17 Months

Missy is (1y5m) today. I think this is my first post which is published just in time. I have more than 15 more backdated posts to be composed regarding her monthly milestones. Thankfully, I have saved those remarkable incidences/ events in my handphone all these while but putting them together is a whole new story. 

Weight

Around 9 kilos

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

8 incisors: 4 bottom teeth and 4 upper teeth.

Motor Skills

• Abby is beginning to balance herself and reach for places to “walk” to despite being still a little clumsy and wobbly.  She would held to our hands to take unsupported steps or going across grilled drain at Ah Tai’s.
• She’s quite adept at climbing up the stairs by herself by holding on to the railings (if available) but insists on holding on our hands if stairs are only surrounded by concrete walling.
• Likes to make big splashes in the bath tub and wanted us to pour some ‘bubble bath’ on her tiny palm for her spread it over her body.
• Likes to press the pump (with help) on the baby lotion bottle and spread the lotion all over her legs and arms and is currently obssessed with all sort of bottles with pump head at the drugstore. 
• Likes to move to music and dance.
• Abby can point to several parts of her body, i.e nose, mouth, hands (shakes both her hands), legs (moves her leg) when prompted.
• She can point to the respective person/things correctly when asked; i.e each and every family members, moon (look around for the moon and point if it’s visible), stars (looking up and pointing upwards), piano (where the grand piano at the church is located). 
• Has the strength to carry up to a canister of cookie (approximately 2-3 kg) and her XXL box of Duplo Lego with both hands and canned mushroom (the size of canned condensed milk) single-handedly.  
•  She can distinguish shoes correctly too! She would get her deh-deh’s sandals, my slippers, her grandaunt’s slipper if we are standing by the shoe rack and if she is walking ahead of us.
• Likes wearing shoes. She would pick up her shoes she wanted to wear and bringing it over to me but wails and twist her foot around when she refuses a particular slipper/shoe.
• Loves balls and balloons. She has a myriad collection from ping pong balls, wooden balls, rubber balls, and her latest addition was a yellow soccer ball.   
• She can twirl, run with her soccer ball, bend herself to almost 90 degrees (she picked that up from ‘Six Little Ducks’ video) to go under Ah Tai’s four-legged walking stick.

Communication and Social Skills

• Loves animals especially dogs and cats. She calls dogs “wow-wow” and cats “meo-meo”.
• She is rather friendly by waving ‘hi’ and ‘goodbyes’ willingly to her friends or anyone is she is familiar with but rarely shove her smiles unless prompted.
• She would whispers whenever we ask her to parrot words she is not confident with but saying it clear and concisely when she knows them well.
• Loves to hold on the Samsung TV remote and pretend to change the channels / hand it over to us whenever she got bored with certain music videos (which I downloaded her favourites from Pink Fong & Mothergoose series and tehreafter converted them into SamsungTV mode using Freemake software). 
• Will resist by pulling her legs up when she isnt in the mood of walking.
• Says a few single words which we can decipher: “bear” (for “teddy bear”), “boh” (for “ball”), “deh-deh” (daddy), “mee” (mommy), “po” (for po-po/gu-po) to her grandma and all her immediate and extended grandaunts :P Her grandpa and aunt & uncles are still anticipating for her to call them “gung”, “gu” and “sook”, respectively :P
• To date, she has attended RE classes a couple of times. Despite being underaged (min age of formal attendees are 3yo), she behaves well and I am pleased that she gets along rather well.
• Loves to share. We have been trying to inculcate ‘sharing is caring’ with her since young. She has been generous in sharing off her crayons, toys and foods but still shows slight hesitantance when it comes to her favourite snacks and drinks, i.e Vitagen.

Food and Feeding

• She shows great interest in whatever we are eating/munching and drinking.  
• Her still loves “bob-bob” to bits, hence her diet consist mostly of milk. I am so thankful that she calls her “friends” as “bob-bob” (it took us sometime to rebrand them back then) therefore it is not too obvious especially we are in the public when she is trying to peep at her “friends” and utter “bob-bob” like yesterday night when we were at the church for night service. A slightly elder little girl followed suit and exclaimed "bob-bob" too :P 
• She loves Vitagen (less sugar) to bit and downed her first whole pack (school pack size) chilled Milo when I was trying to coax her while busy baking my tartlets crust the other day.
• We have introduced her to Tasty (among the biscuits we find approvable) and become her new favourite.
• Prefers rice over porridge if given an option. Loves soup, fish and corn very much.

Sleeping Patterns

• Still waking up twice at night to nurse.
• She rolls a lot during her sleep at night.
• Still waking up crying if Mommy is not found within the radar despite with Daddy around.
• She is getting more sensitive to lights these days. She can be woken up easily if the lights in the room are switched on. These days, I have resorted to get myself ready for work in the guest room or study instead.