About My Clever Baby

I am not trying to blow my own horn here, but I am really amazed at how smart my baby is becoming. At only 19 months, she can comprehend at least 80% of the things that I tell her. Even though she may not be able to speak out alot of words, she is able to do what I tell her to do most of the time and respond correctly.

I can say almost anything, like put the toys back into the bucket, fetch me that or this, stop doing this or that, please do this or that, etc, and she will be able to respond accordingly. Very smart indeed.

Since dunno-when, she has started to call me 'Mummy' instead of Mama, and I don't even know who taught her that word. Perhaps, unknowingly, I've been telling her things like, 'Come, Mummy give you... Mummy feed you..', and she kind of realised that I am Mummy, and since it sounds nicer than Mama, she decided to switch to that. Haha.. I am happy of course, since I think Mummy sounds nicer and more personal than Mama. =)

Her latest 2 favorite phrase now are 'I want...' and 'I don't want....', Yep, you are right. She may well be entering the Terrible Wonderful Two stage. Now, her D character is showing mightily in everything that she does. She has a mind of her own, and knows very well where she wants to go and what she wants to do.

Here, my little girl is trying to pour the packet drink into her milk bottle, cos she knows I won't let her drink straight from the packet, but if it's in her bottle, I might. She didn't succeed of course. :)

Although she started walking rather late only at 14 months or so, her speech picked up pretty fast on the contrary. Now, she can say many single-syllable and some double-syllable words. She can pronounce Yes and No very clearly and uses them at the right time to tell us what she wants or does not want. She will say 'woo woo' when she sees a dog and 'bus' when she sees a bus on the road.

Her favorite accessory now are her shoes. When we tell her we are going out soon, she would run quickly to the shoe cabinet and chant, 'Shoes! Shoes!'

When you pass her a comb, she will proceed to comb her hair. When you pass her a handphone, she will proceed to listen and talk into it. When you pass her a hand cream tube, she will squeeze the tip of the tube into her open hand. When you pass her a facial blotter paper, she will press it against her face again and again. When you pass her an ipod nano, she will put the earphones into her ear and proceed to press the buttons as if she is choosing the songs. And these are just some of the things that she can associate with and imitates what we do.

Talking about toilet-training, we haven't succeeded in getting her to tell us whenever she wants to urinate. But surprisingly, she would come tell us when she wants to do the big business. Most of the time, it's quite accurate and we are able to put her on the potty before she actually 'does it'. Haha..

So you see, my daughter is indeed growing fast. It used to be that I would be able to blog about every single development or new thing that she's doing. But now, I can't catch up with her. She picks up new words frequently & can repeat after us. I guess I can only do a periodic update like this to capture what new progress she's made.

Gosh, amazing how fast a kid grows.. =D