Daniel had a really lovely day yesterday.
He had Christmas party at playgroup with his best friend in the morning and went to library in the afternoon. Library is one of the best place he would like to go nowadays alongside bookshop, jelly bean (a softplay center) and playgroup at our local church. Upon arriving at library, he immediately required to 'have coffee' though I knew he wasn't hungry at all as we just had lunch at home. However i still ordered him a glass of orange juice and two slices of toast as I know if not there would be a tantrum on display. 'Coffee and toast' is the routine for our library trip as we normally go there to meet up with Justin and his mum, there would be baby group on Monday morning sand Story and Rhythm time on Friday. It was quiet in the library yesterday, so Daniel quite enjoyed his free play at the children section. He picked out a Bus book from the book case and sat there browsing through the book and read out loud:
'the wheel on the bus go round and round...all day long'; he turned page,
'the wiper on the bus go swish and swish...all day long', then turned page,
'the horn on the bus go beep, beep,beep...all day long', turned page,
'the people on the bus go up and down, up and down... all through the town...' turned page,
'the baby on the bus go wah wah.. wah.. wah.. wah, all day long..';
'the children on the bus go party time, party time...all day long... finished'
A mum with 18 month baby sitting opposite us was very impressed and said to me 'your son's language development is very good'. I agreed with her but actually i was more impressed with Daniel's fine motor skill or his ability of turning each page without missing one.Then he picked out another one titled The very hungry Caterpillar and started to browse this book while reading it out page by page;
'Monday caterpillar ate one apple...' he turned the pages of the picture book;
'Tuesday caterpillar ate two pear...'
'Wednesday he ate three plum...'
'Thursday he ate ... strawberries..'
'...... finished'
i was very impressed with this one as i didnt remember I have read him this book before. It must be someone in the nursery, then i asked him:' who read this book to you, Daniel?' Daniel said 'Kirsty'.
Daniel did some drawing at the table, jumping up and down on the steps, getting in and out a boat at the children section. Finally he spot the computers at the corner, which are just about the right height for him. he managed to climp up the chair and sit at the keyboard shouting 'password please...password please...' I said to him ' It's four o'clock, it's getting dark, shall we go home?' He said to me firmly 'No, password please!' I said ' Mummy don't know the password, you have to go ask the lady' he hesitated a bit then decided he would do it no matter what, he climb down the chair, walked to the librarian and said 'password please!' the lady firstly didn't understand what he want then i explained that he want to use the computer. So the lady helped him to log in. I helped him logged in the In The Night Garden website, one of his favorite BBC children programme, he was pointing the character shouting 'Nincky Nonk... Upsy daisy... Maka Paka... tombliboos...' after 10minutes's excitement for Daniel i had to persuade Daniel off the computer by promising a bus ride. When we got out the library, there was just a bus arriving... it was the first time Daniel got on a bus, hehe, What an exciting day for Daniel
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Wow, I am VERY impressed too!! Normally everyone says boys are pretty late in speaking, but Daniel is certainly the exception!
Hi wish you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and a great year ahead!
Yes, I remember, when Daniel was a few months old, I have read a book titled Raising Boy, in which they did say that boys tend to speak later than girls do and in general are not that good verbally compare to girls. This is due to boys have less neurological link in between their left and right brain compare to girls. That's why I decided to talk and sing more to Daniel when he was little. It looks work! ;)
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