Lo and behold, the little girl is fast zooming into toddler-hood. Today, she’s 13 months old. I still can’t believe she’s 1 hahahaha.

Life became so much fun-ner (yeah I know no such word) since she turned 1. The interaction, the way she amuses us, the walking babbling entertainer that she is melts my heart each and every day. I can’t wait for each new day to see what she learnt today and just to see what she will be up to. It’s almost impossible to list them all here but I am just gonna try and list down whatever I could remember.

• She simply cannot see anything stacked up or lined up nicely anywhere. She is one little mass of destruction hahahaha. She will pick up and destroy any stacked blocks, cups, or anything else. Her favorite has got to be the stack on DVDs in the tv rack. She will take each and every DVD out of the nice stack and throw them to the floor.
• Next, she has learnt to put things in and out of containers and such. She will empty her toy box, not to play with the toys but just to make the box empty. Same goes with her diaper stacker (she will remove ALL diapers in it one by one). She also knows that small things can be put into bigger things and love to uncover little stuff we always hide in bigger stuff, i.e. hiding the ball under the cup.
• She also loves to hand over stuff to us with a little exclamation, which sounds like “uhhh”. Like the DVDs and the diapers she takes out of their respective places. She will hand them over to any one of us one by one, without getting bored till it’s all empty. She is not stingy coz she will hand over anything she’s holding no matter if she’s playing with it, if u just put out your hand and ask her nicely. That said, it’s a great way to get her to hand over dangerous stuff to us coz she will gladly pass it over. Snatching things away from her doesn’t work.
• She knows how to squat down now and it’s just so cute to watch!
• She can climb up and down of sofas and low beds. This is great coz she knows how to go down feet first without falling head first, but it’s also dangerous coz she’s always climbing somewhere!
• Walks a lot more, but chooses soft surface like the bed, carpet and mattress to walk (and run) on unguided. She’s much more careful on the floor and prefer to walk while holding on to stuff.
• She’s learning speech, slowly but surely. If we say “Daddy” she will say “dadadada” and if we say “Mommy” she will say “mamama”. It will come :)
• Waves goodbye when we say “bye2″ especially when carried
• VERY ‘manja’ and still in separation anxiety phase
• Can play on her own for longer periods now, just as long as somebody is in the room with her
• Learning ‘flying kiss’. She can put her hand over the mouth and make the “muahh” sound. Almost there hehe
• She still picks up small stuff from the floor and puts them in her mouth. The only good thing is she will open her mouth, stick out her tongue and say “aaaa” when we ask her to say “aaahhh”. Makes it easier to pick out things that is not supposed to be in her mouth hahaha.
• Knows how to press buttons on her musical toys to make the music/sound come out
• Claps her hands when we say “yeayy!”
• Puts out her legs when we wanna put socks on her and sticks out her hands when we wanna put on her mittens at night (yes she still wears mittens to sleep coz she scratches her eczema in her sleep till they bleed). Good thing is, she doesn’t protest but instead obliges happily and claps her hands amusingly when we put on her mittens. But yeah of course sometimes she gets them confused and sticks out her hands when we wanna put on her socks hahaha.
• Will try to put her feet into her shoes whenever she can get her hands on them

That is all I could remember for now. All I can say is I think her development is simply amazing. I know some babies can already talk and form words, some babies are running at her age but then again I am not bothered about this. I’m just letting her take her own sweet time and develop at her own pace and let her enjoy her transition into toddlerhood. At least this way I get to enjoy her baby-ness more :)

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