When The Kid was about a year old, I remember how fascinated he was with piles of merchandise on display at the supermarket. With a new-found independence, being able to walk around on his own, everything seems interesting and deserves his total attention. He would walk around the narrow lanes hurriedly like he wants to see everything all at once, unmindful of me and my voice constantly calling him to me. I had to pretend to be leaving him all the time just so he’d leave the pack of dish flavorings hanging from a metal suspender, at one time. He left chaos in his wake. He wanted to bring everything his small arms could carry as we move along. He even got several packs of feminine wash he got fond of stacking while waiting for me to finish choosing what I wanted on another rack. I’ve always wondered in amusement what the people around us could have thought when I called The Kid to me and he came rushing with loads of feminine wash boxes. I hope they didn’t think I was panic-buying.
Now, no longer do The Kid struggle carrying many small items like that. He doesn’t have to get up, only to get down again to pick up what he just dropped, and then back again. Now, The Kid has learn to use his chin! And yep, I’m quite the amazed mom 
So, I thought I’d make a list of The Kid’s milestones now, even though he’s already one and they don’t come like rain drops anymore.
Ne-Yo’s Milestones At 21 Months:
- learned to use his chin to aid his hands in grasping and holding together objects and group of objects.
- can string two or more words together. He’s starting to speak in a sentence! [buy ahm (buy food); bye --insert name here--- (bye -name!-) ; bye go up (bye, I'm going up); --name-- car (--name-- is in the car); pop-eye car (popsy's car)]
- Can call and name people with two succeeding words [tata beh (tita bel); aya toton (kuya tonton)].
- has disposed of using a diaper during the day! Yep, just a little more “fine tuning” and I can proudly say he’s already toilet-trained!
- can recognize and point to a few shapes, numbers and letters of the alphabet. [I wish boys aren't so active! We need more sitting time!].
- can take his own pants off
- can understand a few Filipino words and speak both Filipino and English. When he answers me in Filipino and I tell him I don’t understand, he promptly translates it in English!
- has learned to jump (from a higher ground down)! Don’t be surprise if I get a heart attack one of these days.
- has showed understanding of abstract concept and attached word to it that I never taught him [He saw a father and son interaction on TV, pointed to the father and said "papa"].
- can put a bottle of water in the fridge without help : open the resisting fridge door with one hand while holding a rather heavy bottle on the other, put the bottle inside the fridge and then close the fridge again.
The rest are escaping me at the moment, but it’s worth mentioning that people often thought he’s already three years old because of his height (and girth, I guess). He’s such a big big baby and I’ll never tire of saying I’m proud of the fact. He still can’t call me “mommy” and only calls me “mom”, sometimes mom-mom and at other times mama and ma, when he hears some cousins calling their mothers “ma”. He likes repeating what he hears. Course, that also means he calls me “tata” [tita] sometimes. He even calls me “che” [chell] sometimes! Funny kid.
NOTE TO THE KID:
I wrote this when you were 21 months old, but you learned all these, except the jumping and taking your pants off yourself parts, at 20 months.
