Cayson is 23 months old

We just went for meet-the-parents session for Cayson and it’s quite amazing how 5 months have just passed like that. The insights from teachers are quite similar to what we see at home, brave and trying to try everything, loves reading, loves animals and generally very cheerful and happy. 

He’s very independent in school and even want to try to take off his own pants, diapers and wipe his own butt. He also tries to eat on his own using utensils though sometimes he still uses fingers. He likes to try everything including the big trikes/bikes. He no longer needs to be parted to bed, he will just sleep on his own after milk , even though it could still be noisy. 

The only bad thing is that he likes to pick up dropped food from the floor (yikes) and eat it even though he has clean food on his bowl. He likes chicken but sometimes instead of asking for more, he will take them directly from his friend’s bowl (oh no!) . Lastly, he likes to drink water from the floor (??). Well, those are areas for improvement for sure. 

Now he can also differentiate between tiger and lion , and many other animals . The only colour he knows is no longer just blue. He can list all the rest as well. He will always smile sweetly to teachers even if he does wrong things, so teachers find it hard to be angry with him for long. 

From only knowing a few words, his vocabulary has now expanded to short sentences :
“I like”, “Baby like”
“I don’t like”
“I want”
“My turn”, “Baby turn”
“Cake, good”(though he doesn’t eat cake, he’s talking about the fruits on top)
“I like Ah Pa”, “I like Ah Ma” 
“Cake , good. Ah Gong eat” 

Nowadays , after he returns from school, he will take off his own clothes and ask to go swimming. After he returns and baths, he will ask for Okto. He’s becoming a lot more demanding and routine like that: 

He’s an empathic child who will hug , pat and comfort Cayen if Cayen is crying . So the brotherly love is still going strong, especially as Cayen does give in to him a lot more often recently. He’s always on the lookout to make sure that Cayen is around. He was very whiny when Ah Pa went on business trip earlier on in the month. 

Overall, I can’t believe 23 months just flew past like that. Look forward to a fabulous 2 year old soon. 












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