Missy @ 2 years 4 months old

it's about time to review missy's development after so long..

she can now speak quite well, in english, mandarin with few words, but she understands what we say in mandarin, just that she seldom want to speak in mandarin. she likes to repeat what we say.. i always say she is like parrot.. this happen to my mum's neighbour's son who is 2 months older than missy too.. wonder why at this age they like to imitate people.
she can speak in a string of sentences, give instructions "little princess" at home.. tell us what she wants. or what we should do..her grandpa always said her vocabulary is getting powerful..

She is very good at singing, english & mandarin.. hum & sing most of the time..she even started dancing and tell us she is dancing..

she can say 1 to 20 in english. yi to shi in mandarin. but i don't think she recognises the number yet..it's al bcos im too lazy to emphasis on this.. shall work on this..she knows her shapes well. she started to recognises colours now, like red/yellow/blue/green/orange/purple/white.. she can relate the colours with things around her e.g her pillow casing's colour (purple/red/white)..she recognises animals farm/wild animals and abl to say them out in proper words and able to relate the name with the animal toys.. she knows elephant has trunk and flapping ears..

she is pretty good at puzzle..bug pieces.. small pieces, she will anyhow "force" them together..she loves scribbling..she draws her own version of banana.. and she can draw circle (not so round but have opening & ending), she can do zigzag line, straight line..

she remembers where to get things at home and her granparents home. meaning she remembers where they are kept. she follow instrcutions most of the time, except time when she is fussing.. she can wear her own socks and shoes, she is now wearing her own shirt and pants, always refusing help from us.. she knows how to apply lotion, she knows how to paste plaster on her knee wound.. (after one fall in our aunt's home)

she loves grapes, apples, oranges, plus, papaya, melon, strawberry, she loves fish (salmon/cod) which she eats often, she likes fried food like french fries, nuggets, fish and chips, she loves cashewnuts that i always add in soup, she takes vege only when i chop the in small portion and add into her meal..she loves chocolate, ice cream (controlled food), she likes soya bean. now, she always want to feed herself, but i still find it faster and less mess when i feed her dinner, most of the time, i still take on this task, only let her self-feed things like corn or green bean soup.

she loves to know what we are doing.. and would like to be part of all our activities, eg, baking/cooking/talking...

she temper when we say "no" which we still trying to find ways to get her to accept this.. lGG said, maybe instead of say "no " to her.. we should suggest something else to distract her ? eg. " No, cannot eat chocolate" we should say "do you want soya milk?" which i guess may not work all the time, cos she sometimes VERY persistent. shall keep trying.

she loves shichida method class on Sunday, she loves to go to her grandparenst home on Saturday, she sometimes like to go to school on Mon to Friday.. im using these to teach her day.. Monday to Friday go to school Saturday we go Gong Gong's house, Sunday we go Shichida.. she knows this know..but i wonder if she knows the day means anything except of what i tell her..

she sleeps before 9pm each day (most of the days, except on days when we came back late) but most of the weekdays i wil ensure she goes to bed around 830pm, with some story telling, now we ensure we do linking memory and her milk, she usually doze off by 9pm. she will occassionally ask for milk in the early morning 3-4am.. but i usually will tell her wait till morning, so now, she usually will sleep through the night and get her morning feed at 6am or 630am. she wakes up latest by 7am, or earlier 630am..so she has about 9 to 10hours of sleep and weekday maybe 1 hour or so of nap in school weekends, usually i will get her to sleep 2 to 3 hours of nap.

after all these, she is still a baby to me..soon, she will be sister to her baby brother..wonder how she will react to it.. now we always tell her, talk to "di di" she will come to my tummy and say some words..but i don't think she understands much abt one more family member is joining us..

My little baby girl has grown so much now. it's so amazing to see such process. LGG and i still feel unbelievable at times. Love her with all our hearts and wish her Happy and stay Healthy all the times.

Conversation with Toddler

Missy is coming out from the terrible two stage.. tt's something i observed, she started to listen to us, more obeying but still cant sit still type and recently, i noticed she will even "argue" with us

When i find her doing something not right, i will say
Mummy : "Sue Hann Naughty Girl"
Missy : "No, Sue Hann Naughty Girl" <-- she actually means Sue Hann is not naughty girl

or i say
Mummy: "Don't stand so near the TV, else, i will switch it of"
Missy: "No, i will switch off" <-- she actually means, don't switch it off

sometimes i will just tell her off with her action, like she likes to take my shoes and wear etc.. she will try to talk back which most of the times, not in proper sentence, but usually will have "No.. blahh.."

oh well..she talks more than me now.. i should say she sing more now.. her chinese teacherLing laoshi told me, she is good at singing. haaa.. yeah.. i guess she is right, cos missy is like a radio at home, keep singing.. sometimes can sing the same songs repeatedly.. when we interrupt, she will say "STOP !".. then she continue..