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 ...