Sage will be turning three in the next few weeks and I couldn't get enough documenting his developmental milestones as I wanted him to witness his growth in the later years. This is our nurturing maternal instinct that when our kids are able to take things their ways, documenting their wittiness and messiness are quite amusing.
How on earth did my baby manage to solve
this puzzle in less than a minute?
this puzzle in less than a minute?
I was literally amazed when Sage did this puzzle as if he already knew where to put those pieces together. I thought he won't be able to figure it out but lo and behold, the way he'd shown it to me as if telling me,
"look mom I did it!"
There were days I am asking myself, how on earth did he manage to figure out those things and that? Sure his dad taught him how to put it all together considering his attention span, I thought he won't remember it.
Guess I underestimate my baby's retention capacity lmao! Apart from the puzzle, we also did a flashcards identification activities whereby he has a confusion between boy or girl (gender based) and insisted that a dress is also for him. I am not rushing him to read just yet but atleast with some phonetics he can follow and eventually say the basic words like "dad and mum"
I also included in the video a message in Bisayan language for his grandmama in the Philippines.
Anyhow, as Sage is growing bubbly and healthy, I thank God for the clever ways that he is doing even at the childminding. The staff at the Daycare Center would always tell us that at two years old, Sage is quite advanced. Hmm, couldn't be so proud of it. I feel like I have done the best job apart from being a career mom.
One of the most amazing things I am learning from my baby is his speaking skills
There were words that he would tell me which I do not have any idea what it was all about. For example when he said, "ne le fais pas maman or he would say, "je n'aime pas maman" and so I have to figure out what he wanted me to do hence Siri is a great help for multilingual moms!
Most of the time my biggest question is,
" are babies' brains wired to which country they were born? Regardless of whether you teach the word or not eventually they would acquire it spontaneously?
Bonding at Eden Island
Anyhow after our staff meeting in the school, I decided to bring Sage on a date. I called it "mommy and baby bonding" so we went to Eden Island. As it was almost lunch, he wanted pasta and his all-time favourite "chicken samosa."
Sage loved to roam around the area. He said he wanted to check what was upstairs as were about to go check on the boats. I let him take the stairs to fulfil his curiosity. I needed to stop him from entering EuroMedical as he was about to open the door lmao! (It's a private clinic by the way and you can also do your PCR test there in case).
As he went ahead, a statue of "Buddha" caught his attention. I was surprised when he said,
"wake up! I say wake up"
and tried to wake the poor statue. Thinking that in his innocent brain, it was sleeping. The staff attendant was also laughing when she heard him saying, "Wake up! Wake up!"
I told him it's a statue so it would remain sleeping forever! How can I explain a non-living object to a two-year-old?
We decided to go down and he said he wanted "ice cream" so we went to that small ice cream shop adjacent to MCB Bank. He loved the strawberry flavour but because it was not available, Sage decided to take the vanilla. We went out to have his ice cream and sat at the vacant plastic chairs outside the shop.
We talked ( as if we could really have a mature conversation), observed the people around and stayed for another hour. I could sense that Sage's started to be tired as it was almost 2:00 pm, His nap time. I asked if we would call his dad to pick us up since he got the car that day!
I thought waiting was so boring not until my baby did an innocent, comical way of stopping those cars passing by.
Most of the drivers were beeping, waving at him whenever he said, "STOP!" waving his hand with a stop sign!
Jesus Christ, what else can Sage be capable of? I wonder in the next years to come...
What about you momshies, are you also amazed if not surprised how bubbly your babies are? Regardless how tiring our days at work, now I could attest that indeed babies have this therapeutic presence in the family. They are really God's sent.
Their innocence at times is so charming if not annoying right?
By the way, I compiled our bonding mode that day on a video here and the ending part got me laughing so hard whenever he said, "STOP!' that some drivers would beep to acknowledge his command lol.