Two more months to 3 years old

You are really a demanding little girl who knows how to wrap everyone around your finger.
As you are the youngest in the household, you get your ways at time.
However, most of the time you would have to face Mummy and be satisfied with whatever Mummy gave you.

You enjoyed music and would also asked to listen to your Japanese songs whilst in the car.
These songs were also sang in school when you attend Japanese classes on certain days.
Hopefully, you would be able to pick up a third language easily with the exposure from school.

You also just started attending Sunday school.
You enjoyed it and promised that the next time you would not cry.

You seemed to have an immense interest in learning.
Hence, conducting homeschooling lessons at home in the evenings was an enjoyable process.

At 2 years and 9 months old...

It has been a long time since the last time Mummy updated your little space here.
Let see ...

Your love for books has lessen but has grown and would ask anyone to read to you.
You will insist to carry a book along with you when we are out.
This is very much like your sister.



You love to sing and will sing your way home in the car.
You also like to insist that your sister sang along with you.

You learn very fast and have been showing off to us what you have learnt in school.
Zoo phonics songs... naming shapes... naming animals...

Mummy tried to start some homeschooling with you but the progress is rather slow because of a lot of distractions.
Mummy will try harder to keep to the schedule.


You like to watch Barney, Tigger and Friends, Thomas the Tank, Mickey Mouse on Playhouse Disney...
Your favourite is still Tigger and he is your best-est friend.
You have a total of 5 Tiggers, each for different use.
Your 'rattle head' Tigger is your fave and you would cry for it when it went for a bathe.

You love to work on puzzles and so today I pulled out some from cold storage.
You worked on them independently the whole morning and enjoyed yourself.
Good work, little one!

2 years and 1 month old going on 2 years 2 months old

Some of the things that you like to do at this stage are...

Looking pretty with your sister

Pulling and tugging at Daddy's chest and back hair.

Making funny faces when we whip out the camera to take a picture of you.

Trying to imitate your sister ... here you are trying to play the violin like your sister.

Eating soya bean tarts while we wait for your sister to finish music class.

Although you are still ale to articulate very well, you are very vocal.

You love to sing and usually you will be singing your "nonsense" song.

You love to "complain" to Daddy that Mummy had scolded you or vice versa.

You love to follow behind your sister in the hope that you can do the same stuffs as her.

You love to reach for the books on the shelves to read eventhough they are your sister's.

What you say at 23 months

Your repertoire of words are increasing and it is so fun to hear you tell us what you want.

However, your promounciation is far from accurate and it tickles us to hear you talk and sometimes, we will be like playing a charade trying to guess what you are saying.

Such as...

"I wan nuk" - I want milk -> I want to drink milk

"Opin pease" - open please

"Ta que" - thank you

"I wan pay" - I want play -> I want to play

"I wan pit"- I want sweet -> I want to eat sweet

"Ar choo" - Bless you

"rid boo" - read book

"I wan ti ti" - I want sh sh -> I need to go use the bathroom

"I wan bid" - I want bed -> I want to lie down on the bed

"ta ow pease" - take out please

"I wan do" - I want do

"eat brid" - eat bread

"curi pease" - carry please -> Please carry me

22 months going on to 23 months

Daycare has been going on quite well.

Eczema comes and go but Mummy constantly pray for God's healing.

You have started to be able to "talk".

Your best spoken words are...

"Mine!"

"No!"

"Dou Wan!" (don't want"

"Sing!"

You can be quite demanding and headstrong. You like to sing and will insist that others sing for you.

Your favourite songs are...

Row, row, row the boat

Apple tree

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The wheels on the bus

When you want us to sing, you will show us the action for each particular song and we will have to start singing. If Daddy does not sing, you will command," Daddy, sing!" and if Mummy doesn't sing, you will also command,"Mummy, sing!"

And if you want a change of song, you will command,"Stop! Chane (Change)!" then you will show us the action for the next song.

You like to take a book but sitting down to read seems to be kind of difficult.

You like to draw too.

Music is still your favourite... singing and dancing.

You will also try to have a go at the piano when Ash is practising.

You are in the process of toilet training but you ended up with quite a bit of soiled panties.

You also learn very fast. You learn through observing the people around you and then you will follow.

Your favourite food will be Japanese Cucumber Maki... but I think it is the seaweed that

you like best.

At 21 months

It has been one month since you started childcare.

You enjoyed school and did not put up a big fuss when you were in school.

However, when I pick you up in the afternoons, you will start to whine for my attention.

The past month also saw an increase in your vocabulary even though you are unable to pronounce them correctly.

At the same time, you are also learning to join two words together to form a short phase.

Such as ...

Mummy roll -> this is to indicate mummy rolling the sushi rolls for dinner.

Mummy hand -> indicating that it mummy's hand

Jie jie pain -> indicating a cut or a bruise on your Jie Jie

You have also learnt to say "mine" at the same time pointing to an item to indicate that it belongs to you.

You love to learn through imitating others. So we can teach you the letters of the alphabet by having you repeat after us one at a time. It is the same as counting from one to ten. Although you may not be able to pronounce them accurately, you will not hesitate to try. Mummy likes your sense of determination to learn new things.

This sense of determination also allows you to learn things fast. You learn by watching and observing carefully what others do and you will try to do it yourself next.

You have learnt to hold a pencil in the correct way because you observe how Mummy and Ash does it when we sit down and colour together.

You have learnt to feed yourself in school shortly within a week there as you watch and observe your older friends doing that. Although you were not very good at feeding yourself at the beginning but after three weeks, you have became more confident and have been doing a good job.

You enjoyed to have your hair tied when you see that Ash gets her tied too. You will wait patiently while Mummy ties Ash's hair so that I can tie yours too. All of us thinks that you look very cute with the teeny weeny pony tails.

You also eat a lot... you can much on your cornflakes and biscuits before the school serves breakfast, then eat the breakfast served by the school, lunch, a bottle of soy milk, breast milk when you reach home, more breast milk in between your nap, even more breast milk after your nap, followed by your dinner, thereafter it is spoonfuls of rice when we eat our dinner and, of course, you will end it with breast milk.

Well, Mummy is not very worried about all the eating and drinking as they are all healthy stuff.

At 19 months...

You have not really established the art of talking yet.
However, you can effectively let us know what you want.
A few "words" you use are:
"um" - I want to eat
"eat...eat...eat..." - everyone is eating
"umb" - you are welcome or thank you
"orsh" - shoes, fish, horse
"booo" - ball or balloon
"jiejie" - sister ... Ashlyn
"korkor" -brother
"cheepcheep" - bird
"eow" - cat

You are a rather active baby.
Once you have your shoes on, you are ready to run even in a very crowded mall and that kinds of worry mummy quite a bit.

There is also the toilet training ... not really successful but there are times when you do pee in the toilet bowl.
When you do, you will laugh hapily as you hear the sound of the pee hitting the water in the toilet bowl.
Cute... very cute and usually I will laugh along with you.

You like to go to the big bookshelves to take out "older" books. You will bring them out and wave it around in the hope that someone will read to you. I hope I can put in a little more effort to read to you...

At 18 months...

Walking and running around the house is something that you like to do.
You like to go to the kitchen with me when I cook just so that you can have your biscuit treats.
You will point at the tub of biscuits and said,"um...um..." and nodding your head eagerly.
You also readily help to throw away your soiled diapers or any rubbish that needed to be thrown away.
You started to enjoy reading a bit more than before and reading to you is so much fun.
You enjoys playing with your sister, Ashlyn, and also enjoys irritating her at times too, such as taking away her pencil, ruler and eraser when she was doing her work.
You have also learnt simple manners like saying "welcome" after someone thanked you.
Everytime, we say "thank you" to you for doing a certain task, you will answer," Um..." and that is your version of "welcome.
You will call your sister by putting your hand out to motion her to come and say,"arh... arh..."
You also enjoyed music and dance.
When you hear a lively music, you will clap your hands, shake your body from side to side or shake your butt.
At times, you will also hum along.

Walking...finally!

When we reach the month of May, Aver finally started to walk.
When I say walk, I mean that she willingly, independently, pick herself up from the floor, stand on her two feet and start to walk.
Occasionally, she may lose her balance and land on her bottom but she will stand up and continue.
At times, she will still crawl as she gets around faster in that mode but we will call after her to walk.
And she does.
It started with getting her to help me bring the folded laundry to the destinated cupboards.
She held the folded laundry in her arms tightly and since she could not crawl with her hands occupied, she started to walk awkardly.
Since that particular day, she will try to walk.

Coming to 16 Months

Now you are reluntantly trying to walk.

You prefer to hold on to someone's hands and walk around.

With a lot of encouragement and cheering from Mummy, Daddy and Ash, you will try to stand on your own two feet and take a few steps independently.

You enjoy crawling to the shoe cabinets and attempt to wear the shoes there.

You also love to eat Cheerios and will always go in search of the little tub which stores the little treasure. And it seems like when we eat, you will also want to eat what we are eating.

14 months and 11 days old

You are learning to stand independently and bravely took a step too.
However, you feel better having someone "walk" you.
You love putting on shoes to go for a "walk".
You also enjoy eating Cheerios and learning to bite off bits of it at a time.
That also means that you can be a bit messy.
You enjoy zipping and unzipping bags.
With the bags opened, you will pull everything out and then try to put everything back in again.
You like to bring board books to Mummy but simply will not stay still to be read to.
You have been put on the potty for potty training but you show your displeasure loudly.
Hence, Daddy and Mummy bought a training toilet seat to put over the toilet seat.
You accepted that better.
But toilet training has no success yet but Mummy decided to do it slowly rather than to force it upon you.
You enjoy smiling at people.
Waving at people around you, is the way you show that you are friendly.
You can be rather persistant in the things that you want and will definitely make it known loud and clear.
When you want something, you will go,"Ah, ah, ah..." while pointing at the item.
You enjoy dropping things onto the floor and then say,"uh..oh," looking at us innocently.
You enjoy listening to music.
So when the music starts, you will shake your head and do your little butt shake dance while seated.
Then you have also learnt that shaing your head means "No" while nodding means "Yes".
So when you dislike something, you will shake your head to tell us so and sometimes you will shake it violently to indicate your serious dislikes.
All in all, you are growing up happy and lively.

Reaching 14 Months old - 8 February 2008

At this stage, you should be walking soon so you enjoy practising with the help of your sister or anyone who is willing to entertain you.

There is also the start of potty training. However, you don't seems to enjoy sitting on the potty. So Daddy bought a small toilet seat to add on to our toilet bowl and you seem to like sitting there better.

There is the constant babbling..."ba ba" and so on.

Then there is the dancing when you hear music.
You also like to join your sister during piano practise time.
There is also the fetish over shoes...you enjoy trying to put your feet into shoes...any shoes ... big or small.
The ugly rash is clearing up with God's merciful healing.

At 13 Months - 20 January 2008

A month has passed since your birthday and you grew more teeth.
So with your growing teeth, nursing you can really be quite a painful experience.
On top of that, it is official that your rashes will get worse when Mummy consumes peanut.
Did just that two weeks ago, hence, your already healing rash came back in full force and that hurt Mummy quite a bit.
It does not help that Chinese New Year is round the corner.
Not only Mummy have to bite my lips and shake my head when I see new year goodies made on peanuts... Mummy's favourite.
But, you have less than 20 days to get the rashes healed again.
Toilet training will start soon, like the next day so that you can move on to diaper pants... big gal.
Then there is the walking... you still prefer to crawl as it gets you around faster then having to hold on to someone to walk.
Let see what will happen in a month's time.

First Birthday Celebration - 16 December 2007

Mummy had sewn a dress for you.
Baked cupcakes instead of ordering a birthday cake, invited many to come enjoy the food.
You were quite a good girl as long as you are in my arms.
Tried your very best to be a pretty princess.
You did not let others carry you for long, you did not throw tantrum either.
Everyone said you looked adorable in the dress mummy made.
There are a lot of presents and Red packets.
Thank you, Mummy!

More teeth - 3 December 2007

The top front teeth are out and the top right incisor is also on its way.
You have been grinding your teeth when its time to sleep and it kinds of irks Mummy.
Hopefully, you will stop it soon.


Rashes on the face... one side is cleared up while the other is still rather red.
At times it will get a little infected and that bothers Mummy quite a bit.
The elbows, knees, thighs and calf area also started to sprout small blister-like rashes.
Hopefully with the medication from the doctor's it will be controlled.
Mummy had stopped taking peanuts as it could be the ultimate culprit for the large breakout the last time.
On top of that, the detergent for the floor may also be another culprit.
So that would mean more to be done after cleaning the floor with the detergent...Mummy has to go through again with just plain water.

Whatever it takes to ensure that the rashes do not appear anymore.

Just Photos

Another tooth is sprouting - 13 November 2007

The top right tooth is sprouting so there has been sleepless nights.

There are also more painful nursing since you love to chew... OUCH!

And not to mention that you like to remind mummy that it is time for weight lost by biting on my bulging tummy.

Unfortunately, the rash on your face has not cleared and two small patches appeared on the other side.

Also, your left ear was not spared too.

Then on days when the weather is hot, rashes will break out all over your body.

It hurts to see you scatching away and being a grouch when the temperature goes up.

A happy song for Averlyn

Mummy made up a song as you have been rather cranky.

Averlyn is a happy baby,
and a happy baby is she.
She will smile.
She will laugh ... ha ha ha
She will chuckle ... hee hee hee
when we are together.
Averlyn is a happy baby
and a happy baby is she.

Upon hearing this, you will stop crying.
The power of a happy song.

New tooth - 19 October 2007, Friday

About a week ago, the second tooth made an appearance.
Hence, Mummy got more bites from you when I am nursing you.
You also managed to bite Mummy on the tummy just for the fun of it.

Other than a new tooth, there are new things you have learnt.
You have learnt to wave goodbye to people that you know.
And, you will insist on sending Daddy and your sister to the door when they leave in the mornings.
You started to slap your head recently and that got Mummy a little worried.
After a few times, Mummy realised that you were trying to send out a kiss while saying goodbye.
It can be rather amusing to see you slapping your head whilst trying to send a flying kiss.

Music... it is something that can perk you up.
You will start to "dance" when you hear the music start.

Crawling is not something new but you sure had become better at it.
You like to crawl to the bedroom to look for your sister while she is doing her homework.
Your loving sister will always carry you back out into the living room.
However, you will relentlessly crawl back to the room to look for her.

Babbling Baby - 26 September 2007, Wednesday

You have been very "talkative" now.
Your repertoire of sounds is increasing and the frequency of hearing you "talk" is higher too.
"Bah bah bah"
"Mah mah"
"Aieeee"
"Dah dah"
You also love to "chit chat" with us.
When I mimic your babbles, you will reciprocate with.

You have also learned to sign for "milk" and "no more".
When singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars", you may (when your mood is good) also do the action for the stars.
Clapping hands is also something you have started to do more frequently.
The most recent one would be you waving your arms around. It may refer to "bye" or "hello".

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You like to exercise... in other words, you will pull yourself to stand up against the sofa or the coffee table.
You even attempted to climb onto the coffee table to reach for your favourite remote control or my ball of wool (really wonder whether you are a kitten by nature).