Milestones

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Delicate QP from Fly Pixel Studio
Sugar n Spice Alphas from Scrappy Bug

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.

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Hot Pants for Wenches from Kim B’s Designs
Boys & Girls Corner Alphas from Nathan Design
It’s Only Natural Alphas from Scrappy Bug
Elegant word art (girl magic) from Bethany

Weight

More than 11.2 kilos, and when she struggles while we are carrying her, it feels MUCH heavier!

Height/Length

81cm, roughly a head shorter than Ethan.

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.

Now Hannah wants to hold the toothbrush and brush her teeth herself.  Yeah, she’s in that phase now where she wants to do everything herself.  So I normally will put some toothpaste on my index finger and brush her teeth for her first before she brushes with her toothbrush.  Thankfully, she still allows me to do that 🙂

Motor Skills

• Hannah can hold the spoon and fork and eat by herself, albeit not in a very tidy manner.  A good start, though.
• She can run quite well, so it’s quite a task taking both Hannah and Ethan out now, since we have to chase after them. (Yep, she no longer wants to be in the stroller)
• She’s beginning to learn how to jump.
• Hannah loves to empty the contents of boxes and containers all over the floor.  Sometimes she would fill up containers with building blocks and just throw them out on the floor, making a really loud noise!

Communication and Social Skills

• Hannah speaks mostly in mono-syllabic words now, but we can usually understand what she wants to relay to us.
• She uses “UP!” when she wants us to carry her up, and when she sees me putting food on the table for dinner, she’ll say, “Rai! Rai!” (for rice)
• Words she can say now:
  • “Milk”, pronounced correctly as “merlk”
  • “Bag”
  • “Chair”
  • “Park”
  • “Car”
  • “Ball”
  • “Door”
  • “Light”
  • “Two”, “three”, “eight”
  • “Bai!” (for “belly button”)
  • “Hair”
  • “My”, “Me!”
  • …and the start of terrible twos: “NO!”
• She is able to complete the end syllable of some nursery rhymes, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
• Claps her hands when she is pleased with herself or when someone does something nice for her.
• If she hurts herself, she will come to us and make a pitiful face and point at the part of her body where it hurts, indicating that we should kiss and make it better. (Yeah, she learnt that from her brother)
• Hannah can recognize faces in photographs.  When she sees our wedding photos on the wall, she will point and say, “Mommy!” and “De-deh!” 🙂
• Hannah loves to help out when she can; when she’s ready to bathe, I let her throw her dirty clothes in the laundry bag
• She can *answer* some simple questions using “Me!” e.g. when I ask, “Whose turn is it to bathe now?”, Hannah says, “Me!” 🙂

Food and Feeding

Hannah can eat most of our regular food, and she is very willing to try new things.  She’s still being breastfed, and sometimes she will also drink the boxed chocolate milk, fresh milk and Yakult. She can eat both rice and porridge, and even the pieces of chicken in her food. I’ve also tried giving her the porridge with some peanuts in it (which we thought caused her to break out in a rash last month) but this time round, she was all right.

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Plentiful Kit from Shabby Princess Designs
Elegant word art (she’s adorable) from Bethany

Weight

11.2 kilos

Height/Length

81cm, roughly a head shorter than Ethan.

Teeth

8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with a few more teeth appearing at the back, possibly pramolars. 

Hannah has me brushing her teeth every day.  We try to do it twice a day, morning and night.  And whenever she hears me saying, “Let’s go and brush our teeth!”, she’ll open her mouth, say “Aaah!” and point to her teeth.  Yeah, she’s cute like that. 🙂

I’m brushing her teeth with a fluoride-free kids’ toothpaste, and we started with gargle-training using a cup with boiled drinking water (just in case she swallows and drinks it).  After about a week, Hannah can now spit out the water (still working on the gargling), so sometimes I just use tap water.

Motor Skills

• Hannah loves to stomp around and shake her booty to music.  Once we were in the mall and were walking past a music store which started to play some music.  She stopped and started dancing, then fell over backwards!
• She prefers to sit on a chair for her meals and playtime.  We need to find somewhere to store our baby chair now.
• At the restaurants, when she is supposed to be in a baby high chair, she will not sit still, preferring instead to walk around and explore the surrounding areas.
• She could form the thumbs up sign with one hand a couple of months back.

Communication and Social Skills

• Hannah has learnt many new words: “Ko-ko” (for “Ethan Ko-ko”), “Bear”, “Beh” (bag), “Mau” (mouth), “No no no” (I’ve been saying this WAY too much!), “ball”, “boo” (for “book”), “daw” (for “dog”), “burr” (for “bird”), “nana” (for “banana”), “rai” (for “rice”), “nai” (f0r “nice”), “up”, “down”, “pee pee”, “poo poo”, “eye” (for “ice”), “eye” (for “hi!) and “buh-bye”.
• In Hokkien, she can say “moi” for “porridge” 🙂
• She is also very expressive and giggles a lot.  She goes “mmmm” when she tastes something good.
• She has managed to tell me when she wants to go “poo poo” a few times and we have successfully completed the exercise several times too.  Still working on the pee pee. 🙂
• She’s very loving, and loves to hug us all.

Food and Feeding

Hannah eats almost everything we eat now, with the exception of herbal stuff which we don’t know the contents of and food high in sugar and salt content.  She eats porridge on weekdays and mostly rice and noodles during the weekends.

As for milk, Hannah is still on 100% breast milk, with a little sampling here and there of chocolate milk and fresh milk.

She took a little bit of porridge with some peanuts in it (she just took the porridge part), and the following day, she had some rashes on her body and face.  Not sure if she’s allergic to the peanuts though, but we’re keeping a close eye.

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Where Dreams Come True QP from Fly Pixel Studio
Fathers Day Alphas from Stacey’s Scraps

Weight

Heavy!

Height/Length

Growing taller and taller by the day!

Teeth

8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with a few more teeth appearing at the back, possibly pramolars.  I’m cleaning her teeth daily with a special tooth tissue, but when those run out, I will start her teeth brusing regiment. 

Motor Skills

• Hannah can RUN around.
• She can do the down-dog (or downward facing dog) pose.
• She can cross her fingers (both fingers together).

Communication and Social Skills

• Hannah can point to several parts of her body when prompted, e.g. nose, hair, fingers (she’ll cross her fingers), tummy, cheeks.
• Says “Poopoo” quite consistently, though often it’s just a false alarm or she just wants to sit on the throne.  But a few times when she said, “Poopoo” and gave that oh-so-familiar *straining* look, I’ve successfully taken her to the potty and she’d successfully poopoo-ed! 🙂
• Calls “Mommy!” very clearly, Daddy is still “deh-deh!” and Ethan is either “Anah!” or *points finger at Ethan*
• She knows her name is Hannah and can call herself “Hannah”.
• Can parrot everything rather well, which resulted in her calling “Mah!” for “Ah-Mah” when my Mom was here for a visit.  Made Grandma pleased as pie. 🙂
• Hannah is very friendly and is a very sociable little girl.  She will wave and say “Hi!” to anyone she meets, even strangers, especially so if the person is a child.  And then she will also happily wave “Bye!” when we are leaving.
• Hannah can nod her head (for yes or affirmative answers) or shake her head vigorously (when she means no) and she does so meaningfully.
• Can say “daw” for “dog”, “bur” for “bird”, among others.
• She can scream her head off.

Food and Feeding

Hannah eats almost everything we eat now, with the exception of herbal stuff which we don’t know the contents of and food high in sugar and salt content.  She eats porridge on weekdays and mostly rice and noodles during the weekends.

As for milk, Hannah is still on 100% breast milk, with a little sampling here and there of chocolate milk and fresh milk.

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Happy Place QP from Fly Pixel Studio
Fresh Breeze Alphas from A work in progress

Weight

We haven’t weighed her lately, but she sure does feel at least 10.5 kilos!

Height/Length

We have not measured her height lately too, but she should be more than 77cm now, because she is able to reach higher and higher areas.

Teeth

8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with a few more teeth appearing at the back, possible pramolars. 

Motor Skills

• Hannah can tip toe around.
• She loves to climb on top of everything: the couch, the naughty stool, the bed, the toy train!

Communication and Social Skills

• Consistently waves and says “Bye!” in a very cutesy high-pitched tone.  And when she is ready to sleep, she will toddle to the room, turn, wave and say, “Bye!” 🙂
• Asks for things she wants by using the word “Give!”.  She says “Gheee!!!” and extends her hands, opening and closing her palm, or she will point to the item she wants.
• Can tell me when she has “poopoo”-ed.  She will point to her diaper and go, “Poopoo”.  Sometimes I will be in time and place her on the toilet bowl before she poos but often times it will be too late.  Good start, though.
• Can point up and say “AAh!!” (for Up) and “Down”.
• Point to nose, hair, tummy and teeth when prompted.
• Says “Ah-per” for Diaper.
• *Sings* Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to the rhythm, but without the words, just “ba-ba-ba”.  She loves doing the actions though.
• Hannah can say “boo” for “book”: she says it when she wants us to read a book to her or if she wants to flip through a book.
• She can say “Mamak” for food, and ask for a piece of bun, by saying, “Bah!” and pointing to the bun on the table.  Her favorite is the wholemeal potato buns.
• She can understand “go kai kai” (she will walk to her stroller and wait for us to load her in), “go and wash hands” (she will walk to the bathroom and extend her hands to be washed), go to sleep (she will walk to the room, even though the door is closed, she will wait patiently for someone to open it for her), go bathe/take a shower (she will know how to go to her room and wait to be undressed, and then walk to the bathroom for her shower).
• She understands “Go give Daddy/Mommy a hug” – she will walk/run to us and give us a loving hug 🙂

Food and Feeding

Hannah eats almost everything we eat now.  When I cook at home, she will have homecooked food and when we eat out, she will sample the food we eat.  I do try to minimize her salt and sugar intake though.

She drinks a lot of water, and so far is very open and willing to try new foods.

As for milk, Hannah is still on 100% breast milk.  However, there were times when we were out for six hours plus straight, and she didn’t need any milk, so perhaps I will start her on Pediasure or fresh milk soon, just to supplement her milk intake.

She loves chicken rice, chicken, Milo, Cheerios, potato bread, koay teow, kiwi and banana, just to name a few 🙂

Scrap Credits
Precious Moments QP from Fly Pixel Studio
Giving Thanks alphas  from Stacey’s Scraps

Weight

10.3 kilos +

Height/Length

About 76-77 cm…or maybe more.

Teeth

8 incisors (4 top and 4 bottom), with a few more teeth appearing at the back, possible pramolars. 

Motor Skills

• Hannah is walking around very quickly now, and sometimes picks up her step and starts running a little.
• She can climb up the couch and the bed, sits there unaided and then climb down again, feet and butt first.  I still want to monitor her when she does that because I’m still wary that sometimes she does stand up on the couch/bed and appears to want to *walk off*.
• Likes to *walk around* in the bathroom when taking her shower.
• Loves to *hang on* to my legs, even when I am walking.

Communication and Social Skills

• Hannah can imitate sounds that are being made, eg. “lalalala..”, “eh…” etc
• Says “Bar-bee” to almost anything, but more often than not, in reference to soft toys and pictures of animals.
• She can *tell* us what she wants to do or where she wants to go.  For example, when she wants to sleep, she will walk to the room and point at the closed door.
• Smiles cheekily when someone holds a camera.
• Screams aloud when excited, frustrated or angry.
• Shows affection by kissing my cheeks.  Also, when Daddy comes home, she screams delightedly and runs to give him a hug. awwww…..
• Can point to nose, hair and tummy when asked.  Not 100% consistent but we are working on it.
• Loves to flip through books.
• Sometimes refers to herself by saying “Nana”.

Food and Feeding

She’s on Mommy’s milk 100% and is still loving every bit of her porridge!  She takes a bit of our every day foods, and is very willing to try new things.  I try to give her foods which are low in salt and sugar though, but I love it that her diet is more varied now.  In fact, our girl will *ask* to be fed new things even though she’s not allowed to have it yet, e.g. when I’m eating ice cream, she will come very close to me and open her mouth. 

New foods she has been introduced to include:

• Wanton noodles (from Old Town coffee shop)
• Chopped celery (in chicken soup)
• Beef balls (from spaghetti in Italiannies)
• Beef stew (from Du Viet)
• Pasta with tomato pasta sauce
• Steamed Fish balls (dim sum) – she had a slight rash on her chest after this, so I’ll probably retry this sometime later.
• Jiu hoo char with lettuce leaves (from Hainan)
• Tau-ewe-bak (little bit)
• Hainanese chicken rice
• Cheerios

We will probably stop cooking porridge for her during weekends now that she can take almost the same food as we do. 🙂