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).

Growing Crystals at Home

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.

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.

What will be needed:

Pipe cleaners

Boiling water: Borax (I used a ratio of 2 cups to 9 tbs borax as per recommended from the sources I visited)

String (I used ordinary sewing thread)

Stick (I used lidi sticks)

Glass jar/bottle (heatproof)

Pegs/clips (to fasten the thread onto the stick) - not necessarily needed

  

Diluting the boiling water with the borax is not difficult, totally contrary to what I have thought earlier. Next, the pipe cleaners will be immersed in the water-borax solution with the aid of a string and stick. Provide some gap in between of the pipe cleaners in case you are immersing more than one, and avoid the pipe cleaner to touch the base of the solution in the jar. Come back the next morning and you will be able to see beautiful crystals. In fact, crystals can be seen gradually forming within a couple of hours. It is as easy as it sounds. 

Missy was very happy with her 3 crystal hearts and decided to give 2 of them to grandma (on top of a baby breath bouquet on the exact day - 051017) and yi-yi as birthday gifts because coincidentally October is their birth month and another coincidence, daddy willingly agrees to be her messenger since he will be flying over for work the following day (231017) :). 

Pretend Play: Duplo Playground

Someone has constructed a slide, swing, a swimming pool (with float provided) for her ‘Lego friend’, and not to mention a stair-climbing train service chauffering one from a station to another (180717) :)

Pretend Play: Doctor Abby

Little Miss Abby was into Doctor play since many moons back. Thus far, we have gotten her 3 doctor play sets and occasionally, she was given the privilege to play with her doctor gugu (paternal aunt) and sook-sook’s (paternal uncle) stethoscope. Besides, she has started to take a liking to watching cartoon the moment she discovered Doc McStuffin by chance. Since then, she has been starting to evolve as the ‘family’s doctor’. There was a phase when she kept chanting ‘Doctor Pang’ and self-proclaimed herself as ‘doctor’ at home and the in-laws. LOL.

She can fix toys, relief pain, giving a jab using her cough syrup’s syringe, wrapping teddy’s head with tissue as a bandage, reliving mommy’s water plant by adding water from the tap. 

She loves to be read all sorts of doctor-related materials from the Doctor for a day, Emergency Room, Doc Mc Stuffin (2 different books featuring the exact episodes as shown on TV), Usborne-Things people do (particularly on Dr. Penny Sillin, the medical doctor and Dr.Mike Atsil, the vet) and recently on Day and Night featuring the life and situation in a workplace/home during the day and night; side by side (usually gravitating on the page featuring hospital room during the day vs night), recently into Usborne Pocket Science-Where do babies come from and not forgetting to mention about 'animal doctor' series on YouTube. 

Abby Recommends: Tickety Tock

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 –teen 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 ‘clock book’ (the way she puts it) or sometimes fondly call it as ‘Ticketee Thock mouse’ and requested me to read it to her for few nights consecutively. Of course, I am more than happy to oblige to her request.

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 o’cock’) with guidance and especially confident when she sees familiar numbers especially 1,2,3, and 8 but still mixing up 6 and 9 nowadays.

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.

31 Months

Abby turned (2y7m) last 20th March 2017.  

Weight

13.2kg

Height/Length

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 :)

Teeth

Still 16 pearly whites.

Motor Skills

• She loves playing with ladle, scoops and whatnots akin to them (230217).
• 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).
• 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).
• Able to draw swirls (200317)

Communication and Social Skills

• 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).
• Among the sentences she ever said which caught our attention:
• Eg. “No more water coming out. Daddy fix it air-cond” (No more water dripping from the air cond in our room, and the credit goes to her daddy).
• She called me during my work trip informing me she is having a fever. She said “Mommy, Abby fever. Hot hot. Eat kopok (i.e keropok)” (060317).
• “Mommy, video not working” (070317)
• 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)”
• Can vaguely utter the first complete phrase “wo men zai tian shang de fu” and last phrase of “The Lord’s Prayer” in Mandarin (120317).
• “Thank you, mommy doctor” after I applied mosquitoes repellent on her body (110317).
• “Mommy, so fun. Help mommy zip”. She had fun when I asked for her help to zip my dress (120317).
• “Playground no open. Use key open” (190317).
• “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.
• 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).

Emotional Development

• This drama princess loves using ‘Oh-no’ with full expression.
• When she senses something is not right, she’ll quickly apologise earnestly “Sorry mommy, sorry daddy” :P
• 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”.
• 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.
• She stopped me from packing my work clothing into the luggage bag. She knew I was packing for work without her (040317).
• During my work trip, she cries each time we talked over a video call.
• 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)

Food and Feeding

• Mommy relented for once and has given her a single piece of M&M chocolate after much persuasion. LOL (090317)

Her Firsts

• First visit to the flying club with deh-deh. She was so excited and has been exclaiming “Mommy, I want the red helicopter”, “Oh no, wheel broken”, “airplane, come down. Baby sit inside airplane” and basically reiterating whatever she sees/feels (180317).

Fashion

• In contrary to when she was younger, she loves wearing a cardigan, and sometimes has been requesting for it at the church (170317).
• She abhors it when I attempted to place her lock behind her ear with a big “NONONONO” (190317).

Sleeping Patterns

• She would happily get up in the morning by declaring “Baby wakes up” when she sees mommy and daddy are still lying on the bed (260217).
• Her recent bedtime favorite book – Jack the farmer. She requested me to buy her the vet book of the similar series which was featured on the back cover of the book (040317).

Toilet Training

• She can tell when she needs to use the toilet/potty during the day. Nevertheless, her grandaunt still put her own disposable diapers during the day when she was being with them. While she is with me, she will go totally diaper-less during the day. Although I have been secretly hoping that we could train her tandemly, but I don’t mind as long as everyone is comfortable with the idea :).

30 Months

Abby celebrated her 30th months (2y6m) last 20th Feb 2017 with a chesty cough and mild fever in the polyclinic.  

Weight

Not measured (It was on a yo-yo state ranging between 12.3 – 12.8kg)

Height/Length

Around 92cm.

Teeth

Still 16 pearly whites.

Motor Skills

• She loves snipping stuff with a scissor and I allowed her to do so most of the time, with supervision. But, my concern perked up after she snipped off the pacifier which she used to play with :o (220117)

Communication and Social Skills

• Words she can say: Pocket, teapot, headache
• It was a funny sight when she has mistaken tomatoes as “tou-(pause a while)-tou” and capsicum as “kiwi”. LOL (010217).
• 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).
• She amazed me by singing ABC song (to which I have not introduced her on alphabets just yet) – 030217.
• 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).
• 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).
• Can negotiate. Eg “I want this one, please Mommy. Bibi wants Hello Kitty’s car” (120217).
• She refused her popo to wipe away her reward stamp she got from RE class by sternly saying “NO Wipe!” (120217).
• Simple sentences she managed to form/made up:
• Eg. “Cat on the roof house” (130217)
• “Find nice nice shoes to church” (150217)
• “Mommy buy some more. Daddy finished it. Baby hungry” LOL (the moment she discovered an empty Pringles’ can in the bin – (170217).
• “Not done yet. Daddy wash some more” – insisted that she still feels slimy and not thoroughly cleaned during a shower (180217).

Emotional Development

• She shows fear when it rains and claiming she is ‘scared scared’ of the grumbles in thunderstorm (210117).  
• When I mentioned to her that I am having a stomachache, she would rub her palms and place it on top of my naval repeatedly (150217)
• Developed a habit to ask for something after seeing other kids having it i.e “Mommy, I want a Mickey Mouse hat too”, “I want Pikachu bag”.

Food and Feeding

• She used to love strawberries and enjoyed sucking the juice and spit the pulp but all of a sudden, she claimed that strawberries are ‘so scary’ (220117).
• She was down with a chesty cough and mild fever on 190217. She rejected milk and refused to sleep for the whole night but only bob-bob can pacify her.

Records

• We were very keen to enrol her to a nursery nearby our place just to get socialise around and introduce her importance of instruction taking but the idea was to hold off as FIL and AIL find that toddler at this age shouldn’t be bothered by too many restrictions and these will come in naturally later (070117).
• Loves all sorts of non-girly stuff like aeroplanes, helicopters etc.
• Got a new pair of sandals with light. She was so happy and insisted on bringing them to sleep (150217).
• I have relocated the baby crib and set up a mini bookshelf replacing our bedside table to keep Missy’s bedtime story books (160217).
• Broke the fourth Avent glass bottle since birth – (170217).
• She joined me at a dinner event one evening at my workplace. There were many kids running around and she tried to evade some kids by walking on the grass path and almost fell into the big uncovered drain! Thank God that she only grazed her knee (170217).
• She has been independent for the second time at church’s RE class. She was able to tell her favourite jie-jie when she needs to use the toilet. :) (190217).

Her Firsts

• Despite having travelled as an infant for numerous trips, she finally had her first ‘big girl’ and had a seat of her own on our CNY trip back to my hometown. She has proved all my worries were unnecessary (290117).

• First time playing with her q-q's 'antique' lion head and started asking us to get one for her. 

• First kindy hunting and visit. She was particularly drawn to its playground area which was located at the car porch (010217).

• Had her first droning session with daddy at home. She called it a ‘helicopter’ (200217).

Fashion

• She is very much into dresses/pants with pockets lately and insisted on wearing outfit that comes with pocket only (220217).
• She loves her Minnie Mouse spaghetti top courtesy of her Aussie grandaunt. She was obsessed with it to the extent she wanted to wear it damp when I have just taken it out from the washing machine (210117).

Sleeping Patterns

• I bought her a patchwork ABC hanging deco. She refused me from hanging it and claimed it as her ‘ABC blanket’ instead (210117). 
• Her recent bedtime favourite book – Emergency Room.

Toilet Training

She can tell when she needs to use the toilet/potty during the day (300117).

Abby Sings: ABC Song

Missy surprised us with her self-learnt ABC song. We have not started her with any of the ABC alphabets yet. The rate at which she picks up a new song really amazes me. Probably it’s time to polish up her letter sound at the same time to inject some fun in ABC learning soon if the little girl accommodates though :P 

29 Months

Abby turned 29 months (2y5m) last 20th Jan 2017.  

Weight

Not measured (It was around 12.3 kg last month)

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

Still 16 pearly whites.

Motor Skills

• She loves to ‘play-doctor’ and bringing her stethoscope across her ears, with her doctor’s “asses” (glasses) on all the time and give almost everyone a jab with her made-shift syringe.
• Loves peeling off flaking paints at the in-laws.
• Can paste sticker rather accurately on their intended column.
• 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.
• At times, she would tip her toe to reach the eggs compartment in the fridge requesting to “help mommy crack eggs”.
• Loves to put on a kid’s apron when she is having her ice-cream.
• Loves spending time with daddy’s Lego house. The curious cat loves extending daddy’s Lego house with her Duplo blocks. 
• Loves donning on mommy’s top and pretend herself as mommy.

Communication and Social Skills

• When she was searching for the other part of the velcro carrot, she went “Where carrot cover? Ou where?” (211216)
• Rather cheeky and deliberately say the wrong name when she is in her playful mode (lion as dinosaur, hippo as baby shark) – 271216.
• Can recognize a few fruits/vegetables – capsicum, melon (for watermelon), eggplant (sometimes mistaken as tomato) – 281216.
• Able to form simple sentences which she made up from the words she knows (as of 301216).
• Eg. “Abby do drawing”,
• “Abby eats ice-cream, Mommy wipe tissue”,
• “Abby fall down, gugu help wipe hand, no cry”
• “Mommy wear this one” (she would replace words she couldn't express with ‘this one’ or ‘that one’
• “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.
• “Baby give present daddy”
• “Baby doing octopus” (craft)
• “Abby driving car, go shopping”
• “Milk-milk pill (spill). How? (along with the ‘i-dont-know’ look) and followed by “Wipe”
• 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).
• She has been requesting us to tie the gigantic balloon she got from her gugu’s 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). 

Emotional Development

• She is very obsessed into doctor-play these days. When she sees someone complain about pain, she would run over and ask “Mommy/ daddy ok?” 
• 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

Food and Feeding

• A very rare occasion that she can sleep through the night without waking up for her milk fix for two-nights consecutively (9&100117).
• Doesn't take much solid food still. It was still a struggle to get her chew and swallow most of the time.

Records

• Fell in love with a blue lacey pretty H&M dress during our outing and insisted to put it on (slightly small and short for her) and refused to take them off after that. Eventually, we ended up buying cos her mommy loves it too :P (231216).
• Second fish feeding experience, but first time at the Sports Complex (020117).

Her Firsts

• Her first visit and stay-cation at Nephentes Lodge, National Park, Kundasang (251216).
• Got her first homemade hydrogen balloon which she called ‘flying balloon’ with daddy’s ‘recipe’ (291216).  
• 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)
• Got her first flower-girl job during her gugu’s wedding (080117).
• Got her first ever gigantic balloon after her gugu’s wedding banquet at Sabah Hotel.
• 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.

Sleeping Patterns

• It is a ritual for her to request for “bob-bob read books” every night before she doze off without fail these days.
• Books of her preference: Emergency Room, Sharks, Whale & Dolphins.

Pretend Play: Mary had a little lamb

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.

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 :)

Happy 'Mary' with her 'lamb'

Walking her 'lamb' around

Decided to 'ride' on her lamb :P

Time for a give back. 'Mary' carried her pet on her shoulder.

Looked very pleased but not until...

Mary found mommy paparazzi an annoyance :P