Happy Hearts Day everyone! How cute is my little princess in her Valentines Day shirt?! We didn’t do anything as a couple today, it is the first day of the Lunar New Year anyway so most stores are closed and it is more fun to go out as a family. We had a nice family dinner at Seoul Garden and we were so full afterwards (the buffet was totally worth it). We went to Timezone after dinner and Iyah had so much fun playing at the arcade. We got a card and we will definitely go back there next time.

She’s been amazing us constantly. I still feel bad about not posting a lot here but I’ll try to make up for lost time…

Of course every parent thinks their child is smart and beautiful and I’m one of those parents (love your own di ba). Since she’s our first everything she does is just plain amazing to us, we don’t have anyone to compare here with (not that I want to do that of course).

She can recite and identify the letters of the alphabet. She likes looking at my shirt and telling me the letters she identify. We’re working on the lowercase letters right now as she is more familiar with the uppercase letters.

She can recite and identify numbers. She’s still forgets some numbers from eleven to twenty but she’s getting better in pronouncing them. She can identify numbers one to ten.

She can identify common animals such as dog, duck, cat and imitate the sound they make.

She can identify shapes. She knows some of the colors too such as pink, yellow and purple.

She convey what she wants to say more clearly. For instance…

Daddy wer? Daddy are youuuuu? = Daddy where are you?
Daddy wer?
Wow coooo = Wow cool!
Oh noooo! Happen? = Oh no! What happen?
Mommy here! Mommy here! = Mommy come here!
Pweeese = please
Teyk Ker! Ha fun! = Take Care! Have Fun! (She hears this all the time from me)
O ayt = Good night
Siiit Down = Sit down
Bubash = Tootbrush

She can identify and name her the characters in her favorite shows such as Barney, Beejay, Bebe Bop, Minnie, Mickey, Pocoyo, Pooh. She love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, Barney, Tigger and Pooh right now. She prefers Mickey Mouse over Barney these days.

It’s fun when she’s watching the shows because she laughs at the funny parts (always fun to hear) and gasp on the mishaps (she will really say Oh no!) and dance when there’s dance routines involved.

She’s still a picky eater although her weight falls in the upper 50% margin so we’re not worried and so is her pediatrician. She loves chicken rice, any soup (miso soup, cream of mushroom and clam chowder are her favorites), fish, french fries, bread, biscuits. She loves drinking juice so her daddy would make papaya or watermelon juice for us and we let her drink from the glass.

She already ate her first peanut butter sandwich. I waited until she’s two before I let her try one and she’s okay with it.

She now wears a size seven shoes. I think size six will still fit her but it does look small on her.

She still takes three hour afternoon naps and sleeps a bit late.

That’s all I have right now.

Yes we finally got rid of her pacifier, it’s been one week now. This didn’t happen overnight, this little girl loved her pacifier a lot. For the past couple of months ( I think six months ago) I’ve been trying to wean her from her “paci” as she calls it. I knew it won’t be easy to I tried doing it slowly. We started by not taking the pacifier with us when we go out. Then after that I lessen the number of times in a day that she gets to have her paci. She would still ask for it when she remembers and sometimes we give in when she cries. I knew I wanter her completely weaned from her paci before she turns two so Tuesday last week I took both her paci and put it away when she was busy playing. It wasn’t easy for the first two nights, she would cry at night even when she’s already sleeping asking for her paci. I just comforted her and whisper to her ear that she can’t have her paci anymore. After those two nights eveything was easy. As of today she doesn’t ask about her paci anymore, except last Saturday when she saw a picture of a baby with a pacifier then she remembered. The next thing I want her to learn, potty training…wish me luck.

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Actually there’s a lot and I feel bad for not writing about it because I will forget some (or a lot of them) and I call myself a scrapbooker (lol). So my baby is now 21 months old. I’m already planning her birthday party: I have a few prospects but I still can’t decide. Some of the locations are good but it’s a bit far and I worry about how the guests will go there. I have to choose a place first before deciding on the theme and other things. It is exciting and sad because before I knew it she’s two years old.

She loves piggy back rides. You mention “piggy back” and she’ll come running towards your back and wrap her arms around your neck.

She sings the abc, some of the letters we can understand but the rest just rhymes with the sounds in the song.

Loves to color, I have to watch her though or else she’ll color everywhere (my husband worries about our off white walls…hehehe).

Undress herself with minimal supervision. Tries to wear her shoes too.

Moves the furniture around.She loves pushing the chairs and her high chair all over the place.

Eating well. She’ll eat anything now, I’m not sure if she’s eating a lot but at least she’s not picky.

Reads her books on her own. It’s fun to watch how she reads aloud and points at things.

She has 15 teeth now, some just erupted and some are halfway there. It doesn’t bug her anymore.

That’s some of the things I remember for now. I just want to post before I forget about it again. She is indeed growing up.

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