While I still have the enthusiasm, I wanted to do another piece of progress on my girl. My daughter Wei Qi is now 1 year 4 months, height75cm (15%) and weight 9.5kg (41%). Frankly Qi came un-expected, and was neglected by me (shame on me) as compared to Xiang. Surprising, my “negligence” has somehow made her into a better and stronger character today.
Speech:
1. Started to learn to speak with us, mixture of Mandarine, English and even Kantonese.
2 words are the most, eg. “mami”, “daddy”, "bao-bao", “kakak”, “dog”, “cat”, “duck”, “姨”, “popo”, “gong-gong”, “bird”, "no-mo" (no more), “aplan” (airplane), “an~ti” (aunty – her nanny), “oh o” (when something goes wrong), “chuo chuo” (sit down), “要” (want), “na” (same word she said when she wanted to give us something or she wanted us to give her something), “oofih” (Office - this learnt from her brother as Xiang will ask us to “go office” if he thinks that we are “naughty”), “臭臭” (smelly – after she poo she’ll say it with hands waving in front of her nose), “ne neh” (milk - she said this so many times a day!), “mumm mumm”
2. She understands some of the words we spoke even though couldn’t say it out. For example when I asked her to squad, she will do so (when washing her bottom). Others like clock, fan, light etc …
Food
1. As contrast to her brother, she can almost swallow everything I prepared. Whenever I took out her bowl, she will start to mumble “mumm mumm” non-stop. I can say that she has no allergic towards whatever food, but I am still cautious just to be safe, so until now, still haven’t cook any prawns for her.
2. Loves yogurt and Ribena pastilles. But dislike plain water (after a few sips, she'll say "okay" and refused to drink anymore), loves all the other fruit juices, Chinese leong sui and barley drink. She can swallow medicine without fuss but don’t think she likes it as much as her brother. Learned to Loves French fries from her brother also.
3. Having her 6 oz milk at 3 hours interval, and has a trend of requesting milk at a shorter period (1~2 hours). Tonight, she drank milk at 7.30pm, 9.30pm and at 10.30pm. I was worried whether her little stomach could take so much liquid!
Hobby:
1. She also loves water play, can splash the water so well that makes all of us wet!
2. She loves to flip the book pages, but has no patient in waiting for me to finish a story with her.
3. She loves humbling to the songs in her own words, rocking her body and clapping hands when listening to songs.
4. She loves the slide and the swing, loves the musical kiddy rides, and loves to turn the wheel of the rides.
Toys:1. Her favorite toy is anything with a cap, an empty syrup medicine plastic bottle with cap for example. She loves putting the cap back and opens it up again.
2. Loves to watched children songs, and sometimes even dance with the songs.
3. Loves “masak-masak”, plates, cups, spoons and loves to play pretend with us.
4. She loves to doodle, not on the board but on the floor!
Motor skill:
1. She can walk very steadily now, she couldn’t jump but trying to.
2. Pushed the kiddy car around the house with her legs very steadily.
Toilet-trained
Not yet toilet-trained, but we do let her sit in potty and did not wear her the diaper at home and at nanny’s home. She will say a nose sound “eemhh” when she wants to poo and sometimes will walk to her potty. After pee in potty, she'll look at the potty and praises herself by smiling & clapping hands (coz we did this every time and she follows us).
Character:
1. She loves to snatch the toys from her brother. Disregard that she’s younger, she can certainly win over her brother. She can do a tug war and grasp the toy firmly with her two strong little hands. She’s very persistent and patients and do not give up easily.
2. She’s starting to develop a bad habit of crying. Once we did not fulfill her wishes, she will sit down or lay backwards with her arms supported at her side and cry! (Our fault actually in developing this bad habit)
3. She tends to hit her brother with her hand whenever her brother did something which makes her angry. She knew it’s not right but it’s becoming a habit of her. (I actually was wondering, where did she learnt it from? From us? But we never hit Xiang now and of course, we never hit her.)
4. She loves to wash hand (er, actually playing with water), whenever she heard any of us is washing our hands, she will came with her hands rubbing together while saying “xi … xi …”
5. From baby, she sleeps on her own in her crib, no need to pat or cuddle and after we switch off the lights, she will lay down and sleep on her own.
6. She will get jealous easily if saw her brother sitting / lying on me and will demand to have her share of "mummy" immediately.
7. She loves to be pretty. She'll say "美美" if she's dressed up prettily, then will smile and look for others to praise her. She'll cry if we remove her "pretty stuff".
Health status:
Not much major problems, had her chicken pox at 1 year 3 months.
Kiddy Acts:
1. She will stomp her feet with joy when seeing us in the evening at nanny’s house, then will laugh out very loudly with her little index finger pointing at her nose or pointing up, also will shout “mi …. mi …. “ non-stop (but there are times she mixed up the words and shout “an~ti”). Once I took her in my arms, she will kiss my cheek while making sound “mmmmm” (always make my heart melts when she did this).
2. Whenever we finished singing our songs, she will be the first to applause us by clapping her hands. If we sung birthday songs, she will held up her 2 arms high up and says “yeah”!
3. When I told her to hold her voice down or when her brother is sleeping, she will put her index finger to her mouth & blow air ^_^ She doesn’t know how to say “shhh …” yet.
4. She loves to be tickles by her daddy and will request for many many times by saying “yah …” “yah …” (I think she wants to say 要)
5. She loves to put the coins in the piggy bank.
6. Loves to wear shoes even inside the house. She usually requests us to wear and take off her shoes for uncountable times.
7. She’s good in messing up the house. She loves to take out every single toys she can accessed to. Took out all the puzzles and the vehicles from their boxes and cabinet.
8. When she heard that we are ready to go up the bedroom, she'll get up and walk to the staircase and start climbing.
I have been looking for this for a long time. I have another lacing set which has smaller beads & holes at home, but my kids motor skills are just not that good. So I finally got a bigger one.
Both of them love it very much, and I'm surprise that Qi has the strength to cut the "vege" & "fruits" apart! But to my frustration, I just realised that enfagrow milk is giving out it as free gift!!! If I knew ealier, I would have bought something else! 
I did bought her a cheap-pasar-malam doctor set before, but it has all kinds of sharp edges and easily broken apart. Since Qi loves it so much, I've decided to invest in this set. See how she pretends doctor on my "injured hand", :P
I got a RM40 voucher and therefore, decided to buy this giant puzzles for Xiang. He loves doing puzzles. I think it's really worth it, he knows his ABC, but if I asked him "What's after D?", he won't know it's an E. I use the traditional method to teach him, since he knows ABC songs, I asked him to sing it out in order to get the next alphabet. After few days of doing, he's able to do better, singing ABC song to himself to complete the puzzles. Any mummies have better idea to let the kids learn about the sequence of ABC?
