January 27, 2008

  • 1.5 Years Old!

    Dear Kristen,

    You're one and a half years old today! Whee!

    Here's some little pointers about yourself as of today.

    • You're about 85cm tall and weigh 11.6kg!
    • You have 8 teeth. Four at the top, four at the bottom.
    • You have gotten about 4 hair cuts. 3 done at a shop and once at home... (not including trimmings of bangs)
    • You're able to sort shapes, like circles, squares, triangles and heart shapes
    • New words in your vocab include:
      • "Spider" (Pie-dah) when we point at the spider in the "Incy Wincy Spider" book
      • "Panda" (Pan-dah) when you're holding your WWF panda
      • "Blast-off" (bah-toh) when we take you out of the bath: "5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1, BLAST-OFF!"
      • "Moon" (Moooo) when you see the moon, after which you usually start saying star
      • "Bird" (Buhh) when you see a bird
      • "Please" (muhh) This comes out really strange... But it's what you always say when we ask you to say please.
      • "Duck" (dahh) when you see a duck of course
      • "Cho-Cho" (che-che) when we ask you to call Chocho, your great grand mother!
      • "Mouse" (muhh) when you see a mouse... or Mickey Mouse. You dance the Mickey Mouse way of dancing too when you see Mickey Mouse! You love Mickey Mouse... obsessed really.
      • Auntie Belle says you can say your name... Mummy has not heard it yet!
    • You're also able to sign according to the Baby Signing Times, actions for "baby", "eat", "ball", "hat", "shoes", "sorry"... But for things like sorry and eat... I think you still don't get the idea that they actually mean something... hmm.
    • You currently have 4 pairs of shoes that you are using. A black patent pair of mary janes, a brown leather pair with colourful polka dots, a bright pink and green sandal, and a white-pink-and-green sandal.
    • Mummy now buys clothes for you that are "Size 2"... Especially for the skirts.. You have a two year old's tummy.
    • You are still enrolled in My Gym at Parkway. But... Mummy is considering Kindermusik too... But.... Mummy does not want to enrol you into more than one class at this point.
    • You have learnt how to do the "Gong Xi" action. But you don't like to do it if you're too pressured or for people you're not familiar with.
    • You can show wear your neck is. You do a strangling motion.. It's really funny. Altogether, you know your hair, head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, chin, cheeks, fingers, hands, toes.
    • You have gotten your first yucky facial scar. A big abrasion mark at your nose. Mummy will post pictures soon. Hope it cures by the Chinese New Year..
    • Your favourite characters at the moment are Mickey Mouse and Elmo. You don't get to watch much TV other than the weekends because we're subscribed to Disney Playhouse at Grandma's place. On weekdays, you get the DVDs like Baby Einstein, Baby Faith, Baby Signing Times, Elmo's World and some Sesame Street VCDs you received as gifts.

    That's all Mummy can think of for now!

    Love,      
    Mummy