so this is what i been up to lately.. =)

preparing for the little girl's first birthday party!

i have settled her birthday cake.
here are some cake i saw and like online.

requested for ruffled buttercream cake and aunty ivy says she is going to make a HUGE cake for her.. i am excited!!

going to make the little bunting and find a cake topper. =)
should i crochet her cake topper too? i am such an overachiever that i am starting to find it irritating. but then if i dont do for her, who i do for?

i am not going to lie but i am enjoying myself while i do all these things. it brings back memories of my younger days where me, meli and other fom-er would paint our shirts and stuff, bake muffins and all other artsy stuff. we even paint youth room, including a mural. we were so proud of ourselves. 

ojisan, tigeress, pj and i would also make birthday cards/presents for each other, decorating the classroom (my favourite back then was chalk on black paper. i would even wax it later so that the colour would not come off) and spending endless time on decorating autograph books. lol. 

i loved making friendship bands. no pattern was too difficult for me. #nojoke 

i can even design my own band. that was how insanely i was obsessed with it.

but as i grew up, other stuff took time away from my love for craft. =(

like diablo, sims3, etc.. hahahaha

i wonder will the little one be like me also. 

then i will have a kaki to do such stuff together.. 

but then if she like me also not good. later end up like me never study keep doing all these 有的没的.. lol.. 

something useful to have since now baby can "talk". =)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2797466/the-handy-guide-toddler-speak-poos-farts-hello-telephone-booby-trap-bra-ghost-broccoli-cauliflower.html

repeat after me, F L O W E R

went to visit my grandma who had a fall last night, again. she was just discharge from the hospital on monday from her previous fall on last tues night. she is fine from both the falls but just weak and tired. she is also a little paranoid that her time might be up. =(

anyway, while we were there, jelly took the little girl to grandma's garden. she came back and told us that the little girl can say flower.
sceptical me: are you sure?! couldn’t be lah.. you must [have] heard wrongly.

kaven later took her out and came back with the same response, she really can say flower ley!
still sceptical: oh really? [in my head: the little one must have said something that sounds like flower…]

just now at my mil place, the little girl was in the walker passing-by little zt who was having her dinner. she stopped and pointed to her dress and said "flower", in front of me.

now i have to accept the fact that my baby toddler knows what is a flower and can say it. -_-"

was struggling to keep awake through a series of 4hrs morning talks. was blaming myself for not bringing along my organiser so that i at least have something to scribble on to help me stay awake. 

keep switching my phone to flight mode to save power cus i won't be in office the whole day and have dinner appointment tonight. 

after lunch, i opened my bag and miraculously, both the organiser and power bank (fully charged and with cable) is in my bag?!

oh where oh where is my brain?

and today i am late for 10mins. what is happening to me? :( 

11 months.

i know there have been instances that the little girl have been walking steps unassisted long before today. But today, is the day i saw with my own eyes and they were slow and steady steps.

MY BABY CAN WALK! and so now the day i have been dreading is here. she is not a baby any more - she is officially a toddler! =( i got no more baby.

for the record, she is almost 10kg and is 73cm tall.

so she can walk and likes to crawl after me.. i love that - she is like the puppy i never had.
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she understands a lot of things but cant communicate yet. that is quite irritating for me but more for her. she points a lot nowadays and "speak" some long sentences that i cant understand. there was once i asked if she could repeat herself. she did. but i still do not understand a single thing. so i told her, i am sorry that i can not understand her. she gave me that look and probably thinking to herself, tough luck, my mom aint that smart... -_-"

she learnt a whole lot of stuff this month when staying with my in-laws.

this is her in good mood at my in-laws - playing by herself.

but her 奶奶 told me that, when she does not want to be in the crib while she does some chores, the naughty little girl would stick her legs out of the crib and pretend its stuck or something and cry. 

so have to have a friend to accompany her.

lol.

she has learnt to put her hands to her ear and pretend to make a call. but nowadays she prefer the real phone. give her one and she will put it next to her ear. hahahaha..

she knows was is a 熊貓, 風扇 / fan, lights, etc. can wave good bye, sign for milk (which she use also for food), stand on her own and clap. know how the play the chinese tambourine.

thanks to her 奶奶 who have been practising hard with her. 

she also practised to walk a lot this month.

using her daddy as human walker. 

she think its so funny (so did we!) and you can hear her laughing.. 

she got a hand me down float from her 大伯母 which she enjoyed using..

you can see her keep slapping the waters and kicking to move around.

i am so glad that her "baby-sitter" is back from her canada trip and the little girl is slowly adjusting back to her formal schedule.

cant wait for next month and she will be ONE! can you believe it? i cant. =P

i dont know about other babies, but i know my baby and i know my baby understands me perfectly well.

just last week, i took her to our new place. she crawled towards a socket and wanted to stick her finger in. i told her "no" sharply and briefly explained that its dangerous to do that. i dont expect her to know why but she knows that she should not stick her finger into one. she tried to stick her finger in again but held her finger near the hole and look at me as if waiting for me to tell her no. i told her no and took her finger away. she tried the same thing again - putting her finger near the socket hole and waiting for me to say no. after a few firm "no"s, she crawled off to find new stuff to play with.

like making noise with the stools.

playing in the box.

hahaha.

i am pretty upset cus it seem that there are people who thinks otherwise and people who knows me know that i am pretty cool with different opinions except when they start to force it down my throat. i dont even think they know my baby as well as i know her before saying such things. i also know that i should not be bother by such comments but i really put in a lot of effort to understand her and communicating with her. i really feel angry that people, who matters to me, just writes off my effort so easily. =(


just another proof my baby understands.

saturday morning, i took her out of the room and place her on the floor while i make her morning bottle. she started to whine and cry and do not want to be place there on her own. so i told her to follow me while i boil some water and sterilised her bottles. she understood and was smiling happily with her new task – to follow me. so i had a little puppy crawling happily behind me while i go in and out of the rooms and kitchen.

she also understands “time out”. she was throwing a tad too much tantrums on sunday and her dad gave her a time out of 5 minutes. at first she struggled and was angry but her dad and i held firm. she sat in her dad’s lap quietly for more than 5 minutes! SEE! she understands!


i dont think my baby is smart. my baby IS smart.

for the first time, my daughter peed on me... -_-"