Isabelle is 2 years old today, but we already celebrated her 2nd birthday days ago. We won’t be doing anything special today except giving her more kisses and hugs. But she got herself a boo boo on her head. Sigh…She fell off the sofa when we were waiting for the doctor for my ear inspection.
One minute later, she fell off the sofa. Sigh…
She’s really playful and active nowadays. Even strangers will tell me how active and “kwai” she is when we are out. A few days ago, we went shopping for Crocs shoes and she ran out from the shop when hubby was picking his. I chased out as fast as possible in my heels and I was glad that I managed to grab her before she ran further. Luckily, Justin didn’t came for us, if not I would have my greatest nightmare if I lose either one of them.
Pretending as Supergirl
But some times, she can be really “lady” and soft, especially when she talks to me. She talks more by joining more words together like “(give) mei mei sweet plz”, “(I) want Tom and Ri (Jelly) now”, “Mommy sleep with mei mei (this one really like full sentence liao), and her favorite phrase, “koh koh naughty, mommy”.
She likes playing with lego Duplo now. Previously, she will just stack them up like a tower, but now I can see some structure. Sometimes she will tell me it’s a train, but most of the time she will just play them quietly and refuses to tell me what they are. Maybe she doesn’t know what she’s doing? I don’t know la…
Isabelle plays Lego a lot
Besides that, she gains some weight. Everyone said that she’s fatter now. She eats a lot since she’s a baby, but lately, her face is rounder and her tummy is bigger. She loves noodles, especially wan tan mee. She can take half a bowl by herself now, and surprisingly, we don’t have to cut the noodles in smaller pieces for her anymore. She can help herself with it.
Enjoying her noodles.
Time flies so fast. My baby girl has grown from a baby…
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.
For the past week, she has started to talk in short sentences like “I want mommy (go) upstairs”, “I want sweet sweet”, “Mei mei (is) here”, “Cannot put (in the) mouth”, “I want milk milk” and etc. She misses out some of the words, but I know what she’s trying to say.
But there’s something about her that I don’t understand, she dirties her diaper more often now. Maybe she’s too playful and only waits until the last minute when she can’t hold any longer, so she poos in diaper. Thank god it only happens like before bedtime or nap time and she has diapers on. If not, what a mess!
She has a favorite song now and it’s called “Gao San Qing”. Wait la, one day, I will capture her singing this on video. Be patient ya?
I’m a bad bad mommy. I promised to update about Isabelle’s progress every month until she’s 2 years old but I didn’t do so on 23 December 2007. We were having a holiday in Bangkok and I couldn’t get a connection until days later. So, sorry ya girl? Mommy will get it done now. I’m having some hard time with her sometimes. It’s terrible two huh? She throws tantrums out of anything unexpected. So, it’s a challenging moment for me to be more patience….*breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out*
I beh shiok!!!
She’s talking a lot now. It’s more on single words on anything! I am always surprised by her when she utters some words that I never know she knows. We only try to correct her when the pronunciation is totally out like for “thank you”, she will say “ka put”. LOL! It’s totally out, but we know what she means. Other than that, she’s doing fine. She’s using words like “I”, “me”, and “mine” now. If you grab her toy, she will cry out “mine mine mine” while whining. She has started singing by following some sounds and words. The songs that she likes are from her Kindermusik CD, and we have been listening to the songs for months!
I wanna be a singer…boleh? (A shot at FIL’s place in Bangkok)
At 20 months old, she’s great at traveling. She’s been to places like Bali, Bangkok and Kuching by flight. She was doing well until our last flight from Bangkok to KL. She’s bored and tired and she was very difficult throughout the flight. One of the passengers thought it’s her first flight and told me to get some pills for her. I told her it’s not, and it was the only time she fussed on plane. Maybe she’s really tired and restless. But with 2 thick-skinned parents who don’t care about what other people think, that doesn’t stop us from planning for more holidays. So, she will still be flying with us, but I need to get some stuffs to occupy them on the plane now.
A shot at Bangkok International Airport
She’s very adventurous and playful. Maybe she has koh koh and jie jie to play with, she’s quite advanced in terms of motor skills. She’s been feeding herself for the past few months, and she likes “drawing” and “writing straight lines”. She loves to play with my mouse too, so I always joke that she’s going to start her own blog one day. LOL!
At the monkey bar… (Justin was playing at the back)
Of course, she’s not as boh kiasi as before. She understands what danger means and she listens to us most of the time. But I found that the boh kiasi-ness is still in her. Here’s a clip on how she reacted to a barking dog.
The dog was in the house compound la…
When it comes to food, she takes anything, even spicy food. She won’t cry after tasting it but will ask for “wover” (water). I love to see her eat. She has no problems with spoon and fork, but she still makes a lot of mess. Hey, she’s only 20 months old, what do you expect?
Trying out a snack in Ayutthaya, Bangkok
BTW, I can stop worrying about her being a tomboy. She’s getting interested in hairpins even if only for a short while. She loves dresses too, but simple way of dressing is still her style. She will not put anything on if she doesn’t like it. So, maybe she get her fashion sense from me.
My Hello Kitty hairpin nice leh?
I like this Minnie tee. Mommy knitted for me.
She has a comfort object. It’s a baby doll without hair. She chose her by herself while shopping at Carrefour. This doll comes with some changing clothes, but she only knows how to strip her naked and laugh at her. LOL! When she goes to bed, she will look for her baby. She will ask me to put clothes on her before hugging the doll and me to sleep.
Isabelle’s baby doll
She’s very adaptable. We don’t have problem traveling with her and she doesn’t recognize the bed or house. So maybe I don’t have to worry too much if we move.
A shot taken at BIL’s house in Bangkok. She likes the trees in the yard.
She knows how to take off her pants and demand for her potty. Accidents still happen, but it’s getting lesser. She is learning to put on her shoes now, but we still have to help her. She likes bathing me, and helping me to clean the table. It’s like I’m having a little helper who’s eager to help, but mess things up for me to clean it later. LOL! Nonetheless, I let her do her share. It’s nice to see how hard she’s trying to be a “grown up”.
I only do the strap lah…
She loves puzzles and she has started playing the 2-pieced puzzles for a month.
I can do 9 sets before I cabut and run away. LOL!
I don’t have plan to send her to school now. She likes school, but I really hope that she can just play at home and have more fun growing up as a kampung kid. Once she’s going to school, I will be very bored at home. Besides knitting, what else can I do? Get paid for doing environmental site assessment meh?
Height: Not measured, but she’s getting taller. It’s getting harder to measure her height.
Isabelle is very independent. Sometimes, she doesn’t look like a 19 months old as she does most of the things by herself. If she speaks well, a lot of people will mistaken her for being more than 2 years old. She only knows some words like “mama, papa, po po, miao (cat), woof (dog), jie jie, nen nen, mum mum, mmm mmm, no more, gai gai, ma (horse), pao pao, and some other sounds that only I understand. But she is more eager to follow us when we ask her to try to talk. Last night, when I was singing the phonic songs with Justin, she followed our singing, especially for the phonic sound of “a, f, h, i, m, o” and “s”. I’m so happy to see how much her has improved in her speech, as comparing to last month.
She has gone to school for 3 days, and today she cried. She was doing well until 11.30am. I got a call from the school telling me to pick her up, but I was already on my way. When I reached there, she was panting with breathe and I knew that she’s been crying a lot. The teacher said she refused to take the porridge and Justin couldn’t pacify her as well. Then my maid realized that we didn’t prepare milk for her as she has to take her milk at 11am. Poor girl…I told the teachers that I will prepare the milk for her, if she’s really ready for school. I am a bit reluctant to start her now, but she likes it. Maybe I have to pick her up earlier if she really enrolls.
Another thing is she likes to look for hubby whenever he’s not around. She will ask for hubby’s photos and “read” this blog to remember those places we went with hubby. Even if hubby is not shown in the photos, she knows that papa took her there. Just now, she kept pointing at Casuarina, signing that she wanted to go there. So hubby promised her that we will go there for hi tea and she was so happy. LOL! She’s getting good at capturing papa’s heart to be his little princess.
But Isabelle is not so girlie yet. While most girls like dolls, my gal like Shrek. *shake head*
Isabelle with Shrek
When we are eating out, she doesn’t like her water anymore and will ask for our drinks. It’s hubby loh!!! Always give in to her and let her take those drinks. So, now she knows that we can have juice or other beverages when we are eating out.
I like orange juice
BTW, she’s very good at dancing. LOL! It’s just that she stops doing it when she sees the viewcam. I have to capture those movements before she grows out of it.
My little girl is one and a half years old today. We brought her for the jabs and she was very uneasy about it once we stepped in the clinic. But after being trained by mommy to be “camera face”, she smiled at the camera before the jab. Can see koh koh at the back hoh? He’s asking to be carried by daddy, but I said cannot as hubby is the only one who is strong enough to hold Isabelle now.
See? She’s struggling to get off daddy’s arms but what to do? The vaccination is a must. But once her paediatrician had done with the job and gave her the sugus, she stopped immediately. All for the power of a sweet. Geng….
I told her paed that she’s not talking much, but he said as long as she understands what we are talking about, she’s perfectly fine. Oh well, just like what I read too. But he asked about the wound on her eye and I said she fell loh…My active little gal! She keeps running around since she knows how to do it now. For the past week, she is learning how to jump and I only hope that she’s not copying the act from Justin who likes to jump from one sofa to another. *shake head*
BTW, she stopped nursing for day 2. So far so good, but I have to get up and rock her back to sleep and keep reminding her that she’s a big girl now and big girl no nen nen. She understands and will fall back to sleep. I just did that half way through writing this post and I know it’s going to take a period of time before she learns how to sleep through by herself.
I will update about her weaning progress after a few days. Hopefully she is not only weaned, but sleeping through as well.
Isabelle is good at climbing up on anything now, especially the chairs. If we are not watchful, she will climb on the chairs and try to climb on the table to reach for the food. That’s why we have to follow her almost everywhere she goes as she is very boh kiasi. Even if she falls, she will cry and shortly after, she will try the same act again.
Can’t blame her. She got this trait from both hubby and I. We are damn stubborn and determined, so does she. She’s willing to try until she makes it and if she climbs up higher, she will give us a satisfying smile while I almost get myself a heart attack.
Here’s my gal again, kacau-ing me this morning when I wanted to blog. But she looked so cute trying to put on her new glasses, so I quickly snapped some photos of her. She didn’t want me to help her and wanted to do it by herself. She’s learning to be more independent now and prefers to do some of the things by herself.
But we will have to wait for her patiently because she can be a bit slow. Of course, it’s normal for her to be slow! She’s still very young mah. It’s just us, we have to resist from helping her.
I was supposed to update about Isabelle on Sunday night, but since the domain is down, there is a slight delay.
Anyway, my little gal is 17 months old now. She’s getting better at expressing herself with her self created signs but sometimes I have no idea what she’s trying to say as well. LOL! Just now, when she was playing in her pool after her bathe, she stood up and give me the milk milk sign with “mm mmm”. I thought she wanted milk but now, she wanted to poo. LOL!
She refuses to copy us when we ask her to learn how to speak. So her progress in speech is a bit slow. So far, she knows “woof woof”, mama, papa, pao pao, yi er (one, two in Chinese), chu (pig), ah (horse in Chinese), yi ya (chicken and duck) and that’s about it! I notice that she tends to pick up Chinese as comparing to English, maybe she’s spending more time with jie jie who speaks in Chinese, so she prefers to learn that language first. But it’s always good to have a few languages, so I still speak to her in English most of the time.
She is very vain, just as oi leng as me. She likes to look at the mirror and smile. Both of us will do it at the same time after brushing teeth or combing her hair. She begins to love putting hair clips on her hair and she loves it when we tell her she is a leng lui. Besides that, she likes to put on lotion on herself and she knows how to open the covers of most of my creams now. Thus, before I know it, she will be finishing my body shop supplies in no time.
I have been thinking if she should go to school with Justin as they take in children as young as 18 months old. I’m not sure if she’s ready, but she seems very keen to follow koh koh in the morning. Maybe she is just curious. But 18 months old at school, too early huh?
Isabelle is 16 months old, and I have been getting a lot of pressure of weaning her off. My mum insisted that she weaned off breastfeeding during our stay in Penang for these few days. Everything is progressing well and she only nurses for less than twice in 24 hours. However, she still has problem going to sleep without nursing, and will be very fussy at bedtime.
I know the day will come anyway, but I thought of delaying it until she is much older. But since she is showing some positive signs of weaning off, I may as well give it a try. After all, it seems like she prefers chocolate milk over breastmilk now.
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Can see koh koh at the back hoh? He’s asking to be carried by daddy, but I said cannot as hubby is the only one who is strong enough to hold Isabelle now.
