She said her full sentence a few days ago. It was 'This is a cat!' and she was pointing to the cookie cutter cat. It was so adorable because she was trying so hard to pronounce 'This is a..'. It sounds more like 'dis is a..'. It's hard to say the th sound, so i guess that is very good effort on her part. I think now, she knows other phrases like 'what's that?', 'what's this?" and 'who's this'. Her repertoire of words is also very wide. She can say zoo, bread, cereal, eat, berry, thank you (da), tomorrow (mo mo), leaf, moon, pasta (paka), juice (joos), slide, swing, mouse, house, penguin (pen), bug and many more which I can't quite recall now. But really, it's amazing how much she knows. We have been encouraging her to say words by asking her to 'use your words'. It helps!
The other day, we were pretending to sleep (our way of getting kisses) and she suddenly came running towards us from the room. V thought she must have seen something and I immediately thought of a kachuak. Indeed, there it was, lumbering near the pram. She was so scared and kept saying 'bug' even after we had left the house. She kept whining and clinging to me.. and i wonder who has instilled this fear in her? It must be me... cos i hate them!! We had to go for a walk to distract her. Even so, when she came back, she looked into the bedroom and said 'bug bug' again.
In order to get her to stay away from the air vent, v invented what people commonly use to tell fortune in the olden days, and named it a woozle. She put her hand in there and he made a growling sound. Since then, she has stayed away from it. We deliberately called it the woozle because it's an imaginary creature from winnie the pooh and she won't get a phobia of any other real life object.
She has started running and nowadays ends up very sweaty by bath time. Super fast, i tell you! And it's fun to see her run and play around. She can also control her falling such that she can slowly lean back and land on her head, instead of it landing real hard. Also, she can sit down on a step just by lowering her bum, as we do, instead of crawling onto it and turning around once she sits on it.
Drawing is one of her favourite pastimes now. She keeps asking for 'daw' which means she wants to take the crayons to draw. In fact, she hangs onto the crayon and runs around, which V hates! She tests us by looking at us cheekily before she is about to do something she shouldn't. Then depending on what we say or don't say, she will come back to the drawing board or proceed to do the forbidden thing. By then, we would have to carry her back to the drawing board. Really, these children know how to test their boundaries!
Playing with her bff has been fun too. Summer means we have to stay in during the hottest periods of the day. It is cool seeing them play together. Now they know how to play 'catching'. Sherrie will run and turn to look at Freya and then freya will chase after her. The other day they had a collision at Sang Kee and then both fell on their bottoms. They had a short cry and proceeded to play together again. Oh yes, there was even a tackle! I think Freya took something from Sherrie and then Sherrie wanted it back.. since Sherrie is taller than her, she sort of climbed on her and they both fell to the ground. Twice. Freya knocked her head but she was more shocked than anything else. Sigh, Sherrie has to learn to be a bit gentler!!
Eating wise, she is quite good nowadays. She wants very much to feed herself, even rice! So she will pick up the little morsels and put them into her mouth. Surprisingly, she can eat up her normal portion by feeding herself with her hand. Sometimes she will say 'poon' for spoon and we will hand it to her. She will then feed herself, of course with our help. Of course, the best thing to feed is porridge cos it sticks to the spoon. Eating pasta is still a hot favourite and she still eats it with her hands.
She enjoys looking at her baby pictures and videos. She will laugh and smile to herself when she sees them. So much so that she prefers doign this to the lessons. Maybe we need to take a break from the lessons!! I also prefer the videos.. can't imagine how small and round she was then. And now we have a 80cm tall toddler!! :)
Oh yes, how could I forget? She can say mama and dada now and that's definitely referring to us. She can also say Ah ma, popo and gong gong. And when mom and dad were here, she could play with them almost as if there was no time gap between them. That's a relief, because i know mom will be able to take care of Sherrie like she did when we were back home! In fact, she had a huge laughing session with mom the other night and we had so much fun watching them.
Today, she said 'please da' for please thank you, when she wanted ice cream, without prompting. She must realllly love it because most of the time we have to ask her what she should say. I'm glad that at least she knows that it should be automatic.
Other things she enjoys:
1. Standing on the window sill
2. having a conversation before going to bed
3. 'talking' to Nari
4. kissing freya (when in the right mood)
5. Having buster thrown upon her
6. kicking the ball around
7. playing in her old car seat like a swing
8. climbing onto the coffee table
9. climbing stairs/picking stones at drexel gym area
10. Watching volleyball
toilet training has not been very smooth. for one, she now hates going to the bathroom unless we play a game like 'vroom vroom' and swoosh her to the seat, or let her draw/read while sitting on the potty. Sometimes she pees and poos in there but often there is no real sign! Sigh! it is harder than it looks!! Maybe she is just not ready. But we will persevere!! She has to be toilet trained before i go back to sg! can't imagine her changing diapers while in playgroup! Ugh!!
On our trip to Vermont and boston, she was very well behaved. she travelled well, for the most part and we took frequent breaks when she got restless. In fact, i think she travelled better than me. She enjoyed playing the open spaces and running around. In fact, it was there that she started to be more adventurous and walk on different surfaces with more confidence. She ate well too, but stuck to only a few varieties of food e.g. fried rice, fish and chips and pasta. At least we were lucky to have a few chinese restaurants to save us! On the trip she was exposed to the farm animals and from then on, she could say most of the names and make the sounds. It was really a great trip and i wish i could go again!!
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