At Ah Ma's House - Pics taken

Hugging Gu-Gu's Pooh bear ...:)



Statue of Liberty!

I am 14 months old and can walk now!

Yo! Cool yeh?

What else, but watching the little black box?

I Can Walk!!

Exactly on the 1st day of my 14-month old, I can walk! Po-Po witnessed me from aside walking for a long time up and down in our living room in the afternoon. She has to quietly observe me without saying anything, as once I hear someone talking, I may stop walking and my bum will land on the ground.

The next day, Mummy was very excited to witness me walking all over our living room. She thinks that I walk in a very cute way like a penguin with my bulky diapers moving according to my leg movements, probably because I just started learning how to walk :)

Every Story has an End "TAP"

I marvelled at how fast Karis has been growing at this stage. Since Karis is around 3 months old in my story-telling sessions to her, it's been my habit to tap on the backpage of the storybook when the story ends and the book is flipped over to the backpage. After tapping on the backpage, I will say "The End". Reason is to let her know that every story has an end to it.

Few weeks ago, when I was reading to her, she tapped her tiny hand for quite a few times at the last page of the book. For a moment I had thought that she had tapped on the book as she was playing with the book or she may be excited at the sight of the picture on the book, but realised that she practised out what I have been doing since 9 months ago :)

Life is especially rewarding and worth celebrating with the presence of children! They are just so pure and innocent. They may be difficult to handle at times, and our personal free time has reduced substantially. It just makes you think that it's all worth it, when you reap the benefits of seeing the progress of your precious child.

Imaginary Play Kicks in!

In the morning, I "fed" a "dummy" food item to Karis' favourite plush pinky bear and told her that the bear is hungry. She took the "dummy" food item from me and pushed the "dummy" on the bear's mouth. That was the first time that I asked her to "feed" her imaginary friends.

Few hours later, while Karis was just done with sipping water from her straw cup, she fed her pinky bear water using the cup. Our adorable little ones do remember, understand and apply the "concepts" imparted to them!

Before Pam left our house, Karis wanted Pam to carry her to go "gai-gai". Responding back to Karis' "wish", Pam carried her out to the corridor and asked her to say goodbye to us. Karis hesitated in her usual good-bye hand signal and looked at us at the corridor. Shortly after, Karis pointed out that the doorgate has to be closed. As we helped her to shut the doorgate, she immediately gave a satisfied smile and waved good-bye to us happily, and instantaneously pointed to Pam on the direction to go "gai-gai".

Little did we realise that before our sweetheart signalled a goodbye to us, our doorgate has to be closed first before she can say goodbye to us and leave the house :)

Karis' ransacking and inspecting all the things we bought from Daiso

Here's me attempting to self-feed :) I've just had a brown-rice facial bathe. Want to try? :)

Independent Indeed!

Just like to jot this down as part of our precious memories before time passes by so swiftly....

Two weeks ago, Karis woke up at 3am plus from our bed and sat up. Before Philip and I are fully awake, Karis suddenly crawl down our bed by herself. To our utter surprise from our dreary sleep, we overheard that our dear Karis mumbled "mum-mum" while crawling fast all the way to the kitchen! Upon reaching the kitchen safety gate, she gazed at the area where her milk has all along been made for a while. The episode ended off with a loud wail, and needless to say, we were left scampering away to carry out our responsibility - one to carry and comfort her, and the other one to prepare her milk.

Who knows, in a few years' time, our darling gal may just walk to the kitchen and prepare her own milk all by herself when she's hungry in the middle of the night :)

We were also impressed by her adept skills of getting up and down the bed all by herself. She's always so cautious yet swift in getting down the bed. Her tactic used is to grab the bedsheet tightly with her tiny fingers, back facing, with one leg down, followed by the next :)

The Hideaway Tent

Auntie Guifen & Uncle Yize gave me a Dora the Explorer tent as my belated 1st birthday gift. It's my favourite hideout now. I like crawling into the tent and sit still there to deliberately hide away from po-po, mummy or daddy and play hide-and-seek with them :)

Karis' playing peekaboo


Karis hiding away from us cheekily!

My natural instinct to touch the camera!

Straw Cup Drinking

Mummy is quite happy that I learnt to sip from a straw cup after only few attempts, as she introduced the straw cup immediately after the bottle feed. I like to drink more water from this straw cup as this new experience is fun!

My 1st Outing to Sentosa!

Savouring the serenity of Sentosa island at night...

Deliberate, cheeky and successful attempt in nose-digging!




Shaking and pushing the wall down!