20 Months: Milestone Update
Okay, Mummy is a few days late and Daddy hounded Mummy to update the blog to date his milestone updates before we forget. Erik turned 20 months old on December 9th on Sunday. He's such an active little boy and we wouldn't want it any other way.
Counting
Erik can now count up to 10 in English. He will also count up to 5 in Cantonese. If Mummy or Daddy points to a book and there are multiple animals, shapes, or objects on it and asks him to count. Erik will use his little index finger and point to the picture one by one (randomly) and count. It's quite cute! Mummy is working on getting him to count up to 10 in Cantonese! Sometimes Erik loses interests though so we take a break and do something else :o)
Colors
Every morning, Mummy drops Erik to his school. We'd take the time to walk down the ramp together. Erik loves to stop and smell the flowers planted in front of the school (Really, this appreciation of life is definitely a Daddy trait since Mummy is like the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland! LOL!) So Mummy takes this opportunity to do some morning color lessons in Cantonese.
It doesn't matter who walks by. Its just Mummy & Erik time while we go through each of the flowers that he's interested in. His favorite color to say is "Yellow" in Cantonese. He'll say everything is Yellow just because he likes to say it. We'd go through the purple-ish flowers, the orange flower(s), the white flowers, the pink flowers, etc. And then we'll continue our journey into school.
Alphabet
Well, this is all English here, there is NO translation of the A-Z alphabet into Cantonese! PHOOEY! However, Daddy loves to work on the alphabet with Erik in the evenings. Daddy made alphabet construction cards that had different animal or other objects for each of the letters.
As Daddy shows the alphabet card to Erik, he'll say "A is for ....(waits for it)" and Erik will answer "Alligator" in English then Daddy will ask "...and in Chinese we say....(waits for it)". Erik will reply in 鱷魚 (pronounced "e yu" in Mandarin, "ok yu" in Cantonese)! Very cool and a round of high 5s and claps go around between Mummy and Erik and then Erik and Daddy! Mummy has to now look up Cantonese dictionaries to keep up with all the different animals to tell Erik! hee hee!
ASL Signs
Erik is still signing strong. He loves to sign as he says things but it also has taken a little backseat. He'll use it a lot more often if his mouth is full and can say it but want to get his point across. Mummy has to research on ASL words to teach Erik as we go. It's great to sometimes tell Erik and Daddy something across the room without shouting LOL!
Swimming
We've started taking Erik to his swim lessons again! It's middle of winter we know but the pool is indoors and its heated! Doesn't get better than that! Erik LOVES the water! He actually asked Daddy to take him swimming! Daddy and Erik gets adventurous in the pool, Daddy will glide Erik into different swim exercises and let's go of his hands...and Erik will actually kick his feet and hands by himself to stay afloat for a few seconds before he's way too tired. Of course, we still let Erik know that he must be careful around the pool. During the weekdays, Erik misses the pool so much that he'll pretend to swim in the bathtub! LOL!
Counting
Erik can now count up to 10 in English. He will also count up to 5 in Cantonese. If Mummy or Daddy points to a book and there are multiple animals, shapes, or objects on it and asks him to count. Erik will use his little index finger and point to the picture one by one (randomly) and count. It's quite cute! Mummy is working on getting him to count up to 10 in Cantonese! Sometimes Erik loses interests though so we take a break and do something else :o)
Colors
Every morning, Mummy drops Erik to his school. We'd take the time to walk down the ramp together. Erik loves to stop and smell the flowers planted in front of the school (Really, this appreciation of life is definitely a Daddy trait since Mummy is like the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland! LOL!) So Mummy takes this opportunity to do some morning color lessons in Cantonese.
It doesn't matter who walks by. Its just Mummy & Erik time while we go through each of the flowers that he's interested in. His favorite color to say is "Yellow" in Cantonese. He'll say everything is Yellow just because he likes to say it. We'd go through the purple-ish flowers, the orange flower(s), the white flowers, the pink flowers, etc. And then we'll continue our journey into school.
Alphabet
Well, this is all English here, there is NO translation of the A-Z alphabet into Cantonese! PHOOEY! However, Daddy loves to work on the alphabet with Erik in the evenings. Daddy made alphabet construction cards that had different animal or other objects for each of the letters.
As Daddy shows the alphabet card to Erik, he'll say "A is for ....(waits for it)" and Erik will answer "Alligator" in English then Daddy will ask "...and in Chinese we say....(waits for it)". Erik will reply in 鱷魚 (pronounced "e yu" in Mandarin, "ok yu" in Cantonese)! Very cool and a round of high 5s and claps go around between Mummy and Erik and then Erik and Daddy! Mummy has to now look up Cantonese dictionaries to keep up with all the different animals to tell Erik! hee hee!
ASL Signs
Erik is still signing strong. He loves to sign as he says things but it also has taken a little backseat. He'll use it a lot more often if his mouth is full and can say it but want to get his point across. Mummy has to research on ASL words to teach Erik as we go. It's great to sometimes tell Erik and Daddy something across the room without shouting LOL!
Swimming
We've started taking Erik to his swim lessons again! It's middle of winter we know but the pool is indoors and its heated! Doesn't get better than that! Erik LOVES the water! He actually asked Daddy to take him swimming! Daddy and Erik gets adventurous in the pool, Daddy will glide Erik into different swim exercises and let's go of his hands...and Erik will actually kick his feet and hands by himself to stay afloat for a few seconds before he's way too tired. Of course, we still let Erik know that he must be careful around the pool. During the weekdays, Erik misses the pool so much that he'll pretend to swim in the bathtub! LOL!
posted by Tabitha | 2:06 PM
1 Comments:
We're back into wsimming again as well. When Daniel was little he went to baby swim classes but we've not done these with Annika. But now we're going to a class where both of them can play in the water together. Daniel is a still a little hesitant of water, maybe becuase of that time he fell into a very cold pool.... Don't ask.....
Nice weekend
AD
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