21 Months

Abby turned 21months (1y9m) on 200516. She is only 3 months shy to 2yo. How time flies!

Weight

Around 9.5kg based on the rough estimation when we went up the analog scale together in the clinic (170516) after a bout of vomiting.  

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

Has 16 pearly whites. 8 upper teeth and another 8 lower teeth. Her central incisors, lateral incisors, canines and first molars have fully erupted.

Motor Skills

• Able to kneel down on her knee with her palms wrapped during prayer (27042016). Nevertheless, this little busy body couldn't help but to ‘reprimand’ po-po for not kneeling down like others (due to joint pain) up to 3 times every night when the whole clan gets together, gradually decreased to  one time. 
• She is currently back to her previous favourite song, ‘Ring Around the rosy’. This time, she insisted to do it with full action by holding ther boss’ and my hand, turning around and drop herself on the mattress/bed.
• Another all-time favourite of hers – ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ with action but she is still coping up with the fast pace with the right limbs.
• Loves to dance. She holds onto my hand when she needs a partner with Chicken Dance, Ring around the rosy song.
• I attempted to teach her how to gargle and spit once but attempt failed. She chuckled all the way and find it very funny instead. When i handed her the cup of drinking water to gargle, she ended up drinking all of them.
• Can and prefer to drink from a cup. 
• Loves musical instruments and pretending to play on them eloquently. At the moment, she has a mini Yamaha keyboard (handed down by her gu-gu), toy violin, a toy guitar, a toy xylophone to date. 

Violinist wannabe

Communication and Social Skills

• Taken a liking towards cars. These days, whenever we drop by JR House, she would run towards the car figurines section *thanks to her deh-deh*. Calls all sort of vehicles as poot-poot despite me teaching her to call them truck, car etc.
• Her understanding towards the verb ‘knock’ is only limited to head bump at the moment – as she usually ‘knock’ her head towards po-po’s as a way for saying goodnight. Only reserved to both of them.  On another occasion, when i asked her to knock at the door for deh-deh to open the door, she head-bumped the door instead. *LOL*
• Can fake –cry, fake-laugh.
• Says ‘walk’ when she wants to walk on her own.
• Other words she can say: see, down, up, ‘fa-woo’ (flower), ‘wee-dew’ (video) etc.
• Still calling her fancy collection of stickers as ‘stick-stick’.

Emotional Development

• Still showing dissatisfaction with both her arms crossed and face turned away. Fingers crossed that this is just a phase!

Food and Feeding

• Taken a liking towards oranges and like them to be cut into wedges with rinds on. 
• She is rather ‘courageous’ in trying out new  food. There was once when we had century eggs for breakfast and she wanted to try. Upon her first bite, she spat them out immediately :P
• Started to take junk foods like rice crackers, chocolate rice stick (under control) *sigh* Those were usually her reward after attending full session during Sunday classes in the church. There were chocolate dip, keropok and sometimes I have to toss it away when she didn't notice.

Her Firsts

• First discovered her own shadow (210416). Learned about shadow and was fascinated to see her shadow in grey moving as she moves around.

• Woke up with swollen lids (020516). We took quite some time to figure out the cause as we first suspected allergy. After some consultation from her doctor gu-gu via Whatsapp, she suggested me to do a hot compression to reduce the swelling and to try on cmc eyedrops followed by cmc ointment if necessary. Thank goodness the swell gradually went down after hot compression (with much struggle) :P

Swollen upper right & lower left eyelids

Sleeping Patterns

• Since the night she was sick last 2 days, she has been sleeping on my arm next to me throughout the night and unlike other nights, she refused to be transferred to the mattress and would get up when we do so.
• Still need video time before going to bed. Still, I am thankful as she no longer asked for video from our handphones anymore. I hope it lasts.
• Lately, she willingly returns the tablet to me and put it into sleep mode before covering it without being asked and hugged me and asked for bob-bob, signifying time for bed. Again, I hope this is not just a phase :P

Records

• Celebrated Mothers' Day for the second time. 
• Celebated Ah Tai's birthday on the 26th April 2016. 

As happy as the birthday girl

• To date, she has been attending 2 full sessions in RE class for the last two consecutive Sundays. She was granted a piece of attendance sticker each time. Students are asked to paste the stickers on the attendance board and she looked forward to this session these days. I hope it lasts :)
• Down with a fever on 170516 with a bout of vomiting (first time). It was such a heartbreaking moment to see the bubbly girl to curl up sluggishly and looked very frail and weak. But, soon after she was given rectal suppository, she has stopped vomiting and was up and about again that night. 
• Her balls collection are expanding day after day and never get bored by having a ball of time with them everyday at Ah Tai's. 

Having a ball of fun

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