mon cherie is 20 months old

happy 20th month old, mon cherie!

since mommy missed updating mon cherie's 19th month milestones, here's a quick update for her development for the past 2 months.

vital stats update:
wt : 9.8kg
ht: (yet to measure)

* mobility & physical adeptability
- still learning to climb up the stairs while holding on to the railings but she prefers to walk up BIG steps while holding on to daddy or mommy's hands.
- walking backwards (for no apperant reason she just wana gostan... hahaa...) and learning to jump
- opening & closing cabinets/drawers and after picking out an object/item
- open & close the kitchen sliding door to take a peep at mommy cooking
- pushing her toddler chair under the coffee table or helping mommy/daddy to push their dinning chair towards the table after lunch/dinner.
- able to open & close the her own water bottle cap which previously require mommy or teacher's help
- will pull (read: drag) her CC bag to the main door while waiting for mommy to bring her to CC in the morning.
- help mommy with throwing baby's diaper into the bin or taking out a small hanky for sponging baby.
- knows how to bath herself with shower gel (rubbing her body, arms and legs) and tried to comb her hair and brush her teeth (still dislike brushing so just 'action' brush for 3 seconds only) and apply lotion/powder to herself.
- she's also keen to learn to wear (read: attempt to pull up) her panties/shorts but often missing to put her legs in 1st. :)
- starting to pretend play with mommy by offering to feed imaginary food from plate/cup/bowl to mommy & then self-feed herself the same with a big 'yum' sound.

* vocal
- since going to CC, she has been more willing to learn to speak up instead of just pointing to objects/items which she wants.
- increased in her vocab of words in mandarin for family members like 公公, 嘛嘛, 爷爷, 奶奶, 姐姐, 哥哥, 弟弟, 妹妹, 叔叔, 阿姨. other new english words that she manages to identify/repeat are bear, dog, cow (she says 'hmmmm...' instead), duck, ant, fish (sounds like 'fiff'), cat, up, out, go, book, cup, milk, flower (sounds like 'aowl'), car, clock, chair, cake, boat (sounds like 'bo'), egg, banana (she says 'nang nang'), sweets (sounds like 'shwii'), shoes (sounds like 'shoo'), eye, ear, nose, hair, mouth.
- she also understands other words but has yet to speak them out loud. Eg. food items (rice, vegetable, carrot, soup, bread, biscuits, ice cream), objects (towel, hanky, socks, fan, bottle, basket (either wastebin or laundry basket), tissue paper, spoon, bag, table, pillow, balloon, candles (she will pretend to 'blow'), light, train, aeroplane, crayon, telephone), verbs (sleep, eat, drink, draw, open, close, take out, throw, wash, stop, walk, sit, hot, good, beat, blow, hide) and body parts like head, hand, foot, bellybutton, fingers, tongue, face and teeth.
- still learning to form 2-3 word sentences and manages to say "ai neng neng" (wants milk) and "ai mum mum" (wants food), "ai orr orr (wants sleep).
- next is to try to teach her some mandarin, so far she only knows 一 (one) and 八 (eight).

* emotional
- still learning to express and control her emotions at home and in public places.
- occasionally shows jealousy by wanting the same thing that was given to her lil brother (esp when feeding time, she wants milk too even when she had just had her dinner!)

* social
- able to play with others and by herself.
- less prone to crying bouts whenever she sees strangers trying to talk/touch her, at most she will hide her face shyly.
- will take initiative to hold hand of others when she wants them to do activities with her (read her books, play with her toys, etc)
- willing to let others carry her (my helper) whenever mommy/daddy refuses to give in to her tantrums (she sure knows where to get comfort!)
- will help when being asked to; eg. help to massage grandpa's legs when being told leg is 'pain pain' or bring an item to another person like giving tissue paper to mommy or a spoon to daddy, etc.
- will hum 'twinkle twinkle little star' when being asked to or when enroute home from CC.
- willing to share her toy/food when being asked to.
- extremely loving towards her lil brother and will automatically pat his head or give him kisses without prompting!

we can see quite an improvement in her over the last 2 months and since she went CC.
hopefully she will gain more confidence in herself and be a little more independant instead of clinging to mommy/daddy when she feels emotionally clingy!