What's Reuben Saying

Reuben is at the two-word stage. Some of the two-word phrases he can say are : open door, open box, papa shoe, papa car, thank you, see you, bye bye, choo-choo train, cut hair, mommy please, no more etc. Occasionally, you can hear him articulating short 3-word sentences. We've heard him saying to his grandma, "Mama, papa coming." Whenever his papa goes to the carpark to get the car, Reuben will say, "Papa, take car."

Reuben is also able to articulate 2 to 3 syllabic words. Among which are : umbrella, animal, elephant, banana, aeroplane, gorilla, crocodile etc. He loves animals and is able to name many animals and make their sound. For example, pig oink, horse neigh, cow moo, sheep baa, lion roar, monkey *woo-woo*, duck quack, crocodile snap, snake *sss*, dog woof, cat meow etc. The other animals that he can name are hippo, rhino, turtle, camel, donkey, fish, bird, rabbit, crocodile, deer etc.

Reuben is able to count from 1 to 20, with one or two numbers missing in between. When he counts to 13, he will say, "Thirteen! Mama house" because that's how we count when we're in the lift and his grandma lives in 13th floor.

He can name some colours such as yellow, purple, green, red, blue, pink, black, orange etc but he only names them. He is not really able to identify them specifically except pink, green and red. The rest, we have yet to teach or discover from him.

For body parts, he can identify and articulate eyes, nose, mouth, ears, head, hair, feet, hands, tummy and face.

For the alphabet, we've not assessed him, so we really do not know what he knows. When Phoebe was two, she already knows her alphabet, colours and counting to twenty. With Reuben, we're just too lax in teaching him. Maybe with two kids, our attention are divided or maybe we're just too distracted with other things. So mommy, papa, we must buck up! No share king! (our private joke) Haha :)

Nevermind, he's a happy boy and we're happy parents :) No stress! :)