At 23 Months

晚上睡覺時。。。

Gee： 唔同麻味訓，同爸比訓。
（麻味已經睡在床上，爸比進來后關門上床）
Gee： 唔同麻味訓，麻味出去。。。
（麻味沒有反應繼續躺在床上）
Gee： 開門比麻味出去先。。。 （自己開門）
（麻味無奈地出返去！！！）

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傍晚時。。。

（麻味好累，已和GeeGee在大床好耐但GeeGee還是未入睡。）
麻味： 你落返自己張床到訓好無？
Gee： 好！ （麻味暗喜！！）
（Gee 回到自己的床后。。。）
Gee： 我地去婆婆到吃飯咯。
麻味： ！！！！！！

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舅父： 舅父同你玩好唔好？
Gee： 唔好。
舅父： 舅父唔同你玩好唔好？
Gee： 好！

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Gee： 依個咩呢架？爸比抱你睇下咩呢既。 （指住包糖）
爸比： 你知依個咩呢架。
Gee: （奸笑） 以個糖呢架！爸比比一粒糖朗言食。

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麻味： 你食幾多條薯條呀？一條？
Gee： 一半。

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沖涼中。。。

Gee： （高聲呼叫） 爸比拿毛巾來！！ （一秒后細細聲講） 唔好咁大聲呀，爸比拿毛巾來。

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在樓下大堂等電梯。。。

Gee： （指住看更姨姨後面個柜，講起碼3-4次） 依個咩呢架姐？
（快要入電梯時終于忍不住入正題。。。）
Gee： 飽飽呢？

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換片時。。。

Gee： （舉起雙腳，雙手扶住膝頭） 千其唔好郁呀哈~~

Stuttering Log

You have recovered in time from stuttering &/or deep breathing right before the kindergarten interview on 8 Nov. Mabei & Babei are so proud of you!!

We did not observe anymore deep breathing nor stuttering since then.

Smart Baby At 22 Months

叔叔走過來，打算整蠱下你。。。
Gee： （不慌不忙地） 叔叔，你返去訓覺啦。

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大家在吃飯，你靜靜雞走入廚房。。。

叔叔： （嚴厲地） 唔！
Gee： （馬上轉身雞咁腳走返出來） 叔叔唔呀。

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吃完飯，爺爺抱著你看電視。。。

Gee： 不如食 MoMo 餅。
爺爺： MoMo 餅未開呀。
Gee： 咁不如食熊仔餅呀？
爺爺： 熊仔餅得返小小咋。
Gee： （繼續建議。。。） 咁不如食埋佢啦！

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大家在吃飯，你在旁邊自己唱曬成首ABC歌。。。

Gee： ABCDEFG...~~ Next time won't you sing with me ~~~
Gee： 嘩！乜你咁犀利既！（奸笑）

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飲奶后。。。

Gee： （飲完奶，玩奶瓶） 重有小小wor
Gee： （自言自語） 飲埋佢那！

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晚上睡覺時。。。

Gee： 拖住麻味/爸比先。
Gee： （拖一陣就放開手） 麻味/爸比你自己訓那！
麻味/爸比： （-_-"""）

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訓下午覺前，你在大人床上轆來轆去吃手指。。。

Mamei： （打算氹你落返自己張床） 你落返自己張床等麻味整水果比你食，好唔好？
Gee： （指住大人床） 係依到等！
Mamei： （被識穿。。。）

Stuttering Log

17-18 October 2014: You started to stutter and repeat the first word of the sentence for several times like "依依依依個咩尼架？" I think you are not too consicious when doing this and sometimes you speak normally. This happens suddenly. Checked online, and seems this is a common episode for children aged 2-5. Parents are advised not to stress on the repetition and most of them will outgrow it after a while.

25-26 October 2014: Stuttering is on and off during the week, but it intensified suddenly these two days. You started to struggle and have to take a long deep breath before making the first sound and stuttered again for the first word before completing your sentence. Since you are stuggling very hard to pronounce the first word, can see you tried to force out the word, so it always ended up stuttering very loud. It really worries us.

27-28 October 2014: Spoken with Auntie Yap Choi and she reassured us that many children go through this stage. Based on the preliminary behaviours of yours, it sounded like you are at risks, however, you are too young to do any assessment and she asked us to continue to monitor your situation and logged down everything.

You got better and have less repetition. When you speak, you will take a long deep breath until you can hear the throat is rubbing itself before speaking.

29 -31 October 2014: The stuttering is basically gone without notice. However, you will sometimes take a long breath and rubbing the throat before speaking. I find you actually have spoken more difficult sentence structures after recovering from the stuttering.

We trust you can overcome!!! Add oil GeeGee!!

Naming Activity

You helped to name this amigurumi deer "支爸"。

Recent Conversation

All lights out, Gee and Babei are planning to sleep.
Gee: 爸比比奶奶朗言飲
Babei: (Slient... hoping Gee was just saying it)
Gee: 你頭先唔講？！
Bacei: (Stunned!)

In the morning, Gee held two monkeys on both hands and would like to take it back to Grandma's home.
Mamei: 拿一個去嫲嫲到啦
Gee: 拿曬兩個去嫲嫲到
Mamei: -_-" (竟然識得分一個同兩個)

Sudden Stuttering

You had a sudden stuttering last Saturday, keep repeating the first syllable for a few times before continue your sentence. At first, we thought you were just playing, we tried to remind you and asked you to take it slowly. However, seems the more we suggested, the worse you do.

 

You will like "依依依個咩呢架？" "唔唔唔吃飯"。。。

 

This lasted for 2 days and it started to make us worry. Babei even thought that you might get hurt (on the brain?!), so you have this sudden change from a fluent speaker to a stuttering toddler.

 

Thanks to internet and the huge mommy online community, it seems that your condition is rather common between age of 2-5, where your brain sometimes works much faster than your mouth, and you might have too much to want to say, but unable to find the right words.

 

It is suggested to let the child to work through this phase by himself, as constant reminders will make the child even more nervous and unable to speak confidently. So we ignored your stuttering in the next few days, and will speak to you in normal ways even you stuttered. Surprisingly, the stuttering just goes away in a few days.

 

GeeGee, do you know little things of yours can just shake up Mamei's world.

 

Be Healthy. Be Happy.

Helped Me Up

You continued to impress me with your impressive language skills. We were sitting on the floor playing, and when I said Mamei has to get up, you then said "扶住麻味起身先"。

Master of Distraction

We thought we are good in distracting you and seems you learnt this as well.

1) You went to play with main door knob, and Mom stood in front of the knob to block your access. You tried a few times in vain, and you suddenly pointed at the Thomas poster below the door knob, say "Thomas!!". Then you pointed at the differnt shapes on the poster saying...正方形，三角形。 Mom moved away from the knob and talked about shapes with you.

2) You liked to play with a big paper fan of grandma and you enjoyed the breeze that we made using the fan. When we asked you to climb into the stoller, you refused. Then Babei said。。。

爸比:你爬上架車到，我幫你撥扇
Gee (馬上坐系地上):唔爬。系依到撥扇！

Distraction failed on Babei.

Fondness Towards Babei

You have a huge fondness towards babei recently and refused to sleep without him in the room. Even before Babei goes to have shower you will say... 麻味熄燈出去。

When I closed the door and you will cry for Babei, and requested to open the door.

Our conversation as follows:
Gee:開門！！
Mom:唔開門。爸比去沖涼
Gee:唔沖涼
Mom:爸比痾屎屎
Gee:唔痾屎屎
Mom (滴汗中):麻味打電話比爸比叫他沖完涼快d入來同GeeGee訓覺好唔好？
Gee (考慮中):好！
Mom (暗爽中)...
Gee (認真地):麻味出去搵下電話先！！
Mom (滴汗。。。想tum我開門？！。。。 -_-")

Double or Single or Both?

Doubled last night and singled again this morning.. O_o

Double Eyelidss For One Day

Glad to see you have double eyelids on both eyes on Monday morning... finally, you certainly looked a bit different... softer...more symmetrical, but secretly I think I prefer your one double eyelider look, that is more familiar and with more character.

Funny to see your double eyelids again after work and believed this will be permanent. 

It was not. You are back to your "normal" eyelid on Tuesday and Wednesday.

So the one double eyelid is actually "the permanent". O_o

 

Missing Mamei

Babei said you started to say "Mamei neh?" yesterday...

Last Mami Milk

When I bring you the last bottle of Mami milk, you had a sip, then said "麻味擠多d奶奶比朗言飲"

I did mention before that Mamei might not be able to give you more Mami milk because of business trips. But then how can you know this is the last bottle? You have never said anything similar before, and this time the timing is precisely prefect.

You never fail to amaze me.

Cherry Seed

Mum allows you to have a bite on a cherry, you had the first bite, very yummy. Then you had a huge second bite, and you have eaten the seed!!! Mum panicked and asked you to open your mouth. You refused... Now with your teeth fully grown and mum cannot insert the finger into your mouth without your cooperation.

 

Tried to use chocolate and other food to lure you, but you still refused to open your mouth!! You then chewed on the seed for a while and SWALLOWED it!!!!!  -___-"

 

Mum was very worried even it is understand that the seed will come out in a few days…. Make me feel like a bad mum.

 

Finally the seed arrived safely and intact after one day.

 

Taped a video asking whether you will still swallow the seeds, and you loudly declared that "NO!".

 

Babbling Baby

A few of our conversations lately:

Gee: 唔要麻味！...要那！

Gee: 唔係！ (Mum looked puzzled)
Gee: NO! (with a firm hand gesture)

Gee rushed to the room and played the switch of 抽濕機
Mum: 邊到 beep beep 聲呀？
Gee pushed the on/off switch and say: 依到！
Mum: 曳！
Gee: 出返去nu~ (and wonders out of the room)

Gee wanted Dad to fetch the Nini for him, and did not want to do it himself. Dad refused...
Gee: 爸比唔該你那！爸比唔好咁那！

 

^O^

Building Up The Library

Osaka Big Family Trip

Finally we embark our first ever big family tip, having all four grandparents, Suksuk and us three. Everything went smoothly, Yeye, Mama and Suksuk can take the same flight as us. Before getting on the speed train from Airport, you became a bit fuzzy and sleep. I tried to sing you a song, and say, 麻味唱monkey 比你聼好唔好? You said, 唔唱. -____-"" Ok fine… I hear you.

It turned out that you had a fever, so making you extra tired. You have been a good boy, behaving at your best when you had enough sleep, and only fuzzed a little bit when we were in the hot and stuffy subway.

Day 2

A Walk in the shopping mall after breakfast, a lady from the shopping bowed to the customers entering the store. You saw this and imitate the lady's action by bending low. You smiled and knew you have successfully learnt something new. 

Went to Umeda in the afternoon.

Day 3

Mommy had great time in Akachan!! Bought you a lot of snacks!

Day 4

We went to Kyoto and the grandparents changed into kimonos while we had ice cream at a roadside shop, and later lunch in the nearby restaurant. During lunch, I smelled something and asked if you have pooed…you said yes!!

Good thing is, you choose a good time and venue to poo, bad thing is, the washroom does not have diaper changing kit. So we decided to change you on the small area between the sinks in the ladies room. You are now so tall that half of your bottom was hanging off… so Daddy decided to come into the ladies room to help.

We managed to change and clean you in like 1 minute and walked out as if nothing happens. Lucky that no one came in during our business.

Light pink rashes appear on your body at night… panicked for a while… then looked up the internet and found that you were having 玫瑰疹. High fever for a few days, and when fever ceased, rashes appeared on face and later spread to body and trunks. It is normal for children between 6 months to 2 years old, harmless rashes. Good thing is the rashes are not itchy and you are basically the same except getting tired easily.

Feeling relived and proud of you for being a good boy despite feeling unwell.

Day 5

Planned to go to Kobe and even bought the tickets, but you started to be cranky when in subway. Since the train journey has to be around an hour, I decided to take you home to rest whilst Daddy took the Ng's family to Kobe. Subway gave me full refund on the ticket when I exit the gate.

Daddy gave me a live broadcast of his Kobe Beef Feast!!! Next time we should go together!!

Day 6

Coming home! You sleep well on the plane on Daddy's lap and even helped Daddy to push the trolley. Rashes were all gone the next day.

Hope to bring you travelling everywhere in the world.

Love To See You

Mummy was out dinner with Client last night and only came back at 10:30pm, heard that you are still babbling and awake, so I opened the door... When you saw me, you beamed instatntly and kept saying mamei mamei mamei!!! All the tiredness was gone instantly!

This morning when grandma took out the sling, you said "麻味，孭, 麻味，孭", followed a few determined nods. ^__^

Your recent attachment to me makes me want to stay with you always!!

Proud of Myself

Mummy is proud of myself for my own persistence and focus to accomplish this long and big project. Seeing you grow into a strong and healthy and intelligent little man gives me the energy and determination to repeat this routine process a few times every day for the past 17 months!!

I hope I have given you the health foundation which you can be benefit for life.