Hooray!

I’M SOOOOOOOOO VERY PROUD OF OUR LITTLE DARLING!!!!! SHE FINALLY BEGAN TO WALK!!

Location : Melody Babyland
Time : 1:15pm
Achievement : approximately 20 steps

for the past 2 months, she's been walking around with holding on to at least 1 of our fingers. on 30th, in the evening, she suddenly stood up from her potty and took about 3-4 steps towards me. i was telling hubby that i guess we are not far from the day when she could freely walk around on her own ... then the next day, she took 20 steps walking towards a bookshelf WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. i was like ARHHHHH!! ... i didn’t have my camera or camcorder with me!!!! gosh!!!! ... but well, now it is official that she’s walking !! i’m so happy that she finally hits this very important milestone in her life. everytime when she walks, you can see happiness all over her face and i must say she looks super duper cute! ... i thank my lord for all the precious & happy moments that i spent with my little darling and the way he allows me to enjoy my little girl ...

Those Good Old Days

every now and then, i do think of perth ... it is a very unique feeling browsing at those old photos. feeling of nostalgia at the good old days that i spent there, the university and those people i met ... i also think of the dim sum restaurant, the very cheap & delicious japanese food and remember how we enjoyed gelare ice cream, chili mussels and the yummy milk shake at the cosy fast eddys during winter ... well, if u stayed in perth before, then u must know what am i talking about. anyway, i just miss everything about perth. there were time when i had nothing to do, i just icq, read, sleep, enjoy the breezy and cool air as i walking past the houses and heading towards campus.

i miss brisbane too. i was there for a few months (cant really remember how long exactly) while visited hubby (boyfriend at that time) ... the 3 monkeys (speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil) café, the casino (trying my luck at casino while waiting for hubby to finish lessons), the fascinating gold coast and many many more ... wow, i really love these 2 cities. not melbourne, not sydney, but these 2 places so enchanting in many ways if you know how to appreciate it.

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Chloe At 14 Months!

• after working in a preschool, i realised that not all babies enjoy eating. that's unbelievable! my little darling absolutely loves eating!! whatever food you put in her mouth, she would certainly finish it and ask for more. i dont know if this is good or bad for a girl! her menu includes fish, pumpkin, cabbage, purple cabbage, capsicum, sweet potato, potato, carrot, black wood fungus, tofu, various kind of green leafy vege, avocado, grape, apple, pear, honeydew, strawberry, blueberry, mango ... em, what else? cant recall now ...
• she's able to walk around with minimal assistance. i have to let her hold on to my 1 finger (at least), if not she will just squats down and refused to walk. she can also balances on her own for a few seconds.
• she has been on "baby can read" series since 6 months old. me and hubby are quite amazed that she can actually recognizes some of the "words". here, i m not talking about recognizing "sounds", i m talking about the "words". she sees certain words then she will do the action accordingly and pronouces the word before the tv do so, eg. tongue, one of her favourite, when the tv flashes the word "tongue", she will say "tongue" then stick out her tongue before the tv says so. i m not sure if she really recognizes the "word", or she remembers the "order of the word". besides, she understands the names of quite a number of animals too, but she is more interested in the sounds those animals make, rather than their names. for instance, whenever we say, "puppy says", then she will makes the sound "wou wou" (dog's bark). i often tell her, little parrot makes the sound of "你好吗", haha, she loves it! after reading elaine's blog, i have decided to come out with a list of the vocabs she understands now, here it is: arms up, arms down, head, shouder, knee, toes, shake hand, eye, ear, mouth, nose, tongue, dog, puppy, cat, kitten, horse, foal, chicken, chick, duck, duckling, pig, piglet, parrot, elephant, lion, tiger, tree, flower, milk, diaper, read, book, ball, biscuit, eat, brush, fan, spinning, happy, next, thank you, sayang and etc. i m not too sure about the rest. we have introduced her lots of words, but m not sure if she really understands. baby enstein has helped a lot, i often show her "numbers nursery", "world animals", "neighborhood animals" & "baby da vinci". she is on "baby can read" vol 2 now. she really enjoys it, but i try to limit her tv time to 2x a day, each time around 15 - 20 mins. i would like to cut it down further if possible.
• she enjoys passing things to us now, and this will earns her a "thank you". she really likes to hear "thank you". she keeps passing the same thing to us, and after hearing "thank you", she would get back the item, then pass to us again in order to gain another "thank you". hahaha. so cute.
• she knows how to read my mood. if i m angry with her, she will either keeps calling me "mama" or she will show her frustrated face too.
• she knows how to pretend when she doesnt want kisses. sometimes when we r trying to kiss her, and she doesnt like it, she will pretends pointing at certain things, trying to divert our attention. anyway, her trick never works. lol ... and guess what, she loves kissing barney, making us so jealous. hng.
• oh, how i love my this little darling ...

Updates

what've i been doing lately? well, i've been sick for the past 2 weeks ... flu, cough, sorethroat, running nose, gastric, whatever u may think of!! my immune system has been facing big challenges, cuz i have started teaching in a preschool few weeks back. yaya ... you've heard me correctly, I M A PRESCHOOL TEACHER NOW. okay? those monkeys are giving me terrible headache!! i think their butts are probably triangle-shaped, if not maybe there are durian's thorns on their chairs, cuz they just cant seem to sit STILL for more than a few moments. their parents must have implanted running machine in them, make them running so fast and so long non-stop. i really take my hat off to them!! ... and me, a no longer young & middle aged woman, have to jump up and down, run here and there, to catch those monkeys from tree top and talking in a dramatic way to catch their attention. wow ... i m totally worn out. hubby, i dont care, i want to go back to spore end of the year. it is really hard to MAKE A LIVING here!! ... and my pay is PEANUT!! ... NUTS IN A NUTSHELL, n, n, n, NUTS IN A NUTSHELL, n, n, n, NUTS IN A NUTSHELL, n, n, n, "n" IS THE SOUND OF "N" (song of phonics)!! ... oh no no, i think my pay is much smaller than a peanut ... maybe ... maybe only the size of a sesame seed...