Ethan's milestones (2)

Ethan's second attempt in colouring. All his own effort. The flower, heartshape and word were the creation of Nicole. I would say it's pretty good as he was able to keep most of the colours within boundaries.



I knew Ethan could remember and articulate some 70% of what’s hidden underneath the alphabets when he was about 19 months old but when I asked him again several weeks ago, he gave me a pleasant surprise totally from a different perspective. Not only could he remember ALL of the pictorial representation for every alphabet, he also added his own creation along the way.

As usual, we started off by :

Me “ Ethan, A for ?”
Ethan “ A for apple”
Me “ B for? “
Ethan “B for ball. B for boy”

Etc etc

Me “ E for ?”
Ethan “ E for Ethan. E for elephant”
Etc etc

Me “ G for ?”
Ethan “ G for “pu-tao” ” (meaning Grapes in Mandarin)
Me “ Hahaha, G for grapes, you mean”

Etc etc

Me” M for?”
Ethan “M for mummy. M for moon”
Me “ N for ?”
Ethan “ N for Nicole” (instead of saying N for Nest which is the picture underneath)

Me “U for?”
Ethan “ Payung” (meaning Umbrella in Malay)
Me “ Wow, I didn’t know you still remember this word!”

Ethan could also add on to the objects by describing the colours such as red apple, blue car, green frog, pink shoes, yellow banana, purple Barney, orange spoon and black cat.


Ethan has moved on to doing "spelling". He is able to recognise the sounds of certain words and name them accordingly. E.g. When I spelt the word " A-P-P-L-E", he would respond by saying " Apple" "B-O-Y" -> "Boy", "C-A-T" -> "cat", etc etc. I am very pleased with him. Though he appears to be playing all day long, he has actually learnt much :).

His latest interest is - Singing! :)

He would sing the "Happy Birthday" song all day long and when he is about to sleep every night, he would sing the "Barney Song " which goes " I love you , you love me, we are happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you, wont you say you love me too". With that, he would close his eyes and get on to his dream world. Sweet dreams, baby!