I was down with flu on 15 June and the condition became worse on 18th as the Mr. Cough bug came to me… sigh. Therefore, I was fetched by mummy & Nai Nai to see Pd again on last Friday. Yup, daddy was out of town over the weekend for 3 days lor.

Well, nothing very serious. Just that I have lots of phlegm and nose blocked badly. However, the bad news is…. I need to take these colorful syrups! From two to 4 types!

I don’t like any of them… yucks! I would retreat the moment I saw the adults preparing the medicine. I kept telling them that I don’t want but they still force me to take the medicine…

Well, let me share a brief update on my 19 months old milestones…

Vital Statistics as of 23 June 2009:

Weight:

Pretty sure reduced a little already… coz I’m sick!

Height:

Didn’t measure

Teeth:

Two upper cuspids on the left and right have erupted about 1 week ago…hehe.

*Photos taken last month. No latest photos available *

Therefore, I drool a lot nowadays… till my shirt wet

Also, teething has made me couldn’t help but to bite on things due to the gum itchiness… I like to put in my fingers into my mouth to the gum soothe it.

See, what mummy gave me to bite on? My old teething toys! I look funny isn’t it?? It’s not suitable for my age already, huh??

Feeding:

Still having mummy’s milk for mid night/early morning feeding besides the formula. Also, don’t quite like to eat porridge nowadays. But I do like noodles!

Food introduced:

1. Chocolate! Yum-yum!
2. Grapes - ok, quite like it.
3. Green apples - sour!!
4. Prawn crackers… yes, yes!

Sleeping Style:

No soother from mummy to soothe me sleep but wanted “yao-yao”, the swinging cradle to rock me to sleep at night. Got hooked with it ever since I caught the flu bug. I felt it’s more comfortable to sleep especially when I’ve got my nose blocked. Thus, I prefer sleeping in my “yao-yao” at night recently.

Motor Skills:

Able to open and close the doors at on my own… and even the safety gate which yeh yeh made… Also, love to slot in key into the door knob. Trying to get the right key to unlock the doors.

Asking people to sit on the floor so that I could take over their seat… hehe!

Afraid of darkness a little lately. Requested mummy to on the lights every time she switches it off… perhaps to extend my play time

Alphabets mastered so far… L to P where by L for light, M for mummy, N for nuts, O for orange and P for Pen.

Able to kneel down and bow to perform prayers.

Attempted to wear my pants, socks, shoes & slipper on my own. I’m working hard to achieve my goal as I’m sure I’ll master the skill one fine day!

Scared of the word “cane”. I’ll most likely will behave when mummy asked “Do you want cane?” But sometimes, the cane method doesn’t work at all…

Prefer to walk/run about in the mall rather than sitting on the shopping cart or my stroller.

Climbing up and down the stairs unaided.

Able to identify & say out silver color.

Like to hold on other people’s finger to point at things (like alphabets/pictures printed on books/pamphlet/newspapers) and say it out… hehe, to teach them.

Fussed to get hold of mummy’s digicam…

Love to play with mummy’s camera…I’ll always try to snatch the camera from mummy to view what mummy has captured and also like to see myself in the camera too…

Communication/Social skills:

Well, I’m now a good friend to a parrot so I’m able to say/speak simple sentence such as…

• * mahmi, drink milk-milk * - asking for mummy’s milk

• * mahmi, on/off  light * - requesting mummy to switch on/off the lights

• * mahmi, throw! * asking mummy to throw away.

• * mahmi, feed * - requesting mummy to feed me

• * Poh, sit here! * - direct people to sit at a specific place.

• * mahmi/dahdee/nai nai one la * - replying the “whose” question

• * hug car, hug car, please… mahmi take… car * - I want to hug the cars. Mummy, take the cars for me please!

• * Mei you tien! * - informing that no electricity.

• * Mahmi, wear pants. Nice! * - requesting mummy to wear for me this nice pair of pants I chose.

• * Mahmi, read book * - requesting mummy to read a book.

• * Dou-one! Dou-one! * - I don’t want.

• * Go-O-way! * - go away…

My favourite words:

1. Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy go!!
2. Mahmi, ah-pen (open)
3. Car/truck/bus
4. Mummy go/take
5. Dou one! (don’t want)
6. Drinn wah-ter (drink water)
7. Yiau! Yiau! (I want in mandarin)
8. Kei wo… (give me)
9. Eat noodle, eat noodle!
10. Wan, tu, tee! (1,2,3 - whenever I see numbers)
11. Coco-wuek! (chocolate)
12. Nice!!

Able to recognize/identify and say these (up to date):

• Chocolate (says it as “coco-wuek or choc-luek”)
• Bicycle (says it as “bye-si-ker”)
• Badminton (says it as “badminten”)
• School Bus (says it as “scoo bus”)
• Taxi (says it as “Tac-xi”)
• Digger (says it as “dee-ger”)
• Fire engine (says it as “tire-n-jin”)
• Camera (says it as ca-me-ye)
• Police Car (says it as “po-yice car”)
• Money (says it as “Mar-nee”)
• Balloon (says it as “bah-loon”)
• Squat (says it as “quart”)
• Aircond (says it as “eh-con”)
• Silver (says it as “siu-wer”)
• Shopping (says it as “cho-ping”)
• Camera (says it as “mm-me-ra”)
• Cane (says it as “cane”)

Well, actually it’s no big deal for having a runny nose. I still able to play and run about in the house actively and happily. But, what has turned my day grey? Being forced to drink the colorful syrups and going through wiping/cleaning/decongestant my nose session lor!!  Sigh…so sien!!

Okay, this is a backdated post which supposed to be published two weeks ago.

Guess where was I? Play school?

Nah…  still too young early to go to school. Furthermore, I want to enjoy life first before my schooling years begin… Anyway, I was having lunch at Chili’s at Gurney Plaza on last last Friday.

I had some fries from daddy’s meal while waiting for my food to arrive….

Dang, dang, dang, dang… my food has arrived. It’s my third time having macaroni & cheese at Chili’s and the best part was kid get to eat FREEE with bottomless drinks!!

I love macaroni & cheese!

After lunch, I discovered this amazing electronic pet called Pleo!! Pleo is a baby Camarasaurus which has emotions and responds and interacts when you touch/pat it.

I love to pat Pleo wanted him to be closer to me. I wish I could take it home with me but mummy says Pleo will cost a bomb to her as I can only take it home after paying the amount of RM1699!! So, I have to leave Pleo there and proceed to our next destination.

Next, daddy & mummy brought me to this place called Penang Turf Club for the National Horse Show. They purposely took a day off on 5 June just to bring me there to see real horsey.

First they brought me to watch horse riding competitions. There were tents and chairs provided for spectators to watch the competitions.

The moment I saw horses I shouted “Horse Koh-Kok! Koh-Kok!” and started to bending my knees up and down… yup, I was learning and trying to gallop like the horses… hehe.

Ain’t this horse beautiful? However, mummy felt pity on those horses for striving and working hard for hours under the hot sun.

The weather on that day was really hot and humid. So, we went to the far end nearer to the horses’ cooling/resting spot and stood under the trees which was cooler than hiding under the tents. I roamed around there watching the horses chilling under the shades. That’s the max that we could get nearer to the horses.

Suddenly, the owner/rider of this brown horse led it come closer to the spot we stood and let us touch his horse. Nope, I wasn’t scared at all patting the horsey and it’s nice to stroke on its soft and silky brown fur!

Then, we quickly snapped a photo with the brown horse again.

Next, we roamed to the horse stable whereby there were different types of horses breeds kept and also displayed for public viewing.

This horse is quite funny. He nibbled on the hay. Next, dipped his mouth into a pail of water, spitted everything out and stuck out his tongue long. He kept doing the same thing all over again and again non stop!

Hey, this is the shortest horse among the horses there! Even a donkey was bigger size than him! Ain’t he cute??

After that, we proceed to the carnival section whereby there were bazaar, clowns, pony rides(missed out that! ), face painting, stage performances and etc….

Look at my sad face… I looked a little tired though but deep down my heart I don’t wish to leave that place. But then, daddy & mummy dragged me home!! I protested and whined hard when they forced me to sit in the car. Nevertheless, they ignored my protest and drove me home… sigh! Anyhow, I enjoyed myself and had so much fun there on that day.

Well, that’s all folks. So now, please excuse me as I need to drink up these!! Sigh. Yup, I caught the flu bugs from HW Kor Kor since Monday…

This is what I’ve been up to lately….

Yup, yup, getting to know more about CARS! I love and enjoy to destruct things nowadays especially the victims, my cheap toy cars which made of plastics can be easily dismantled. And then, I would try to put everything back. Somehow, the chances of putting them back are pretty slim… Anyway, Mummy is wondering whether I’ll be following my ah Kong’s foot step becoming a mechanic or not in future.  But hey, I love cars and I’m the number 1 fan of this wonderful automobile ever created! Thus, I need to do experiments in order to get to know more about cars in details, right?

Just a quick update on my overdue 18 months old milestones as my sexytary typist is quite busy lately to help me type and publish it here.

Vital Statistics as of 3 June 2009:

Weight:

12.5kg (weighed on 18 May)

Height:

About 34 inches

Teeth:

Another, TWO molars and ONE cuspid on the left have erupted 1.5 weeks ago!

Feeding:

As usual, 8-9 oz of formula mixed with some cereals. Only takes 3 times a day besides my daily home cooked porridge. However, still having mummy’s milk for mid night/early morning feeding…

Food introduced:

1. Nuts - I love peanuts especially!
2. Baked cheese - yummy!
3. Pizza - quite nice.
4. Fried eggs - I love egg.
5. Prawns - not bad
6. Crab meat - soft shell crab & shark fin soup
7. Honey star cereals - my all time snacks!

Sleeping Style:

Able to doze off on my own at night after about 45mins to an hour of playing & tossing on the bed without “soother” from mummy! I got used to request daddy to bring me some water to drink before I go to bed. I not only have few sips but downed with 8 oz of water; that’s about 30 minutes after having my 9 0z of formula. Tend to wake up as early as 8.30am especially when I sensed mummy’s not sleeping beside me.

Motor Skills:

Giving my signature smile as per the adults’ request

Able to climb up & down the stairs on my own (unaided). Also, climbing on the shelves to reach for things. Prefer to play with boys as I can play rough fighting and snatching with them compared to girls. Hey, I’m a boy ma… should be rough, tough and active right?

Tossing over the container for keeping my toys and love to scatter toys everywhere.

Video clip was recorded two weeks ago. I was a little confused over pink & purple shade as some color tones quite look alike sometimes.

Now I’m able to identify colors like red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, black & white. I learned colors through my favourite toys besides reading my book…. Now, I call my toy cars by colors such as blue car, yellow jeep, red truck, blue plane, green train and also other things.

Able to recognize & recite A - K. 1-2 weeks ago, I was able to recite to the alphabet F and now G-K whereby I would name G for gun, H for Hammer, I for Ice cream, J for Jam & K for key.

A little choosy whereby I would want ONLY mummy to bathe for me & nai nai to wipe me dry and dress me up.

Able to identify & says out fingers, toes, teeth, neck, armpit, right hand & left hand.

Love to draw/scribble with penss…

Attempted to feed myself with spoon besides using fingers. Also, love to feed people with my food… yea, sharing my food with the people I like only others

Able to imitate animal/vehicle sounds such as dog, cow, duck, horse, cat, lion/tiger ambulance, police car and etc. Also, mummy says I’ve became a parrot as I love to copycat the words/sentences which the adult spoke… hehe. Thus, I’m pretty good at picking up my verbal skills lately.

Communication/Social skills:

Well, I’m now a good friend to a parrot so I’m able to say/speak simple sentence such as…

• * mahmi, aun (want) go out * - telling mummy I want to go out

• * dahdee, go out * - informing that daddy went out of the room

• * dahdee outside * informing that daddy is outside.

• * yeh-yeh scold yeh yeh beat beat * - complaining that yeh yeh scolded and beaten me

• *  mahmi open pisss ah (please lah) * - request mummy to open for me

• * Mahmi, milk milk pisss ah* - begging for mummy’s milk

• * Mahmi, dahdee work work. Buh-bye mahmi. Buh-bye dahdee * - talking to myself to my toy car… imagined mummy & daddy inside the toy car and drove to work.

• * Mahmi, baa baa back cip * - requesting mummy to sing baa, baa black sheep song.

• * Mahmi, skechh (scratch) * - requesting mummy to scratch my back

• *Dahdee scold… horr… horr * - warning people that daddy is going to scold.

• * Mahmi, sit /chuo-chuok (sit) here * - requesting mummy to sit here.

• * Dahdee pay m-nee * - daddy pays money

• * Mahmi drinn wah-ter * - asking mummy to drink water.

• * Mahmi, leg pain pain * - telling mummy that my leg pain (after getting my 1.5 yrs old jab)

• * Mahmi go fan-chen (room) take car * - requesting mummy to take my car in the bedroom.

My favourite words:

1. Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy!!
2. Nai Nai
3. Car/truck
4. Rid (red) car - I like to call my toys by colors lately
5. Pisss, pisss ah ( please la)
6. Purple
7. Aun (want)
8. take
9. Water
10. Pao Pao
11. Go, go…
12. Nah…There!
13. Mmm-tou (my smelly pillow)

Able to recognize/identify and say these (up to date):

• Batman (says it as “badman”)
• Bicycle (says it as “bye-yi-ker”)
• Armpit (says it as “ampit”)
• Out/outside (says it as “auk /au-side”)
• Water (says it as “wah-ter”)
• Tractor (says it as “tactor”)
• Helicopter (says it as “heli-ko-ter”)
• Lady Bug (says it as “rid bug” because it’s red in color)
• Old man (says it as “old man” and also refers to daddy )
• Ice (says it as “Ai-sss”)
• Ice cream (says it as “I-keem”)

Ok, I think that’s for all now as my busy admin needs to continue to settle her office work …

To get to know more of the story, please view the following photos…

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So, to moral of the story is… love and appreciate what you have even though it’s weird. Geee… this post’s story line has ran out abit, don’t you think so? Actually, it’s supposed to be a post about my moo-bank. This moo-bank was bought by my Nai-nai on last December. She wanted to get me a pink piggy but couldn’t find at all as most of the shops were selling cow shaped due to welcoming the Cow year lo! So, she bought this cow for me so that I could learn the skill of slotting in the coins in the tiny hole on top of the cow’s head.  However, the main purpose was for me to cultivate the habit of banking in $$$ in the moo-bank a.k.a. saving $$$ for my future.

I’ve been banking in coins since last December and I love to slot in the coins since then. Whenever I see or found some coins, I would request for “tong-tong”. Yes, I called the moo-bank as “tong-tong”! Why? Because it says “tong” when I insert the coins into the cow’s head… hehe! And of course, a real cow says “moo” and not “tong” as I know the moo-bank it’s not a real cow which eats coins