big and small - 20 months

Crystal is 20 months today

it's amazing if you observe how your children grow and how their intelligences develop!
and it's really amazing to find out how fast they learn something, either to sing, to count, to memorize poem, to mimic things the adult do, or anything else.
as a working mom, i always want to rush home after office hour, to be with my girl and see her grow up time to time.



Crystal begins to understand the concept of big and small.
lately she often says to herself, "Mama's big. Jing-jing's small."
if i ask about her rubber duckling, which one one is big which one is small, she can also point it out. same case with spoons or balls or anything else with different size.


Crystal sings several songs.
either 100% or only 70% of each song.


Crystal memorizes 4 poems.
Quiet Night
Stork watcher tower
Toiling Farmer
Goose


Crystal likes to counts 1-100.
with a little help on 50, 60, 70, 80, 90


Crystal says several names of vegetables / spices.
carrot, cabbage, brocolli/cauliflower, cucumber, potato, mushroom, eggplant, ginger, garlic, chilli, corn


Crystal says some fruit names
watermelon, apple, peach, grape, pear, lichee, cherry, orange, lu-gan orange, banana, strawberry, mango, melon.


Crystal mentions some vehicles names
sedan, taxi, bicyle, motorcycle, bus, boat


Crystal pees in toilet floor or in potty by herself
but, she often pees on her pants too.
and still wears diaper when sleeping.
we dont want out bed to get wet.


Crystal can eat with a spoon, can drink with a cup
but mommy will always remind her not to drip while drinking.
but she cannot have soup with a spoon.
but she often are so messed-up if eating by herself, so mommy prefers to feed her, let her use spoon sometimes.



Crystal takes shoes for others when coming home
Crystal asks daddy to have dinner after coming home
Crystal says goodmorning and goodnight



now Crystal likes candy or chocolate very much and will eat unstoppingly if you let her. blame to the spring festival. all the adults (of my husband's relatives) always gave her a lot of candies during our visit, which was very difficult to refuse. i only took it away some whenever nobody saw it. usually i always keep candy out of her sight and reach. she also likes dried melon seeds (kuaci, gua zi). she will eat it all with the peel. but often she spits out the peel after some time.