Happy 17 Months Old

Happy 17 months! My darling milk baby, looking all so grown up in this series. Drink so much milk and still not a foodie baby yet. Haha.. Learning new words and talking lots recently. The mammy better be more hardworking in teaching. Let's jiayou together. Daddy Mammy love you lots. Xoxo

Rabbit and bird

Two new animals to the list of words.

Here's rabbit "bit" with her very first word, dog.

And so, rabbit is "bit". Haha #xmmjosie #16monthsold

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And bird "bod". She knew this for a while, but I couldn't really catch her pronounciation. She kept quiet when I asked her to repeat. Lol.

And bird = "bod" lol #xmmjosie #16monthsold

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Word of the day - Star and Milk

16 months 13days

Yesterday's morning, after her shower, I dressed her in this little Star romper and taught her the word "star". She caught on pretty quickly. Here's a instavid of her saying star. She pronounced it without the s.

Two days ago. #star #xmmjosie #16monthsold

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That evening, during grocery shopping, the hubby taught her to say milk when we at the milk aisle. She followed with a "mok". Haha. Here's an instavid of her just now before going to sleep.

Say "milk". Yesterday's #16monthsold #xmmjosie

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Great progress. "tar~ mok~"

Happy 16 Months Old

Josie is sixteen months old today. One year four months. So fast!!

Darling, continue to be the happy, cheerful you. Let's sing, dance, play as much as we can. Just some teeny weeny stuff, we hope that you stop tripping yourself with yourself, eat more and sleep more... Mammy heartache whenever you fall, geksim when you don't eat, and I dun mind being the panda but you shouldn't have panda eyes at this age. Jiayou ok?

Mammy and daddy love you lots. 

Sorry for the lousy quality. Somehow the phone camera, the lights and the subject don't work well together today. 

Word of the day - Cat

Josie recognised Hello Kitty from her bib. Or at least when I ask her where's Hello Kitty, she points to her bib. Our usual Q&A during mealtime. Where the nose, ear, table, clock, fan, chair, head, toes, blah...

Today she somehow managed a sound near cat. Kat maybe? Still far from basic understanding by anyone. But a good start~ 

Photo while we had lunch after gym. She's having bread for lunch. This girl, she loves bread and biscuits... I really must work harder in expanding her food varieties. But she must be in an eating mood first. I'm soooo dejected in this topic T__T

First kiss

After so many months of teaching and demonstrating, the baby finally learnt to kiss on our cheeks. Not the kind that's the full lips smack muacks. But she didn't turn away when asked for a kiss, and lips on cheek with a "muaack" sound. 

The daddy got the first kiss without hesitation. Mine was after several persuasion resulting from her "No". 

Happy mammy finally got her kiss. 

New words

Josie learnt a new word yesterday: bubbles

The teachers were blowing bubbles for the swing play, and somehow, she picked it up. Cool. 

Then... These few days, she started perfecting her flying kiss with sound effect "ah makk". Heh. Finally. At 16 months. It took her so long to do the flying kiss. And now it's with a muacks. 

Then... Today she was looking up at the kitchen table top and saying "cake". There were the water jugs and Latte's biscuits. I didn't know what she was saying until teabreak time. She meant biscuits, "-cuits" without the "bi-".

It will be such a wonderful day with all these new words but I was totally drained out. Her cryings for nothing. Haven't start to eat, scream and cry. Calmed down and continued eating, eat halfway scream and cry again. Night feeds increased with midnight wakings that lasted 2 hours and yet waking up so early in the morning. Before every nap or sleep, screams and cries. Crying for milk yet rejecting to drink milk. 

Sigh. Can make up your mind? Mammy very tired and bad mood with your crankiness. Don't always cry and scream like kenna tortured please. Mammy is very sad when you do that especially with all the love I showered you with. I already forsee that I will have depression when you reach your rebellious teen stage, if I don't break down before that... 

Rolling in the sleep

She rolled off the bed again......... Hais. Ouch.

It's 3+ am.. She woke up searching for milk. And even though I was ready for her, she continued searching and rolling. The next moment I know it, *knok* and she was on the floor crying. Gosh.

I didn't want to turn on the lights to wake her up even more, so I didn't check if there's any injuries. But after I carried her, gave her a long tight hug, she calmed down and went back to sleep with some patting, she didn't even want comfort latching.

Heartache.

Immunization day

Josie is due for the MMR D2 vaccination today. We also opted for the Chicken Pox vaccination too. So she has two jabs in a day. 

The chicken pox vaccination has to be done in two parts. The second one will have to be at least 3 months later. And it cost $72 each, which can be paid by CDA or cash. 

My darling is my strong, brave dearie. Just a cry of complaint, as usual. You're the best! Love you my dear. 

Her measurements at 15 months 4 days 

Height 78.2 cm (50%)

Weight 10.4kg (75%)

She didn't gain weight for a while, which is a little worrying. Eat more Josie. 

Bao bao and hugs

Word of the day. Bao bao. 

She knows how to say "bao bao", which means carry 抱抱 in mandarin yesterday, but "perfected" it today. Lol. Sounded more obvious. 

The second event made me so touched and emotional. 

I was trying to make her sleep for the night. But she got whiney. So, I copied her and made crying sound while I rubbed my eyes. She got fascinated and stopped whining. Pried my hands away and looked at me with her big, round eyes. I continued to make crying sound, then.... She hugged me. 

Awwwwww.... So sweet. She hugged then looked at me, repeating thrice before I stopped "crying". Lol. 

Gosh. My little baby. She's so sweet.

Anyway, it's so difficult to take wefie with her nowadays. Keep moving and don't want to take with me. Lol. Maybe she don't like to be photobombed by me haha

Happy 15 Months Old

Another month has gone. Gosh. Baby you are growing up fast. Really. Mammy misses all your babyness. I just wish my brain can absorb and remember all my time with you. But you know mammy's forgetful tiny brain la... 

Cheeky, chatty, cheerful darling. Latest words: chou chou and mian bao. Only wants my hoodie pooh as sleeping or comfort companion. Knows to go to the room if she wants to milk or sleep/slack. Lately milk nonstop, like a newborn. Let mammy sleep a little longer at night please. 1-2hrly is quite tiring. We both are looking like pandas. 

Mammy, Daddy loves you. XOXO

Josie's first official class

It's the start of a new year. My facebook had been flooded with parents being excited and worried for their children's first day of school, be it N1, K1, P1, S1. Hahaha.. Amazing range huh. My turn soon. Next year maybe, and it will be N1 for her. Till then, it's play for now.

During Josie's 2nd trial of 3 classes, I signed up her for a 10 class weekly session. It's $550 for 10 classes and $60 registration fee. And they rebated my $88 for the trial. That's so awesome. I love savings. If I signed up for two terms, the savings for the classes is even more. But that's over a thousand dollars. An amount too big for this SAHM.

Exploring the gym

I'm not sure if it's because she's in a good mood, or simply because she's more used to going to class and having fun, Josie looked forward to today's class. She kept trying to peer into the gym and wanting to go in. But the gym is not opened till class time.

Trying to reach for the latch to open the door to go in

She had fun today. Busy Hi-5 ing teachers and classmates.

My happy baby

I'm really happy she had fun and learning things, at the expense of her Daddy's wallet =P

I was asking her where's Latte korkor. Haha.. She pointed downwards and said "Dog"

14 months 14 weeks

Just read an email update on baby's behaviour. It reads...

Hello from BabyCenter! 

Does your toddler sometimes hurt other children? It's not surprising – making another child yell or scream seems like great fun at this age. The good news is that your toddler doesn't mean to inflict pain on his playmates. When he pulls another child's hair, he's either fascinated by the reaction it provokes or copying someone else's behavior. The best response is to gently but firmly stop the hurtful behavior and  redirect your child's attention. The more he gets a rise out of you, the more likely he is to repeat the behavior. 

...

True that. Sometimes when Josie bites after nursing, or hit/scratch us, we tend to raise our voice to pain. Guess we have to learn to tolerate the pain (very very painful lor, esp the biting) before we react. Gosh. 

Kindermusic trial

Signed up for a 20 minutes Kindermusic trial with some of Josie's horsie friends. It's located in the Balestier vicinity. To be honest. I'm pretty stunned at myself. 20 minutes at such a far place. The traveling time there is much longer. Haha. 

Anyway, Josie did enjoyed herself. Mostly anyway. She still hates stuff toys. The stuffed puppet just puts her off, while she was pretty gamed for the others. Slower in reaction, but still managed it in the end. Her daddy was proud of her, seeing her interact with the teacher and reacting to some instructions. Great job Josie. 

The promotion for this open house trial is VERY attractive. If only the location is much more accessible, or let me be greedier, nearer. I didn't sign up for the classes due to the accessibility. It's a shame. Really. 

Sigh... Time to look for some other program to sign her up. And oh ya. Playgroup. I have to start doing homework. Lazy bum. 

Vocabulary in 2015

At the end of 2015, at 14 months 21 days, here's the list of words she can say. 

- Baby

- Bag

- Bear

- Bird

- Dog

- Duck

- Papa

- Mama

- Meimei

- Mian bao (bread in chinese)

- Mum mum (eat)

- No

- No more

- Na (give in chinese)

Sometimes she said these words without saying it as it's meaning though. 

Fake snores

Today, when we sang the Good Night song or said the usual goodnight quote, Josie placed her head on the nearest surface, eyes wide open and made snoring sound. Hahaha amazed at the things kids learn. She's so adorable. 

Have a great new year ahead! Happy 2016!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! It's a looooong weekend!

With love, from Dogta Latte. 

XOXO, Babyta Josie 

I'm sick

Down for the second day. Yesterday I was very giddy and very weak. Today I'm sniffing and coughing. Oh dear. I hope I be well by tomorrow. It's Christmas eve tomorrow. I doubt I would recover that fast. Worst, these two days Josie only napped 30 minutes in the day and waking up every 20mins to 2 hourly at night. 

My cheeky boss rejected my MC application. Haha. Love you baby. 

Ear piercing for Josie

14 months 10 days

Josie's papa just spent $168 for two ear holes, a set of 14k yellow gold ear studs and two bottles of ear care solution. And a 20 second cry from darling. So heartache. 

I had wanted to pierce her ears since she turned one year old, but didn't managed to. Then one day (4days ago), the hubby declared we should do it. However, Josie was very cranky that day, hence we postponed it till today. 

We did some research, and it seems that B*dazzled is highly recommended. So we just went ahead. Here are the outlets:

http://www.bdazzle.sg/shops/

The staff introduced their services, free piercing with a minimum of $98 stufs purchased. And the one I chose was a pair of $148 (I think so, I was looking at the choices) yellow gold studs. 

Hubby was ok, so we went ahead. 

She was struggling when the staff cleaned her ears. Struggled some more when she marked the ears with a marker. Struggled even more when two of the staffs tried to positioned the earrings, one at each side. I had to pin her down. In a way. 

But luckily it was done in a flash. Josie cried a short loud cry. Louder and longer than injections. But was back to normal quite quickly. 

Congrats darling. Another mission accomplished.  

Christmas on Ion Orchard

After Josie's MyGym trial class, we went for a lunch date with my sister.

She got me this ultra cute Tomica Winnie the Pooh car. This is another poisonous collection. I can't start. Else I can't stop. Lol.

After lunch, we went to take some Christmas photos outside Ion Orchard. Very pretty, fairytale decorations. Too bad Josie is not in a dress but long pants since she had class earlier on. Note to self: bring a dress or another cute outfit when wearing long pants. 

Here's the spam of photos.