Great morning!

Mummy didn't need to cook, except for some macaroni to go with the leftover cabbage with chicken soup from yesterday. Though she did not eat much, just nibbled a bit of strawberry and a sip or two of soup with yolk, we watched 15 minutes of BabyTV and off we go. We walked Papa to the MRT station, and sat on the koala bear ride on the way out. Papa let go twice, and I think it was just nice because she wanted out by the time the second ride ended.

After that, we went to KFC for chilled milo and had a bit of A.M. Twister there. An old man, really old and wrinkled and bent, sat beside us, greeting Ning with hand. Ning slowly got up and climbed onto Mummy. The old man exclaimed in Hokkien, what little courage she had. In my heart, I thought, that Ning was a smart girl, she knows when to be careful i.e. a stranger that's too friendly.

After that, we went into Guardian to window shop. She picked a few items, and Mummy put back a few items. All in all, it was pretty smooth.

Then we went up to the food court because she wanted to go up the escalator. That's when another stranger said heatedly that I would break her arms if I did not hold her from the underarms (instead of her hands). I thought that that was amusing, a bit on the rude side, but amusing none-the-less.

We went around looking at the foods on display, she wasn't that interested because she couldn't touch them.

And then, we reached a little ramp. We walked down the ramp and suddenly it was like a light bulb lit up in her head. She pulled me up, then she walked down again, walked up, then down, and walk backwards up the ramp and then backwards down the ramp. Well, Mummy was as delighted as she was that she found something so simple so amusing and fun. However, the passersby were not as delighted. Mostly concerned I'd let her walk into someone holding something hot I guess. So, Mummy told Ning we could go to another ramp.

When we reached the other ramp, she ran up and down a few times, then got distracted. She climbed 16 steps all by herself, holding the handrail. We walked home. Half way home, she wanted "up", so Mummy carried her. Then she said, "head" and tapped on Mummy's head. So Mummy praised her, "very good, head". She kept at it and nodded a few times before Mummy realized, she wants to "sit on Mummy's head", she was waving arms and feet when Mummy guessed right and put her up on Mummy's shoulder. She waved at a couple of ladies passing by smiling happily away, and those ladies were also laughing and waving back.

We got home, had a bit of red bean soup, showered together, and she slept after suckling for 10 minutes.

What a great morning!

Imaginative play?

She's been 'feeding' her soft toys, mostly teddy bears and other animals, whatever she eats since we returned from Chinese New Year in Malaysia. I think that's when she was about 14 or 15 months. It'd be really cute, she'd be gulping down her Yakult from the straw, when suddenly, she'd try to feed the ballerina on her shirt through the straw.

This week, when we were thumbing through the Dora the Explorer books, and saw a cake with candles on it, I said "cake", then she "scratched" the cake, brought her hand to her mouth, and make "um yam um" noises! She's pretending to eat the cake! She would also bring the Baby Pooh, sit her up, then tilt her so she falls down, and say "uh oh". Then see what Mummy does, which was to pick it up, kiss her head with a loud "muacks".

After that, I'd see her put her head to the floor carefully, buttocks high in the air, then lie down and say "uh oh". Then she'd stand up and tap her head, and say "uh oh", bringing Mummy on to kiss her head. Funny girl.

On a sadder note, yesterday, I was very tired, body aching all over and didn't have enough sleep. I just wanted to sleep, but she kept coming for me. She cried loudly when I try to sleep in the bedroom and closed the door so she couldn't get out. Then I tried to let her watch BabyTV by herself while I slept on the couch, but she kept coming to me for milk. Serves Mummy right for sleeping past mid night the day before. The worse, is yet to come, I shouted at her when she pushed the bowl of soup and it spilt on my leg and floor. Mummy is so regretful. Slept at 10pm last night to make sure Mummy gets enough sleep.

Hope today will be better.

Cat! Bat! Apple! While lifting flaps from Dora's Halloween book!

I used to say them to her, whenever she lifted the flaps.

Now, she says them as she opens the flaps!

Mummy's elated!

Just not my day...

Ning wouldn't eat most of the foods I cooked from morning.

The only thing she'd eat was the broccoli, after which, she spew the florets all over the chair and floor.

While I was picking up the broccoli from under her high chair, she passed urine, which leaked through the holes for the seat belt and got my hair and face wet.

I was too tired to be angry or cry.

The broccoli was oily, because I cooked it after the soup was ready, so the floor was oily too.

Strapped her in her high chair, turned on BabyTV and mopped the whole house.

Later, she wouldn't pee during her 1.5 hr toilet break, ended up peeing on the alphabet mat.

Wipe again.

Cranky at 4pm, nursed her in the bed room. Rough housed her in bed and she finally had a nap from 5pm to 5:45pm.

Mummy's so sleepy. Mummy's going to sleep latest by 10pm tonight.

Good night, Lougong.

2 more (total 16 or 20) teeth @ 16 months!

The lower left pre-molars and canine's sprouted!

It was a painful discovery as she started gnawing at my nipple when she slept the night before. I dug my fingers in between her jaws and found the buds at the lower left corner.

Sigh, hope she doesn't do this too often.

Very VERY painful.

Oh, and she says (pain)ful. Repeats the last syllable. Sigh, still in the mood to learn when Mummy was wincing away. Hmm, Mummy still in the mood to teach while in pain :P

Four more molars to go, one in each corner and we're done teething until year 5!!!

Baby, (mon)key, (rab)bit, (brocco)li, belt, jeans...

...bus, head, hair, tounge, soup, dog, cat, (cotton) buds, eyes, ice, (ee)ear, hat, jaw, toes, shoes, socks, boots, owl, (s)tick... The brackets are the syllables or sounds she'd leave out.

Can't remember all of them, but she's adopting the last syllable of multi-syllable words. It was so cute, she kept pointing at rabbit and say 'bit'!!! Some she's been saying for quite some time already, Mummy just haven't remembered it when Mummy blogged.

And she likes "uh oh", whenever bear topples over. Then she'd pick him up and kiss him on the nose.

She blew when she saw bubbles on television, and says "ball".

She'd follow Mummy's tunes more accurately now when Mummy sings, sometimes chiming in a word or two. Love the gal :)

Favourite game, hide and show!

She's got a favourite game for some time now, since I cannot remember when.

She'd use her hand to hide a picture or object, then she'd sign "where", both hands with palms facing up, and make the "where", "eh?" sounds, sometimes with the name of the thing she 'hid'. Then she'd bring it out, or remove her hand from the picture and say, "there"!

Hee hee, Mummy did that with the little mouse in "Goodnight moon" by Margaret Wise Brown. Think she picked it up from there.

Very easy game to replicate everywhere!!!

Jaw!!! E!

Ning's saying lots of words super fast, til Mummy has trouble catching up. Sometimes it frustrates her that Mummy can't figure out what she's pointing at and saying. In the meantime, I'm just pointing to other things and saying their names, hoping one of them matched what she was trying to say.

Just now, she traced my chin to my jaw, I said "chin", then she unlatched and corrected me, "jaw"! So confident she's right!

And something else surprised me, she pointed at the letter "e" on her shirt and said "e"! Her shirt's got "Girls love Summer FUN!" on it! And she pointed on the "e" on "love". I almost couldn't believe it was on purpose! She smiled knowingly. 

I haven't been teaching her alphabets for sometime already since she no longer tears the alphabet mat to chew.

Gotta catch up with her pace before she gets bored!

Bye bye, tissue!

We went again in the afternoon, first for tea time buffet at Hei Sushi, then to Daiso and finally to the Splash Park!

This time, we ordered almost the whole range of $2.18 sushi from the menu. Sigh, we should've looked closely when we went with Kakak and Abang the day before. We ended up eating more than 20 plates, between the two of us. Ning tried the Salmon Kakiage and fried lotus root all by herself. She asked for the edamame when Mummy said "peas", but spit it out immediately. I think it's because it's cold, unlike the frozen peas that I used for the fried rice the last week.

Ning did this funny thing. She kept touching the top covers of the sushi plates passing by on the conveyor belt. If I say what they were, she'd not touch them, just watch. Then suddenly, she said "bye bye" and waved at the belt. Mummy thought she was waving at some one passing by outside. Then I saw the wet wipes was missing. It was on the conveyor belt! She put it there and said "bye bye"!

Mummy quickly grabbed it before it went to the next seated table :P

It was so funny! We had fun repeating this, returning the wet wipes to her, then let her put it on the belt and say "bye bye"!

The waiter was so worried she'd mishandle the plates of food passing by on the belt too. One watched us like a hawk, very stern. Thank goodness Ning was only interested in the wet wipes / tissue. 

After the heavy "tea break", we went to the Splash Park and got wet, not really wet. No Kakak, no shower! She wasn't so adventurous, Mummy too. However, she did point to the shower excitedly and said a lot of words excitedly with "kakak"s in between. So, Kakak, Ning was thinking about you and the shower ;)

Round and round, spinning Ning

Mummy noticed Ning doing back ups and turning around lately. She really likes spinning around a spot.

When Mummy sang the "Tum tum chuin" song, she'd get up and do it some more. She said, "Spin! Spin!", laughs and spins!

Lovely! Maybe we'll watch a yoga or dance DVD together and see what she does *grin*.

A great day @ SSC!

Today is a great day!

We went out to Sembawang Shopping Centre with Kakak Nana and Abang Fariz. First we had Hei Sushi, the lunch buffet. The waiter ordered the Youth Buffets for both of them. I said, both were not even 13 yet, that's a compliment to Nana, Fariz and their parents :P

I think it was the first time Nana and Fariz had buffet. The uninitiated "buffetnistas".

So, we took the salmon gunkan, laid the salmon on the soy sauce with wasabe mixture, laid it back on the rice, and ate them. Sweet! Then we had the soft shell crab roll, and crab gunkan, crab stick (Fariz's favourite), complimentary udon, the chawanmushi, cola, mango juice, California temaki, and a lot more. Ning had some udon with soup, a bit of rice from all the stuff I put on her plate, and almost a whole gunkan with cucumber!

After that, we went to toilet before going shopping! Daiso, Comics Connection, Popular and then to TimeZone for Fariz's Animal Kaiser game! Then, it was time for the Splash Park!!!

Only Nana came prepared with spare clothes, besides Ning and myself of course. We were shy of the water features at first, Ning was even apprehensive, until Kakak's excitement and enthusiasm finally rubbed off her! Nana brought her through the "shower curtains" twice, and then she was hooked. She kept sweeping water off her face, but when I asked her if she liked going thru the "shower" with Kakak, she nodded! So off we went again :) From then onwards, she was on adrenaline! Like Kakak. She was saying a lot of things, mostly interspersed with Kakak, loudly, excitedly and VERY quickly!

After an adrenaline rush of half an hour, we changed out of the wet clothes after a quick shower (open). Then off we went to Giant, Kakak for some buns, Mummy bought a nice broccoli, and then back to Daiso. When we went out, it was almost 5pm, and there were shuttle buses waiting, so we took the shuttle back to Sembawang MRT, and the bus from Admiralty back home. Ning fell asleep the moment we were seated in the bus, all the way until we got back into the lift at our block. She was just exhausted. We all were, but I think, at least Ning and I were on a high from the day's happy events.

How about Kakak and Abang?

Ning's daily food intake...

Today, we've made "big" progress on the eating front.

She's still relying largely Mummy's breast milk for nutrition, but after a weekend of planning and 3 consecutive days of a persistently cooking and feeding Mummy, she's managed to eat:

5 whole pieces of fusilli (self fed with spoon, 2 assisted)
A few bites off a broccoli floret (previously pureed)
About100 ml of Milo
About100 ml of Ribena
About 3/4 cube of Laughing Cow's plain cheese cube
2 sides (the brown parts) of a piece of bread
A few cashew nuts and raisins
A few spoonfuls of yoghurt (mostly self fed, Mummy scooping, she puts spoon in mouth)
Half a bowl of soup with egg yolk
1 tiny bite of avocado
Few bites of half an apple

Hmm, I think that's about it.

She's managed to poo without diffculty that Mummy didn't even know when she was done, until she got up and I saw the big pile. Apparently, the dragon fruit consumed the previous afternoon helped. It's travelled out already :)

Papa's a BIG help too, coming home by 7:30pm to have dinner together! Thanks, Lougong!

Will persevere!

Teeth ("teef"), Hair ("heh"), Eye ("ah!"), Toe, Cheese ("cheez")

She's pointing to more body parts and asking for names. She said teeth after popping off the breast! She was sucking midway and pointing at Mummy's face and other body parts.

Mummy names them for her, and she's getting more specific. She'd point to the jaw, then to the temple.  Sometimes she'd point to a few spots of the same part, just to check if the name changes.

Clever girl!

She drew a ball

And said ball!

After Note: She drew the other lines after the ball, defined as a circular/rounded line that connects to itself. It's not perfect, but hey, she's just 1!!!

6 new teeth sprouted @ 15 months!

Mummy was quite surprised to find two additional tooth on top, making it 8 on top, and 6 at the bottom!
 
No wonder she was so cranky after the Chinese New Year trip :)
 
That makes a total of 14 teeth @ 15 months! Only 6 more to go (and no more teething pains, at least for a couple of years) for now!

Identified: The Rhino Song (from Youtube)

Mummy identified another song this morning!
 
She was signing song, with the "Itsy bitsy spider" action, swinging her arms side to side, because Mummy does it when she sings the "Incy Wincy Spider" song from youtube.
 
This morning, lying on the bed, she made a song request, action, then she "sang" to the tune of The Rhino Song!
 
The words were supposed to be,
"Mr Rhino,
Everybody knows,
You've got one tail, four feet, twelve toes!"
 
The tune and rhythm, was almost perfect, just need to fill in with words ;)
 
I'm gonna have to learn more interesting songs to our little song bird :)