39 Months

Abby turns 39 months (3y 3m) today.

Weight

14.8kg

Height/Length

99cm

Teeth

20 pearly whites.

Motor Skills

• Loves long jump and can jump as targetted (111117).
• Has been yearning to play the yo-yo like a pro for the longest time. When she saw daddy plays the yo-yo one day, she clapped her hands excitedly (111117).

Communication and Social Skills

• She is in her Why-Oh-Why phase and among the questions asked were:
• “why is she wearing music sam-sam (i.e shirt)?” when she sees someone wearing a tee with treble clef image on it (221017).
• “why on light, mommy?” I replied ‘It is dark, don't u think so? “Yes it is” (281017)
• “Why daddy needs a belt?”
• “why ah-poh so fuse? (i.e fierce)” 311017
• “why there is a bridge?” After we answered her, she followed with “what if they fall?” (111117)
• When I took off her hairband before the shower, she grimaced and commented “very painful, mom. Tomorrow gentle” (031117).
• Ah-Tai hasn't been mobile for some time now. One day, Ah-Tai did something out of her norm and this girl complimented her great-grandma “Good boy, Ah-Tai!”. When asked why did she call her great grandma a boy, she promptly answered “cos Ah Tai has short hair” (091117)
• Recently, she loves the term “best friend”. She often comes with witty remarks like “Mommy, the basin is toilet’s best friend” (101117), “Mommy is Daddy’s best friend”, “Grandma is Grandpa’s best friend”, “Anna jie-jie is my best friend”.
• “Thank you mommy mending my this one” when she thanked me for fixing one of her vehicle toy (1211117)

Emotional Development

• We do not have to send her separately to church for Sunday School anymore. We can finally go together and she would steadily wave goodbye to me before I handed her to her favourite 6yo jie-jie (221017).

Food and Feeding

• I am glad that she consumes lunch and dinner on a regular basis now. Occasionally, this girl would fish for praises from me if I didn't compliment her after she finishes her food. She went “next time I finish my own food, mommy comes and say – wow, Abby, so proud me (I am so proud of you)” (261017)
• We attended a dinner organised by my workplace at Borneo Cove Hotel. When daddy picked us up that night, she told daddy “Dad, mommy’s tea party so nice; got juice, fan-fan (i.e rice), nyuk-nyuk (i.e meat), but.... jelly not so nice” LOL (271017)

Her Firsts

• We had our first DIY solution for giant bubbles and had a whale of fun. Even daddy and sook-sook were taken away while playing with it. Yeh-yeh was not exceptional too. However, our first attempt wasn’t ‘stretchy’ enough. Hence, yeh-yeh surprised her with an improvised version of bubble solution (221017).
• I surprised her with a mini gumball machine and upon discovering it, she was head over heels (231017). We managed to have some educational games with it too.

Play n Learn

• After the play-dough session, I found her leaving her stuff unattended one day and I asked her to pick them up and reminded her to love her stuff. This cheeky girl finally obliged and responded “OK mama, I love you, playdough” (251017)
• We made a simple impromptu experiment on “eat ice, heart will get dirty” (how she put it). She has been asking for ice cubes from the freezer occasionally until one day I mix the ice cubes with a little of watercolour and filter with a piece of heart shaped doily paper (to serve as filter paper). In her understanding, the residue retained on the paper after filtration is the dirt retained in one’s heart after consuming ice cubes. This has worked a while for me to refrain her from asking for ice cubes (261017).
• Has a very short attention span. While she was having Lego time with daddy one day, daddy commented that she has a goldfish’s attention. This little girl then innocently replied “Oh, I like goldfish. Where?” LOL (281017)
• She has been asking “Why daddy needs a belt?” for so many times now. I finally get daddy to stand and make a demonstration to her on why daddy needs a belt. She seemed to be satisfied with my explanation this time, finally (281017). We have been explaining for countless of times, but this has usually been followed by a why after another before the same question is repeated again and again.
• Books she loved (apart from bedtime books) – Usborne see inside your body, Jack and the Beanstalk
• She was able to roughly retell the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to earn some YouTube time (051117).
• She loves her animal matching cards, to which I have not started with her yet. She has been bringing out several pieces each time she goes out. I am going to crack my head when I have to relocate them when the time comes, only if they are still locatable (081117).
• Rather observant. We were working on a worksheet together on Buoyancy and I was unsure about an image until the little girl told me that it was a bowling ball. Although it doesn’t really look like one, she noticed the three finger holes to which mommy has totally overlooked and thought it was a button. Lol. We have brought her once for bowling when she was 1 year plus (101117).
• We have recently got an insect net and this little cheeky is looking forward to catching a butterfly soon. She convinced me and said “Me can catch. Me super strong cos me have bones inside my body” (111017)
• Sing the opposite game with daddy. When daddy sings ‘put the bunny down down down’ and she will go ‘put the bunny up up up’ etc (131117)
• When we were revising on body parts on a random occasion (161117), I casually introduce her to the Malay language. I told her that ears are called ‘telinga’ in Malay. She finds it funny and chuckled non-stop. She repeated the rest in Malay after me but by the end of the day, she remembers ‘telinga’ the best.

Records

• Went for a community service for the first time with mommy (281017)
• First time meeting baby Isaac (cousin) – 291017
• Contributed a little to the construction of the ‘Electricity House’ and was beaming proud of it- 131117
• Participated in RE Year End Performance for the second year (291017)

Fashion

• After reading many rounds of ballerina related books, she is very into all things princess these days. I put her on a white tutu dress for fitting the night before her RE Year End Performance, she cried and insisted to wear it immediately. When I reasoned to her about her performance the following day, she obliged and pick another dress with butterfly prints on it (281017).
• Many of the time, she would request to wear her ‘princess dress’ first thing in the morning or after the shower. Rejects pants and tee shirt whenever possible except for her jammies.
• Likes ponytail hairstyle only. She rejected by saying “I don’t want other hair, no bunny hair etc” (121117).

Sleeping Patterns

• I thought she was weaning off one night when she requested me to sing her songs after our bedtime stories. She requested me to sing “Give me oil in my lamp” and has been asking questions like “What is burning? Why? What is Hosanna?” before she finally asked, “why you no mode feed me bob-bob?” LOL (221017).
• Is currently into ballerina related books for bedtime stories. She called it “bandelina” (251017). On top of that, she loves The Usborne-Big Book of English Words (surprisingly not a storybook) as her bedtime fix.
• She has been very reluctant to read about other occupations besides doctor and the vet until I printed her the job cards featuring various kind of jobs. Her other favourites now are the policeman and fireman (281017).
• Daddy went outstation for almost one week. When she was with me, she has been a very alert and light sleeper. She would tag me whenever I leave the room an occasionally asking “where are you going, mommy? No go outside” She wakes up pretty easily in the morning and even manage to go for a morning walk with yeh-yeh for two days consecutively (261017)
• She insisted on her blanket to face up and spread evenly and smoothly around her body the moment she lies down. Once, she requested with a hand gesture like stretching out a roti canai on how to spread her blanket evenly (071117).
• I am glad that she loves her books. Many times, I spotted her flipping with her books and once, I caught her pretend reading and went “let me read my book first. FARM ANIMAL....” (091117).
• Recent favourite bedtime stories – Baby Dino, The Usborne Big Book of English Words (particularly page 13 and 27), Mr. Messy & Mr. Skinny (Mr.Men series).

Toilet Training

• Can safely proclaim that toilet training has been successfully achieved with no accidents and she has been quite independent to go to the potty without being prompted or whenever needed.
• Next, I am intending to train her to go on an adult toilet independent to prepare her for kindergarten. Time to source for a toilet trainer with a ladder.
• Her favourite potty-time books are “My New Potty” and “The Wide Mouthed Frog”. She can correct me accurately whenever I deliberated mistakes in my reading (101117).