New Kid On The Blog

I think I'll just quickly do an update on the girl before she turns 13 months old. Time really flies and I have difficulty catching up with it. My mother once said that time flies when you're happy. It shows that you're happy and I think she's quite right. :-)

Emily is now a fairly independent baby. She can walk very well, even run. I can see that she's and active and agile baby. She'll probably do well in gym and outdoor activities. She likes to climb and she's very quick too. I just turned my back for a few seconds and she had climbed onto the bed. She can now climb on to our bed, the couch, the stairs and any stools in the house with great ease. She never listens to 'no' and doesn't even acknowledge me saying it. With Dom, he at least would cry when I said 'no' and stopped whatever he was doing. With Em, she ignored me, climbed on to the stool, stood upright and clapped her hands! This morning, I said no don't walk out to the car porch (because she wasn't wearing shoes) and she went round the pillar, poked her head out and said "chak!" (playing peekaboo). Haha!

Her favourite game is peekaboo - her gor-gor hiding behind the curtains and coming out to surprise her, or just hiding behind the door. She likes to put a handkerchief over her head, pull it down and say "chak!". She has other favourite games too. She laughs the most when Dom plays "catch you" with her, i.e. Dom crawling towards her saying "catch you, catch you, catch you" and she would run away from him laughing hysterically. Another of her favourite games is putting the cap or lid on to its container. She can spend 10-15 minutes doing this over and over again. Each time she succeeded, she would clap her hands.

I'm beginning to see the starting signs of tantrums. One classic act is that she lies down on the floor when she's unhappy (while crying, of course). That's about it. No major tantrums just yet.

While Dom was obedient and compliant, Em is another story. At feeding times, she refused to be fed. I used to let her hold on to something that she can nibble while I fed her but even that doesn't work anymore. Now she refused to be fed at all and insisted on feeding herself. She now eats her meals using her fingers, picking up pieces of vegetables, meat and rice. I tried giving her a spoon but she just played with it and flung food all over the place. But she also managed to feed herself with the spoon once or twice. She picked up the food using her fingers, put it on the spoon and then brought the spoon to her mouth. I was very impressed with that, but she didn't manage to do it consistently. At this age, she is already picking her food, i.e. being choosy. I find that she likes vegetables, or maybe she just picks them because they're colourful (green and orange). She doesn't like eggs. I've tried hard boiled, omelette, sunny side up, scrambled and steamed (as in like custard). She only ate the steamed ones.

She likes to imitate stuffs that we do, such as wiping the floor with a piece of cloth, blowing on hot food to cool it down, combing our hair, etc. Just last night, when we were about to take a shower, Dom went to the top of the stairs and yelled, "Daddy! Can you switch on the pump?" (our water pump switch is located downstairs). A few seconds later, I saw Emily walking out to the top of the stairs (naked) and shouted ... I don't know what she shouted but I'm sure she was trying to say whatever Dom just said. Haha!

Emily likes dancing and singing. She's quite good at shaking her bum bum to the music and nodding her head up and down to the beat. She would also try to sing but all she did was just "ehhh ... ohhh .... ahhh ...". She's still not very good with speech. Her only intelligible "words" are "yeh-yeh". Others are bah-bah and occasionally ma-ma. I think I've said some of these in my other post, I can't remember, but never mind, I'll say it again. :-)

On another note, Dom had his first ever school concert and oh, how I loved to see him dance and groove. :-) Will upload the videos as soon as I get them to a reasonable size to be uploaded.