Monday, January 11, 2010

Geraldine at 24+mths

My little gal has grown up so fast since her 2 year old birthday. Suddenly, she looks so much taller and behave more like a little adult. Her childcare will start pretty soon. Tentatively, we set the date as 25th Feb. I have been asking her if she wants to go to school and there are a lot of Gor Gor, Jie Jie, DiDi and Mei Mei to play with. Not to mentioned lot of toys at school and playground for activies, and she answered me, 'Share, o.k. Cannot push'. Sometimes, she caught me by surprise with the things she says. Being busy with work and only get to spend time with her at night and on weekends, I really don't know what she has been picking up in the day with her kaka.

1) Her favorite phrase now is' Last time, o.k?' Whenever she said that, we have to let her play or do whatever she wants one last time before she will do things our way. And 'Excuse me.' She is always saying 'excuse me' if someone gets in her way.

2) She is also very quick with her 'Sorry' now. When she know she does something wrong, she will quick say, 'Mummy/Daddy/KaKa.. sorry.' And she will force her kisses onto your mouth (for Mummy & Daddy's case only). With that we can't scold her and she gets forgiven really fast.

3) When she is home with us, usually she is a darling. Most of the time she is happy just watching her Barney, Nemo & Dora Vcds, playing in her room while waiting for her swimming session in the late p.m with Daddy. She still gets very affected whenever she watched Madagascar 2 the scene the little cub got taken away from the Daddy lion by the hunters. She will cry pitifully and look for her Daddy.

4) She likes to go to her room to play and will always request to read story books. But there is no reading, she only like to flip through all the books, called out all the characters and then tell me 'Yeah, finish! When I start to read the sentences to her, she will run away and dig for other toys to play.

5) She calls herself Princess and is slowly getting to be more vain. She is always asking her Nai Nai to cut her hair, telling us she wants to be pretty pretty. Coz she always see her Nai Nai cutting and styling hair in the day.

6) She will react to situation. Just the other day Daddy was driving and make a turn too hard. Geraldine called out ' Daddy, drive properly!'

7) Her speech is getting clearer now. Most of the time she can communicate to us clearly what she wants, but still in broken sentences. Hopefully, with the childcare classes, she can speak better and learn to be more sociable.

8) Last week while we were looking through the pictures Chee Wei took on Geraldine's birthday. Geraldine started singing 'Happy Birthday' song for herself. When she sang 'Happy Birthday to Geraldine' it hits me that my little baby is not longer a baby. We need to spend more time with her before we missed out on all the precious things that she is picking up now.

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