Growing Phase in Year 2009

Growing phase in year 2009

Time flies really fast, Ethan already turned into 4 years old last month. Mummy thought it should be recorded down his growing phase before the new year. (At least when he is older that time, he will look back at his growing up milestones). Well, this year he gets to celebrate in Malaysia even though it is still 3 of us.

Summaries of 2009:
Toys
- We did not really buy many toys for him. He will get to play with his existing toy. But this year, he gotten the expensive train set from grandpa for his birthday. Other than that, mommy cannot recall any new toy.

Books
- Superbly more books for him. Mummy bought a lot of books especially knowing that we will be leaving shanghai. We have shipped back few big boxes of books. Glad to know that he starts to listen to Chinese story book. Not only that, mummy also introduced him the Malay story book and he did not reject them.
- Besides buying the books, mummy also bought a lot of exercise books for him. Really "kiasu mother" but none of them had been done by Ethan. Mother doesn't want to force him and it is also as a reference book for mother to know the standard of our Malaysian education level. It really freaks out the mother after viewing through the books.

Clothes
- Mommy bought a lot of clothes for Ethan before we headed back to Malaysia. Some of the T-shirts and pants are too big for him. Mother purposely bought it in big size as mother finds it difficult to get the same design in Malaysia. Ha! Like that, Ethan no need to buy the new year clothes for few years.

Sick and injection
- No injection for this year
- He got HFMD in the beginning of Nov month. He had been admitted to the hospital for one day after he had swollen face due to allergy. Doctor had an injection for him to stop the allergy. Before the new year, Ethan had another cough. It was difficult to cure it.

Motor Skills
- definitely had an improvement compared to last year.
- growing taller when came back to Malaysia

Vocal skills
- More chatter box right now compared to last year. Now his Chinese language is better compared to English. He likes to speak to us in Chinese. On and off will speak in English that is not really fluent compared to Chinese.
- Still slow response or no response to outsiders. He chose to talk to people he is familiar with.
- We still find it really difficult for him to pronounce the word start with "F"
- More questions ?? until the parent cannot stand him

Reading skill
- We don't know how far he can go since mother did not ask him to read aloud. Let him enjoys the picture books and when the time is ready he will .

Food
- He loves eating fish. He will request more or simply eat the fish when he saw mother cooked it and placed on the table.
- We found that he likes to eat crispy or fry foods (most of the kid will like it) but we try to restrict it. Of course we seldom bring him to fast food restaurants. Luckily he still doesn't like to drink the soft drink. He will spit out after he tried.
- More Japanese food this year. We have on and off brought him to Japanese restaurant in QBM especially we got free cash coupons to eat.
- Started to eat sweet thing but he still does not really good in eating it. He will spit out half way. So funny when he tried the "Sugus", it sticks on his teeth when he chews it and he asks us to take away from his mouth then he will not take it anymore. Loves chocolate....

Overall, he is a happy growing kid.