Kenji is turning 16 months soon and yet the little boy still can’t walk. The elder brother also started walking pretty late. Around 15-16 months as well. His preferred mode of movement is still crawling.
He has got no problem pulling himself up to a standing position and can stand quite steadily if he wants to. However, he tends to lean and make himself falls towards the nearest person, knowing that whoever is near him will catch hold of him. Quite a dangerous act, but I don’t know how to stop him from doing that… I did tell him “no no” but it doesn’t seems to work.
He can climbed onto the sofa chair pretty swiftly now. Just a blink of the eye and he would have transferred himself from the floor onto the sofa. sigh… kids this age.. really really like to perform dangerous act…
I remembered an incident 2 months back… we left the gate unlock but we did close it, however the lock is a bit spoilt and could not latch properly. This Kenji boy was playing in the living room and I went to the kitchen to wash his bottle. Before I can finish washing the bottle, our aunt from next door carried him in and exclaimed that he found the boy making his way down the staircase…. bottoms down first of course…
My god……… fortunately he had learnt to negotiate steps backwards, with his bottoms down first… I can’t imagine if he is to attempt to go down the steps head first… and needless to say I was nearly being nagged to death…..
Ok back to his walking. Sometimes I will be naughty and pull him up to a standing position then lure him to walk. He did attempt and the best he could do was to scramble 2 steps.
As for speech development, he first learnt to address Ah Ma and Ma Ma around 12-13months. Afterwhich he learnt to ask for food, going :” mum mum mum mum or ai jiak ai jiak (wants to eat in hokkien).” He is still babberling alot and I thougt it sounded really cute.
Will update again on his development if he learns anymore “new tricks”. I am not worried about him being a late bloomer though. I believe every kid will eventually reach their milestone, at a pace that they are comfortable with.
Here is a recent pic of him and oh yah, he still has got really good appetite! He finished up his dinner and then he’ll pick a portion off his brother’s plate as well! Monster!
Monster? hmm…that’s what I call Brayden too! haha…
Bray also lag in his development. He didn’t want to crawl properly, he can sit, but lazy…he’ll just lean back, that’s why we never let him sit alone.
I don’t worry too…I am sure he will be as good as his peers too!
Keke…the part on ‘ai jiak ai jiak’…so cute! 🙂
Ya, I never worry about my kids’ development too, cos I believe each child is an individual. And I hate people (read: MIL) who compares my kids with other’s (read: SIL) kids…
yes, you are right, every kid is different and we have to give them time. When they are ready, they will show us! 🙂
I like the part about him running off or carwling off and attempting to scale the stairways bottoms up…..hahahah….dangerous and a pretty close call too but sorry lar, if you sit back and think about it, it actually very comical…..heehee:)
Hi Ivy, no worries about that. My sis in law told me that it is good for the child to crawl longer and walk later. Because it seems to improve their balancing and talking. Crawling uses all parts of the body and that helps in giving strenght as a child learns to talk.
Kenji is doing well…no worries.