She had her hip booster jab (18th mths immunization) the other day. This time, that spot where the doc injected her got swollen and it looked so red. The diameter was as big as her palm. She had fever in the middle of the night. It was about 38 degrees but i didn't give her any medication cos she was sweating and usually her temperature will go down if she sweats. I just monitored her and prepared her paracetamol just incase her fever goes too high. The next day, her temperature went down to 37.2. It went up and down few times and then gone. Thank God.
Since she learns to walk and hold things, I’ve started to teach her how to put things back to their places. Every time before going upstairs, or we go out I would say, “Can you help mommy to switch off the TV”. For the first few times, I’d hold her hand and walk over to the controller and switch off the TV together. After that, she’s able to do it herself. Whenever I say, “put it back”, she’d quickly put it back. I’d say thank you after that. She’s a very sweet baby. Whenever I say, “help mommy, please”. She’d quickly run over and help me. Now, almost every time before we leave a room, she’ll put back the things to their places. If she forgets, I’ll remind her and she’ll put back everything that she has taken out to play.
She has also learned to take turns when it comes to brushing her teeth. It’s either she starts to brush first then my turn to brush for her. I’d tell her now is mommy’s turn. She’d pass me her toothbrush. She wasn’t like that when she was younger. She used to insist on her ways i.e. to hold the toothbrush as long as she wants. I’d have to give her many “2 more minutes” term in order for her to give me back the toothbrush to wash or I’d have to keep on saying “ enough” until at last she gives in.
She asked me, pointing at the parquet at the staircase, “Wat tis (what is this)?” I answered “Parquet”. Then she said, “FLOOR”! Then I said, “Oh! Yes, this is floor”.
Sometimes she’ll know when she’s naughty. She’ll say, “mei mei/zhi ying huai dan”. One morning, before I left to work, she asked me to carry her to the car and told me “mei mei huai dan”. That day Mag was around, so Zhi Ying is mei mei. Haha!! She said she’s naughty cos she wanted me to carry her to the car before I go to work.
Whenever she goes for shower, she’ll request for the bucket and fill it up with water. She’ll be busy with that for the whole session. Sometimes, when she’s not ready to put it away, I’ll give her 2 more minutes. After that, when I say enough, she’ll quickly put the bucket back to it’s place and turn to me. I’ll dry her up with towel then after that she’ll rush of to climb onto the bed and all over the place naked, waiting for me to catch her. Usually, I’ll just run around the bed to scare her then ask her to put on her clothes by herself. Only then she’ll sit down and try to put them on and I’ll help her to do that.
Now she knows how to play pretend. She pretends to put ointment on herself. She was holding my contact lens casing and tells me “cha yao yao”. Cha=apply, yao yao=ointment. Hahahahaa!!!
Sometimes when she makes daddy angry by being rude to daddy, I’ll ask her to give daddy a hug and a kiss. She’d do it and daddy will melt. Hahaha!
Sometimes when granny is away for a couple of days, she’ll miss granny. When granny is back, she’ll say to granny, “Guanny bao bao ni/zhi ying”. Hahahah!!
She can sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and usually she would only sing in a very soft tone. I love to listen to her sing.
I got Adam Uncle to bring over a big box for her & Mag to play with. They love it. I'm going to make hats from cardboard for them to play.
