Swimming progress

With just 4 half an hour one-to-one swimming sessions with his new coach akas daddy and he had shown remarkable progress. He is now able to pull to breathe with just a float behind helping to lift his body.

My little tortorise

Brought all the kiddos out for a swim. For the girls, its a break from their studies. Its the girls CA1 next week.

Ryan shows no sign of water phobia and was so at ease. He was okay even when we are not holding on to him.

Nothing scared him

I'm at a lost at how to "punish" little Ryan when he is naughty. The usual "punishment" that works with his siblings doesn't work on him.

When I said I'll put him in the dark room when he's naughty, guess what his reaction is?! He happily opens the storeroom door, walked in and closed it with him inside the dark enclosure!!! (I've never refer that room as dark room, so we have no idea why he link the storeroom as dark room) When he did that, we can't help but giggles nonstop outside.


Or when I told him to stand at a corner and not move for his naughtiness, he cheekily stood next to the wall and placed his freshly cheek on the wall which then look so adorable!!!

At times when I scolded him, he will cover his mouth and smile *faint*

And I when I asked him if he wants mummy to beat beat his hand, he nodded his head and give me his little hand!!!

The only thing that will "upset" him is when I refused to give him his milk!

Ryan at 22 months

His Motor Skill

He now knows how to "say" please by clasping his hands together and shake. Like how one would do the gongxi gongxi way.

Taught him to place his hand on the mouth as "thank you" and he remember and does it every time I ask him to.

When he wants thing, he has learn to point at himself too. Like when Nicholas said he wanted cereals for breakfast, Ryan will tuck at my shirt and point at himself, nodding his head at the same time.

He had associate thumbs up with good/ nice.

Moments

He also aware when we "gossip" about him and he will cover his mouth and smile and shy away.

And now when I scold him, he will close his eyes tightly...like he knows he did something wrong and dare not look me in the eyes..so cute!

Photo taken when he tried to climb out of his seat after spilling the brother's food. Scolded in with an angry voice and he immediately closes his eyes which looks very funny. I have to suppress my laughter and continue to show a stern face

His eating habits

I have always pride myself that all my kids are omnivore but my Ryan had dented that.

He is a complete carnivore. He wasn't this previously. I noticed it started when he starts school. He started picking out the veggie from his plate and even finely minced veggie finds their way put from his mouth.

Lucky he likes fruits and thus not so worrying. I'm going to try blending the veggie and use it to cook his rice and see if its ok for him.

Others

He loves to be read and able to sit through a 30mins session. He has also allowed us to expand his storybook from just Thomas and chuggington to all types including Chinese books too!

He only "manja" when I'm around and clingy too. If others carries him away from me, he will cry as if he was being snatched away and won't see me again.

He roars when he's angry especially at Charmaine. Charmaine loves her brothers but just don't know how to interact with them in a loving gentle manner. So each time Charmaine wanted to kiss and hug him, Ryan will roar at her and push her away. Then he will cry and complaint to me pointing at Charmaine.

Enjoying his sand play

Went to West Coast today. The kids enjoy the super fine sands and Ryan even offer his legs for the older siblings to built a sandcastle on it! So unlike Nicholas when he was this age.

Mr Pretentious

Don't know where he learn this pretentious cry from but mummy finds it very amusing.

I want to go out!!!

He loves going out. Today he was upset that we didn't bring him to the playground and decided to try and open the gate by himself and wants out!

Luckily, though he knows and able to reach the knob, he can't turn as the knob is a bit tight for him.

Ryan @ 21 months

Still no sign of him talking but he babbles a lot now though. I'm just as happy with that though. I had a feeling that his delay in speech is because he is shy or insecure/intimated (something along these lines). This is because when I asked him to look at my mouth and say certain words, he will given me a shy smile and lean forward to hide his face on my shoulder. We find this really cute but sure hope he can overcome this "insecurity" and start to speak soon.

His Babbling

Phonic sound "d d d d thur" when he wants something and we have to guess and see where he is pointing or try our luck at everything till he nods his head. His godma had suggested to teach him "sign" language so that we can understand better what he wants. So I did try it out but its proof to be quite a challenge.

Another sound he babbles is "ba ba ba" which he used it to refer to "bus" or "bird".

Another word he uses is "eeee" though. Whenever he see something dirty/ scary like lizard, he will goes "eeee" and pat his chest. He look so cute when he does that. I guess he knows too which explain why he sometimes would playfully points at pictures that are black in colour and says "eee".

His motor skill achievements

He is able to stack 2-3 blocks on top of the other.

Another action song he knows now is "Wheel on the bus". It never fails to tickle us!

Another big achievement is going up and down the 2 to 3 steps without the need to hold on to anything.

Actually other than his speech, all his other skills are on par with kids his age.

Bits and piecesHe still give the pretentious cry when I drop him off in school. No tears just "wah" when the teacher took him over. There were times he "forgot" to cry though like when he was distracted or when I rushed off after dropping him off.

He used to cry whenever I picked him up too but this month sees great improvement from him. No crying when he saw me, only dashed towards me and gave me a hug before looking for his bag.

One serious finding recently was that he suffers from withdrawal symptoms from playing iphone. He goes "er er er" and throw tantrum if he sees my iphone and can't play it. And he knows only my phone has his games. When hubby gave him his to soothe him, he refused to take! So now I have to hide my phone from him and only allow him to play for a while after dinner.

Random Pictures of Ryan

Picture taken when we were at IMM Jurong...a place we frequent most since we moved to the West. This is the first time we allows him to self feed when we were out.

My Little Pretty Boy...heehee...

His hair is getting pretty long and this crazy mummy got this funny urge to tie them up. Don't you agree that he looks very pretty and cute?!