Tio's 2nd stay in Jkt

Tio's vocabulary

Tio's vocab has grown fast during this 3 weeks stay. Mostly he says words in English: car, bus, truck, cow, dog, pig, duck, sit, up down,... oh I cannot remember all... but it is amazing that some words that I haven't taught him for a long time (I taught him long time ago) he can say them suddenly.

Tio and the shopping malls

We went from one shopping mall to another in Jkt. Sometimes because I needed to see my friends, sometimes just for spending time. Tio is becoming more active and independent. He would stroll along by himself and looked at new things. The first time he saw the airport he exclaimed "wooowww... woowww", so did he when he went inside the lift at the Pacific Place shopping mall. He would touch and *sometimes* drop CD cases, boxes of cereal.. he would pick up fruits (passion fruit, apple) and pretended to eat them... He's done those things too before we went to Indo but now he seems to be more attentive to the things around him and wants to touch everything. Particularly he's interested in baloons (any kind), vacuum cleaner (he would look at the demo and imitated the sound and his hands would move as if he was vacuuming), cars (he likes to touch the cars and their wheels), and pebbles (he took some from flower pots at the Grand Indonesia).

Our last visit to the mall was on our way to the airport, to have dinner with his uncle and his uncle's friends. He did not want to be carried. He walked and walked and explored. He was like an eel, wriggling and kicking about. We had trouble taking him out of the mall, as we had not much time before flying.

Tio and grandparents

Tio lets his uncle and his uncle's friend play with him and often he came to them, initiating the play. But he didn't want to be left alone with his grandparents, from both sides.