Huirou @ 14 months

Umm well... at 14 months 1 week cause it gets harder to back track the longer I procrastinate

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• Has EIGHT teeth already.
  
• We are moving her to 2 meals plus a mid afternoon snack since she seems to lose interest in her food already.
  
• So I've begun to be really creative in what I feed her (and hence the sporadic posts :) )
• Her naps are still alternating between 1-nap days and 2-nap days. It seems like she cannot make up her mind to move on to 1 nap a day :)
• Have ALL her immunizations completed already.
  
• last month I bought her a pair of size 3 shoes and now I've just bought her a pair in size 4! Her size 3 lasted 3 weeks!! So I just bought them in the same design (Lazy to find lar!)
  

Physical Development and Communications

• She's walking, NOT. she may take baby steps on her own but she's not gain a sense of balancing yet
• but the funny thing is she can get up on her own by sticking her butt in the air and then push off her arms to stand straight
• And of course she can squat for a long time now
• Her pincer grasp is great, being able to pick up grains of rice now.

Character and Temperament

• She's also developing a headstrong personality; when she's angry she grinds her teeth o_O and I didn't teach her that ok??
• She's also rather impatient and will whine endlessle if made to wait

Huirou loves the outdoors. She gets especially excited when I tell her that we are going to the park ( the playground just outside our house). She knows the Jusco near our house and when we are near it she show us her cute face :0

Huirou @ 13 months

Growth, Food Intake and General Well Being

• Her 6th tooth finally sprouted. This tooth was a particularly difficult one to grow. I think it took 3 months maybe?
• She gets 2 full meals a day, usually including dessert (fruits). Sometimes I will pack along a snack for her to the sitter's house, mostly fruits that keep well. On top of that she gets all the breastmilk she wants.
• She's finally had a taste of some salty foods, but she will eat her slightly bland food when I forgot to salt. (She's been salt-free for the past few months, and I sometimes forgot to season her food properly. I know, bad momma)
• She loves to eat breads, especially the crusty heel of a baguette.
• She prefers rice over her rice porridge (congee), perhaps because she perceive our food as tastier?
• She takes 2 short naps during the weekdays and usually only 1 longer nap at home. Unsurprisingly because we have airconditioning and a very quiet room compared to the sitter's :P

Physical Development and Communications

• This girl can roll around and laze in bed *grin*
• Although she enjoys walking with her hands held, She is still rather suspicious of walking on her two feet alone. She does enjoy leaning on walls and furniture to stand... This is so that she can hold items in both her hands
• But she's learnt to squat for extended period of time. She can also pull to stand from her squat.
• She will pick up objects from the floor and inspect them rather carefully; she especially loves the cracks and crevices in out floor/wall.
• She is also rather apt an getting on and off furniture and stairs but we watch her like a hawk.
• Her pincer grasp is developing rather well that she can hold onto her cookie tightly
• She likes the tar tar song. It took me a while to figure out it's Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! No wonder she was opening and closing her palms. Aiyaaa...
• She will also point to the sky when I say birdy and to the faraway ground when I say dog.
• She says
• She understands that I want her to sit down zhor zhor but complying is another story ...
• She learnt how to pray when we say paipai (pray pray: meaning the altar). She will hold her palms together and move them up and down.
• When I ask her finish up her cookie by saying aaahm, she will put whatever is remaining in her hands into her mouth. even if it is a rather large chunk of food.
• She will tug her shirt when asked if she wants to bath bumbum
• She regularly tells us hmmmph hmmmph that she needs to use the potty; however, she cannot differentiate yet how to say poo or pee. She will also say the same if she went already o_O

Character and Temperament

• This month we see some personality developing! Oh gosh.
• She is willful, always wanting to do things her way. She will thow a tantrum when she doesn't get her way or when some thing is taken away from her. So we try not to take anything from her, not because we spoil her but because we want to teach her that it is not ok to take by force.
• When asked nicely she will hand you objects with a Nah. Cute
• Her persistence in hide and seek will send her looking for a hidden object for a full 15 minutes.
• She's very loving. She will frequently approach us to kiss or hang onto our legs for attention. Sometimes she will just look up and smile while playing.

I started this post being very angry at her because she was spitting out her food (She's had enough) the entire evening and then asking for more food. Then she bit me and when I scolded her she threw a fit and refused to be comforted. I even told Hubs that I have nothing to blog about and she has not grown at all. The amount I have written surely is an indication that she's more angel than devil, and usually only devilish when provoked or tired. Come to think of it, I myself behave crabbily when feeling tired.

Huirou's Many Faces

This little girl is very expressive nowadays. It is an understatement when I say that she wears ALL her emotions on her sleeves. One moment she can be happily giggling away, suddenly she will be yelling on top of her voice wanting something.



When I scold her yai yai (naughty) She makes a sad face and usually will cry if neither Hubs nor I proceed to console her

When she needs to use the potty she goes hmmmmph hmmmmph in a rather unladylike manner. But it gets our attention because it is so unlike all the other little (or big) sounds that she makes. She does this for both pee and poo, though.

When she is surprised, or want our attention diverted to something she sees she goes ohh! and points.

She is constantly keeping us on our toes, and when she goes to bed at night, I sigh in relieve and Hubs will recount the number of times that she went from smiley to cry-baby to smiley to cry-baby to smiley to cry-baby to smiley with a few diva antics thrown in for good measure.

Huirou's 1st Birthday Celebration

We had a small intimate celebration for Huirou at home on the weekend before her birthday. I ordered cupcakes because we planned to share them on Jonathan's birthday with friends.

The cupcakes were from +wondermilk.

Hubs and I sang Happy Birthday loudly and clap so hard our palms were red.


Huirou, being Huirou, was oblivious to all our attention-grabbing antics (we were trying to get a nice photo). She was paying attention to the cupcakes. Somehow, she knew they are edible and was trying to grab them

After 15 minute, I got angry (Snap lar! she's smiling) and Hubs got frustrated (You think so easy, meh?) so we decided that the pictures are good enough. (yaya, we'll post them later) This is one where she's trying to say hi.

Beijing Olympics 2008

What the Olympics have got to do with a baby, you ask?

Well, this is Huirou's first olympics.

Although she doesn't quite know yet what all the excitement is about, she senses the excitement in the air.

Instance #1,
we were having our dinner at a Nasi Kandar outlet near our house one evening, and as usual plenty of people were glued to the screen. Fine, alot more than usual. Infact, the place was packed. It turned out that we arrived 20 minutes before the badminton semi-finals ends. People were cheering and routing for our very own Lee Chong Wei. Huirou was laughing an clapping to the "YES! YES! YES!" shouts of the crowd.

Instance #2,
Since by now we know that Datuk Lee have won the semis, it is natural that we watch the finals too. This time, at my home in Ipoh comfortably. Although the "crowd" is much smaller, we were plenty excited. She laughed and laughed at us cheering (oklah, also to our aiyah's....) Needless to say, I was watching her more than the game.

I will remember how suddenly, during the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, my baby became so excited over an event she barely knows about.