29th Month Old [2Y5M] (Part 2 of 2)

Learning and Speech

♥ Still not talking much (but trying to) apart from some short sentences which forms maximum 3 words mostly. But I think it’s a great achievement as compare to previously and would sometimes surprise us with a long sentence. I think she is just very lazy to talk :(

♥ She speaks mandarin. But somehow she sounds really sounds like an ‘ang-moh’ talking mandarin and that is so funny ^_^! Maybe the reason was that the first language that we teach her was English and all the cartoons that she watched is all in English but we do speak to her in mandarin at home. We will try to expose her to more Chinese Vocabulary and also 三字经, mandarin children songs, etc in the future to polish up her pronunciation.

♥ Everyday after waking up from bed, she would never fail to say this same old phrase “妈咪 抱抱Angel Please ~~” (Mommy please carry Angel out.)in order to come out from her crib! It is trained by Angel’s grandma and seems like she is very good in making Angel speaks :P

♥ She can name us all!!!! Finally she is able to say out everyone’s name in our family. Sometimes she would even call us by our name too @_@ There was once when she saw me coming back and she shouted at me at the gate “K~LO~LINE~~~!!!!” @_@

♥ She is able to recite Monday to Sunday and also January to December. *Will post the video soon if possible * ^_^

♥ Her favourite phrase is - asking us to ‘look’! Everyday I would hear her telling us, “妈咪, 看这边!” … “Ah-Ma, 看这边!” (Mommy look here! Ah-Ma look here!) showing us the drawings she did or asking us to watch her favourite cartoon on the television. Or sometimes she would call to us and say, “Mommy, Come-on!!”, “Mommy, Make that!!”, “Mommy, Take this ah!!” etc.

♥ Can read quite well. She is able to relate those in the books with those objects that were around her. She even will point out what is an Island and tell us just that when we drive pass the harbour. But her reading is still constrain to picture books only and no luck on reading words still. I have tried teaching her with words but I guess she is not ready yet as she would still pronounce all the alphabets to me instead of reading them in words *scratching head*

♥ Can read out loud 11 – 50 in English (skipping the 16 >"<), and 100. Still working on teaching her to recognize the numbers as related to those she reads.

♥ Able to count simple maths. She is able to count out the objects that she saw and then pointed out the correct numbering on the page. Sometimes she would asked herself, "How many flags? 1, 2, 3! 3 Flags!" So far she only loves to count flags ^_^

♥ Learning great in Opposites. She is able to identify a lot of opposite terms and use it in her daily life including clean from dirty, fat from thin, and even heavy and light, etc.

♥ She can identify right from wrong. For example when we told her that the red traffic light is green in colour, she would tell us “No~~! This red!” (yes, she would use ‘This’ then ‘Red’ without the ‘is’ :P”


Likes and Dislikes

♥ Starts loosing some interest in Barney (still watch it), Not sure whether she still loves Mr. Bean.

♥ Refuse to watch Thomas and Friends. She finds Thomas cartoons quite horrifying these days :( :( Luckily she still loves her Thomas Train toys *phew*

♥ New found love ---->>>>

- Mickey Mouse Club House (Angel super duper love it!!!!!!!!!!) I think she is crazy about it and can even name most of the character in it such as Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Donald Duck, Daisy, Goofy, Pete, Pluto, etc. When she is watching this, never ever talk to her coz she won't hear you at all LoL

- Little Einstein (she is so into this lately!!)

♥ Guess which Character in Mickey Mouse Club House that she adores? PLUTO!! @_@ (Pluto is Mickey’s pet dog who is yellow in colour).

♥ A fans of MANGOES!! She is totally fallen in love with the fruits. She has not been asking for her favourite bananas as normally does anymore but instead, she would asked for mangoes and can’t stop looking at the mango tree at our backyard.

♥ Hates medicine and even Woodward’s Gripe Water! The only supplement that she loves so far is the one and only Scoot’s Emulsion Original Flavour!

♥ She loves to blow bubbles. She would noticed the bubbles on the supermarket and tell me she wants them @_@

♥ She loves to fly. Whenever I asked her whether she wants to board the airplane again, she would always answer me with a firm “yes!” :P :P And also she insisted to have her own hand luggage at this age and would take care of her own trolley bag all the way till we reached home ^_^ Of course she would still left her luggage once she saw something interested her then few minutes later only asked me to find her luggage back for her (>"<).

♥ Going Kai Kai is her all time favourite! Now she even refuse to get down from the car once we reached home @_@

29th Month Old [2Y5M] (Part 1 of 2)

She is still a very active little kid running and jumping all the time, weighing approximately at 13.6 kg and Height = didn’t take any measurement. And just when I thought that the terrible 2 stages has started where she would throw tantrums everyday while I have run to the bookstore to get more books on parenting, she somehow suddenly stop showing all her bad temper and back to her old self again ….. so I take it as a good sign? ^_^

Act and Behaviour

♥ She is extremely loving and caring! When she saw us being sad, she would be very concerned and would go forward and kiss us in order to make us smile again. She loves the word “Happy” and when she heard that one of us is “sad”, she would quickly approach us making a funny face or making funny action (making herself shivering with all her strength) in order to put a smile back onto our face saying “Happy!”. Even when she saw a baby, she would asked for our permission to touch him/her and then stroke the baby gently on the face and smile happily :) When I asked her to hit daddy (while playing), she would refused instantly and say “No! Don’t want! 不要!” firmly while shaking her head, frown her eye brow making a dilemma look *sweet*

♥ Start to have fear of “Thunder”! When she heard a thunder during the rainy days, she would run so quickly sometimes even shivers, jumping towards me shoving her face at my chest telling me “怕怕!! 怕怕!!” (afraid!).

♥ Start keeping her promise. For example we told her that she has to take her nap after finish watching 1 episode of her favourite cartoon, she did just that without making any more fuss! ^_^

♥ Will not eat the food when we say ‘No!’ to her. When she knows that she couldn’t have them, she would pointing at them and told us, “辣辣!” (Spicy) *laugh*

♥ Started to realize what is smelly! And she would cover her nose with one hand and mouth with the other, standing at the far corner of the bathroom face sticking to the wall, peeping us cleaning up her poo poo and cry for us to take her soiled diapers away coz it’s so smelly *rolled eyes* There was once she stick her face near her grandma’s chest then suddenly she turn to her grandma and told her “Ehhhh ….. 臭臭! *LOL*

♥ Calling “Mommy~~~” or “Ah-Ma ~~~” (grandma) a thousand times in a day still. Whenever she needs us, she need something or even when she feels boring ….. ^_^ I still enjoy hearing her calling mommy all the time ^_^

♥ Not afraid of the sand and the sea anymore. Last time she use to be afraid of the feeling of standing on the sandy beach bare footed or even watching the waves splashing near her but not anymore! So I guess she starts to enjoy digging sand at the beach now! ^_^

♥ Likes to play “monster”! She would cover her entire self with a blanket and then walk towards us lowering her voice raising both her hands up wanted to catch us, saying “Monster ~~~!!! Monster ~~~!!!” LoL Sometimes my clumsy little girl will knock onto the cupboard walking blindly inside the blanket but still wanted to do this trick all the time, sigh!

♥ She is a little vain pot! That day I bought her a set of accessories with the necklace, rings, etc. I didn’t expect her to wear it and then suddenly give me this brightest smile of hers and even moving her body left and right in delights showing how excited she was being accessorized!!

♥ Talk softly to Mommy. I find that she would use her very soft voice when talking to me / calling me as if afraid that she would give me a shockl, hahahaha! When she talks to the rest of the family members, she would use her normal tone and sometimes would even shouted for them. I didn’t realized that until one day Angel’s grandma asked me how come she speak so differently when she is with me. (just in case you are wondering, nope, I am not a soft speaker myself :P)

♥ Likes to mimic whatever we are doing. There was once in the restaurant, a kid was sitting on his daddy’s lap playing with his daddy, this little girl of us saw it and insisted to sit on my lap, eyes glued to the father-and-son and basically did whatever the kid is doing to her daddy (i.e. the boy lie on his daddy’s chest and she follows, the boy poke his daddy’s eyes and she follows, the boy laugh and she laugh too, etc) while asking me to do the same as well ^_^ I was laughing uncontrollably when I saw what she did that day :P :P

♥ Loves jumping on the bed!! She would jump on the bed while saying “跳! 跳! 跳! 跳! 跳! 跳! (Jump! Jump! Jump!)” then suddenly let herself fall free sitting down on the bed and normally the bed would bounced back where she nearly bounced off the bed onto the floor each time! That really makes me almost have a heart attach watching her does that! @_@

Feedings & Sleeping

♥ Having 9 oz of formula 3 times per day. Meal time twice and no tea break at grandma’s.

♥ Still very much a bread lover. But she tends to get tummy discomfort when she eats bread everyday :(

♥ She loves Baby Bean Sprouts (豆苗)!! Finally we found the 1 and only veggie that she is willing to eat!

♥ Still loves porridge as much as rice. Now she is taking rice more then porridge and would be eating whatever the family is having for lunch but all dish will be lightly rinsed with warm water in order to get rid of some access oil and salt in our adult food before giving it to her.

♥ She would normally goes to bed way pass midnight and waking up around 11am in these days, just like her mommy :P :P

Angel 的 (Angel’s).

She is very particular about which belongs to whose lately. Everyday, we would find her telling and distinguishing while pointing at whatever it is in front of her, whether it’s a plate of rice, books, clothing, bottles or even toys, etc.

A: This Ah-Ma 的 (grandma’s)! This Mommy 的 (mommy’s)! This Kung Kung 的 (grandpa’s)!

And her favourite phrase is non other then

A: This Angel 的 (Angel’s)!

Normally those that she distinguished as not belong to hers, she wouldn’t dare to touch them and she understands that they don’t belong to her. For those that she marked as “this is Angel 的 (Angel’s)”, she would claim full authority against them and whenever she picked them up, she would tell us again this belongs to hers and do whatever she likes with them and we cannot say a word :P :P

Of course when it comes to things that is not hers, she sometimes insisted that it is hers and would be crying until we agree that it belongs to her :) So when we refused to let her play with her toy some of the time, she would tell us loudly that it is hers meaning we cannot forbidden her to play with it (>”<). The other day she was holding 3 lollipop and we asked her whose lollipop is that, she divided them one by one but there is 4 of us, and at that point she really got into such a dilemma that the lollipop is not enough for 4 of us but still, insisted that one of the lollipop must belong to her. We joked with her that it is not enough for all of us, she cry out so loudly telling us that “This Angel 的 (Angel’s)!” and running away with all the lollipop in her hands.

I think this would be a right time to expose her to the idea of ‘sharing’ things with others. Normally I would sweet talk to her but still sometimes she would share them but most of the time, she still insist to keep them. I would love her to share things if she really wanted but not turning her into this little person who would give everything out just to please others. Any good ideas on how to teach young toddlers to share??? Mind to share??

Zen*tel

Lately Angel kept pointing at her anus and fuss while saying “Mommy make!! Mommy make!!” asking me to take away what ever is bugging her there! We took off her diapers and saw nothing but she would keep pointing there and asked me to “make”! We never think of de-wormed Angel until she really shows sign of discomfort on and off. Furthermore, Angel’s grandma suspected that the worm might be coming from the mangoes that she took everyday …… eeeeuuuwww!!!! That’s grossed!!! So I have decided to resort to Zen*tel once and for all for the very first time.

Of course our little Angel struggled when she saw the syrup and cover her mouth with both hands while running away and crying at the same time refusing to even come anywhere near to the spoons. Actually it taste sweet and nice just like those sugary syrup which is white in colour. Once we pour it into her mouth, she would push them all out with her toungue but finally, we manage to suspend 3/4 of the syrup into her mouth while the remaining 1/4 was spilled all over the floor.

We checked her poo poo the following days but really couldn’t seems to find any sign that there is any ‘wiggly looking thing’ there too ……. Ohhhhhhh, so smelly while Angel herself was covering her own nose and mouth standing far far away watching us doing our job *LoL* I can’t believe that we actually examine her poo poo that way as I am having this phobia about looking or touching bb’s poo poo before I am married. But I guess after a few times of Angel puking milk on me and having to wash her bottom everyday, everything grossed from our little ones seems to be not so ‘horrifying’ anymore "at that point" as long as our little one is staying happy and healthy :)
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p/s: pls seek medical advices from your health professionals before feeding your babies with any form of medication.

Roof Tumbling Down

No no! It’s not that we are having earth quake or typhoon here but that’s how the situation at home at the moment when Angel’s ‘Terrible 2’ symptoms starts to kick in lately. I can hear Angel’s grandma raising her voice more and more everyday until the whole neighborhood could hear her voice (as she herself put it :P :P) while at the same time Angel was screaming on the top of her voice crying and fighting back in order to get what she wants. She has been such a sweet-sweet girl for the past few weeks then suddenly, she starts throwing tantrums very often and making these fake weeping which eventually turned into a real cry! Or worst she would scream-crying on the top of her voice to the point that her face turning red just because someone clean away her plate of rice that she has left behind for hours, or she wants to blow bubbles inside the shopping malls but we told her to wait instead, or she insisted to hold her plate of rice and walk with it then suddenly the rice tipped over and all spilled on the floor :( Distracting her attention seems to getting tougher as she could recalled quite well what she was ‘fighting’ for and doesn’t seems to be easily distracted by other stuffs as previously would! She wants it means she wants it now and it can last for a good 10 – 15 minutes while she will still be crying terribly for that particular things that she wants.

Sometimes she would called us and before she could get a responses, she would hit us hard in frustration then only realized what she did and then cry out loud in frightening, frustration and feeling sorry all at the same time. Sometimes out of a sudden, she would whipped for no reason (or reason that we couldn’t identify) and try seeking for our attention and if we do not attended to her immediately, she would be screaming at a horrible voice as if she wanted to scream out loud in anger but still controlling her frustration by lowering her voice. When we asked her what happened she would gave us her pity look while pounding on the floor as if she is feeling mad but don’t know how to express herself.

From my observation, she is certainly entering into the terrible 2 stage where a lot of if not all kids her age are going through at the moment. They wanted to do things following their way and their will but yet, they have been constrains with their limited abilities and also the massive DOs and DON’Ts for some reason that they might not want to accept the fact that things are doing it that way. Their world are still evolved in the “individualistic” stage but the true fact is, it’s not and it’s still too hard for them to actually understand. Hence most of the time, they would meltdown in response to frustration and resulted in a crying and angry kid in the making. Any cure for that? At the moment, I find giving her a big loving hug and stroking her head telling her everything was OK and then trying to reason with her after she has calm down seems to work better on her. Of course apart from that, mommy also trying to take a few more then a few deep breathe in order to control the blood pressure :P Any other better ‘magic tricks’ to all mommies who have been through this before???

On the other hand, Angel’s grandma seems to think that this naughty little girl bad behavour simply due to a lack of few good ‘lessons’ already and need a good ‘yelling’ in order to teach her to behave!!! She even said that she would have heart attack soon if there were another Angel no. 2 for her to take care. *laugh* Oh well, I can’t deny that her yell-scolding works wonders some times too (and she totally belief in that) but like I have said, the roof might be tumbling down soon from the yelling and crying in the house lately.

Angel, Angel, when can you be less naughty + fuss lesser and be a happy smiling little Angel again????