Dear Little Miss Mia,
You are now 15 months old and such a chatterbox! Now you can recognize and say aloud the sounds of 8 different types of animals; cat (meaw), bird (shhu shu), dog(Wauwau), horse (Raspberry), chicken (Bak bak bak in the most sweetest low voice), lion (Rrrrr), monkey(Aaa aa aa) and cow (moooo). A couple of weeks back, I was astounded with the fact that you could reply to daddy the sound of a lion and showed us the picture of a lion. You are too smart my love. No one year old that I know can point to a picture of a butterfly and say "Butfly", except you sweetie.
Last month, mummy & daddy had a little weedkend getaway without you while you stayed at your Grandma's house with your nanny. I'm happy to report that you were a good girl. So, next trip you will be coming along with us. Grandma informed me that while u were in the car with her, you were able to pull out a couple hundred dollars from her handbag, held out your hand to the window and say "Tan Chu". Grandma's conclusion of this is that you were probably mimicking mummy buy petrol..haha..That Sunday mummy & daddy were away, you attended a prize giving ceremony for winners of the Mothercare Sweet dream contest. You were one of the consolation prize winners...Yayy..
Your vocabulary has much increased my love. Now you know your "No's" from your "Yes'es" and your latest is "No More". Sometime at the end of last month, I caught you looking into the mirror, waved your little index finger and said "doon tach". It took me a while to realize you were imitating mummy. From then on, you often use the phrase "Don Taacch", like when I was tickling you yesterday, you pulled away and said "don tach". Another word is "Cream" (Keem) which you constantly ask for when you are dressing for bed after you take your bath. You know to look for your cream in your blue toiletry box. Mummy & Daddy have been trying to increase our goodbye rituals by teaching you "I love you" so mummy & daddy go the whole nine yards trying to get you to 'salam', give a kiss, a hug, say & wave bye, give a flying kiss and say I love you before we leave. You can do all of the above except say I love you. We have to say it first and when you reply, it comes out as "Yu Yu"...Both mummy & daddy think you are just too cute my love. I personally think all those "Gimme 5" gestures everyone does to you has finally kicked in since a couple weeks ago. You held out your hand and said "Gi'Pa-ip". I'm beginning to believe you are a little genius, a tri-lingual one at that. I say tri-lingual because you learnt what "Sakit Ulu"(headache) is. If I were to ask you if you 'sakit ulu', you would put your hand to your head and say "adduuu". Smarty pants! Its nice to see you try and string two words together. Your latest three-strung words are "Bye Bye Moon" when we are out and about at night.
As for your actions, well, I must say, you really do amuse me my love. I absolutely find it too cute for words when I sing Barney's Mr. Sun song. You would automatically start wiggling your bum and shake that little booty of yours. You truly do have your daddy's genes of loving music! The other day, for some odd reason, mummy still cannot explain why you picked up your daddy's Nike watch off his table, trotted to the bathroom and dumped it into the toilet. If only you could explain. Luckily the watch was a water-resistant one. I think you like putting things in holes since we also caught you putting a few of your shapes into daddy's woofer in the TV room. What truly surprises me though is your imagination. I sat watching you pretend to make your own milk bottle the other day. You had an empty coke bottle, your nenen and your biscuit box. You rested your nenen on your biscuit box and started to pretend to pour 'water' from the coke bottle. Then you started to shake your nenen bottle. Exactly how mummy does it. It took me a couple of seconds to realize u were making ur nenen. You're such a fast learner!
Today, you had your first swimming lesson with Auntie Jacky at Polo Club. The moment you saw the pool, you just wanted to dive in. You are such a natural in the water. You also liked to climb up the edge of the pool and jump in. I have no idea how you knew to do that. I can't wait for next weeks lesson.
As for size, you now weigh 9.2kg which is roughly the same weight as 3 mths ago BUT you are growing just fine, though mummy thinks its unbelievable how you can still fit into your 6-9 mths clothes..haha...You're such a compact little princess! Ooo...which reminds me, I think its time to increase your shoe size. Need to start putting away your Size 3 shoes....On to Size 4!
~~Mia in her 15th month~~
