21.5 months old

Ethan has been growing and developing really well, we thank God for all His blessings and love towards Ethan. He's getting mature everyday. One thing that we notice differently is his communication skills. We can communicate with him & we understand each other very well nowadays. Ethan speaks and repeats after us all the time. He learns new vocabs from his videos, books and us. He can do what we instruct him to do and help around the house with home chores; helping and learning at the same time. He has fun and mommy gets her chores done too and that means everybody is happy!

His soccer skill is getting better also. He can kick the ball just by bouncing the ball onto the floor and kick it. Just like that. He can kick the ball up high now, knock things down here and there once in a while. Watch out there! Really...his kick is pretty strong for a 21.5 months old toddler.

Ethan also weanes off the bottle now. Sleep more comfortably thru the night with 1 milk time and 1 diaper change. And i can drive by myself with Ethan sitting on the car seat (just the 2 of us), getting errands done, go to his class and the library, as long as the trip is not that far and he's not hungry or sleepy.

Ethan also understands when he does something bad then he will get lectures from mommy/papi/nainai. He pauses and starts crying (not real cry), but it was more 'to get our attention' cry so he can be excused. That kind of cry. Then he tests our limit by doing his mistake again. We start lecturing him again and try to calm him down, pick him up, hold him and try to distract him with another activities or toys.

Another improvement that Ethan's achieved is that he can focus doing 1 thing in a longer period of time. Before, he just can't sit still (well, he still is actually, but better now than before) and has short period of focusing on doing 1 thing. Now, he can explore his books, toys and play with them, even talk to them (pretending that his dolls are his friends), we do this pretend play to explore his imagination and he does talk to them. It's so funny.

Ethan can also hold his pencil color correctly and he can scriblle a little bit. Before, he would just play with his pencils and make a mess on the floor. This drawing thing is actually Ethan's only activity that relates to art. He doesn't really do finger painting (it's too messy) and he doesn't like play dough at his mommy and me class.

Anyway...we look forward to many more learning experiences and achievements with Ethan.