24 Months

Abby turned 24 months (two years old!) last week.

Weight

11.1kg.

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

Still 16 pearly whites.

Motor Skills

• Recognises the diapers she has been wearing in the supermarket. She pointed to the exact brand/packaging and pointing to the diaper she is wearing that time.
• She insisted to brush her own teeth and requested for ‘eh-paste’ (toothpaste) each time. Sometimes mistaken oitment that comes in a tube as toothpaste.
• Current favourite song – Give me oil in my lamp with actions.
• Understands the value of money. Thanks to MIL who loves to ask for her ‘help’ in the shop and AIL who loves to involve her with marketing almost every morning. She chanced upon a gold medal and mistaken them as ‘chin chin’ (money in Cantonese). LOL On another note, she saw a RM10 note in my handphone cover. She has been telling me to “open” and “buy mom-mom”. Tsk tsk (290716).
• Has finally mustered the courage and shown liking towards the horse spring bouncer in the playground. Ever since then, she has been calling horse ‘eh-dock’ instead of ‘neigh-neigh’ (300716).
• When she saw me trimming my nails one day, she doesn't want to miss out a fair share. She has been requesting me to “cut” her “leg”(i.e toe nails) by bringing my hand with nail clipper near to her toes (030816).
• Monkey see monkey do. This little vain pot loves to rummage into my custom jewelry box and sometimes into my brooches collection. She would pick one to her liking and put it near to her earlobe, pretending as if putting onto earrings.
• Loves baby songs series, where she can prance and dance along.
• She has been Ah Tai's Florence Nightingale for sometime now. She has been helping her deh-deh and sook-sook to put Ah Tai to bed, help lift her legs to the bed and quickly grab the blanket by holding at one edge to help cover Ah Tai :)
• Loves to wear her socks and shoe on her own. But whenever she get to sit down on a chair on anywhere, she wants to take off her shoes and socks immediately and the cycles goes around several times during church services. 

Communication and Social Skills

• Whenever she sees deh-deh peeling the apples, she would say “deh-deh peel”.
• Understands the “buy” term. Whenever we are telling her something had gone or finish, she would suggest us to “buy”. At times, when someone asked her who bought her the shoes/stationaries, she would go “Ah-mee/Deh-deh (or whoever who has bought her that something accurately) buy (bought)”
• Surprised us by saying “ka-choon” for eggs in Hakka. Not sure where did she picked that up from.
• She imitated us during vocal training and it was seriously funny.
• Can distinguish charge and change. When she was half way watching YouTube on the tablet and had a sudden shut-down, she quickly handed it to us and say “ah mee/deh-deh chas (charge)”. On another occasion, when i told her that her diapers are soiled and almost ‘exploded’, she would say “chash” (change). Whenever she got bored with the baby songs at Ah Tai’s, she would request her gu-po to change into another DVD.
• Other words she can say: ‘eh-paste’ (toothpaste), egg-tart, ‘eh-q’ (thank you), ‘eh-go’ (Ergo when she wants me to carry her like a kangaroo with the Ergo carrier)
• She had a fall when she was sitting on Ah-Tai’s walking aid with SIL pushing her around at Ah Tai’s place. She fell because the sitting pane flipped over due to imbalance weight (she was sitting too near to the edge). Upon reaching Ah Tai’s place that evening, she was crying loudly and insisted me to carry her right away. When i asked what happened, she complained about the slight bruise on the knee and told me that “ta-choo pushed” (040816). LOL.
• Whenever she chance upon something with numeral characters i.e counters, clock; she would start uttering 1,2,3,4,5,6, 8,910.
• Can imitate the sound animal produces; a monkey (along with a chimpanzee gestures), horse, dog, rooster, elephant, and more.  

Emotional Development

• Shows affection to her plush toys and Barbie. Whenever she gets close to them, she would soften down her voice and say “Hi barbie” and sometimes generously shared bob-bob with them.
• She chanced upon my c-sect wound one day and called them “butt-butt” *roll eyes* When I pretended I was in pain, she grimaced and immediately run to get my Shaklee herbal blend and say “put ork-ork” (i.e york-york aka medicine in Hakka). She’s indeed a darling when she is in a good mood.

Food and Feeding

• Although she doesn't eat much, she doesn't want to be left behind during our meal times. She has been sitting on her high chair for meals at home. Whenever we dine out, she would request for her “bb-chair”.
• During her meal times, she would request for soup, “choi-choi” (i.e vegetable) upon her request and chicken wings if there is. 
• So far, she has tried long beans, spinach, cauliflowers, brocolli. Despite she has been requesting for "choi-choi" every other night, she has only been licking the gravy or taking in very small bites only. 

Records

• Registered a mild fever, cough & flu and cried her lungs out during our visit to the doctor (090816) and that caused her to loss quite a bit of weight.
• Celebrated her second birthday on the exact day. 

Sleeping Patterns

• Covers herself up with the comforter and says ‘oi oi’ during bedtime.
• She has been saying “night night” to the boss and I every other night. But, on the blue moon (290716), she sponteneously went “ah-mee, deh-deh night night”. Followed on with “bear oi-oi (i.e sleep), bob-bob (offering the bear her mommy’s mammary gland), and oi-oi (covering teddy up with comforter).
• Still waking up at night requesting for ‘milk-milk’ for 2-3 times nightly. Each time before and after dwoning her 6oz of milk, she would request for bob-bob.
• She favours right bob better than the left. Probably because it has higher yield during my pumping days. At times, when I offer her leftie, she would “press” to assure if there’s still supply. Upon seeing milk squirting out, she looked satisfied and would quickly lean over and suckling happily (040816).

Her Firsts

• Received her first attendance gift upon clocking in for the 10^th time to RE Class (140816). She was given the chance to draw her lucky number and got a Hello Kitty stationary set, very much to her delight.
• Received a few units of Sanrio merchandise – Hello Kitty, Little Twin Stars, Pompompurin (McD Happy Meals), courtesy of her sook-sook. She has been naming the male Twin Star character as Jude Jude (her cousin brother), and taking the female as herself :P