17 Months old

Mia at 17 Months

Dear little Miss Mia,

Alhamdullillah, another month has passed and you are now 17 months old. I think we will celebrate your half birthday next month with a nice yummy chocolate fudge cake and oreo cupcakes from Auntie Adrina.

All ready to attend Zane's first birthday

You made me a proud mummy the other day at Zane's birthday gathering. As we were about to have a doa selamat, you held up your hands to pray. You did the same when we were shopping in supasave and the Azan for the Isyak prayer came on on the intercom. I told you to be quiet and listen because its "baca bismillah" time. Automatically you put up your hands and did your "amin". Absolutely proud of you my sweets!

Mia pushing her baby in her stroller

Some new words I have heard you say are "Jus" when you want to drink juice instead of water, "eh-pane" when you see an aeroplane and "house" when we pass big building you would say "nice house". Alhamdullillah you now also know how to tell us if you have pooped! At the moment mummy is trying to teach you the difference of big and small. Recently you really did surprise me when you pointed to the diamond studs on my 'jubah' and said "Ai-mand". I don't remember ever teaching you much about diamonds but here you are knowing what it is. You have always liked shiny objects that have diamonds which is probably why you know how to associate the word to the object. Excellent! You have three character dolls in your teddy bear collection; Barney, Mickey mouse and Elmo. You also have the DVD's starring these three characters. So whichever dvd we put on, you would take the associated character doll. Recently, we were watching Elmo and the Bookaneers and immediately you picked up your Elmo doll and said "elmo"!!!!

I can assure you now that you have a great imagination and you definitely know how to entertain yourself even if there is no one to play with you, though you are a little scaredy cat and constantly needs someone there in the room with you. When daddy, you and myself are in the room, you would play a game you have invented. I call it your " Ready go race" game. You would stand in one spot then say "One..two...Go!" and run to another spot in the room. You created your own little race! hahaha....daddy would say, "Eh, siuk sendiri!"

There are so many moments that I will cherish and it seems like the older you get, the more memories there are. Some bitter ones but mostly sweet and funny ones. Like recently, we were on our way to Jerudong and while waiting at the traffic lights we were adjacent to a toy store. While sitting in the car seat, you popped your head up and saw the banner of mickey mouse and said "Oooo Toys, toys, toys". The lights changed to green, I accelerated and we started to pass the store and move further away from it. Immediately you said "Owh..bye bye toys, bye bye toys." It sounded so sad but it was so cute. The same thing happened when we were going out to buy you some new sport shoes. I told you, "We are going jalan to buy you new shoes, okay". The reply I got from you was, "Buy toys?" Hahahaha.

Last night your Grandma & Grandpa babysat you while mummy & daddy went to a BBQ. Your Grandma told me Grandpa is amazed with you as he brought you to the electrical shop last night and you came across a football match being played on the TV screens. Grandma said that you stopped and watched the men playing football on the screen then you started kicking your leg up. Instantly they realized you were 'playing football'. Then the TV focused on the football post and you said "Goal".

Nowadays we spend many hours on the weekend curled up together on our "mini-bed" watching TV. No matter how many times you've watched it, your eyes will always stick like glue to the TV when I put on Toy Story. You have watched it so many times that you can remember a certain scene where the alien figurines say "Ouuuuuu" and you follow....its too cute! haha. Yet sometimes I will put on one of my movies and it would absolutely bore you. Recently, while I was watching a movie, you came up to me and was literally face to face, looked into my eyes, then kissed me on my lips. Thats when I realized that you my love are a very loving person, a trait you have definetely gotten from me...as I often do the same to your daddy! haha...

Don't grow up too fast my sweetiepie!

xoxo