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!