Reverie Glynisebella Zhang Yue Xi
张悦希 ; 喜「悦」 和 「希」望
Date of Birth: 17th Feb 2010
Period of Gestation: 37 Weeks
Place of Birth: Thomson Medical
Weight at Birth: 2485 grammes
Length at Birth: 48 cm
Head Circumference: 32 cm
This Wednesday,, 17/08/2011,, my little Baby Queencess will be turning 18 months!
Time just pass so quickly! She's just a little baby a blink an eye ago! And now she's a mischievous, cute and lovable toddler :D She have grown and learn so much beyond our imagination. She's the apple of the family and nobody can don't love her! (Okay lah don't say I bhb I mean within the family, haha!)
I believe I never really blog about her growth process month by month as I don't really have the American time to do so. And today's blog entry will just be an overview of what a girl she is as of now :D
From 0-12 months, her developmental milestones will always be very average. In the sense that when a book says by this month, a baby should be doing this and achieving that, she will be spot on. Not any faster or slower. So she flipped at 3 months, sit up at 7 months, crawled at 8 months and etc
Everything accelerated for her the moment she past her 1st birthday.
She started walking at 12 months, few days before she turned 13 months. And I'm very surprised as I thought she would be walking at a later stage as she has a smaller feet (compared to other babies) and is wibbly wobbly. My mum made her stand and walk to her just days after she mastered how to stand on her own. Every of her milestones achieved I would be so excited and happy for her, exactly how a mum would be. Haha!
So for the next week, I brought her to the playground frequently where she would be more motivated to walk. And the next week, she's walking more stable and frequent. Alot of falls in the process but I'm glad she learn to fall safely, like on her butt or on her hands. Her teachers and us also realizes that she's not afraid of pain. So that's one of the factor that didn't stop her from continuing to practice how to walk.
Speaking of pain, she did bump her head real hard in school and at home real hard and doesn't even made a sound, she do cry sometimes but most of the time, no. But now as she grow up, she's abit more whiney and did whine instead of cry to get our attention, haha!
Anyway, after her 1st birthday, her comprehension skills improved much more. Suddenly she follows instructions very well, will use her baby language to tell you or drag you to what she wants. But of course, the following instructions part is very much depends on her mood, :X
When she's around 13 months, I begin to go through Little Reader more consistent than before with her. Previously I play two days stop 1 week that kind -.- (Now also like this, LOL)
She love it alot which I always have no idea why, haha! I find it pretty monotonous, but then again, she is a baby what. So she starts to look forward to her daily sessions of Little Reader by pulling me to the laptop which plays it.
At around 14-15 months, she knows almost all the main body parts by pointing them to you when you name them [Head, hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, hands, fingers, legs, bellybutton, toes and etc]
Using Little Reader supposedly have her to read some words by then but due to my laziness, #Fail :X
At 15 - 16 months, I uses the Little Reader's flash notes in their presentation folder to go through the words with her, as she loves body parts so much, she would always relate them to her nose, LOL.
At the same time, she's picking up her language skills. Start to say words and etc. Her way of talking always makes us laugh and smile non-stop :D Her favorite thing then is the MRT! Would give flying kisses and wave goodbye to them whenever she sees them.
Then will be some simple action words, like smile, hug, kiss, wave, stand, sit, clap, dance, cry, hug and etc. The most funny thing is when she tried to show us 'cry' when we asked her to do so, she will really close half her eyes and go 'wu wu wu' like Liang Popo, LOL :X
When she's around 16 months plus, I brought her to the library to borrow some babyish books for her. When I pointed to her the lion, she actually roar @.@! I thought I hear it wrongly so didn't pay much attention to it, HAHA!
Few days later, I was reading to her the Little Reader's storybooks, there's this page talking about the elephants' nose and suddenly she do a action imitating the elephants' trunk. I thought I saw wrongly so I asked her to do it again and she did, LOL!
Then when she saw tigers and lions, she would roar! Did checked with her teachers and they say they did read books to them that's why Reverie knows. So glad that she could relate different pictures of the same animal with their sounds :D
So now at 17 months plus, she could do some of animals sounds/actions when we name them like tiger, lion, dog, cat, duck, cow and etc.
Did try teaching her the alphabets and she could repeat after me. But after sometime she love skipping it. Like
Me: A Rev: A Me: B Rev: C!
-.-! So yeah. Lol, ask her say the B she will keep goes C c c c c until happy then repeat the B.
For speech wise she's okay, picking up words here and there. Now ask her in Chinese want this or that anot she will reply "Yao". Able to repeat after us most of the animals, body parts and animals word.
She's able to repeat after us whenever we tried teaching her new words, normally 2 syllabus max, haha!
Also, she can pronounce her English name surprisingly well and accurate! Not like 100% but it's alot better considering it has 3 syllabus and my mum couldn't even get it right until now, LOL.
And Reverie like children alot! She will always address them didi, jiejie, meimei, korkor or baby whenever she sees them. Most of the time I must correct her coz normally she doesn't get it right (except for baby), haha!
She love going out, will always be very friendly to strangers, sometimes will pretend to be shy :X. However some people, which I dunno why, if she really don't like them, she will turn the other side and try to avoid eye contact. Haha.
My mum and teachers did mentioned to me that she's a fast learner. But I'm not sure about it myself because I'm a first time mum and have no siblings of hers to compare to, but then why compare? Healthy can already right :D
This near 18 months of journey is definitely not easy. Reverie is not an easy baby to deal with as she's a breastfed baby. Without me around, handling her is like trying to murder yourself, LOL! Very fussy and demanding baby as well. Not easy to handle definitely, but might be a different story in school because there are more friends for her to play with.
That's why I especially thank her group of infant care teachers, my mum, dad and brothers who took really good care of her whenever I'm working or studying. She wouldn't be able to achieve and learn everything she knew as of now without their guidance and love. Very grateful to what they have done!
Now that she's turning 18 months soon, she will be promoted to the toddlers' class on September. I bet Reverie would miss the group of teachers who took great care of her since she's 3 and a half months till now. From a baby who can't even flipped till now a running toddler. Time past too fast!
Lastly, Advance Happy 18 Months to my Baby Queencess,, Reverie Glynisebella! Hope that you would grow up to be a healthy, cheerful, happy, beautiful, kind and loving girl :D Mummy, Daddy and everyone loves you! ^^v