New trick and independent boy

Ethan has developed a new trick with daddy. He put his feet on top of daddy's feet and requests daddy to move. Well, how is this trick developed? It was mainly because of mummy. This is because when mummy wants to dance with Ethan mummy some time put Ethan's feet on mummy's feet. Mummy will move her legs and dances with Ethan. Sometimes when Ethan is crying then he will run to grab mummy's leg. At that time mummy will begin to move with her legs. At first he will still be crying but later he will become half crying and half laughing. Then later totally enjoys this actions.

Seems like our boy has became more independent as he likes to do a lot of things by himself. Such as cases shown as below:
1) Walked up the staircase. If you hold him up the staircase. He will refuse. If you insist to do that, after you reach the top of the staircase. Guess what will Ethan do? He will walked down the staircase then walked up again by himself. If you don't let him do that he will throw his tantrum. So sometimes you want to be fast but at the end it becomes a delay.

2) Same thing also happens in the toilet. When you hold him up in order to prevent him from slipping on the floor, he will show the sign that he wants to walk by himself out of toilet. This is because every time before he walked out of the toilet he will point to the tiles on the toilet floor and tell you what the color it is. "Blue"!

3) This evening mummy had to clean the kitchen cabinet so all the containers need to be brought out. We asked Ethan to take the containers away. What did he do? He arranged nicely all the containers on the floor. Later we asked him to take them back to mummy so that mummy can arrange them back into the cabinet. After finished arranging them back, mummy seen that there is another new container on the table top of the kitchen. So she asked daddy to give it to Ethan so that he can hand it over to mummy. Our little boy took the container and then put back on the floor as other containers he had done before. Then only he took it again from the floor and handed over to mother. Both of us were laughing seeing Ethan actions.

4) When he plays the puzzle, other people cannot help him to match the puzzle. He will take the puzzle away and he will personally matched them back.

5) When he opens the book and you want to close it. He will yell to protest that you cannot touch his books. Then he will open his book again as before and close the books if you asked him to close it.

Well, don't know whether is it because mummy trains him to be independent or not? It is known fact that Ethan likes to sleep and put aside his "Peter and Jane " in his crib to accompany him. So when he wakes up normally mummy will hold him up and left the books still inside the crib. After he drinks all his milk, he will want to request people to take his books out from the crib for him. Normally for daddy and grandma, they will help Ethan to take it out but for mummy, mummy will not do so. Mummy will ask Ethan to take them out by himself . If the books were on the other side of the crib which Ethan cannot reach, normally he will yell for help. However, this would not work with mummy. Mummy will ask him to try again. Sometimes she asked him to solve his problem by himself and if still cannot then only give some suggestions for him. Well, daddy always say that mummy is cruel to Ethan. But the purpose behind this is essentially to let Ethan use his brain to solve the problem by himself. Like a lot of things mummy tries to let Ethan do by himself. So when Ethan wants to drink milk and when he sees mummy is preparing his milk then he will quickly go and open the cabinet and take his handkerchief and put around his neck and lies on the bed waiting for mummy to bring him milk.

Only one thing mummy need to let Ethan do by himself is eating the rice. Mummy seldom let him do it mainly because mummy cannot tolerate the mess that Ethan makes. This one needs to be improved else Ethan will not improve his skill of eating foods. But sometimes cannot blame mummy because the soup is very hot. Mummy is scared it would hurt Ethan. So for cold food like yogurt and fruits, mummy will let him handle by himself. What mummy does in order to train Ethan's hand was to ask Ethan to use the spoon to take his cheerios out from the bowl and put inside his mouth. This one is very difficult (because of the small size of cheerios) but if he can manage to do it then he should not have problem to handle other food.