Thursday, January 09, 2014

Sarah - 2 years Q4 update

Morning walk down at the lake; long and short hair shots
Growth milestones
  • This quarter finally saw her potty trained.   Still need to wear diapers during afternoon naps and bedtime sleep as several ‘accidents’ have occurred.   Goodbye to milk bottles, hello to sippy and normal cups.  Bowel movement has been consistently smooth sailing as well.
  • She’s not yet ready for daycare.  Went thrice but didn’t want to continue.  We don’t want to force her, there’s really no immediate need and she might dislike going to school when she needs to.  Another year of playful fun then.
  • Hair cut to a shorter bob.  More manageable and suits her better.
  • Favorites:  wan tan mee and pau (food), Tutu Tots ballet (dance), 20! (number), Little Einsteins (cartoon show), Sofi (frenemy)

Tutu Tots' yearend Christmas class

The seat belt police
Every time the family gets inside the car, she would check who’s not wearing seatbelt and scold that errant passenger.   Even on planes, she makes sure we all wear our seatbelts.  

Bookworm girl
  • Recently bought a significant number books from the Big Bad Wolf sale (in KL!) to accommodate Sarah’s appetite for story books.  Reading experience is hammed up by mama’s voice over and over the top acting for full entertainment value :) 
  • Has this thing of intently reading (and re-reading!) aircraft safety cards.   She’s fascinated and entertained enough, I didn’t need to hand over the ipad during flights.
Took a solo trip to KL to haul books for my bookworm!
More of Sarah-isms:
  • A few weeks before Christmas, I was prepping Sarah that we’ll visit Lola Merly in the Philippines.  I also told her that Ann, our helper, will be going back to Philippines with us.  Sarah asked, “Ate Ann, you going to a different Philippines?”  She had associated Philippines only to my family’s home. J
  • She heard Christmas carolers singing outside my mother's house.  She went out, listened for a while then asked loudly, "Why are you singing at our house?!"!  J
  • “I don't want to friend you, hmmp!” is what we’ll hear if she’s having tantrums/meltdowns, which are getting fewer nowadays.
  • "Ladies and jellybeans" and "Your majesty" when she’s role playing being a princess.
Reading the inflight safety card for the nth time; Sarah and Sofi at Josephine's Tagaytay; having water fun with Sofi at Lola Merly's backyard

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