Ayra at 14 months

Time certainly flies when you’re having fun… my little girl is 14 months old today… Her development is simply amazing to me… seems like some skills she learnt overnight! Let’s see what she’s capable of (and how many of those developments her mommy can remember)

She suddenly decided that crawling is so yesterday. One day she still prefers to crawl at lightning speed, the next day she is suddenly walking all over the place! And getting sooo fast and sooo good at it. I now know what those parents mean by chasing after their toddlers. One minute she’s in front of me and the next minute she’s gone and I have to run all over the place to check where she is and what she’s up to! She still walks a bit funnily, with her hands out at the side like an ‘orang utan’, but is improving everyday. I wanna take a video of this phase before she starts to walk proper hehe.
She has learnt to push and pull doors that are not closed properly. This also means that she could be in the room one second and gone the next. I am always always worried she will ’sepit’ her fingers at the door and of course this has happened many times when she got confused to whether pull or push the door open. She also learnt to knock on doors that is closed. She will knock while shouting for you to open it for her hahaha.
She babbles non-stop! My goodness gracious my lil girl is one chatterbox! The only time she’s quiet is when she’s asleep. When I return home from work all I have to do is stand at the door to see where her voice is coming from to know where she is. She has her own language and we call it “Ayranese”. She’s not talking yet, but she has assigned some ‘words’ to things we say. Lampu=papp; hello=wawaw; bye2=babab, says ‘nahh’ when handing us stuff and so on so forth. She can have pretend conversations on the phone, where she will pick up our phones and start babbling into it. She can also tell stories and it is so amusing to watch!!! She will stand in front of us and start babbling in her language, complete with animated hand gestures and face expressions. I should take a video of this soon.
She can associate many things now. Like how she will pick up her shoes, pull the straps open and try hard to put it on her feet. Yes, like lil Gib, she loves wearing shoes in the house too. The moment we put on her shoes, she will get up and start walking all over the place. She knows hair bands are for hair, she will take mine and try to put it on herself, her mommy and even her daddy’s head hahaha. Neckties are for necks, and will try to wear her daddy’s ties. One thing I am simply amazed at is how one day she reached for a pencil, took a piece of paper and started scribbling on it!!! I gaped in amusement! She must have been watching her school-going aunts and uncle do their homework.
Has her own preference. Starts to show a bit of tantrum too. Sometimes, she wants to be carried all the time, put her down and she will scream her head off. Sometimes, she wants to get down when you carry her. Starts to dislike her stroller since she prefers to walk or be carried.
Starting to be like a little ‘makcik’ too. She has this box with a handle that holds 3 hard books inside. She loves to carry the box around like a handbag and walk all over the place. She will walk, stop a while, put the box down and play with something but she won’t forget to take the box with her when she continues her journey hahaha. So cute! And when she wants to reach for something that is quite high, she will put the box down, step on it for the extra height and reach over. Tsk tsk.
Loves to press buttons! Be it the remote (and is also smart enough to point the remote to the tv while pressing the buttons), our handphones, or even the camera! We are always afraid she will accidentally delete her pics!
Smart enough to know that you can see the pics at the back of the camera. After we snap her pics, she will walk over and peer over our shoulders to see the screen at the camera. Hehehehe.
Still puts stuff in her mouth after she’s tired of ‘belek’-ing it. When does this phase stop la??
Loves to ’sayang’ people. But her ’sayang’ is still with an open mouth over your cheek/nose/eyes, whichever is closer. It comes with a sound too! When I say ’sayang mommy/daddy/auntie/uncle’ she will lean over, say “ooo” with her mouth open, give u a bit of saliva then grin her toothy smile. She squints when she smiles and her large eyes will be reduced to slits! Hahahahaha.
Finally is interested in the tv! She can watch cartoons now, though still not the whole show. But the tv is enough to keep her glued to her seat to finish her food, so anything goes la. Sometimes, her eyes will be at the tv even though she’s being carried out of the room! Goodness, I think she’s catching Uncle Amir’s disease of becoming a tv addict!

I can’t remember any more now, though I am quite sure there was soooo many developments. Such things always happens when you try to write them down huh! Anyways, I’m gonna leave you with some pics of Ayra, last ones taken with our D40 :)