Just enjoyed spending time with Max every day. He’s smarter and he’s getting cuter and cuter by the day.

1) he is smart. He knows how to hold 2 small rubber hands with just one hand. He will grab the first one in his hand and then he will use his thumb and second finger to hold the other ball. No one taught him that.
2) He now realized that he has new found freedom ever since he learnt to walk independently. He enjoys walking round and round the house and climbing up and down the stairs. He also enjoys going out… he is very excited when he knows that he is going out. He also now wants his own set of bowl and spoon, juz to play with when he’s having dinner. Slowly I think he will learn to push the spoon into his mouth to feed himself. He bites his spoon and refuse to let go.
3) I will slowly teach him to say some words. He now knows how to show the number 2 and says 2. he is very talkative. He seems to be engaged in a conversation with you when you teach him things. Of course, he knows how to quarrel with people too, esp with his siblings. When he loses out, he will take their hands and want to bite.
4) He is very mischievous. When marcus and mabel is sleeping, he would go and disturb them. He would shake their head, ruffle their hair, put his mouth on their face, like kissing them like that.
5) he is very good at crying first. That day when he toppled the photo frame, I juz said a little more stern, ‘ah boy!’ suddenly he turned around and cry so loud. Then he walked towards me and buried his head on my laps, then ask me to carry him. When I did, he buried his head on my shoulder and cried somemore. All this while, I didn’t even scold him. Then when I pat him, saying him, he looked up and smiled.
6) Sometimes, when he doesn’t want the maid, he will raise up and his hand and shake his hand, like asking the maid to go away. He also knows that by raising out both his hands, he’s asking people to carry him.
7) He is very cute. So cute….. and last nite, he was playing with a plastic cup. He actually wanted to drink the cold water from the cup, but since marcus has finish the water, the cup is empty, I let him play with it. He was experimenting with the cup, then he placed the cup over his mouth and talked into the cup. When the siblings laughed, he knows it’s funny and he kept on doing it to make us laugh.
8) It was nice to watch him sleep. When he sleep, he looks so serene, like so angelic. What a contrast from when he’s awake. When he sleeps, I think he really looks like me.

On Sunday, brought the children to pasir ris to cycle. He enjoys sitting on the chair and letting the wind blow against him. Pasir ris has upgraded the playground. The children enjoyed playing. Will bring marcus and mabel there more often to play as it’s good to climb and move around. In this way, marcus can then grow taller. Do you know that he is actually being referred because he’s too short for his age? Slightly below the percentile. So got to monitor him.

Anyway, there is swing there, max enjoys the swing. You can see from his face that it is very ticklish… when I have time, I will post the pictures here.

All in all, we had a good time. Will bring them there more often. Picnic. We have a tent, so we can all go there and just enjoy the sand, sea and sun.