Irfan hits his milestone again

OooOoo baby ku Irfan hehe. He just turned 18 months! Quite an accomplishment I would say. Penat woo nak membesarkan anak.

Irfan has been such a darling after he got the ear tubes. Alhamdulillah everything went well. Gem took care of him for two weeks and that really put him back to his best health. He's back to the daycare now but I'm sure Irfan misses her Auntie Cah very much.

We visited Auntie Cah & Uncle Amin last week before they headed back to Malaysia. We had dinner together at Bombay Restaurant. Food was superb. I love the Butter Chicken yummeh. I had Lamb Biryani, wasn't as good la. Despite the good food, Irfan wasn't at his best mood. Ini budak manyak susah loh. He was so sleepy and cranky, * tak nak makan nangis2 merengek2* so Zuhri and I had to take turn entertaining him as usual biasala tu kan. We had good dinner thanks Auntie Cah for the treat ihiks.
As far as his development, Irfan is right on track... I was comparing his skills to the one at the Babycenter, and he's doing a lil bit of everything.

1. He reads his book on his own -flipping pages, mumbling some words pretending like he's reading the book, pointing to pictures
2. He scribbles
3. String two words together in phrases - not so much la. I think he said 'And dig' few times but he got it from watching Yo Gabba Gabba.
   
4. Brushes teeth with help - not at all. Kena paksa je ni.
5. Stacks four blocks- I've seen Irfan stacking 3 blocks. Four yet to come.
6. Take toys apart and put them back together- Absolutely! Irfan has this engineer instinct la la I think. He loves to observe movement, how the mechanics work etc. For example dia dah pandai turn on DVD player himslef when he wants to watch cartoon.

Irfan dah pandai pretend play as well. He talks on the cell phone, looking at my laptop screen as if he's reading blogs. Pandai main peekaboo (sorok-sorok). He loves the kuda ride that auntie cah gave months ago. He likes to sing ABC...(you can hear the rythm only like he's singing ABC and pointing to the letters). Dia dah pandai follow simple instructions i.e 'please get mama the ball', 'Irfan, book please'... His favorite book is 'Cuddle with little duck'. Sometimes if I want him to get that particular book for me, I'd say the first few lines of the book and Irfan'd know exactly what to get. I wanted tp test his memory and it seems to work. He remember the stuff that he read. Amazing! Irfan showed his tantrums first in public at Owasso TJ Maxx 3-13-10. Zuhri was not there, he was trying to sell our car, 04 Mitsu Lancer. TJ Maxx is like a store where you can buy a lot of branded stuff at a good deal and there are lots of baby/ toddler items too. On that day, I wanted to try on some shoes but Irfan prefers to play with the toys at the toys area. But I dragged him to the shoes section and he started to beratkan badan, guling2 atas lantai like nobody's business. He won't let me pick him up at all. Argghhhh.. sabo jela kan biar je dia golek2 for 5 mins. Some said to him 'Are you giving mommy a hard time?' Last2 tarik je la mamat kecik sorang ni. And at the store too, this one time we were looking at the books section. After a while Irfan got bored and moved on to the toy area next to the books section. I wasn't paying much attention to him since I knew he's just few steps away from me. After few minutes I turned around to look for him and there he was.... sweeping the floor with a pink penyapu toy! And he's very good at it! Memang tangan pegang penyapu sapu sampah and bersih lantai. Adoi very sweet, nothing is sexier than a man doing house chores! But makes me wonder tau, mana la si kecik ni belajar menyapu...kat daycare ke? Anak aku jadi Cinderella ke kat daycare? adooiiiii.... ntah la abaikan huhu.
For his 18-months bday I bought him his first Thomas. It looks exactly like this and it can say few things like 'I'm thomas the train' etc. Mahal nak mati la mende ni, kecik je tau like 4" long. It can fits in Irfan's hand nicely, imagine how kecik it is and the price is $17!!!! That's about RM 70 kot agak2. But it's a good toy jugak la for travel. Bought him woody from toy story too and he likes it so much! Saje je kan at this age the kids will get attach to plush toys. I actually would really like to get him this..

or this ....

A tricycle and you can push it around too if the kid is still small. Can be used up to 4-5 years. Tapi the car auntie cah dah hadiahkan it's just that the car is at her place and it doesn't have the board for his foot so Irfan having a hard time to push it around. Makes me feel like I should get the tricycle instead sbb kereta tu dah ade. Sape2 yg dah ade experience dgn toys ni please give me your opinion. Ok la I think I have bebel so much and it's time to stop.