Hannah

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Enjoy The Life freebie add-on from Laura Emma
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Elegant word art (you make me smile) from Bethany

Weight

11.3 kilos, as measured in doc’s office on Dec 10 2010.

Height

Around 82 cm

Teeth

13 teeth: 8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with 2 pramolars appearing on the right side (top and bottom), also 2 canines starting to appear at the top jaw, and 1 canine on the bottom right.

Motor Skills

• Hannah loves to imitate what her brother does, especially…so it comes as no surprise that she loves to climb: on chairs, our couch, and even tables!!! (gasp!) She’s also starting to learn how to jump.
• She can drink by herself from a sippy cup, sometimes she prefers to drink from a regular cup, but I will normally put just a little bit of water, so she does not get drenched.

Communication and Social Skills

• I’m seriously losing track of all the new words she is learning every day.  Hannah can speak in really short meaningful sentences now, e.g. “Mommy come!”, “Daddy help”, “Ethan, buhbye!”
• She has also begun picking up more and more multi-syllable words, like “rabbit” (although the way she says it makes it sound like “Brad Pitt”), “Jungle Junction”, “small scratch”, “bubble”
• Oh yes….and NOW she can clearly say, “DADDY” (instead of “Dehdeh”) …making Daddy ever so proud 🙂
• Because she is parroting a LOT, she has also begun learning how to count 1 – 10, thanks to Ethan. 🙂
• Hannah is beginning to exhibit signs of the “terrible twos”.  She will throw a tantrum and scream and cry when she doesn’t get her way.
• She’s also showing a strong sense of determination (much like Mommy :P)
• Hannah loves taking a shower, and will willingly stop doing anything she was doing, when I announce that it’s time to bathe.
• She loves to sing!  We’ve caught her several times, just trying to sing nursery rhymes her own way, like “Old MacDonald”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, and also the “I Love You” song from Barney.  Oh yeah…her favorite character from Barney is Baby Bop!

Food and Feeding

Hannah likes to feed herself, but she makes a mess most of the time.  Although she seems to take to food very well, there are some times when she just won’t eat, perhaps due to moodiness.  But she will typically take the same type of food we take.  Unlike her brother, who prefers chicken when we have our chicken rice, Hannah seems to prefer the char siew (barbecued pork).  She’ll specifically ask for “pork”.

Hannah is still breastfed and she still asks for “milk” especially at night.

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Weight

Around 11.5 kilos

Height/Length

Around 82 cm

Teeth

8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with 2 pramolars appearing on the right side (top and bottom), also 2 canines starting to appear at the top jaw.

Motor Skills

• Hannah can eat by herself and finish her food quite fast too.
• She loves to try new things, especially in the playground.  She loves the slides, but must still be supervised.
• She likes to draw and scribble and paint.  She’ll play with the doodle pad and color pencils and paint (sometimes).  I might introduce her to finger painting soon!
• Hannah loves to climb stairs, but we need to watch out when she is going down the stairs though.
• She can bounce, whether on the couch or the floor; this is the first step towards learning how to jump.
• Hannah can take a DVD, press the EJECT button on the player, insert the DVD, and press the CLOSE button on the player.
• Basically, she will try to follow whatever her brother is doing.

Communication and Social Skills

• Most of the time, we can understand what Hannah wants to convey, be it from her words or from her actions.  Sometimes if we do not understand what she is trying to say, Hannah will lead us by the hand and point to whatever it is she wants or do.
• Her vocabulary is increasing every single day, so much so that I have really lost count of all the words she knows.  I’ll try to list as many as I can:
  • “More” – actually she could already say this word a few months ago, and she uses it when she wants to ask for more food.
  • She knows her animals too, and she can say: Duck, Cat, Dog, Turtle, Cow, Pig, Bird, Bear
  • Three syllable words and phrases: “Mommy Come!”, “Mommy Card!”, “Baby BOP!”, “Chuggington!” and “Bar-wee!!” for “Barney”
  • Last syllable of some two-syllable and three-syllable words: “mote” for “remote”, “Mau” for “Mickey Mouse”, “Lo” for “Hello”, “puh” for “Apple”, “per” for “diaper”, “More..” while making the sign on both her hands for “No More!”,
  • Round
  • Yoyo
  • Wear (she’ll say “wear!” and point to her sandals, asking me to help her wear them)
  • Colors: “Lello” for “Yellow”, Red, “Boo” for “blue”, Green, Black, White
  • “Dai” for “dry”
  • Walk
  • “kau” for “couch”
  • Night – she says this when she wants to say “Goodnight”
  • Numbers she can say: Two, three, four, “fai”, eight, “nai”, ten
  • Ma (for “Ah Ma”), “Kurng” (for “Ah Kong”), “Poh”, “Pek”, “Koko”, “Kor Kor”, “Koo”, “Kim”, “Nah!” for “Hannah”
  • “Barbeee!” for “barbecued pork” i.e. char siew
  • Door
  • Baby
  • “Ka-kai”
  • “Tight” if she wants to tell me something she is wearing is too tight, and “tights” to refer to her tights.
  • “Wet” – she’ll tell me if her clothes are wet, or if she needs be changed (if her diaper is wet)
  • Body parts: Hair, eyes, nose, “mau” for mouth, fingers (she will show us her fingers), toes, leg, knees.
  • “Poo poo” and “Pee pee” 🙂
  • …but she still calls “Deh-deh” for “Daddy”
• She can complete the ends of some favorite songs:
  • Mommy: Twinkle twinkle little..
    Hannah: TAR!!! … How I…
    Mommy: … wonder what you…
    Hannah: ARE!!
  • Radio: I got a feeling…that tonight’s gonna be a good..
    Hannah: NIGHT!
    Radio: That tonight’s gonna be a good..
    Hannah: NIGHT!
  • Radio: Every time I close my…
    Hannah: EYES
    Radio: I see my name in shining…
    Hannah: LIGHTS!
  • Mommy: London bridge is falling…
    Hannah: DOWN!
    Mommy: Falling…
    Hannah: DOWN!
    Mommy: Falling…
    Hannah: DOWN!

Food and Feeding

Still going very strong with her food intake, I’m pleased to note that Hannah is very adventurous in trying all kinds of food, even the salad that I make!  However, she loves to eat off my plate!  She also finds joy in feeding herself, either with a spoon or with her fingers.

In addition to drinking fresh milk and chocolate milk, I’ve also recently just supplemented her milk intake with GainPlus formula milk.  She will only drink the milk if it is mixed and cooked with oats though, and she takes about 1 or 2 helpings a day.  

Hannah is still breastfed and she still asks for “milk” especially at night. 

Hannah is also very receptive to the Amway chewable multivitamins I give her, and she can easily consume one tablet herself, just by chewing.