a, b, c...

today, ian woke up without crying. lately he tend to cry when he wakes up from his nap. mama's guess, missing his "tutu". ya. we are trying to stop him from that. will talk more about this in a separate post later.

mama notice he is scratching his neck. it turns red. gosh.. so, mama apply some drapolene cream on it and ask him not to scratch anymore. then, he is there happily playing with his alphabet peg puzzle. mama notice that he scratch his neck again. mama just said, "ian stop scratching". he started a bit of his cry. we called it fake one because no tears. to please him so mama gave him the alphabet mat to play. he likes to destroy them (took out all the alphabet). mama only gave him 6 - a to f.

ian is holding his "a". mama read "a". then mama ask him where is the "b"? to her surprise he picks up the "b". is correct! then it goes till "f". wau! he knows his abc. let's try again... yes! is correct again! ok, one more time. this time the "c" is like far away. he really crawl over to pick it up. yay! ian knows his abc.

later mama try to test him. notice that he knew them in sequence. once mama jump he can't do it. actually mama can't be sure yet whether he really can't do it or he refuse to do it. when mama doesn't read in sequence. means not what he expected, he turn to look at her. if mama keep saying it, he even attempt to pull her mouth. showing sign to ask her to stop saying that.

talking about stop saying that. in some occasion that mama keep telling people (once is ee po, another is the cleaning lady) about how naughty he is, ian actually tried to cover mama's mouth or may be you can call it "pull" to stop her from saying it. haha..

[update: later at night, mama bring up the alphabet mat for ian to play upstairs. hope he will show papa what mama had witness. glad that he did it. actually in the evening mama try to get him to show seh ku but he refuse to do it. mama even went and called seh ku over our room to see it. so happy to see papa's happy smiling face. ian keep giggling each time when we clap and applause "clever boy!" when he completed them. we all have a great time last night...]

[update again: the next day, mama tried with the number mat. 0-5. cool! he manage to do it as well. later, mama try to be more adventurous. mix both a-f and 0-5. cool! ian manage to pick the a-f but not for the 0-5. but then 1 thing mama notice. he actually do recognize the shape. note that "4" and "A" actually in a glance looks similar. when mama called for "A" he picks up "4" but when he bring it closer for a look he put in down and pick "A". good job! later mama thinks ian gets a bit annoyed with the mixture and refuse to do anymore...]