16 months - more talk

it is quite hard keeping track of baby's growing vocabulary nowadays as she picks up new words and their meanings so quickly. but here's what i can remember for posterity:

tissue 插插 (when she asks for a tissue to wipe up the mess she has made), coming coming, aster (bolster), 安安 (晚安), scratch papa face, pee-ahpen (please open - which she says properly when she isn't excited), ah bash (toothbrush), 跑得快, ah-pers (slippers), shoes (mama/papa shoes), (insert name) 抱抱, elephant, teapot, cup, (diaper) cream, 美美, 衣服 ....

she can sing twinkle twinkle little star (chinker chinker lee er tar) and baa baa black sheep.

she has also started to tell us "no!" when she doesn't want to do something ... like leaning forward so that i can pour water on her head during her bath. she also mimics and preempts my "wait wait wait" when she wants me to do something while i am busy with another thing. it's hilarious.

every morning now she will pound on her own bedroom door and yell for me to open the door to let her out. when she's tall enough to open the door, we are going to be trouble! :p

pre-black friday shopping

let's just say that the baby clothes at carter's are so much cuter than those for toddlers. i am going to be very sad when i can no longer buy clothes from the baby section (up to 24 months) for baby. 

oh, and yes, i have done the requisite black friday shopping already and these clothes should last baby for the next 6 months AT LEAST. :D 

15 months - natter chatter

words and more words! baby is increasingly verbal and can practically repeat everything we say after us. these are just some of the words and phrases she can say while knowing the meaning of now:

where is she, aeroplane, papa/mama sit, papa/mama eat, yi-po, aiyo, papa one, wait wait wait (something i say to her a lot), booterfly, bird 飞飞, teapot, 雨伞, 跑跑跑, twinkle, happy, feet, sweet *sigh*, ball kick, i am (her name), (her name), baby seat, same (she tells us how high chairs in restaurants are the same), open/close (she knows the associated actions for both) ...

ah min min - we have no idea what this means but she is always happy saying it so we indulge her.

it's great how she can follow many instructions - like taking her bathtowel to the bathroom at bathtime, cleaning up any mess on the floor, looking for missing toys (including under the living room couch), waiting for us, returning toys to their proper place, drying her feet and hands after we wash them, taking out the milk carton from the fridge, screwing on/off her tube of diaper cream/toothpaste, brushing teeth, smiling, covering her eyes or ears .... she's all grown up!!!! arghhh!!!

15 months - down under and back

we had a great time holidaying in perth and margaret river, and this trip confirmed baby's love for animals. like LOVE LOVE. she's unafraid of getting up close to dogs, sheep, chickens peacocks you name it, and always seeks them out. she grumbles if they walk away and will chase after them.

perth/fremantle was all about chilling and hiding from the heat, while we spent lots of time outdoors in margaret river because the weather was so cool and comfortable.

couldn't have imagined a better holiday ... even the flight there and back with a super active toddler in tow was manageable somehow. 

we should definitely do this again. soon.

15 months - check-up

hello 11.8kg, 82cm baby! she's top of the percentile charts again.

baby got her 2nd MMR jab during the visit to the polyclinic. two more jabs (chicken pox and another 6-in-1) and we will be done with vaccinations until she is in primary school. hurray!