.

He loves doing this by himself.

Must be the ever growing sense of independence.

One day, he is going to stop saying, "Mama, help"

Sob, sob...

Please excuse me, feeling a little nostalgic at the moment.

I love the concentration these activities demand.

What a fun way to learn about the animals too.
I was a little surprised that he could name them with just the outline.

He chose to paint with the animals, alphabet, shape stencils.

No prize for guessing his favourite piece of 'art'

Yes, you may paint on the floor too..

I give Tiger a lot of freedom and space when it comes his art materials.

All of his paint, crayons, markers, chalk & papers are within his reach.

He has never tried to scribble on the walls or strewn his material all over.

I respect his needs and in turn, he respects his belongings.

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Tot School: 27 months

My dear boy is 27 months :)

Gross Motor

Brave enough to go down tunnel slide, thanks to Papa!

Expert on the jungle gym
Kick ball

Fine motor
He can use the mouse!! Surprise surprise...actually, he can even click and drag. Kids nowadays!
Able to eat well with utensils. No more cave man style.
Stacks about 10-15 blocks or more
Copies dotted lines
Draws vertical straight lines
Draws circles
Writes certain alphabets like i,l, t, o, v,etc
Expert on writing alphabets on apps (but that's easy and doesn't really count)
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Speech/language
He is so much more talkative nowadays.
My fav, "Mama, Tiger love you" & "Mama, Tiger arry(carry) mei mei"   I almost cried....
Most disliked phrase: "No Nice"
He loves to sing! Fav: ABC song, alphablocks, Rain, rain go away

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Cognition
Understands multiple instructions well
Can recite his alphabets (A-Z) and phonics well
Counts from 0 to 20.
Questions Who buy? Who spoil? ALL THE TIME
Understands behind, on, in, below
Understands concept of tomorrow
Able to match pictures
Name all nine planets
Excellent attention span

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Social
Relationships
Ask for milk whenever he sees mei mei feeding
Typical 2 year old tantrums and outbursts when disregarded.
Very loving in nature towards other children. Also a 'chicken' at times. He moves away from confrontational situations faster than you blink!
Better at handling situations with strangers

Care of self
Still refuse potty at all cost

Significant event for this month:
A really ugly haircut. Sheesh, all I requested for was for it to resemble "fei fu" hairstyle...headache.

After walking around in a daze for two months post partum,

I have finally recovered some of my enthusiasm for life in general.

We started Tot School activities sporadically again.

Little Dragon's initiation into Tot School.

She celebrated by pooping midway.