Milestones

Scrap Credits
June Part 2 collaboration kit from DMS
Fresh Breeze Alphas from A work in progress

Weight

9.6 kilos ~ there hasn’t been a lot of change to her weight.  Probably because she has been running around a lot lately.

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.

Developmental Milestones

• Emma enjoys playground equipment, especially the slides.
• Loves dancing and will move her entire body to music, smiling and saying “Haha…dancing!”
• Loves to paint ~ by dabbling the paint with a brush all over the paper.
• She is making short sentences now: “I want eat chicken rice”. “I want go downstairs”.
• She asks “What’s that?” or “Oh what’s that?” to almost everything and anything.
• She gives her opinion: “Hannah funny!” or “Ethan funny!”
• However, I have noticed that she will assert her “power” when she doesn’t get her way.

Food and Feeding

Hand-spoon-mouth coordination has improved and there is more food going into her and less food outside, but cleaning up is still a headache.  She prefers rice but sometimes will ask for noodles (which she affectionately calls “tarpow” ~ because I hardly cook noodles at home) and “Koay-teow”.

She is still consuming Izumio and Super Lutein as health supplements for her general wellbeing and also to tackle her eczema issues.

Toilet Training

I am not consciously potty training Emma yet, but she sometimes does tell me when she needs to peepee or poopoo.  In fact just yesterday she said “Mommy, poopoo” and gave me that “poopoo” look.  I promptly took her to the toilet and she successfully made her first deposit!! 🙂

I am blessed to have Hannah who is very willing and happy to help toilet train her sister; Hannah will eagerly give Emma stickers for every successful toilet training achievement.

Scrap Credits
Kit collab Digital Crea “365 project” from Line & Ninie
Acrylic Alphas from “A work in progress“

Weight

9.6 kilos (Yay, she’s gaining weight!!)

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 can climb up the stairs by holding on to the balustrades.
• Runs around a lot.

Communication and Social Skills

• Emma shows her opinion often by telling us what she needs or wants, “Eat Bee-kurt”, “Eat Snacks”, “Drink Barney cup”, “Go upstairs”, “Take shower”, “Read book”.
• Says “Goodnight Daddy”, “Goodnight Ethan” and “Goodnight Hannah”.
• Still working on “Please” and “thank you”.

Food and Feeding

Emma loves snacking on seaweed crackers.  She can more or less feed herself now but will make a mess which needs to be cleaned up after.

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!)