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Saturday, March 7, 2009

14 month old boy

Kendrick turns 14 months old today and he's been growing very well so far. This cheeky little boy is also getting quite sticky to me nowadays too - mostly wanting me to carry him or sayang him or comfort him. It's sweet to know that he thinks of me every now and then. If I'm out of his sight for some time, he will call out 'Mee-Mee' to look for me.

Anyway, some updates on his development:
  • Walks very well and has taken bigger steps to walk faster. This is especially so when we play catching with him where he will walk off very quickly to hide. I suppose in a few more months time he may show signs of running?!
  • Climbs up and down low bed/sofas easily without help, especially if they are just slightly below his waist level
  • Eats with his fingers for snacks
  • Empties containers of contents when he plays with his toys
  • Able to build his toy blocks more steadily now
  • Started to doodle on the 'magna-doodle' board that I bought him
  • Points to his nose when we ask him where it is
  • Responds to instructions such as 'hug' or 'sayang' or 'kiss'
  • Continues to be quite 'talkative' as he babbles lots of words that we tell him or teach him. Some new words include 'pur-pur' (purple), 'wed' (red), 'two', 'three' (which he can say when we prompt him with the first word 'one')
  • He seems to be understanding more things now when we read to him. Like this book of animals/objects with sounds they make, after reading many times to him, he remembers certain actions and sounds that represent that animal / object like - roar for lion, ding dong for bell, meow for cat, hiss for snake, buzz for bee...
  • He is also picking up patterns of how we do things. For e.g. when I use the vacuum cleaner, he knows that I have to pull the plug out and plug it into the power point. He showed me this when he wanted to 'help' me pull out the plug of the machine as the first step
  • He responds to the question 'Where?', like when we ask him where is Mummy, or where is his toy block, or where is his bib, or where is papa, where is his book, etc.
  • He recognises clothes that we wear. When we fold clothes and showed him the piece we are holding and ask him whose is this, he did say the correct person's clothes correctly quite a few times
  • He likes to play a lot with our 'adult stuff' like pretending to type away at the computer, press the telephone and put it to his ear, changing the TV channels by pressing the remote controller
Here's a few pictures of Kendrick with different expressions...

His number 1 action
Watching Sesame Street but not really concentrating...
Posing while at this big open area at Raffles City shopping centre
Enjoying the view of the sky up there