21 months old Faythe

Faythe turned 21 months on 6th Oct (sameday as Mooncake Festival :P). I’ve noticed that over the last month, she’s grown up so much.

Vital Stats:
Height: 82cm still….
Weight: Last measured was 10.2, but I can feel that she’s much more heavier now!!
Teeth: Short of 6 more to her complete set

Eating routine:
2 times milk
2 times rice with soup, meat & veg
Many many times of snacks…
1 time vitamin & Cod liver Oil

I notice that everytime after recovering from sick, she goes into eating spree…luckily she doesn’t change to a picky eater, phewww…

She’s also very interested to try out new food, whenever we eat she must make sure she gets a taste of it unless we tell her there’s chilli!!

Development

Striking conversation
I can now strike some simple conversation with her. She still speaks only a word of two. Sometimes she attempts to combine them, but have not learnt the usage of AND, OR, etc.

Patience
She hasn’t been really patient when she was 18-20 months, but I can slowly see this evolving on her lately. She understands the meaning of patient and wait. Sometimes she gets too excited over something and can’t wait, but when Mommy tells her to be patient and try to talk to her, she will listen up and tries to understand.

Friendly
This is nothing new to her, she’s always a friendly toddler, now she will even say Hello and wave her hand when I tell her to greet people. She can also distinguish uncle, auntie, kor kor, jie jie, kakak. But she still gets mix up when she sees baby, she thinks that all babies are di di kekeke…

Sleeping
Only sleeps once a day, 2-3 hours. She had a funny sleeping habit few weeks ago, she attempt to sleep while sitting!! YES, resulted like a humty dumpty about to fall off..You can watch the video HERE and have a good laugh. She’s over with that, now she likes to watch TV then slowly doze off. This usually happens during daytime, night still very much the normal routine: READ-PRAY-KISS PARENTS-SLEEP.

Chatty
She talks a lot and almost speaking 3 syllabus. Her 3 syllabus one of it is butterfly..but nobody can tell what she’s saying except Mommy. She calls butterfly abat ta oo . She calls herself as Paythe (Faythe) sometimes. Sometimes she will call herself Boo (girl in Monster Inc.). *I think she’s watching too much cartoon liao!!*

Words
She pickup words extremely fast. Whenever we speak, she will repeat our last word!! OR she will pick up a few words along the line. She has no problem with pronouncing her words except F. It becomes P. So Faythe becomes Paythe, friend becomes prend. But she can pronounce Fly though.

Long-winded
Sometimes she’s very long winded. She keeps repeating the words again and again until Mommy has to say Yes, Faythe, correct. Then only she will be satisfied. I guess it’s part of growing up that she wanna make sure she’s speaking correctly and wants Mommy to say YES.

No-no-no
She has learned the word NO. Hasn’t use it on herself yet *Sweats*. She uses it on di di. When she sees di di puts his hand into the mouth, she will go grab the hand, take it out and say no no no. We always tell her this when she puts her fingers into her mouth, looks like she grasped the concept and applying it on her brother too.

Don’t want
I’m so relieved that now she can tell me what she wants and don’t want. When she’s hungry, she will say susu, but sometimes when I ask her if she wants milk she will say don’t want, but opt for other food. At least not so much wastage!! If she made Mommy make milk and refuse to drink, I’ll give her a long lecture and try to coax her to drink it.

Blowing candles
She finally master the art of blowing candles (thanks to mooncake festival hehe). She will request us to sing Happy Birthday when she sees candle being lit. At the same time MUST clap hand (if we don’t she will come and hold our hand and insist *roll eyes*). Once we finish singing she will also clap happily then proceed blowing the candle.

Taking off pants & diaper
She’s able to take her pants off by herself after I thought her. She’s also attempting to peel off the diaper, most of the time only can do one side. Then she will start to walk and shake off the diaper LOL.

Swearing (OMG..she swears!!)
Opps…this is something bad. She learned the word stupid. Our few encounter, while driving, we honk the car that came out from the lane without looking at the traffic on the road. Whenever she hears us honk, she will say stupid. MIL said learn from her *roll eyes*. I’ve told her that you can’t say that, it’s very rude (Told faythe, not MIL). So now all of us gotta drive, honk and stop swearing before she learns more swearing words.

Telling Mommy
I find this pretty fascinating. She can actually show me how things works which I don’t know. MIL bought her a dancing zebra (the one where u press at the bottom and zebra on top will go dancing). I couldn’t figure out what was that at first. Then she showed me the bottom and said “Press”. OOhh…so that’s how it works.

She can also tell me new things that MIL bought for her. MIL bought her a turtle. One day she came to me (at MIL’s house) and told me to-to. At first I couldn’t understand what she’s trying to tell me, later she asked the maid to take the turtle and showed to me. Mommy of course screamed kakaka…She asked me to put the turtle on her hands (daring girl), but Mommy scary cat don’t dare lerr..so the maid put on her hand, she let it crawl a bit then put it back. Errm…after few days, turtle went missing. Not eaten by Faythe, but MIL told me the cat ate it!!

3 more months, she’ll be celebrating her 2nd birthday. I’m pretty sure there won’t be any BIG Party as Mommy is too lazy to cook up one. But I’m getting some ideas on what cake to get for her :).

More of Faythe’s photo can be found HERE