My lil chatter box

My lil toddler has grasp quite a fair bit of new vocab especially with his cousin sister (a year older) staying over. It's through the "interaction" between them that my boy picked up those wholesome words i.e. "pink bear-bear", "daddy drives car", "go out walk-walk" etc.
It's only few days that my boy has learned so much from his min-min jie-jie (cousin sister) and he even knows the different between himself as a boy and his cousin sister as a girl. Each time when asked whether if he is a boy or girl, he will say "boy" although at times he tends to be cheeky in his reply. From his cousin too, he learned about the name of animals i.e. donkey, monkey, dolphin, etc.
I am really amaze by those vocabulary that he has mastered in such short period especially since he turned 2-years. It's really cute to hear him chatter chat all days...and we could just smile or laugh over his conversation.

Building with blocks

Building with blocks requires the manipulative skills in young children that involve largely the use of their hands and body coordination especially the fine motor skills. Other than that it also reflects the child's creativity and imagination. I would say that blocks is and should be the first toys to give a toddler as the start of learning. There are so much learning involve in building with blocks - colours, shapes, sizes etc.
Stacking is the very basic and first skill when the young toddler begins to explore the blocks. Then followed by creativity building with blocks and finally the details. I enjoy watching young toddlers at play especially when they are so focus in their "work".
Recently as I was accompanying Maximus in his play (blocks), lo and behold I realised that he was putting and building in creativity. He was so focus and he totally ignored his surrounding. Instead of building vertically up (stacking up), he built it horizontally and stack them to make his building double-storey.
Quickly I grabbed my camera and get the few shots before he could destroy them (that's what he normally did after building).