Another haircut for Kendrick

I guess the last time we trimmed Kendrick's hair, it wasn't really short enough. His hair grew out quite fast and looks really thick at the sides. Sadly, some people cannot tell whether he's a boy or girl as a result!! So this long weekend, Mummy decided that we must send Kendrick for another haircut! Now that Kendrick has experienced sitting on his own on the chair to cut his hair, he was able to sustain through this round of haircut again, albeit with a bit of help in the form of biscuits to distract him :)

Ok, Kendrick kinda looks like a girl in this shot...I can imagine him with longer hair...gosh...Pretty boy...kekeke

Looking like a mushroom head before his hair cut. Haha...

Very carefully noting all the strands of hair which fall down, Kendrick says 'Dirty dirty'

Very difficult to photograph him without moving, but here's a shot after the haircut...looks much better to me!

This was on another day when we had lunch with Kendrick's Wai Gong Wai Po. Here Kendrick does the 'E.T' finger action with grandma

Kendrick makes Mummy and Wai Po do the 'E.T.' finger action too :)

Kendrick is 20 months

Yup...gosh..I'm now like counting down to his 2 year old birthday already. Ha ha! My little baby is now such a big toddler...can't believe how time flies! And with Kendrick, every day is never the same and we really thank God for giving us Kendrick.

Here's some updates on his development...

Kendrick seemed to put on some weight this month. The last I checked he's around 11.8kg. As for height, can't seem to measure accurately, but approximately 86cm tall. Physically he's getting stronger and is now able to climb up our bed without assistance. Previously he did not have enough strength to lift himself up but now that he learned how to leverage on the little edge of the bed to lift himself up, he's climbing up and down our bed really easily. At his Grandparent's home, Kendrick is also climbing up and down the coffee table and sofa all day! Kendrick takes after his Father in being 'pi ku jian'!!

In terms of speech development, Kendrick continues to be the talkative little fella'. All day he's talking and talking and saying things that he knows or just telling us little things like 'Mummy sit here, Papa sit there, Kendrick sit here'. He also loves to tell us things and objects he knows and will constantly mimic some of the words and sentences we say. I guess the only time we get some peace and quiet is during his nap time! But I must say he's rather observant. He notices small little details on books or objects so that he can point out to us what he knows. Like when we were having a meal and he was playing with his kids utensils, he noticed the small print that it was IKEA brand and he told us about it. I guess if you didn't look at it closely, you would not have really noticed it as it was not very obvious.

Kendrick's ability to link patterns and sequences of events continues to be very strong. He always remembers the things he will see along the way home or on our way out and will always call out to those objects before we pass by. He now even knows when the car will turn at certain junctions. Wonder if he has a map in his mind. Ha Ha... Dear says it's just a guy thing to know their directions better :P His unique way of looking at objects also continue to fascinate us. Already earlier on he has shown us that he is able to see the letter 'M' as it is, then turning it around to recognise it as 'W'. He also does the same with numbers like '6' and '9', the square shape which he turned in a direction to see it as a 'diamond shape', the small letter 'h' which he turned around and felt it looked like '4'. Interesting how his brain works as we never actually taught him to look at things this way. It was something which he discovered himself all these while :)

We're still teaching him to recognise colours. He seems better at alphabets, shapes and numbers but slightly weaker in colours. He still gets the name of the colour mixed up. Well, slowly but surely he will pick it up. He's also not willing to be potty trained yet, whether to poo or to pee. Guess this will indeed take some time more. As for eating by himself, Kendrick has made some improvements, but I guess Mummy here has not really let him try much by himself as I'm adverse to getting things messy and dirty. Ha Ha... Maybe I'll set this as an upcoming milestone...

Anyway, here are some recent pics of Kendrick:

I thought the way this shot was taken makes Kendrick look like a big boy, don't you think?

We're at Yishun Safra walking along the suspension bridge before celebrating my Mum and Aunty's birthday dinner

Kendrick pouting

Papa and Kendrick

Mummy and Kendrick who finally smiles but not looking at camera as usual

Trying to take 'model' shots of Kendrick...

This is Kendrick at home playing with his Lego and magnets

Kendrick loves to doodle on his doodle board and can be at it for a long time. He's able to draw round shapes, lines, jagged shapes, dots and always seem to be concentrating when drawing something. Whenever we ask him what he drew, his answers are always so creative ~ it's always some person or object he imagines it to be

I thought his eyes look cute and round here :)

Giving my boy a hug

Father & Son Playing

Just a series of shots of Father and Son playing together on the bed wearing the same T-Shirt that I originally bought for them for National Day :)

Kendrick sits by himself to cut hair

We have not cut Kendrick's hair in almost 2 months now, so finally we had the time to bring him to Dear's Auntie's shop for a hair cut. This time, she tries letting Kendrick sit by himself on the chair without us carrying him. To our surprise, Kendrick performs really well! He did not move or cry but just sat there looking very serious. Ha ha... Of course treats in the form of biscuits helped too. Check out the photos....

At home before going for the hair cut. Kendrick plays with his new Lego Duplo toys

Sitting on the chair by himself and getting his hair cut by Kendrick's Grandaunt

Still looking very serious...

Now looking rather 'bu shuang'....when will this be over??

Cutting the side..Kendrick looks curiously

Kendrick at 19 months

It's been a while since I updated about Kendrick. He's still very active and fun to play with at this stage. In terms of speech and development, I must say that Kendrick has shown another level of growth. He can say more words which have more syllables like 'butterfly', 'Harry Potter', 'ladybird', 'McDonald', and also put together very simple sentences like "Mummy read book", "Papa sit here", "Papa drive to Ikea", "Happy Birthday to you", "Good night Pooh Bear", "Press this", etc. He can also fill in the blanks to some songs like London Bridge is Falling Down, Papa Bu Zai Jia, You are my Sunshine, Wheels on the Bus, Incy Wincy Spider, and even this medley of songs that Dear learnt from his Scouts days and have been singing to him since Kendrick was a baby!

Kendrick also recognises almost all the alphabets and knows 1 - 10 pretty well. Trying to teach him colours now which he seems to be picking up slowly and also reciting the day of the week. We also notice something quite interesting in the way Kendrick pictures things. He is actually able to realise that the letter 'M' when we turn it upside down would be the letter 'W'. This is something we did not teach him yet he realised it himself. Sometimes in other pictures, he would also turn things around just to see the object in something else familiar that he knows instead. Interesting how the brains of these kids work! :) He also learnt to play with his first Lego duplo toys that Dear bought him recently. At first Kendrick did not know how to piece the Lego pieces together, but we showed him once and he eventually learnt it himself by sitting down and patiently playing on his own. Thought that was really cute to see him play quietly and happily for sometime just building and removing the Lego pieces.

Here are some photos of Kendrick in the recent weeks...

National Day and dressed up in red and white!

I thought this shot of Kendrick is kinda interesting

Kendrick has been doodling a lot on his drawing board. He is able to have better control of the pen now and sometimes draws lines or no. 1 or circular looking objects. And each time we ask him what he has drawn, he will tell us something that he knows

Playing hide and seek with Mummy

Playing and Laughing

Kendrick was in a really tickled mood last Saturday night. Usually before he sleeps, he will have a lot to 'talk' and 'yak' about before he finally settles down in bed. This particular Saturday night, he was playing with his Pooh Bear stuffed toy and as I played with him in a silly manner, he got really tickled and kept laughing and playing with me. Couldn't resist uploading some of these laughing shots as they really remind me of how innocent and carefree children are. When they play they really play and laugh out loud. These photos of you will light my day when I look back at them :)

Kendrick at Vivocity

We brought Kendrick out to Vivocity for some shopping and took the chance to let him play for a while at the children's play area. At this stage, Kendrick loves playing on slides, so he was really happy whenever he had the chance to slide down any slide :) Here are some shots at him playing...

Kendrick started to climb through these continuous barrels by himself without at help and we were quite surprised to see him do so confidently!