Development

It's been a while since I posted on Abby's development. Actually I should record Shalom's also. While digging through old entries, I realised I haven't recorded enough. Argh. Partly I don't want this to be used as a competitive benchmark because it's actually a bad idea. We all should push toward Ability Driven education, instead of competition driven. Anywayz...

Abigail is almost fully toilet-trained, except that she can't really undress yet. Otherwise, she will let us know that she needs to 'Pass Urine' (a development from Pah-Ring), actually go on the toilet bowl with the Nuby Toilet seat (good gadget, highly recommended. From Kiddy Palace @ $9.90 after discount. Original price at $14.90. Place under Toilet bowl ring to prevent child from falling from seat if potty seat slips.), wipe herself (I'll wipe her after that) and then flush. She can put on her own panties and shorts. She can also differentiate between shorts and pants... Heh. She's still figuring out how to put on her top though, and it's really cute. She combs her own hair and my hair as well. We shower together, and she learns a lot by watching and my running commentary (sometimes only).

She can also put on and take off her shoes and sandals. Scary thing is - she is ULTRA-meticulous. When she puts them on, she'll dust her feet with her hand first before putting on each side of her shoe/sandal. As for taking off, she'll take one off, velcro the strap properly and then remove the other one. Then she'll put the both together and place them at their proper place. If she's taking off her socks, she'll tuck each sock into each shoe before putting her shoes back properly. Wow.

Language-wise, she's actually developing the SVOCA (Subject-Verb-Object-Complement-Adverbial) full set. E.g. Abigail (Subject) put (Verb) books (Object) on the table (Complement) properly (Adverbial). But she doesn't really speak like that all the time. Usually it's SVO which is really good! She'll add adverbs in whenever she thinks is appropriate. :)

As for my darling Shalom, he's a real charmer. He can act really well too! HE hasn't been feeding well, and I think it's caused by the thick coating on his tongue. Will get the medication from MIL to remove coating. Our actor's latest stunt is to feign choking whenever he sees the milk bottle or when it's near his mouth. He drinks only about 3-5oz eversince he started on the second med on monday. And MIL is not too happy about the PD's medicine. Oh well.

Here's the Granny Award winning performance by Shalom:



Just to explain the video abit: He got tired of drinking milk after drinking about 3oz then started his 'choking'. So each time the bottle goes near his mouth (or even getting him to hold his own bottle), he'd start choking. Milk doesn't even get near his mouth (except for the third attempt). Then when I announced 'All Done!' you could see the relief, confirmed when I sat him up. He's been doing it the past two days, first when he was with MIL, then with Lina. MIL couldn't help but laugh coz this little fella is too cute!