Happy Birthday deh-deh!

The boss celebrated his birthday on last 150316. I think I have made it a ‘tradition’ in his family (a big clan of about 16 pax of immediate relatives) for a ‘mandatory’ yet simple cake cutting ceremony on the actual day since we got married. I will usually make a 2 in 1 celebration by including SIL’s name, whose birthday falls on the following day. Hence, we had an early celebration among the three of us with a simple dinner fix at Koi Sushi. Missy was in her good mood but unlike our previous visits, she resisted to sit on the high chair this time as she was facing the moving conveyor belt and demanded to go near to it. We allowed her to choose and pick up one plate of sushi of her preference (she enjoyed the process but not the food) before placing our orders just to keep her occupied. She has a rather steady hand and strong finger grasp. We eventually resorted to video and sticker time to keep her occupied.

Tataki roll (Toast salmon roll)

Nama Kani Tempura (soft shell crab)

Yakiniku Set (Beef with roasted sauce)

Kamo Udon (Smoked duck)

Choc Mud Cake from Secret Recipe

On the actual day, we had a mini cake cutting ceremony. This time, I had no time to pre-order any cakes in advance and nothing seemed to tickle my fancy after several visits to the café and coffee houses around the town that morning and eventually resorted to Secret Recipe. Happy birthday to the BIG boss and nothing is nicer than having another birthday for another year is another blessing to us :)

19 Months

Abby turned 19months (1y7m) last 20th March 2016

Weight

Not measured.

Height/Length

Around 81cm.

Teeth

To be updated. But, a key to note that she is willing to get her teeth brushed again this time. Hence, I assumed her gums are no longer sore and her canines and first molar has fully erupted. 

Motor Skills

• Adept in blowing bubbles (the soapy type)
• She can go up the stairs on a reverse manner with aid.
• Can self feed during dinner time.
• Can drink from an adult’s cup/mug independently. The liquid cotained are usually about 1/3 of the cup only.
• Start doing stunts with her balls collection (i.e doing yoga postures, sitting on the ball and bouncing up and down).
• She would run to her bouncer and sit on rather steadily these days whenever she is tired/or feel like wanted to.
• Can dance according to the chicken dance song :P
• Can emulate the “Five Hello Kitties Jumping on the Bed” (original version: Five Monkeys Jumping On the Bed) video she watched in Youtube with her Hello Kitty toy. She would tilt her toy over upon the phrase “one fell off and bumped his head”.
• Has gained her confidence and is quiet adept in crossing the drain covered with zinc plate at Ah Tai these days.
• Adept in putting coins into her coinbox printed by her deh-deh using 3D printer.
• She was well-praised by all her grandaunts for putting down whatever she was playing outside and ran over to initiatively look for Ah Tai’s identical footwear when Ah Tai was assisted by her grandaunts to walk out from her room.  
• She accidentally deleted some of the videos I recorded on her milestones  in my handphone. Sigh :P 
• Loves her Duplo friends, the human characters in the Duplo Lego stash. Whenever she is spending her time with her deh-deh, they would give her Duplo friends a ride on her deh-deh's Lego Technics crane, racing car or truck at the same time stuffing more Duplo parts into the passenger seat :P
• Still loves sitting on uneven ground or stairs or on a ball/stool/toy/bucket. 

Communication and Social Skills

• Can comprehend objects with sharp edges as ‘star’; be it ivy leaves, star fish, tiny stars print on my shirt (which i have never noticed myself).
• Understands ‘cause and efffect’ and sometimes, she would oblige to our ‘reward system’.
• Can finally call her ‘tai gu’ (hub’s elder sis) as ‘ta ta’ and that is enough to make SIL pleased as pie.
• She pats on her chest signifying that she is scared of the snake image in her story book.
• Bites spoon hard to show dissatisfaction.
• Has an elephent memory. Her grandaunts took her out for a ride on Chap Goh Meh evening by telling her that they will be out to hunt for lion dances, her current favourite. Upon coming back, she threw a tantrum and gesturing both her index fingers up and down because she hasnt seen any lion dance during her outing.
• On another note, she remembers what she wore and what she did rather well. I put her on her Hush Puppies blue dress for the second time which she last wore almost one month ago gesturing ‘gong xi gong xi’. When I put it on to her for the second time (18032016), she ran over to the same corner and did the same ‘gong xi gong xi’ gestures without being asked.  
• She is rather picky with her video selections now. She has an unpredictble choice of videos now.
• Can distinguishes “duck” and “dark”. She calls all kinds of duck and occasionally mistaken chicks in yellow as “duck”. She would utter “dark” the moment we get into the room and pointing over to the switch.
• Understands slightly longer instructions (i.e pick up the cloths and put it into the laundry basket, pick up your Duplo parts and keep it inside the box)

Food and Feeding

• Loves papaya.
• She can self-feed and we are allowing her to gets her hands dirty during dinner time. Surprisingly, it was rather clean except for rice grains on her shirt/pants occasionally. Ironically, it was a BIG mess back then when I feed her while getting another smaller portion for her to self-feed.  
• She has taken a liking to original corn thins and we find it approvable as its almost tasteless and made from original Australian corn (as claimed).
• Dislikes mayonaise and miso soup. She would rather forego corns (her favourite) if dipped in either mayo or miso soup. 

Records

• Played sparkles for the first time.
• Went for her third haircut (15032016).
• Celebrated her deh-deh’s birthday for the second time (first when she was about 6mo). 
• She fell from the bed for another time (most likely) :( We were camping at Ah Tai’s that night when the boss went for an outstation trip. That morning, I woke up as early as 3.30am to get my work done in the dining area ouside and remembered to placed pillows and Abby’s high chair around the single bed. It was all dark as I didnt want to wake SIL up until I heard a loud cry and all I can see was missy sitting on the floor. I assumed she fell from the bed as the pillows I used to guard around the bed were on the floor. Thankfully, they were no bruise or anything on her.  

Pretend Play: Abby goes shopping

We spent our morning at Ah Tai’s to accompany her last Sunday morning since AIL and SIL were out to church and errands. This was what Missy was up to; she headed to the kitchen to push her stroller out to play. She insisted to tip-toeing her feet to push through the handlebar until I guided her to push it the other way round on the tray table, she started to load them with stuff she could find around the house and wanted to go outside the house to do her shopping :P

"A water heater should come in handy to warm my milk"

 Her current favourite wooden toy

 Some vegetables (weeds personally handpicked in between concrete slab)

Famous Car (Part 1)

My progress earlier was documented here. This is how I organize my parts in a Tupperware candy tray and certainly helps me to look up for those teeny weeny intricate parts better :) 

While I have just gotten my engine started (currently at Stage 14) as of 240216, the boss has completed in assembling his project and is working on his plan to (further) mobilize his already mobile crane.

Stage 14 

Girls' Day Out

It had been quite some time since we last had out girls outing. It was an impromptu decision after Sunday class service (310116) where SIL mentioned that Origin, the hair care products we are currently using are having a promotion in the bazaar fair in Yu Yuan hall. Off we went along with hon’s cousin and Missy slept throughout the way. SIL and I have been taking turn to carry the sleeping princess while strolling booth after booths as I didn’t bring my Ergo carrier along. On top of the hair products, I still managed to grab costume jewelries; a Korean bangle and necklace. Missy had been sleeping cozily throughout the way and woke up just timely before we left. Upon waking up, she spotted a booth selling colorful balloons. When I offered her, she quickly nodded her head and chose a Hello Kitty one.

Upon reaching Ah Tai’s house, where the boss is waiting for us before heading home we got her to pose with her balloon. Since she had just woken up not long ago and still in a jolly good mood, she willingly obliged. Photos her are credited to her aunts. 

LEGO fever is back!

This week had been a stressful and challenging one. Finally, I am glad that weekdays had come to a dawn and I finally wave Hi to weekend days where I can spend a little bit more time to work on this, my new project :)

Both the boss and I (Missy too with her LEGO Duplo sets!) are LEGO fans. During our recent trip back to KK for CNY, the boss had itchy hands when we came across with a third party set, Decool Famous Car which was sold with just a fraction of an original LEGO Technic set. Out of curiosity, we grabbed the biggest set available on the shelf.  But, in order to keep himself as a true blue original LEGO fan, he presented the set to me instead and challenged me to assemble them while in the meantime, he is diligently working on his LEGO technic Crawler Crane, a new addition to his LEGO Technic family. Being a newbie to Technic series, my progress was started more than a week ago but was lackadaisically surpassed by the boss in less than an hour span :P

I am currently sparing a few minutes of time on a day (if possible) and usually manage to complete a maximum of a couple of steps before heading to meet up Missy and for dinner at Ah Tai’s. I am reminding myself not to compare myself with the boss’ progress instead giving myself a year time span and we’ll see how far I can go. Shall time permits, I will keep my progress documented from time to time :)