tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56798073404612006942024-03-05T19:05:00.752+08:00aikoakitoaikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-63601738694138133192018-01-29T13:54:00.000+08:002018-01-29T14:00:16.446+08:002018 is here<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 155%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="line-height: 155%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy New year! And yes, it is time for spring cleaning! I have never felt so worried for the past 3y5m (ever since Missy was born), I have been so used to a weekly domestic helper to help clean the house and best of all, to take charge of all the laundry folding and ironing. My helper was actually my confinement lady back then. Although I may disagree with her quite sometimes throughout my confinement, especially on breastfeeding issues, we still managed to pull through amicably. She even agreed to help me to do some minor cleaning and laundry once a week. She is just like a part of our family members. I am eternally grateful to have her all these while, at least to keep the house decent looking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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aikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-90456522806056913142017-12-29T16:18:00.000+08:002017-12-29T16:24:24.060+08:0040 Months<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why boys need to wear pants?” (281217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why shark has to be in water?” (021217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“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</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why people running on the road?”(021217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She pointed at her cold syrup with I fed her with her medications and claimed: “this one made me so tired” (011217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why boys need small toilet? Why need small one?” upon seeing the urinal when we passed by men’s restroom in a restaurant (181217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why is the arrow going up, up, up?” upon seeing the forward sign of a traffic light (191217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Look, got instructions!” she exclaimed excitedly when she discovers a manual inside my parcel (021217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (i.e properly), mommy” (021217).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can finally pronounce “which one do you like?” word by word, clearly (051217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Yellow and red are orange best friend” (101217) & “spoon and fork are best friends”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I overheard her saying “oh my goodness” once in a while (161217).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Attended her first orientation at her kindy for four days (27-30<sup> </sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nov 2017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Enjoyed her Lego time with daddy and briefed us on the difference between stairs and ladder she found from the loose stash (011217)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We learnt about buoyancy. She can differentiate between things that float and sink (031217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Books she has been loving at 40mo – Hot and Cold, The Usborne Big Book of English Words (long-loved book), Magic School Bus series</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Down with a bad cough and the medication prescribed by our regular paed<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> doesn’t seem to work this round (241117). I even returned to the </span>paed<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> and requested for a heavier dose (291117) after getting comments from her teachers that she has been coughing quite badly that morning.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received specially delivered Violet musical doggy plush toy from gu-po<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (091217)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Returned to KK, mommy’s hometown for holiday (13-211217) & qq’s<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> wedding (171217)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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 <i style="font-size: 10pt;">sam-sam</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (i.e clothes)” (181217).</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“why is she wearing music sam-sam</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (i.e shirt)?” when she sees someone wearing a tee with treble clef image on it (221017).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“why on light, mommy?”</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> I replied ‘It is dark, don't u think so? “<i>Yes it is</i>” (281017)</span></span></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Why daddy needs a belt?”</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“why ah-poh so fuse? </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(i.e fierce)” 311017</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“why there is a bridge?”</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> After we answered her, she followed with <i>“what if they fall?” </i>(111117)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I took off her hairband before the shower, she grimaced and commented <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“very painful, mom. Tomorrow gentle”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (031117).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">-</span>jie<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is my best friend”.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Thank you<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>mommy<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> mending </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">my this one</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” when she thanked me for fixing one of her vehicle toy (1211117)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We attended a dinner organised by my workplace at Borneo Cove Hotel. When daddy picked us up that night, she told daddy <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“Dad, mommy’s tea party so nice; got juice, fan-fan (i.e rice), nyuk-nyuk (i.e meat), but.... jelly not so nice”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> LOL (271017)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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 <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“OK mama, I love you, playdough”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (251017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We made a simple impromptu experiment on “<i style="font-size: 10pt;">eat ice, heart will get dirty</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” (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).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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 <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“Oh, I like goldfish. Where?”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> LOL (281017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been asking <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“Why daddy needs a belt?</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” 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.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Books she loved (apart from bedtime books) – Usborne see inside your body, Jack and the Beanstalk</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She was able to roughly retell the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to earn some YouTube time (051117).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have recently got an insect net and this little cheeky is looking forward to catching a butterfly soon. She convinced me and said “<i style="font-size: 10pt;">Me can catch. Me super strong cos me have bones inside my body</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” (111017)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sing the opposite game with daddy. When daddy sings <i style="font-size: 10pt;">‘put the bunny down down down’</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> and she will go </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">‘put the bunny up up up’</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> etc (131117)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is currently into ballerina related books for bedtime stories. She called it <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“bandelina”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (251017). On top of that, she loves The Usborne-Big Book of English Words (surprisingly not a storybook) as her bedtime fix.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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 <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“where are you going, mommy? No go outside”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 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)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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 <i style="font-size: 10pt;">“let me read my book first. FARM ANIMAL....”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (091117).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recent favourite bedtime stories – Baby Dino, The Usborne Big Book of English Words (particularly page 13 and 27), Mr.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Messy & </span>Mr.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Skinny (Mr.Men series).</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">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).</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a few packets of borax sitting in my drawer. I bought them after Missy requested me to make her slime after watching them on Youtube channel. My colleague suggested me to use laundry detergent (Dynamo for blueish hue) but I was not very keen towards the idea of using liquid detergent for a kid to play with. Clear glue seemed to be a great option but this promise was still kept pending as I got out a little of hand for the past few months before we wrapped up for year-end holidays. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I googled on other usages of borax for kids, I stumbled upon growing borax crystal and I thought it was great for Missy to somehow know what crystallization is about. Since it requires boiling water, most of the steps were managed by myself including the shaping of pipe cleaners into the shapes and initial of the names mentioned by little lady boss which she wanted to present her crystal to from grandparents, grandaunts, aunts and her little baby cousin Issac. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She was keen to own a mini luggage bag and said “Mommy has <i>big big</i> luggage upstairs, I want a <i>small small</i> one for Abby (myself)” 210917</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We upgraded her to a big girl’s car seat on her birthday and whenever she chanced upon her old one which we placed in the dining hall, she would try to get in and declare “Oh, this is Mabel’s chair, so small”. If you wonder why Mabel, she has somehow generalised all babies as Mabel, the only baby girl she get to know better who is the granddaughter of aunt’s acquaintance (240917)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This little girl loves to frequent Giant because that is the nearest shopping place near home. She saw me wearing a green tee with some curvy letter on it and probably feeling amazed and said “Wow, mommy you wearing Giant sam-sam (i.e shirt)” simply because the green colour has the same scheme as Giant’s and coincidentally Giant’s name was written<span lang="EN-US"> joined together in a flowing manner too</span>. LOL (240917).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This cheeky little girl once commented “silly momma”. When I deliberately look at her and asked ‘What were you saying, could you say that again?’, she quickly answered “nice momma”, grinning away (041017).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She saw a group of primary school student going around the housing area with a lantern on the weekend before Mid-Autumn celebration. My curious cat asked ‘why are they playing with a little bit of fire?’</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She intended to hide the toys to spare herself from daddy’s scolding “put toys at <i>ah-poh’s</i> house, no let daddy see” (071017)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves giving step-by-step instruction even when she was playing on her own (071017).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On another occasion, she pretended to tie her own hair. This vain pot went <i>“first, put rubber band my hand, and put some hair. All done”</i> LOL too bad I didn't manage to capture the video of her (171017).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I heard her farted and teased her immediately “Oops, how if you poop on the bed?” She quirkily answered “don't worry, <i>poo poo</i> in potty” (081017)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was helping her to change into pyjamas and apparently, the neck-hole was slightly smaller than her usual ones and she made a conclusion “Oh, my (hair)clip blocked the way” (081017)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I handed her a glue stick and she commented “like lipstick, mommy” (151017)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves to use “too much” all the time to explain huge/great amount instead of “more or a lot”. “I want to play <i>too much</i> bubbles”, “I want to watch the video <i>too much</i>” (171017, 011117).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still using me as I, and would repeat after us when we corrected her before repeating the same mistake.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She wanted to negotiate for some candy but at the same time worrying that she might get “black tooth” after some threatening and eventually resolved by concluding “but this is Vitamin C” (081017)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can make simple justification based on her observation when we were doing some worksheets on the weather. When she saw a heart image on the girl’s tee shirt, she grabbed a heart doily nearby and put it on her chest and say “I love you, mommy” (151017).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She is at the age of when her curiosity perks up and her understanding has expanded by leaps and bounds. Whenever she heard any words or saw something, she ask asked you repeatedly until she is fully satisfied. Among her questions I can recall was “What spout, mommy?” (asking me what spout means after listening to I’m a little teapot song – 181017), “why daddy needs a belt?” (to which she has been asking until now despite us explaining numerous times, I have to figure out a better way to explain to our Little Miss Curious soon)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her da-gu rang me up when I was still at work at 4ish in the afternoon telling me that Missy cried and said that she misses me. At home, I told hub about it and daddy teased her. Daddy asked ‘How did you cry?’. “Awuuuu” she answered. Daddy rolled his eyes ‘how come sounded like a dog?’ She quipped instantly “NO, like a BIG BAD WOLF!” ROTFL (201017).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">It is definitely not easy to be a parent these days, huh? I totally understand the reason behind her grandaunt/uncle intention and I know that at the age of 3, I couldn't expect my precious girl to resist her temptations when convinced by her favorite adults either. Dear Abby, Mommy simply hoping that you could grow up in good virtues and faith. You are lucky (in fact too lucky) to be surrounded by so many generous family members around you. But, learning to love God more, learning to appreciate, share and embrace are what truly matters. Love you to the moon and back, princess :) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She loves playing with her Duplo again after a phase of hibernation (200617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has great patience and was very carried away whenever she plays with her Playdough set.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Apart from doctor play, she is also into dentist play lately. I am thankful that the dentist we previously went was a gentle elderly man. She was not frightened at all and even looking forward to seeing a dentist again in the future.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has finally mastered the skill to blow a toy trumpet (which also requires abdominal tension) which she acquired during our last trip home – (290617).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Able to tell color of an object eg. A black cat, a red car, a yellow flower.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Among the snippet of conversation I had with the little vain-pot were;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“My nail not pretty anymore. My nail comes out” (230617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Wow, mommy wears love-love <i>sam-sam</i> (i.e shirt) and <i>fufu </i>(i.e pants)” after she observed that I wore a tee and shorts with heart prints to which I didn't notice myself (230617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Mommy, be careful. Later fall down break your bones” upon seeing me climbing up high to reach the top cabinets of the wardrobe in our room (230617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During prayer, she said “thank you <i>for</i> kitchen set working” after I installed batteries to her toy stove (020717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She accidentally dropped her newly bought toy guitar and picked it up in a jiffy and happily declared “still working, it’s still working” with a huge grin (040717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were playing a mobile doctor game together. She needed my help with a short game within a short time span to unlock and entitle her to claim a new tool. I must have appeared anxious when she said to me “No worry, nevermind. Catch another one, mommy” (it was a fish-catching mini game at that time). 040717</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her new favorite tagline was ‘No, not done yet. Finish my coloring first (or anything she is currently doing)” for shower/sleep (050717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been asking for bob-bob one day, and I teased her by saying when can she offer me hers instead. She responded “Not <i>bigger</i> enough, when I get bigger, grow taller, bigger bob-bob, then can bob-bob” (060717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been loving water coloring these days. When she saw me fishing out a new watercolor paint set (in fact was a long abandoned), she experimented it with some water she fetched from the sink and exclaimed <i>“Wow, this is not sticky (while poking it with her finger tip). Hehehe so funny (grinning cheekily), mommy buy for me, milk first later do coloring”</i> (060717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She came across to the word “roof” lately when we replaced our roofing at home. When we came across an image of a home during our bedtime reading, she recalled “people fixed my roof. Roof broke down. Now no broken” (070717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was a night where dogs in the neighborhood were barking almost non-stop. She said “Mommy, dogs..” and I casually replied “Hmm, I wonder what’s wrong” I did not expect my reply has earned me this remark: <i>“Dog has no mommy daddy, very cold, no cardigan”</i>. LOL</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spontaneously reply with a “welcome” when she got thanked after (080717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we were learning about colors, I insisted her to tell the color of the object like a green apple, a yellow banana. When we covered orange, she gave me a disbelief look and said “orange....” LOL. I bet she sensed something was not so right if she were to repeat orange after another orange :P (090717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Peppa Pig series, this girl would occasionally make comparison remarks like “Big daddy, small mommy or small Abby” (100717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was once daddy lied on her bottom and commented “so nice”. While she was so carried away with her Peppa pig channels, she replied “yes, this is so nice!” without realizing that her daddy was actually referring to the ‘pillow’ he was sleeping on, before asking to be released :P</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Able to remember and convey simple messages. When she saw me packing her clothes to be brought over to the in-laws, she said “Gu-po ask bring panty” – (170717).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been so ‘loyal’ and attached to her old musical pony (the one she used to call as ‘little lamb’ half a year ago (270617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has developed a lot during our recent trip back to KK in June 2017. She got very close to her maternal grandparents/aunt and uncle. There was a night when she had a blast with grandpa/ma until almost midnight and has been a sweet talker too. She wouldn't hesitate to greet them, asking “Grandpa, where are you?”, “Grandma, what are you doing?” from time to time (300617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She is not easily <i>deceived</i> these days. There was once when I attempted to release myself and claim some ME time with my mom, I suggested to my girl that if she follows her daddy and I will buy her something when I return. She was all fine initially until the last second she changed her mind and said “I wanna follow mommy, daddy buys” LOL. (300617).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves doing things together. Her favorite tagline was “let’s eat/play/pick-up toys together”. When I was baking something in the oven, she came over and say “Hmmmm, pie not yet <i>ting </i>(referring to the sound of the oven’s timer), later eat together” (100717).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She received another stash of souvenirs also from <i>cong-gung</i> (i.e grand uncle) who just got back from another vacation trip – a fiery red dinosaur, a Mickey mouse on a truck (both batteries operated), another fidget spinner with lights. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been rejecting the previous toothpaste she has been using for many moons (may be contributed by her uneasy gum too), and I finally get her a Jack n’ Jill in raspberry flavor. She rejected it too for the few nights and is starting to accept the flavor now (020717)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Showing interest towards “police videos” - Youtube video clips featuring policeman characters including Robocar Poli (080717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This little fella has a good memory, and persistent too. She insisted that she was looking for her coin while holding onto another 2. Most of us in the family searched high and low and eventually convinced that she might have remembered wrong or could have not noticed that she was actually already holding on just 2 coins, not until I found the remaining one inside the food waste underneath the used tissues (150717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can tell the name of all the characters in Peppa Pig &Paw Patrol (her two favorites).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been obsessed with fancy plasters lately. She scraped her knee on the concrete floor before this and has been requesting for plasters every now and then by claiming that ‘my leg is still a little bit painful, need plaster later bleeding’. There was another occasion when I offered her plaster of smaller size, she said “too small, let’s see (if it was sufficient to cover the affected area)”</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have recently started her on books emphasizing on moral values loaned from the RE Division Library. She enjoyed borrowing books from the library too (160717).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was a night when she was a little grouchy, probably did not get her afternoon nap. She refused to let me off to get myself ready for bed. So, I said, “If I did not brush my teeth, the germs from my mouth might be going to your face”. She quickly responded “Mommy, brush your teeth quick. Brush hard-hard” (160717).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She is no longer the little girl who needs to be reminded to go on the potty/toilet. There was once when I casually check her skirt as I suspected she might have wet her pants, she refused and said “No, no wet. Deh-deh<span style="background-color: transparent;"> asked </span>abby<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">shee-shee</i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> already” (230617).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were so proud of her that she went dry the whole week we stayed in KK and followed by another week at home (since 2606 - 050717). She has been progressing well with her toilet training so far except with a couple accidents.</span></li>
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aikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-40409943450871421332017-05-21T09:17:00.000+08:002017-11-17T17:15:52.652+08:0033 Months<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She surprised me by helping me to button up my blouse and happily declared ‘aall done’ once she has done (240417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can go on a potty without help (300417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pinched my nose out of the sudden and exclaimed “Mommy, rubbish!” when she smelled something pungent (210417)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves the company of an adult in her activities. She would throw an invitation by saying ‘Come, let’s cut paper (etc) together’ (210417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She recognises all numbers except facing some confusions between the number 6 and 9 (240417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This sweet pie loves greeting us “good morning, mommy/daddy” and “good night” (290417)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been attempting to sing and get ‘1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive’ and ‘1,2 buckle my shoes’ mixed up (300417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been using the two personal pronouns I and me wrongly despite us correcting her all the time. E.g <i>“My love it!”, “My taller”, “When my bigger enough…” </i>(090517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She came across to a church kiddo friend carrying a backpack and exclaimed <i>“Super Wing! Super Wing”</i> until I later found out from his mom that cartoon character on her son’s bag was Super Wing :P (010517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She thanked me earnestly for carrying her on my back “Thank you, mommy, piggyback me. Can you piggyback me (again) next time?” (040517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Understands size comparison. Eg “Mommy is too big!” (070517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves to use ‘cause’ for because. When I asked her why didn’t she put on her pants (only undies), she answered confidently “cause hot” (090517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recent favourite tagline was “OOpsie daisy” which she picked up from her gu-gu (160517)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She noticed a new housing on daddy’s Ipad and made an assumption that daddy has gotten a new Ipad and asked for his previous one “Abby wants daddy’s old broken Ipad”. LOL (180517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is in her Why oh Why phase. Never ending with her “what chuu doing?”, “What’s that sound?” and so much more.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves taking part in whatever board games adults are playing. This is her trying to name the vegetables printed on the game cards. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, she dislikes the kids’ supplement I bought her (gummy bear) and I have given them all away to few kids of her age at the church. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been helping me to distribute the spirulina tablets to daddy one day but out of nowhere, she popped 7 pieces into her mouth and started munching happily! (100517).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was able to drop her off at the church for the whole session, finally with some expected drama in the beginning and sneakily leave the class after that (300417)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She answered po-po in Mandarin for the very first time when she was asked whether the meal tasted good. She answered “好吃<span lang="EN-US">” (<i>hao chi</i> i.e yummy) – 070517</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received her first big kitchen set from mommy but was very upset when one the teeny hinge on her oven cover was broken but was later fixed and modified ingeniously by her gu-po (100517).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She grazed her leg and she exaggerated when she saw the sight of blood. Ever since plasters have been a hit in the house. She helped herself to replace it whenever she remembers to, or better said, whenever she feels like to (290417). LOL</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She accidentally peed on the bed for the first time after many moons of dry nights (020517).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received her first 好宝宝<span lang="EN-US"> (i.e guai bao bao) award in her RE class (140517).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Presented a LEGO Clockwork Heart along with daddy to mommy on our anniversary day (190517).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Other words she can say: slippery, narrow, puddle, too much, blackout.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been using “too much” for quite a bit, or whenever she wants to express a massive amount. E.g “Don’t cut too much” – when I trimmed her hair, “Don’t drink too much” – when daddy pretended to have a big sip of her Yakult (190517).</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With God’s grace and providence, we have sailed through four years of marriage together.God gave me you, for the ups and downs. God gave me you, for the days of doubt. For when I think I’ve lost my way and there are no words left to say, God gave me you (Anonymous). Looking back at the two little flower girls who are now young teens in secondary school and the same church we will be going tonight to observe our Friday night's service is a good reminder that God has been good all these while :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-62914312406321066352017-05-17T09:13:00.000+08:002017-08-03T10:31:05.855+08:00Abby Recommends: Tickety Tock<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 155%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are the books Missy is currently hooked at. She has been able to name 1-14 eloquently in sequence with no problem and currently attempting to go up to 20 by randomly picking the number she knows (or created) to end with a <i>–teen</i> and eventually with ‘twenty’. Most of the time, she did that for fun when she goes up and down the stairs. I have a couple of books teaching young children about time to which I have yet started reading it to her as I give her the freedom to pick the books she wanted to be read. Until recently, she has been picking this <i>‘clock book’</i> (the way she puts it) or sometimes fondly call it as ‘<i>Ticketee Thock mouse’ </i>and requested me to read it to her for few nights consecutively. Of course, I am more than happy to oblige to her request. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She preferred Tickety Tock over Usborne ‘Telling the time’ most of the nights (at the moment). Although I am an Usborne big fan myself, I personally find Tickety Tock is more attractive when it comes to teaching time to the little fella. The minute and hour hands are much sturdier, and they do produce a short creaking sound which added some sound effect when the little hand attempted to move the hands during the learning process. She can tell the time hourly (i.e ‘eight <i>o’cock</i>’) with guidance and especially confident when she sees familiar numbers especially 1,2,3, and 8 but still mixing up 6 and 9 nowadays. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On top of the analogue clock, there’s a rotating cardboard wheel on the bottom for the analogue time. Missy loves moving the hands on the analogue one and rotating the digital one after another. Besides, the adorable graphics which featured a pair of cute mice can directly be related to a toddler/kid’s routine from waking up, having breakfast, go to school, playtime at the playground (Missy’s favourite part), lunch, story time before nap, being picked up from school at 3 pm and more. This is certainly a good point where I slowly pre-empted Missy about the idea of having lunch, story time and napping together with other kids next year as I am thinking of enrolling her for a full day class next year. At this point, Missy loved saying “Mommy come back fast-fast and say hi Abby”. So far, she has been giving me positive response and fingers crossed till the day comes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-67559793061136800252017-04-30T22:29:00.000+08:002017-11-21T13:31:38.570+08:00Conversation: Money in my Pocket<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 155%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I used to jot down our exact conversation in her monthly progress report, sharing the same post as her motor skills and emotional development, feedings etc. This little girl has been rather chatty these days, hence a separate post for some of her witty responses before they slip off my mind and also for us to have a good laugh together when she’s grown up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She loves snipping with a scissor and I only allowed her to snip on my expired Cosway magazines. She came to me with a cut-off image of sanitary pads from the magazine and excitedly ran over to me. This is our conversation with my 32mo (200417).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Abby: Mommy, <i>same same</i> (as) mommy(‘s)</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (while showing off the image she cut-off from the mag)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Mommy: Oh, that is very nice of you. But, how are you going to buy them for me?</span><span style="color: #666666;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves taking part in the laundry by spraying the pre-laundry detergent before doing our laundry (290317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loves snipping with her scissors. Occasionally she will come out with her imaginative figure to which she called as whale, dolphin, and ladybug (150417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Has garnered the ability and courage to ‘dive’ down a slide (160417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She loved my pointy permanent marker pen and willingly does literally any task with that pen (160417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She was caught in action by taking his deh-deh’s necktie and she cheekily exclaimed: “My jumping rope” (170417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Developed a bad habit of opening the fridge door frequently, to the extent her deh-deh took the effort to DIY-lock the fridge by making use magnetic hook and name tag ropes :P (170417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Among the sentences I caught her saying these days:</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I want to get something first” - 210317</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Baby wakes up also” (The moment she just got up and wanted to tag me downstairs) - 210317</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She loves seeing me pick her up at the door, or waiting for her RE class to dismiss at the entrance. She would say “Mommy come back fast-fast (from whatever excuses I gave her i.e work, groceries etc), baby happy”.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has the tendency to pronounce all sort of verb with ‘s’ sound (230317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She refused to cooperate whenever she’s not in a comfortable state (i.e sunny, damp cloth etc). When she was asked to sing Five Little Monkeys, she declined by saying “No, cannot sing. Hot” (240217)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No longer calling the laptop as ‘work-work’. She can call them either computer or laptop.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mixed up between upstairs and downstairs. “My laptop is upstairs” while she was in the bedroom on the upper floor (250317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Baby’s house beautiful” when she saw the workers are done with our roofing replacement (260317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I first tried wild orange variant on the diffuser (Doterra eo), she commented “Mommy, smells gooood” (280317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Other words she can say: mushroom, slippery, ‘two-ma-toes’ (tomatoes), coconut tree as ‘animals’ tree’ (as in the lone tree of her farm animals toy set), roller skate, bandage.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She took her box containing alphabets puzzles out and shoved it to her daddy and asked “daddy, what’s this?”. Her daddy reads “U is for unicorn” and continued to comment “Hmm, this is misleading kids to believe in unicorns”. Upon hearing that, she came up with “Oh, this is lousy one” :P (060417)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her exposure towards the name of animals has widened since I introduced her to the card games featuring various type of animals. But, she still gets few names mixed up from time to time i.e jellyfish as octopus, quail as a parrot, squirrel as a vulture, butterfly as a bee, caterpillar as a snake. (110417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am still cracking my head on introducing Mandarin to this little girl when I can barely speak passable Mandarin myself. When I casually questioned her what is ‘yan zing’? She answered me ‘Big bird’. Aigoo (160417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On another occasion with her scissor, (I only allowed her to cut no other paper sources except Cosway magazines, and she recognized them very well) she cropped out one of the products I am using at home and said: “same same (as) Mommy’s, Abby buy for mommy”. When I prompted further and asked ‘how?’, she responded: “Put inside trolley, use money”. Mommy asked ‘You have any?’ The cheeky little girl then said “No, cos Abby has no pocket, Mommy. Daddy has pocket” LOL (320417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally became a good friend of gu-po (Aunt Evelyn from UK) after a long week of warming up (230317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She woke up before we sent her off to the in-laws. Hence, I pre-empted her enough that I need to work and I will be back so that there wouldnt be any drama during the seperation and I am glad she waved me as we leave (300317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her terrible two has been prominant lately, and she got acquainted with Mr. Rotan for the first time this month (130417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She has been making it a point to put on her shoes all the time after deh-deh shown her the video clip featuring ring worms attacking a kitten’s foot (140417).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Upon receiving compliments from us, she would go ‘mommy happy, daddy happy, no sad” LOL (150417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Came out with funny ice-cream combination to which she named it ‘capsicum carrot ice-cream’ with her popsicle stick and fruit cutting toys (240317).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received her first personalized book (310317).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Got a new watch (blue Little Pony) to match with her outfits (220317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Received another watch (pink Mickey Mouse) from gu-po and claimed that “this is better” (230317)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was once she wanted to wear a drsuess repeatedly and Mommy couldn’t reason with her to change to another one. So, I decided to button the first button and when she couldn’t pull it down through her head, she obliged and finally claimed that it was “too small” (evil grin) – 260317.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She received a Supergirl tee-shirt from her aunt. She associated Supergirl with flying and finally came with a decision “go airplane wear this one” after she learns that we will be traveling a bit in a couple of months (280317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Requested to wear her ‘turn turn turn’ (flared) skirt to sleep (050417).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her recent bedtime favorite book – The Potty Book, Usborne Farmyard Tales, Pippa Poppa, Things People Do (Usborne)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We attempted to let her go diaper-less at night and our attempt was a successful one (010417). This is certainly our motivation booster to continue with our diaper-free mission. Abby was rather cooperative too as she claimed that diapers ‘made me hot’ :)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the following night (020417), she was all dry the whole night but not during her afternoon nap :P</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She remained dry at night until the 4<sup>th</sup> night consecutively till (040417) before she wetted the bed for the first time at night (also on the following night). Nevertheless, this has not deterred us from making our mission a possible one. Our king-sized waterproof mattress protector has been a great help ;)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We decided to put her on diapers for a couple of night for her to have better sleep throughout the night when she was down with cough and flu and as predicted, she didn’t wake up for her milk fix at all the whole night (080417)</span></li>
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<span class="postbody1"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After checking out from our chalet in Nepenthes Lodge, National Park. We decided to visit the rabbit farm in Ranau in two cars. But my parents, bro and sis in the other car decided to detoured and return to KK not long after the massive congestion from the National Park’s entrance up to several miles ahead on the way up to Ranau but we had no choice as that way the only route home. Missy has been chanting that she wanted to go to the ‘zoo’, she finally dozed off while we were still stuck in the congestion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rabbit petting zoo, Arnab Village is located at Kg. Purakugis, approximately 12km from National Park on the right. The ‘zoo’ was located further in from the junction. When we have eventually arrived, the boss was contemplating whether to wake Missy up but I insisted as I know this little girl will not stop chanting ‘I want to go zoo’ the moment she wakes up. Hence, I gently woke her up and to my surprise, she was up and about instantly and couldn't wait to barge in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After we have gotten our entrance ticket with a small fee of RM2 (adults only), we waited no longer but to get into the rather new attraction. <span style="background: white;">It was really hot by then but luckily, there was some shaded area for us to stop by. We went straight into the rabbit pen where rabbits roam freely. Abby had a good time petting the rabbits and even attempted carrying them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The small enclosure helped
us to get around easily with a reasonable array of different breeds of bunnies.
The big hit of it was the ability to get around with the furry friends
in such close proximity. Being able to held them one after another was definitely going to turn out to be one of Missy’s best childhood memories :). Apparently, the enclosure was in the midst of
upgrading progress and we will definitely be returning in the near future. </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Abby turned (2y7m) last 20th March 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 155%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">13.2kg<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 155%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Around 93cm. She has been rather obsessed with her height and wanted to be measured all the time after she learnt that she can go on a horse ride when she's bigger/taller after our visit to the Cowboy's Town :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 155%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still 16 pearly whites.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She loves playing with ladle, scoops and whatnots akin to them (230217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Able to turn the doorknob to open a door and latch to lock the door too. Grandaunt was once trapped inside the washroom and luckily this girl remembers to unlatch it from outside (150317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still very much into doctor play. She took my velcro and wrap it around her head and pretended that she has bumped her head (190317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Able to draw swirls (200317)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She had a fun Lego train session with daddy on the 210217 when daddy’s Lego railroad has just arrived in the mail. This little girl was both excited and anxious when the train she was manoeuvring from the controller was having slight hiccups. She went “train broken again!”, “Oh no mommy, it’s so hard!”, “Oh no, it’s stuck”, “It works, it’s moving again”, “No move, no go round and round” from time to time (21-220217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Among the sentences she ever said which caught our attention:</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eg. “No more water coming out. Daddy <i>fix it</i> air-cond” (No more water dripping from the air cond in our room, and the credit goes to her daddy).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She called me during my work trip informing me she is having a fever. She said “Mommy, Abby fever. Hot hot. Eat<i> kopok</i> (i.e keropok)” (060317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Mommy, video not working” (070317)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During prayer, she would say thanks of a few item/incidences she favoured most for the day. Eg “Thank you, Lord, for the Lego train, Vitagen and egg-egg (Kinder Joy Surprise egg)”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can vaguely utter the first complete phrase <i>“wo men zai tian shang de fu”</i> and last phrase of “The Lord’s Prayer” in Mandarin (120317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Thank you, mommy doctor” after I applied mosquitoes repellent on her body (110317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Mommy, so fun. Help mommy zip”. She had fun when I asked for her help to zip my dress (120317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Playground no open. Use key open” (190317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Mommy, got battery!” when I told her that I may need to replace the batteries in one of her toys, overlooking the on/off button until she pointed it out and switched it on and the best part was the batteries were working fine.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She surprised me by being able to recognise a few shapes which I have never taught her. She grabbed a stencil ruler on the floor and name diamond, square, triangle and circle while pointing to the shape accurately (160317).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When she senses something is not right, she’ll quickly apologise earnestly “Sorry mommy, sorry daddy” :P</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still having separation anxiety when we drop her off in the morning (sub-conscious state) but when I talked her off (despite many suggested that I should just hide and go), she will be all fine most of the time. In return, she would say “Mommy come back fast fast and say hi Abby”.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes, when she went off to her grandaunt’s place and was sent back to the in-law whilst having us to wait for her return, she would say “Abby come back quick quick to see mommy”. Such a sweet talker she is.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She stopped me from packing my work clothing into the luggage bag. She knew I was packing for work without her (040317).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During my work trip, she cries each time we talked over a video call.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She is showing her attempt to garner courage when I dropped her to the RE class. Although it may not be a successful attempt all the time she has been progressing slowly yet surely. She would usually show positive outlook and say “Mommy coming and say hi Abby” (She knows that I will be back to pick her up with a Hi)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been outstation for work for quite a bit in the first half of March. It was a benchmarking visit to Labuan from the 4-7th March 2017 earlier, and another trip to attend a workshop conducted by Microsoft the following week from 13-15th March 2017. Missy had a bad time during my absence and cried pitifully each time we chatted over video calls. In contrary to usual work trips, I decided to fly back the same day the course ended, exactly on the boss’ birthday. It was almost 9 pm when I reached home and it was too late for me to plan for anything, even to bake a cake. I was able to grab a tablet holder for the boss onboard (Air Asia merchandise) as a birthday pressie. Hence, I decided not to bake any cake this round but bring SIL along for a joined celebration the following night (SIL’s birthday) over a Japanese buffet spread at Zen Japanese Cuisine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are some of the random shots I took during my trip to Labuan, the pearl of Borneo. What worth mentioning were my first experience on a speed boat, my unusual amount shopping for chocolates </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(along with Missy's surprise</span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> eggs)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> which have never been my favourite nor ever existed in any of my shopping lists, and a North Indian dinner fix at the Mehfil Rest</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">aurant. To my surprise, I fell in love with Ferrero Rafaello almond coconut treats. Probably it wasnt anything near to the typical 'chocolate chocolates', instead, this sibling of Ferrero Rocher features creamy almond coconut with vanilla cream. </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a funny sight when she has mistaken tomatoes as “tou-(pause a while)-tou” and capsicum as “kiwi”. LOL (010217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She can slightly reiterate incidences. She spilt her aunt’s essential oil diffusing liquid in the car during an outing with her aunt and grandaunt. She told me that she has “spilt da-choo’s water”. When I prompted further on what was her da-guh’s reaction, she raised her tone and say “A-B-B-Y!!”. LOL (020117).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She amazed me by singing ABC song (to which I have not introduced her on alphabets just yet) – 030217.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can roughly cite her prayer with help. She would usually start off and say a number of things that she was thankful off for the day (120217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chanced upon an old unwanted pack of my sanitary pad and claimed: “mommy’s pampers”. When I told her that I no longer use that, she said “put it away” and placed the packaging in one of daddy’s box stash (120217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can negotiate. Eg “I want this one, please Mommy. Bibi wants Hello Kitty’s car” (120217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She refused her popo to wipe away her reward stamp she got from RE class by sternly saying “NO Wipe!” (120217).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Mommy buy some more. Daddy finished it. Baby hungry” LOL (the moment she discovered an empty Pringles’ can in the bin – (170217).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Not done yet. Daddy wash some more” – insisted that she still feels slimy and not thoroughly cleaned during a shower (180217).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have relocated the baby crib and set up a mini bookshelf replacing our bedside table to keep Missy’s bedtime story books (160217).</span></li>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every girl has that one male friend in her life, with whom she can share everything without any fear. But I have three roosters who always had my (and Missy’s) back! Happy Rooster year to my dad (also gung-gung), the boss (also daddy), my brother (also q-q). These three are my favourite boyfriends and coincidentally they are all roosters!. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loves peeling off flaking paints at the in-laws.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can paste sticker rather accurately on their intended column.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loves to help mommy to crack eggs. I can account her to crack up to 10 eggs at one time, by keeping one eye closed over the mess.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At times, she would tip her toe to reach the eggs compartment in the fridge requesting to “help mommy crack eggs”.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loves to put on a kid’s apron when she is having her ice-cream.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loves spending time with daddy’s Lego house. The curious cat loves extending daddy’s Lego house with her Duplo blocks. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loves donning on mommy’s top and pretend herself as mommy.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When she was searching for the other part of the velcro carrot, she went “Where carrot cover? Ou where?” (211216)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rather cheeky and deliberately say the wrong name when she is in her playful mode (lion as dinosaur, hippo as baby shark) – 271216.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can recognize a few fruits/vegetables – capsicum, melon (for watermelon), eggplant (sometimes mistaken as tomato) – 281216.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Able to form simple sentences which she made up from the words she knows (as of 301216).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eg. “Abby do drawing”,</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Abby eats ice-cream, Mommy wipe tissue”,</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Abby fall down, gugu help wipe hand, no cry”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Mommy wear this one” (she would replace words she couldn't express with ‘this one’ or ‘that one’</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Baby catch chong-chong (i.e worm)” (pretending to floss her teeth and believed that she would be able to ‘de-worm’ by doing so.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Baby give present daddy”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Baby doing octopus” (craft)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Abby driving car, go shopping”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Milk-milk pill (spill). How? (along with the ‘i-dont-know’ look) and followed by “Wipe”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I was browsing Tupperware catalogue the other day, she came forward and pointed to the tumbler image and said “Anna jie-jie’s bottle”, and yes, she was right (040117).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She has been requesting us to tie the gigantic balloon she got from her gugu’s<span style="background-color: transparent;"> wedding banquet on her wrist while watching YouTube on the bed. Occasionally, asked us to “tie some more” (tighten) the rope on her wrist (100117). </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She can keep her promises upon agreement most of the time. Before stepping into a supermarket, we would usually set a ‘do(s) and don't(s)’. There was once when she was so enticed by the surprise eggs on the shelf despite our promises, her eyes were gluing at the rack and negotiated hopefully by asking me “Mommy OK?”. I said no and reminded of our agreement earlier, but she just wouldn't budge. Eventually, we compromised and settled for ice-cream instead. Win-win situation :P</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doesn't<span style="background-color: white;"> take much solid food still. It was still a struggle to get her chew and swallow most of the time.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got her first homemade hydrogen balloon which she called ‘flying balloon’ with daddy’s ‘recipe’ (291216). </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Developed a mild fever and started off with cough a day before. For the very first time, she insisted and requested to “see doctor”. Unlike previous times, she cried and holding me tight. Instead, she couldn’t wait for her turn in front of the door. LOL (050117)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got her first flower-girl job during her gugu’s wedding (080117).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got her first ever gigantic balloon after her gugu’s wedding banquet at Sabah Hotel.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Insisted her gupo to buy a ‘pao’ (bun) for Ah Tai during their trip to their market together. Back at Ah Tai’s place, she fed Ah Tai with a few teeny weeny crumbs.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Missy and I were able to spend sometime at home if we weren't out to Ah tai’s place to keep her company over the holidays whilst AIL was out for work. In an average, Missy and I get to spend our quiet (literally) and just-the-two-of-us time once a week during the weekdays. She was able to have uninterrupted sleep and woke up around 9.30am-10.00am, unlike usual days when mommy and daddy are working, we had no choice to carry her out while she’s still asleep, and usually with much movements, she would usually get up sooner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One morning, upon waking up bright and cheerful, this little girl requested me to sing ‘little lamb’ while pulling her pony with a rope halter and pretending herself as Mary. Not forgetting to mention that she made mommy to sing 'Mary had a little lamb' for umpteenth of times while happily walked her 'lamb' around. It is absolutely cute seeing how imaginative kids can be :)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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aikoakitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11751077410497434797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679807340461200694.post-55736799966751120442017-01-04T10:10:00.000+08:002017-05-05T10:46:42.373+08:00Fish Feeding<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Besides, I have decided to rummage into the wardrobe to make sure all Missy’s new clothing are sorted out for this coming CNY before she grown out of size like what happened to some her clothing, which happened to be among my favourites :(. Looking at the stash she has got, I think she is all ready for CNY! :P I think I really have to stop shopping for her attire for some time. Easier said than done, shopping for the little girl has never been enough. Not to mention, it was therapeutic and addicting at the same time!. Some of them were presented to her by her grandaunts and aunts. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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