the social boy...

As far as I could remember, Caden is a very social boy. He enjoys meeting with his friends and sometimes also mommy’s friends, but he has his preference over the adults. Some he likes and some he doesn’t. If he likes the company, he would play and laughed with them, but if he doesn’t, don’t even think of coming closer to him. He would cry when he knows that the person is coming towards him, even at 5 feet away.

There is no specific characteristic from the people that he doesn’t like. Once, he was so scared of a Gymboree class teacher. She was okay, I think, not so different from his other school teachers, but it’s just this one used a whole lot of make-up on her face and sang very out of tunes! ;)

The other time was a male teacher whom I thought very nice and kind.

One I notice is that, he couldn’t be startled! A few times, my friends or grandma’s friends came over and the moment they saw Caden, they screamed and said how cute and handsome he was (as what other people used to say when they meet a baby boy), while approaching him quickly and eventually touched and pinched his super chubby cheeks.

Then he would started crying in no time and refused to get close to that person for the rest of the meeting.

But apart from the adults encounter, Caden loves to meet his other little friends around (all of them - no discrimination whatsoever). I like it, too. I am hoping Caden will learn how to share and other important values from friendships from this. The last thing in my mind is bringing him up to be a selfish person.

Today, we are fortunate to have Ryan at home with us (while their parents enjoyed their first time together in Singapore for the whole day). Ryan and Caden had a great time together. It will be a very long long time until their next visit to each other.