Abby turns 40 months (3y 4m) last 20th Dec 2017
Weight
15.4 kg (as of 101217)
Height/Length
99cm
Teeth
20 pearly whites.
Motor Skills
- Still actively bounces, jumping, hopping, running a lot.
- Still, dislike pencil colouring activities.
- Able to beads her bracelet steadily.
Communication and Social Skills
- After she came back from her first-day orientation in kindy, she has been asking me “why do we have bend down during a fire?” (271117)
- Upon coming back from her third day of orientation in Kindy, she has been singing a Chinese song over and over again which she has learnt during that day’s one-hour session of Chinese songs (291117)
- “Why boys need to wear pants?” (281217)
- “Why shark has to be in water?” (021217)
- “Why so smelly? (and continued upon discovering the reason) Oh, my daddy eating chewing gum” (021217) She then followed on with Johnny Johhny yes papa song (interrogating daddy if he is eating chewing gum). Lol
- “Why people running on the road?”(021217)
- She pointed at her cold syrup with I fed her with her medications and claimed: “this one made me so tired” (011217).
- “Why boys need small toilet? Why need small one?” upon seeing the urinal when we passed by men’s restroom in a restaurant (181217).
- “Why is the arrow going up, up, up?” upon seeing the forward sign of a traffic light (191217)
- “Look, got instructions!” she exclaimed excitedly when she discovers a manual inside my parcel (021217).
- She requested me to hand her the Hello Kitty teapot set which she usually takes with her during the shower to which I cannot find. This little girl then asked me to “look poporly (i.e properly), mommy” (021217).
- While waiting for the hub to get a parking space, we waited at the hospital’s lobby when we visited MIL, Missy chanced upon a landscape in between buildings and commented: “Nice forest, mommy” (021217).
- She handed me a sticker all of a sudden despite me not knowing what have I done to deserve that “Mommy, I am giving u a sticker because u did well” (031217).
- Can finally pronounce “which one do you like?” word by word, clearly (051217)
- “Yellow and red are orange best friend” (101217) & “spoon and fork are best friends”
- I overheard her saying “oh my goodness” once in a while (161217).
Emotional Development
- Exactly knows how to convince, reason and persuade whenever she wants something very much.
Food and Feeding
- Loves ice lollies. Sometimes, this cheeky girl hinted me her wish by saying “I’m feeling hot, mom. Maybe we can have ..... (paused).. ice lolly?” (241117)
- She discovered a pair of matching cutleries at home and requested me to serve her ‘nice food on a plate’ (specifically emphasized as I prefer to feed her with a bowl) – 081217
- There was an evening when she asked for second and third pieces of fish slice. I happily offer her forth slices but she rejected me nicely by saying “No thanks, cos me three years old”. LOL (181217)
- Loves mommy's garlic toast (071217)
Her Firsts
- Attended her first orientation at her kindy for four days (27-30 Nov 2017)
- She has been watching Peppa Pigs via YouTube on daddy’s Ipad and for the very first time, she requested “Mommy, I wanna press good (like)” while gesturing a thumb up (091217).
- We collected her first big girl's school bag at the courier office and she is loving her Tiger Family's bag very much. As for me, I am a happy bunny as if I have hit a jackpot as it is not easy to buy something where both of us likes equally these days :) (121217)
Play n Learn
- She is into fairies and princesses these days. She requested me to buy her a wand and has been chanting “Magic wand, magic wand, please make my daddy’s/mommy’s face funny/pretty/ (yadayadayada)” (011217)
- Enjoyed her Lego time with daddy and briefed us on the difference between stairs and ladder she found from the loose stash (011217)
- Is able to point and count steadily (031217).
- We learnt about buoyancy. She can differentiate between things that float and sink (031217).
- Loves pretend play. She has been rather apprehensive towards the idea of going school lately simply because she is afraid of being left by us. I am happy when I overheard her pretend play conversation between mommy zebra & baby zebra (our antique toys at my parent’s place) on the first day of school. I can safely assume that she understands clearly why she is being left at school but adjusting and taking time to combat her fear, hopefully (151217).
- Books she has been loving at 40mo – Hot and Cold, The Usborne Big Book of English Words (long-loved book), Magic School Bus series
Records
- Down with a bad cough and the medication prescribed by our regular paed doesn’t seem to work this round (241117). I even returned to the paed and requested for a heavier dose (291117) after getting comments from her teachers that she has been coughing quite badly that morning.
- Received specially delivered Violet musical doggy plush toy from gu-po (091217)
- She has been watching quite a number of Halloween YouTube channels and she is afraid to be left alone in the room even for a split second. When I asked her why she said she was afraid of monsters and the haunted house (101217).
- Returned to KK, mommy’s hometown for holiday (13-211217) & qq’s wedding (171217)
Fashion
- She insists to wear a dress wherever she goes these days, except for her pyjamas. She questioned me one day “Mommy, why you wear pants? You are not a boy. Why not wearing a skirt?” (051217)
- Upon seeing a small tote bag in Hush Puppies, she hurriedly carries one and exclaimed “this is so small, good for me. And, the colour matches my sam-sam (i.e clothes)” (181217).
