Time really flies, my boy is 20 months old tomorrow. I can still remember the excitement I got when the test kit showed 2 red stripes comfirming that I’d got pregnant. Gee, how I wish that time won’t fly too fast as it seems like Justin’s growing more independant these days, and I miss him being my little baby.

His characters have certainly be more obvious these days. He’s a determined little boy, if he wants to have something to eat or play with, he’ll make sure he got it! It’s kind of hard to distract him from his demands now as he’s good at getting things done by himself already.

For example, my maid hides the cookies at the corner of the cabinet so Justin won’t be able to get it. If Justin’s asking for cookies, and we said no, he’ll try his best to get it by himself. He’ll move a chair, climb on it before climbing up to the cabinet for the cookies. Most of the time I’ll get a minor heart attack seeing him climbing up so high, but I think stopping him it’s not helping either. At least I know he’s very skillful of doing so with a steady chair, I don’t have to worry too much if he’s doing it behind my back!

At the same time, he’s also very kiasi! He remembers well places where he fell, things that hurt him before, and not to play with fire, scissors, knives, and sockets. I told him over and over again that he’ll get hurt. He’ll say “pain pain” whenever he sees these objects, and say “no no” which means he cannot touch them.

Like any typical boys, he’s very active. He runs around in and out of the house. Sometimes he bumps his head on the wall or trips and falls, but he hardly cries if it’s not hurting much. Really “macho” already, or maybe his pain threshold has increased? His legs are filled with minor wounds, but none of them leaves any scars behind, thank god!

As for language skills, he’s still struggling to form sentences. Sometimes he makes funny sentences like “Mei mei, kakak kakak ….pao….pls…”; “Justin (want) cookies….pls”. It’ll take him a long time to talk in sentences. Sometimes we really have no idea what he’s talking about! But he likes to say “no no no” and “mine mine mine” nowadays. He’s getting more and more obsessed with his stuffs, and only wants to share occasionally. I’m still trying to teach him to be more polite and share his toys with his cousin and Isabelle. Hopefully, he’s more willing to share by his 2nd birthday.

He likes to call himself “Big baby” too. Whenever I rock Isabelle to sleep, he wants daddy to rock him too. He’ll say “papa, big baby, pao”, and hubby will rock him to sleep as well. It’s probably a sign of regression after Isabelle comes along, or he’s just wanna join in whatever Isabelle’s doing. BTW, he’s occuping the new stroller, and this is the first time he’s sleeping in one!

He’s trying to wean off thumb sucking. I told him if he feels like sucking, he can hug his Barney tighter. So, my boy’s carrying his Barney everywhere he goes. But he still needs to suck to sleep. Well, can’t force him to change overnight, let’s see how long will he take to wean this off!

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