Playing pretend - cleaning the house

This is another playing pretend, he wants to help mommy but becomes more hindrance haha
Anyway, it's enjoyable to see how he wants to copy mommy sweep the floor and clean the bathroom

Good habit starts since young

Since he likes to throw any things into trash bin, so mommy makes use of this habit turn into good habit.
After drinking yakult, mommy will direct him to throw into the bin, and now when we are in the playground, he will pick some fallen leaves and throw them into the bin
Future green baby... hehe

Toddler schedule time

When he's 16 months old, his afternoon sleep time change to once a day but longer, around 2.5 - 3 hours.
Sometimes, he takes late lunch and skip afternoon milk.
So here's his regular schedule now (weekday)

8am                      : Wake up
9am                      : Breakfast time (200cc milk + a slice of toast )
930am                  : morning shower
10am                    : Playing in playground + Yoghurt / yakult
1030am                : learning indoor
1130 am - 230pm : afternoon nap  or  12pm : lunch + fruits
3pm                     : lunch + fruits           3pm : afternoon milk (150cc milk)
4pm                     : leaning indoor
430pm                 : playing in playground
530pm                 : afternoon shower
6pm                     : dinner
630pm                 : free play with daddy
9pm                     : 180cc milk
10pm                   : night sleep

Playing Pretend

the pretend toys

pretend cooking in the kitchen@ikea

pretend drinking from the cup

pretend drinking coffee and eating apple pie

Richie now likes to play pretend, he pretends to eat, drink, sweep and mop the floor. What mommy does, he wants to copy too.
That's why mommy bought him some plastic plates, cups, bowls, spoons, cooking ladles from Ikea.
Mommy wanted to buy the pretend cooking set but it's expensive, the price is almost the same the real one.
Well, it's good quality though, 'cos the cooking set is not like toys, it's like real one but in smaller size.
So, mommy still can use them for cooking small quantity.
Hmmm..well let me think first then hehe...

Besides, mommy also bought McDonald's miniatures, it's small but not very small that can choke the kids.
It's cute as well and Richie likes to play pretend with them especially the apple pie
Now, mommy's hunting for artificial fruits and vegetables and eggs for Richie. So mommy can teach him the fruits and vegetables names while he can play pretend with them

Sign language with songs

Recently, mommy likes to take the video of Richie while he's doing the action
like quack quack, song : if you happy and you know you clap your hand, etc
so here is some videos. I guess it will bring a good memory for mommy, daddy and himself when he's grown up

Digital Chinese Flashcards

After reading some stories from parents who're struggling with their P1 kids in chinese lessons, mommy decided to introduce chinese language to Richie as early as possible.
Mommy made handmade flashcard in hanyu pinyin but turn out that the spelling was difficult. Mommy try to learn 5 spelling from google translate and forgot again when tried to do flashcard to Richie.

End up, Richie's just look at mommy and perhaps he think what are you trying to say mom? sigh....

That's why, mommy bought the baby brain chinese language. First mommy wanted to show it to Richie during meal time while he's eating and learn together. But end up, he refused both eating and watching. haiya...
So the alternative, using PC.
They have the schedule for every day. So starting today, mommy let him watch the program for day 1.

It has pictures and hanyu pinyin and has many subjects like body parts, vegetables, fruits, flowers, action and feelings, sports etc.

Well, hopefully his brain memorizes all of these and when the time comes, he's easily picking up the chinese language in school.

Besides, mommy will try to find nursery school who's speaking chinese more instead of english. Hopefully, it works too.

Richie in the playground

On lazy Sunday, we brought Richie to playground below our block and he had so much fun with us
Here some videos

Happy 16 months old