Sean's developement at 37months

First I will update on Sean's developement at fo 37mths and 1 week old.

He just recovered, not 100 % but probably 99% from his fever over the weekend, slight improvement with his flu and cough which he just got it last Friday. Last week was abit cold probably that explains why he falls sick, if not so far he has been doing well, eating well at home because i force feed. Haha. But when he is out playing with Caleb or his friends, you can forget about asking him to eat. All he wants to do is just play and play and he will not feels hungry at all.

Physical developement : Height grown up taller, maybe 100cm or slightly below. Because i can see his old pants are now slightly above ankle already, unless it shrunk. Weight still remain as slim as ever eventhough sometimes i think he eats quite alot. But his digestive system is somehow too good, whenever he eats too much, he will need to go and poo it all out again. Plus he is a very active boy running up and down alot, so maybe this explains why he is forever slim.

Activities: Enjoy reading story books, so we are planning to buy more or borrow some from the library for him. He always want us to read to him at least 2 books before he sleep. Its a daily routine for him that he will not miss, no matter how tired we are, we still need to oblige to it.(both parents are lazy)It's a good hobby which i think we should cultivate him to do, some simple books he can relay back the story to us, even word by word as how they have it in the book. I think he memerized it. Can see and remember most number till 6, previously he can count but not so much on remembering how the number looks like, but he can now do so. At times he can even write it, but not very nice of course, but somehow you can still know what number he is writting. We have been engaging activities like writting numbers which he quites enjoy it at the moment. Me being a very kiasu mum, i still prefer my kids to have Singapore standard if possible so i prefer him to learn more than playing. He still enjoy singing at times, where you can hear him sing by himself in the car or sometimes before sleeps, but he just want to act silly by changing some of the wording in the songs and make is sound silly. He thinks is funny. I didnt stop him anyway, he is still a kid after all, so sometimes we just behave silly like him which he will find it very funny. ABC is still weak, i think he must have even forgotten the first few aphabets that we have taught him before, as we have stop that for quite a while ever since we move house till now. He is weaker at drawing i notice, he prefers us to draw for him rather then he draws himself. He will request you to bring his drawing kits out but he wants you to draw from him instead. Watching TV is his forever favourite activities.

Speech development: think should be quite alright bah, at least poeple can understand what he is trying to say. But of course is uncomparable to those english native speaker's kids as i must admit both myself and Jerry's english is only so so. We have been trying to introduce new words as and when we talk to him and he does pick up from there.Only problem with him is certain words his pronounciation are not as accurate and clear, but i am guessing he will outgrown as he grows older.

Self help skills : He can feed (food/water)himself but of course do expect some food droping on the table or floor after that. Actually i am also unsure how a 3 years old kid will fare. Taking of pants is not a problem for him, but taking of clothes is. Plan to start and let him to do it himself. Now is in the mid of encouraging him to wear his own shoe. He can wear the crocs by himself, but not sneakers/sports shoe yet. When you ask him to teach you how to wear his shoe, he will show you, but will need our help a little, but if you ask him to go wear his shoe himself he will tell you he can't. Fully toilet trained in the day, even during afternoon nap, i saw him waking up few times in the afternoon to urine himself and went back to sleep after that. As for night training, i still do not have the courage yet, because too lazy to change the bedsheet after that.Maybe when my mum is year, later part of this year.

Social skills : As usual needed time to warm up when he sees new people/faces.Still consider as a shy boy, not sure is it because we use to says things like bad man will catch him away if he doesn't listen of behave, but we have stop that now.You can say that he is a reserved person, he tends to play or socialise only with the people that he feels comfortable with. He has no problem socializing with kids though, no fighting, snatching nor pushing, only problem is less willing to share when it comes to his favourite toys. Food he wills still share if he sees that he still got alot of it.If it happen to be the last one, don't bother asking, he will not share.

Personally, i think he is still consider a quite managable boy, quite obedient and willing to listen and follow. He can understand when you explain well to him. He is a very touchy boy, he likes to be love and enjoys curdle. Recently he likes to ask if i love him, when i say i do, he will also tell me that he loves me too. And trust me this melt my heart straightaway, the way he says is is so sweet and innocent. Of course like any other kids, he will misbehave at time, but so far nothing really major that we need to be concern about at the moment.Kids will still be kids, my only hope is that he can grows up healthily and be a useful person.