Ern is 16-Months-Old

A good friend of Mummy, Miss K was making a very ‘creative’ statement when another good friend (whom is a mummy), Miss L shared her 6 years old girl’s professional photo – “those of us who are ahead of the curve are heading towards becoming ‘ancient’ when reminded by friends who have children”.

The statement is very true indeed. I can still remember Miss L was trying to ‘create opportunity” for me and hubby by inviting him to her wedding years ago….:-)

Time flies, her girl is going to Primary 1 next year while Ching Ern turns 16 months today!! At 16 months:

Vital Stats:
Height: 81cm
Weight: 10kg
Teeth: 8 in total - 4 top 4 bottoms (can see whitish spot sprouting out on the top)

Dietary:
Proper Solid: 3 times per day (1 porridge, 1 cereal/wheat at 6+pm & dinner at 8pm)
Light Solid/Snack: Round the clock whenever she is awake or we are eating/munching
Milk: 1X of 6oz at Poh Poh’s house & 2X of 8oz when she is with us

Development:-
- Her appetite is BIG. Sometimes, Poh Poh is a bit worried if she will have digestion problem. At 6+pm, she finishes her cereal in a 2/3 of a soup bowl with 6oz of water down. Then at 8pm, she can take around 2 big spoonfuls of rice + soup + vege + fish. At 9.30pm, she takes another 8oz of milk. A lot??

- When she hears fast beat music, she will dance by moving both of hands, just like how we show ‘driving’ hand sign.

- When she wants to watch Little Einstein, she will point to the TV and pat her knee. After then, she will climb up to the sofa, sitting at her ‘favorite spot’ and wait for us to turn on the TV.

- She is able to relate “eat = must sit in high chair”. So, whenever we ask her ‘want to mum mum’, she will walk to her high chair and ask us to put her in.
Whenever she wants to eat ice-cream, this is what she will do in sequencing manner - she will walk to us, hold our finger, pull us to the fridge, point to the upper compartment’s door, open her arms wide to indicate she wants to be carried, open the fridge door and point to the ice cream!

- She knows she must wipe her feet whenever we step out from the bathroom. She will rub her feet on the clothe.

- She can tell which remote is meant for what. For example, if she is holding a fan remote control, she will press the button by lifting her hand up towards the fan direction. When she is taking TV/Astro remote, she knows to press on the red button, which is the on/off button

- She is learning to jump by stomping her leg though it was small lift from the ground. She enjoyed doing it (who doesn’t!)

- We are seeing improvement on her keeping her toys. Hopefully this will sustain and less ‘clean up the mess” job for mummy! LOL

- She is able to squat down to let us wash her bum bum and wee.

- She loves to stack on the canned food than her stacking toy


Vocab:
- Flower
- Tar (she is referring to Honey Star)
- Wee ( Fish – obviously she can’t pronounce the “f” and “s”
- Ah ( she is referring to Astro’s Channel 315 “Wa TV”. Instead of “Wa”, she said “ah”)
- Bird

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