Monday, March 31, 2008

18 months milestone

Reese is one and a half years old! Soooo fast. My baby is growing up well and happy.

Height and weight
He is about 85 to 86 cm.
He is about 13kgs plus.
He has regain his little tummy. (due to rich food)

Communication and Vocabulary
He can somewhat communicate with words.
He knows both Upper and Lower case alphabets.
He knows 0-10.
He can count numbers and also recite a-z. (misses here and there)
He has a very vast vocabulary. Lost count.
He is beginning to call mummy and daddy... yesss...
He is learning to sing.
He loves watching Barney and Sesame Street.

Physical
On average he sleeps about 12 hours a day and that includes 1 nap in the day.
He can climb up stairs on his own..at times up right and at times on all fours.

He can skip and somewhat jump. Still need to perfect that.
He can dance.
He still loves to run.
He still wakes up at least once in the middle of the night.
He still sleeps with us and loves to roll 360 degrees and still takes up more than half the mattresses combined (1 queen plus 1 super single)
He loves to play in the wading pool.

Food
He still takes at least 4 bottles of milk (6 ounces each) a day.
He likes pasta (shells, spaghettis, spirals) with either cream or tomato base sauces. Usually with veges and fish/bacon.
He doesn't like rice or porridge or Chinese food in general.
He likes to eat cheese.
He likes peanut butter and banana sandwich.
He loves creamy mushroom soup and fish chowder. Minestrone also not too bad.
He likes fruits like grapes, banana, orange, papaya, mango and apple.
He takes yogurt twice a week.
He takes breakfast cereal like honey stars with milk.
Don't really like sweet drinks like vitagen or fruit juices.
Don't like mash potatoes but will eat french fries or just potatoes.
Willing to try new food.


Features
He looks more and more like daddy!
He is tall for his age.
He looks mature.
He can easily pass for a 2+ years old.

Characters
Don't see anything yet. He was never a difficult child and he is always happy. Maybe a little bit more demanding in terms of his needs but that happens to all kids his age.

He is quite friendly even to strangers.

He is not the clingy type either.

He hates to be alone.

Oh.. he is not a very adventurous boy. Or is he still too young? :)

6 comments:

Baby Darren said...

He knows a lot compare to other boys at this age. Well done mommy for teaching him the numbers and alphabets.

Glad he is putting weight too.

A gift from God said...

Thank you SL,

I just want the best for him...and most importantly...I want a balance in his life....

As for weight... I have to be careful.. he is gaining quite a bit after losing some...

Ann said...

Glad to see his character story!

I think my son is somewhat like me lah (sigh)....very stubborn and very determined and always wants his way!

Moomykin said...

Wow, Congratulations, Mommy!

He actually sounds kinda like Micah, except that Micah was a real little monkey and would be climbing and jumping everywhere. Climbs the grills too.

Happy nurturing Reese.

A gift from God said...

Kathie,

Reese is not very adventurous...the most.. he will just climb up the sofa and jump and that also..gets scolding from me..haha.. anyway.. there are no grills in the house...so nothing to really climb on..our house features the minimalist style..so there are hardly anything that he can climb on... :)

Anonymous said...

WOW!! Recite A to Z!!
WAY TO GO, BABY REESE!!

Haiz, Kayton only knows A to C!! No matter how i repeat the rest of the letters to him, he wouldn't repeat it back to me.