Emma

Scrap Credits
Designer Pack QP Freebie from Dees-Deelights

Weight

9.3 kilos

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

After that first visit to the dentist, we can now confirm that Emma has a total of 18 teeth, with 2 top molars to come.

Motor Skills

• Emma is mastering the art of climbing up and down the stairs, on her own.  When she goes upstairs, she will scale up the stairs on all fours, and when she comes down, she holds on to the balustrade.
• She does not like to sit in the stroller when we go out now, preferring instead to walk on her own.
• She has started to really enjoy her bath time now, and sometimes we have to negotiate with her to end her bath.

Communication and Social Skills

• Emma can sing along to some songs which are played often, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, some Barney songs, and she loves singing with her siblings.  She catches the words pretty quickly when she hears the songs on the TV.
• Emma can count 1-10 by rote, sometimes she will also say 11 or 12… 🙂
• … and some parts of the ABCs too.
• She can recognise a few colors and can point to items of that color when asked.  Still working on it, but she usually gets PINK and GREEN correct.
• She can address “Ah Kong” and “Ah Ma”.

Food and Feeding

Emma will eat mostly what the whole family eats now, and she is starting to love chicken too.  She also loves her rice and “char hor fun”.  She will say that she wants to “eat tar pow rice”. 🙂

Scrap Credits
Daydream QP Freebie from Blagovesta Gosheva
Awesome Alphas from Allison Pennington

Weight

8.7 – 8.8 kilos (yes, she thrived and grew much more since Daddy returned from the States!)

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

I think she has 19.  Hopefully I will be able to check in more detail soon…or perhaps when we take her for her first dental checkup soon.  Meanwhile, this is what I think she has: 9 bottom teeth (3 incisors, 2 canines, 4 molars) and  (maybe) 10 upper teeth (4 incisors, 2 canines and 4 molars).

Motor Skills

• Likes carrying things around: stools, chairs, toys, bags.  In fact, when I tell her we are going out, she will grab her “handbag” and sling it over her shoulder, announcing to everyone that she is taking her “bag”.
• Very good progress hopping and jumping.  Getting there…almost.
• Runs quite fast and follows me most of the time at home.
• Will choose the clothes she wants to wear and sometimes refuses what I have set out for her.
• Love flipping through books and “reading” them.
• Loves doodling on the doodle pad and at times, I use it as a makeshift “babysitter”.

Communication and Social Skills

• She can address all of us in the family by name now, including “E-thin!!”
• She can point to her diaper and say “pee pee” and “poo poo”, asking me to undress her and take her to the potty, but unfortunately we have not had any “output” thus far.  I’m using the potty seat on a adult toilet, so it’s easier to clean up.
• Emma can string together short sentences now:
  • “Watch Bar-yee!!”
  • “Watch choo-choo train!
  • “Uh-oh…Bar-yee fall down!”
• Screams REALLY loudly when she doesn’t get her way.  The start of the terrible twos, perhaps?
• She can state her opinion by shaking her head and say “No!” very distinctly.
• She loves to dance to music and will even attempt to sing the songs.  She loves “Uptown Funk”, by the way.
• She will look at the alphabet magnets on our refrigerator door and say “A B A B” as if she is singing the alphabet song.
• She knows a few shapes and can identify them when we draw it out for her:
  • Circle
  • Heart
  • Square
  • Star
  • Flower
  • Fish
  • Apple
  • House
  • Cat
  • Dog

Food and Feeding

Still loving her fruits and vegetables and will grab my spoon whenever I am feeding her or even when I am eating.  She is quite okay handling the spoon on her own but it can get quite messy.  We will probably let her try feeding herself in a restaurant one of these days (so we don’t need to clean up!)

Scrap Credits
Spring Awakening QP Freebie from Blagovesta Gosheva
Acrylic alphas from A work in progress
Boxed words from Chantal

Weight

8.3 – 8.4 kilos

Height/Length

Not measured.

Teeth

I think she has 19.  Hopefully I will be able to check in more detail soon…or perhaps when we take her for her first dental checkup soon.  Meanwhile, this is what I think she has: 9 bottom teeth (3 incisors, 2 canines, 4 molars) and  (maybe) 10 upper teeth (4 incisors, 2 canines and 4 molars).

Motor Skills

• Is attempting to walk up and down the stairs on her own, while holding on to the balustrade.  Scary!!
• Can imitate action songs very well. e.g. If You’re Happy and You Know It.
• Climbs on anything and everything.
• Will carry her stool over to the sink and climb on it to wash hands.
• She will try her best to wriggle out of her onesie jammies

Communication and Social Skills

• My favorite part of her development this month was when she distinctly and clearly called in a sweet voice, “Mommy!!” It has been very consistent now and errr…quite hard for me to say no to.
• She knows most of her animal sounds, but somehow according to Emma, the cow is quite a “scary” animal!

• Every day she adds more and more words to her vocabulary.  I just know that I will soon lose track of what she can say.
  • Milk (pronounced correctly as “Merlk”)
  • Sit couch
  • Sit car
  • Car
  • Slides
  • “Deh-yee” (Daddy)
  • Mommy
  • Hannah (…and Hannah is SO SO SO delighted!)
  • Emma (yes she can say her name!)
  • Cat and “meow meow”
  • Dog and “woof woof”
  • Cow
  • Bear
  • Nose
  • Mouth
  • Ear
  • Eye
  • Hair
  • Feet
  • Foot
  • Stuck!
  • Rice
  • Spoon
  • “Wear this!” when she wants to tell me what she would like to wear
  • Sun
  • Star
  • Says “Wheeee!!!!” when going down the slide (and also when Daddy or Mommy is driving along winding roads)
  • Balloon
  • “Kitty” (Hello Kitty)
  • “Bar-yee” (Barney)
  • “Eh-fern” (Elephant), with trunk action and sound effects
  • Roars like a lion/tiger
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Kite
  • House
  • Glasses (referring to my sunglassses)
  • Dance
  • Flash (not sure how she picked this up, but she said it when I accidentally left the flash on when I took her picture)
  • Shower
  • Hug
  • “Ah-puh” (Apple)
  • “Barsh-tif” (Brush teeth)
  • “Brera” (Umbrella)
  • “Mar” (More)
• Loves the “I Love You” song from Barney and can hug and kiss at the correct point in the song.  On that note, she is now very into Barney and watches Barney almost every day.  She says “Watch Bar-yee!!”

Food and Feeding

Loves rice, especially chicken rice and barbecued pork rice.  She appears to be slightly allergic to grapes though…it’s odd, because I have fed her grapes before and she was fine.  I will try again in a few weeks’ time.