I wanted to update about Isabelle’s monthly progress but I couldn’t do so when the blogs were being migrated. So this month’s update is late again.

I had a hair cut

Height: Unknown, it’s not easy to measure her anymore!

Weight: 10kg

Her speech development is amazing. She’s started some simple sentences like “Mei mei wanna sleep now” or “Mommy sleep with mei mei”. She knows how to complain about Justin too, and her favorite one is “Koh koh naughty, mei mei no naughty.” She likes to put “no” in front of other verbs to stress a negative statement, such as “no can” which means cannot or “no touch” which means don’t touch her toys and etc.

Me “Jabel”

I’ve been teaching her to pronounce her name or using “I”, but she still calls herself “mei mei”. Sometimes, she will say “Jatin (Justin) and Jabel (Isabelle)”. Maybe it’s kind of hard to pronounce her own name huh?

Ever since we left her with my parents while hubby and I were away in Bangkok, she’s getting very clingy to me and hubby. During the day, she will ask “Papa leh?” and I will tell her that papa’s at work. Maybe she has the phobia of mommy and daddy not being around, so she’s insecure about it.

Her terrible two tantrum is truly terrible. When things are not going her way, she will bump on the floor and throw a tantrum. I used to comfort her but I felt like it’s making things worse. So, I ignore her cries and kicks until she cools down. It’s working so far as she stops crying faster and will come hugging me and tell me what she wants instead of crying out loud. Frankly, I can feel that my temperature is rising each time she throws a tantrum and by walking away, I can calm myself better. But when she’s not angry, she’s an angel.

I got dimple, can you see?

She’s getting bored with her 2 piece puzzles and that animal puzzle is too simple for her now. She’s more interested in Justin’s old alphabet set, but she can only complete 4 letters randomly. She doesn’t know the name of the letters but just putting them in place by their shapes. She loves repeating the letter “O” over and over again because it’s the easiest!

Playing the alphabet set

She can recite some of the words of the books we read to her regularly. I would normally stop at the last word of a sentence and she will complete it for me. She knows which page to flip if I ask her question about the story or certain object. She won’t read too long, the most I can do with her is 2 books at a time and she will proceed to playing something else.

I’m looking more like mommy loh…

She loves singing too. I still can’t capture her singing “Gao Shan Qing”. She doesn’t sing the whole song but most of the words. She stops once she sees the camera! She loves dancing too, and I managed to catch her dancing without her knowing it. Once she heard hubby say “Dear, you taking a video ah?”, she came for it. Gee…

BTW, her boyfriend came back from UK. LOL! My neighbor matched them up and said that his grandson and Isabelle are a couple.

Sip pun loh…

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