Joshie says

Scenario 1
(walks into lift and crosses his arms across his chest)
Joshie : Oscar is not going to marry Emilie
Me : Oh really? Who is going to marry Emilie then?
Joshie : Me! I am going to marry Emilie
Me : When is the wedding?
Joshie : Next week

(and the next morning)
Joshie : Mummy, Emilie and I are going to have a wedding party. There will be chocolates at the party. But Emilie and I are not going to dance, cause I am shy.......

Scenario 2
Maid : Josh, drink your milk first
Joshie : But I am playing......wait first
Maid : No, you drink now. And play later.
Joshie : Aunty, I said wait first. You need to be patient.

Scenario 3
(we were on the escalator and he was observing the signs showing the do's and don'ts on the escalator)
Joshie : Mummy, you cannot bring the stroller on the escalator
Me: Why do you say so, Josh?
Joshie : It's wrong, mummy......(points to sign).....look there, cannot bring stroller coz it is wrong!!!

Child talk

We were having dinner at Bakerzin. I was still eating while Joshie had just finished his pasta. He turned towards me and said "mummy, I am waiting for you to hurry up."

After that, we headed to the car park and I was quite deep in thought. I knew he was asking me something but my mind was still not concentrating. He then said very loudly, "mummy, you are not clever like my papa."

He says.......

Mummy, girls are pretty and boys are handsome.

We going home? Thank you mummy, thank you for bringing us to Taka.

Thank you for bathing me mummy.

Can you buy that for me? It's not pensive? (he meant expensive)

Mummy, I want people to buy 'pomputer' (he meant computer) for me. Can you tell them?

Where is my daddy, mummy? I can take aeroplane to find my daddy?

Our sonshine

Cheeky and full of mischief, this little boy brightens up our life with his antics and his speech.

Some of the recent things he said, which I want to jot down and read a few years down the road.

Mummy, don't worry. I will clean up. Later ok?

Quick, I need to wee-wee. Later my urine come out.

Mummy, why you not sleeping? (and he said this a few minutes after HE woke me up from my nap).

Be good ok? Later you go to jail.......

Don't disturb me ok? I have do to things.

He says.......

When he is not asleep, he yaks non stop. Asks a lot of questions. Favourite question is "what this, mom?" and "why?"

Amongst some of the hilarious things that he has said are:

Mummy, why you never put the toilet paper properly? I so angry with you (puts hands on hips and glares at me)

Mummy, you cannot sing so loudly ok? Later people wake up ok? Later police come and catch you ok?

Joshie talks

Overhead today after his bath.

Joshie: Ah ma (grandma), I don't want you to dry me. You so old!!! I want mummy to dry me.

Ah ma: -speechless-

Whilst changing clothes.

Joshie: Mummy, see my kuku......so small. Not big!

My chatty toddler (part 2)

What happens when he is naughty and I've just raised my voice at him.....

Joshie : Mummy, don't angry.........shows me a sad face

Mummy : Then you'd better listen to mummy. Be an obedient boy.

Joshie : Sorry mummy......

Mummy : Ok, good boy!

Joshie : Hugs (then he hugs)....kiss (and he kisses)

My chatty toddler

As I was driving home from the market today, I heard this conversation between my helper, M and Joshie who were both sitting at the back seat.

Joshie : Daddy love you, Joshie......

M : How much does daddy love you, Josh?

Joshie : Too much

M : How much do you love daddy?

Joshie : 1

And earlier on in the market....

M : How much do you love mummy?

Joshie : 20 cents

(He learned this from a classmate who answered "16 dollars" when their teacher asked how much he loves her)

And during the weekend, he was singing this.

J : Hot dog hot dog hot diggety dog, the mouse ran up the clock......

Mummy : No Josh, you are mixing up two songs. If you want to sing the Mickey Mouse theme song, it should be "Hot dog hot dog hot diggety dog, now we've got ears it's time for cheers" or if you want to sing Hickory Dickory Dock, it should be "Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock"....

J : I dunno........then giggles cheekily

My 2.5 year old is a real chatty boy. It's really difficult to read him a story too as he would always interrupt and tell me his own version of the story. His teacher has also commented that she needs to ask him to tone down during lesson time too. However, since he is shy by nature, he'd keep his mouth shut when he is amongst strangers or unfamiliar friends/relatives until he warms up to them.

Certain phrases picked up from school

Since he started school in January, he'd been really chatty. Picked things up really fast. Anyway, here's a few of his recent verbal expressions:

Are you ready, mummy?

Not again!

Thank you everybody.

Is it funny?........then he giggles

It's playdough time/ It's colouring time etc etc

Let's go/let's eat/let's pour etc etc

Oh my God

Besides, he's speaking in full sentences most of the time. Has correctly used prepositions and tenses too. Hmnn, I think his Mandarin would also improve by leaps and bounds when he starts his classes very soon (i hope)!

Updates on potty training

He is not wearing diapers at home anymore and there's been very minimal accidents. But the problem is, he is half-naked. Otherwise, he'll conveniently pee/poo in his pants. So next month onwards, I'll try to let him wear pants at home and keep reminding him to pee/poo. Also must teach him to pull down his pants whenever he needs to relieve himself.

Not much problem getting him to poo in the potty like before. I used to bribe him with vitamins, hehe....told him he could have a vitamin after doing his big business and that was very attractive to him. He loves his Pureen Kids colostrum chewies. Oh, and this morning, I had a good laugh. Right after he did his business, he stood up, looked into the potty and said "snake, ssss sssss..." Yes, indeed his poop looked like brown snakes! Haha, pardon me for describing my son's poop, I know it's very disgusting. Thousand apologies =P

I am now confident enough to let him go diaperless when we go for short outings. Of course it means more 'work' for me as I need to constantly bring him to the washroom, maybe every 90 minutes and get him to pee. But it's slowly working out for us, so I have no complains. =)

However, we'll be going on a 10 day holiday end of this month and I am not sure how this potty training will end up. From experience, when we went back to KL for a week plus, he seemed to 'forget' everything again and had a few accidents. Thus, for now, I'll just let things be and observe again when we come back next month =)

Conversations with Joshie

Scenario 1:

(points to mummy's tummy)

Joshie : Mummy fat-fat

Scenario 2:

(we were having dinner at Sushi Tei)

Joshie : Mummy, mummy, tissue.........

Mummy : I don't have tissue, Joshie!

Joshie then raises his hand and waves to the waitress.......

Joshie : Uuh me (excuse me), tissue?

Scenario 3:

(he was seated in his high chair when he accidentally dropped his water bottle)

Joshie : Water, water, come here!