Saturday, 2 February 2013

When the 2-year-old meets numbers!

Big Sis A Loving Mother


Little stories that brighten up my days to share with you all :)



...STORY ONE...

We were walking on the street while Ethan was crying asking me to carry him from his daddy's arm. I was thinking of strategies to distract Ethan so that I could free myself from dragging my legs with the extra 11kg load.


Ethan: Mama, carry, mama carry.

Me: Ok, you count from 1 to 30 first.

Ethan:

Mon (One), two, three, four, fi (five),
six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
e-we-wen (eleven), twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fiveteen (fifteen),
sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
twenty-mon (twenty-one), twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-fi (twenty-five),
twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!


*Wow, The 2-year-old Ethan did it. I am so proud of him!


Ethan: Mama, mama carry....

Me: Ok, come.



...STORY TWO...


Ethan has been asking me to read him the "Learn with Thomas 1 2 3" these two days. He loves the book! I think I have read him thrice.

During our bedtime chat last night:


Me: Darling, who's number 1?
Ethan: Thomas!
(Hmm... That's correct! Not bad!)

Me: Number 2?
Ethan: Edward!
(Wow, he really can remember!)

Me: Number 3?
Ethan: Henry!
(Wow, wow... Ok, let me ask him the next one and hopefully he really did remember all.)

Me: Number 4?
Ethan: __Don
(Ok, I knew he meant Gordon!)

Me: Number 5?
Ethan: Jame!
(Bingo! JameSSSS!)

Me: Ok, it's James.
Me: Number 6?
Ethan: Cheeky Percy!
(He even remembered the adjective the book used to describe Percy! Well done my Cherie!)

Me: Number 7?
Ethan: Toby
(That's amazing!)

Me: Number 8?
(He was thinking hard, maybe "Steamie Duck" doesn't come easy for him to remember. So I decided to tell him the answer.)

Me: It's Steamie Duck!
Ethan: Steamie Duck!

Me: Ok, then who's number 9?
Ethan: Donald!

Me: Number 10?
Ethan: Donald!
Me: Hmm... it's Douglas even though Douglas is Donald's twin brother...

(Ethan has been insisting that Donald and Douglas are the "same same" "same same"...)

Me: Yay, Darling, clever boy, let's clap hands!

*Clap clap clap!

*I did not expect him to memorise the names of the engines in sequence. It's a surprise to me indeed! I was so proud of him! Well, by the way... I have never expected myself to remember the names of the engines in sequence too! Haha...



...STORY THREE...

I let Ethan stand in the basin so that I could clean him easily before bedtime (Of course I was holding him with my left hand while my right hand cleaning him).

Ethan was covering the tap of running water with his palm and the water shot out to everywhere.


Me: Stop it Ethan! 
(Firm & loud)

*Obviously, my firm and loud tone didn't do any magic on the terrible-two.


Me: If you continue doing this, I am going to turn off the tap.
(While talking, I turned off the tap)

Ethan: Water! water! water! 
(Screaming and stretching in my arm)

*In order to prevent him from slipping off my arm, I turned on the tap again and said:

Me: Ok, Ok. I count from 1 to 10 and I will turn it off.

*Ethan smiled


Me: 1, 2, 3, ....10! 
(I finished the counting in 3 seconds and I quickly turned off the tap and carried him away from the basin.)

Ethan: 鱼尾纹 (yu-wei-wen)! 鱼尾纹! Mama, 鱼尾纹!

Me: What's 鱼尾纹? Mama don't have 鱼尾纹!

*I was thinking hard what he meant by 鱼尾纹. I swear I've not taught him saying 鱼尾纹.

Ethan: ........



Our conversation ended.

After a while.... I was laughing non-stop myself as I finally figured out what he meant by 鱼尾纹..... It's ELEVEN!!

This cheeky boy was asking me to count to 11 instead of 10!



Me: Mummy ask you, just now you said 鱼尾纹, did you mean eleven?

*Ethan nodded his head....



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