13th Month Milestone

Physical growth

• weighs 8.8kg (as of last Friday)
• height 80cm (own measure)
• 8 teeth (4 top, 4 bottom) – suspect the vampire teeth coming out soon
• hair – growing long and no more spiky, but still people can ask if she’s a boy!!!
• feet – bigger than size 1, smaller than size 2 – her left foot bigger than right foot!!!

Eating habit

• breakfast – 5-6oz of milk
• brunch (10am) – some biscuit or a slice of wholemeal bread
• lunch – rice with soup, sometimes will have some fish or eggs
• tea time (2-3pm) – fruits maybe..her favourite is papaya still..other tea break food includes biscuit, ice cream, mash potato
• evening break (5-6pm) – 5-6oz milk
• dinner (8pm) – rice with soup, plus some dishes depends what maid is cooking, some fruits for dessert or yoghurt depends on availability
• surprisingly, she’s pretty well in chewing especially soft food, for those which she can’t chew and failed to swallow, she will spit out.
• just introduced her to noodles (meen seen, wan tan mee, hokkien mee) – she loves it too, but gotta cut them short short..or else she will show her yucky face..cause the noodles is stuck between the throat and mouth kekeke…
• in between her meals, she will also snack on whatever we eat in small portion
• she loves sharksfin soup, finished 2 whole bowl during CNY, guess she really knows what’s expensive food and what’s cheap food
• tasted beer, wine & whiskey too…no objection to that…seems like daddy gonna have new drinking companion

Social development
branded the friendly baby

• in the house – anyone that comes to our house to visit us, she will look at them and go near to them…after a while, she will try to play with them or take their watch, shake their hand and *hiau hiau* go very near to them, memang dunno how to malu this fella…
• out of the house – will sit still in the stroller unless she’s sleepy, then she wants mommy or daddy to carry.
• In hypermart, she will sit still in the trolley for 30mins, then she will attempt to stand up. Mommy tricked her by offering biscuits while we move to keep her busy eating kekeke
• When she visits other people’s house, she’s never shy to roam around freely (no eye see)…when people offers food and angpau, she accepts it happily as well
• In church, she joins Sunday school, where she keeps herself busy with the toys there and look at all the brother & sister playing…Mommy and Daddy not present and she’s OK 🙂

Speech development

• mumbles a lot of spanish which none of us understands
• some distinct words mumbling would be like mum mum, ohhh (show surprised), ooo (imitate dog)

Physical development

• walks faster and further now, sometimes looks as though she attempts to run
• attempts to walk on the bed
• can climb up and down the sofa & bed
• can climb up Mommy and Daddy’s office chair from the side..end up get smacking for doing such stunt 😛
• will climb into her feeding seat when we tell her mum mum, go sit down…
• points at things that she wants, if we don’t give her, she will whine for a while, but we just ignore then she gives up hehehe….
• recognises and differentiates people very fast – she can tell the difference within a jeh jeh, auntie, ko ko, uncle by looking at the different age people
• scared – she gets scared pretty easily….even if suddenly you appear from nowhere, she gets scared…she will run to u and show her crying face..ask you to hug her
• when she sees rubberband, hairband – she will attempt to put on the head showing us it’s for tying..or else she will force me to wear it!!!
• separation anxiety – sometimes it’s at peak, sometimes it’s non peak. She’s very happy leaving Mommy each morning when she goes to MIL’s house…waive bye bye happily. But at home, if she sees Mommy go upstairs, she will crocodile tears
• very anxious – she wants to touch n feel everything, but after touching n feeling, she will leave you in peace…she even attempt to touch the hot tea pot Daddy uses to brew tea, after touching, she realise it’s hot, she takes her fingers off and show us a grin 😛

Facial expression

• when see a dog – will show her mouth in an O shape and make oooo sound
• when disgusted – turns her face around and show yucks!!!…also refuse to open her mouth if we try to give her latex pacifier
• when we say pain – she will show her pitiful face, as though wanna cry
• when she doesn’t agree with us – she will grin at us and give a sigh
• if we use a toothpick to poke her (when she attempts to climb out from the high chair) – grin + disgusted look

Understanding adults
she understands pretty well what we ask her to do and what we do, starts to imitate what we do as well

• go take diaper – walk to the diaper storage rack and takes a diaper
• chui sam (take out clothes 4 bathing) – will attempt to pull her clothes up…and will tug her hands at the diaper, like a cowboy
• bom bom (bath) – very excitedly walks to the bathroom and points at her bath tub
• bom (fall down) – when we say this, she will stop, then look down, if she’s at the bed, she turns around, backside facing the edge of bed and get down
• kai kai – takes mommy’s handbag
• wear shoes – she will open the shoe rack, take out her shoes and bring to us….to make sure we don’t leave her behind when we go out 😛
• give xxx – she will take the thing and pass it to the person
• milk – will point to the place where we make milk
• hello (phone) – will go to the house phone (on the floor), then press the speaker button..when she hears the dialtone she’ll be happy 🙂
• comb hair – takes her comb or her hand and attempts to comb her hair
• ball – goes look for her ball in her toy box, pass to us and ask us to throw..she likes to play catching, she picks the ball, we throw the ball kekeke…
• bye bye – waives frantically…
• mou mou (bulu) – she will go to the pussy willow plant…
• daddy’s car – points at daddy’s car, but she doesn’t recognise Mommy’s car….arghhhh……
• dice – points at the dice hung in daddy’s car
• oi oi (sleep) – takes her pacifier, walk to the edge of the bed, lie her head down, pretend to sleep
• uncle scold – straight away she will stop doing what naughty thing she was doing, and then look around if uncle is there

Paed Visits

• Can say she’s very happy going to paed, listen to him and opens her mouth for him to check
• As for jabs, so far no problem, only whine a bit, next jab is MMR once she recovers from her cough..lets see how she acts