Ern is 21-Months-Old

Vital Stats:
Height & Weight: Didn’t measure
Teeth: Still 14

Dietary:
Proper Solid: 2 times per day ( lunch & dinner)
Light Solid/Snack: Round the clock
Milk: 3X per day (5-6oz each serving, we are cutting down her milk intake since she takes heavy solid meal

Development:
1) The biggest development over the past few weeks is on her vocabulary. Although she is very much still talking in single word, she surprised us when she said “Ma, go down” one day. Which I think she is almost there to ‘break’ the barrier and speak out. New words that she can say (those I can remember) are:

- Kakult (Yakult and Tesco)
- Potty (she says this very clearly)
- Cold (pronounce it very clearly too)
- Bloon (balloon)
- Ba-ber (burble)
- Bite
- Kito (mosquito)
- Moon
- Tar (Star)
- Ouk (House in Cantonese)
- Ti (Aunty)
- Por (Poh Poh)
- Pong (Prawn)
- Yu (fish - she used to say wee but somehow it changed. Not sure if she is saying it in Mandarin or English. Nvm :-)

2) She is able to understand the same thing in 3 different languages – English, Mandarin & Cantonese like Fan/Fong Shan/Fong Shin

3) She loves drawing & coloring. These activities can easily get her to sit still easily 30 mins. However, 30 mins later, we will see a pair ‘colorful hands’ on her.

4) She loves sticker – stick on it and peel them off. Again, this is another activity that can get them to sit still like 20 mins, depending how many stickers we give her.

5) She understand & takes instruction more like:
- Can only draw/color on a book. Occasionally, she curi-curi to draw on the table and when I ‘happ” on her, you can see she quickly move her marker back to the drawing book while give us an innocent “ I am sorry” look. LOL
- Keep her toy before she can ask us to give her something else

6) Peer pressure: This is a very powerful influencing tool to educate our kids on certain things. For the past 2 sessions at her Kindermusik class, Ern refused to return the music instruments when I asked her to do so. However, when I told her other toddlers are returning and asked her to see herself, she automatically walked up to the teacher and return without a fuss! Sai ler huh!

7) Thank goodness she is able to sleep through the night now, after I found out her ‘transitional object’ – her own bed. Phew!!

8) Poh Poh reckon Ern will have big foot as she outgrown her shoes very fast. Wonder when she grows up, if we can share the same shoes. Haha

9) She likes hard & crunchy food texture, like crispy ikan bilis (anchiovis), Capsicum, biscuit, vege’s stem, etc


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