It is amazing to be witnessing our little baby's progress day by day. This month, she appears to be fast-approaching the next major milestone - walking.
- Stands up without support and stands still for about 15 seconds at times.
- Cruising well
- Creeping has turned into a "bear walk", which is walking with legs, but crawling on hands
She loves bath time, and always manages to splash the water all over the place.
Her stickiness to us appears to be slowly, very slowly, waning. We can now leave her alone to play for a brief period. At times, we can also leave Ian and Isabelle together and let them play on their own.
She also hates it when we take away something that she is holding, if we do not offer her something else first. Actually, we do not remember having this problem with Ian.
Every morning, when her Daddy leaves for work, she will hurry to Daddy and pester him for a hug. When the door closes, she will cry very loudly unless I quickly distracts her.
Something about Isabelle that is noticeably superior to Ian, is her ability to recognise faces and expressions. From about 1-2 months old, she could return a smile to me. Now, she will always check on the person who is carrying her to make sure that this person is either her Daddy or Mommy. She will smile at strangers, but when the stranger wants to carry her, she will turn her back to him as a protest and hold on to me tightly. Whenever we smile at her, she will also return us a sweet smile.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
New Food For Isabelle @ 9 Months
Progress had been slow this month, as rashes appeared on Isabelle's body for no apparent reason. We brought her to see our GP, who diagnosed that it was an allergic reaction. We had to go back to square one, stop introducing new food, and start trying again slowly.
What we had introduced this month:
What we had introduced this month:
- Organic Baby Spinach
- Organic Amaranth
The first bout of rashes disappeared soon after applying Desowen lotion and taking Chlormine. However, the rashes returned with a vengeance a week later. With pimple-like spots on the forehead, moving down and finally hitting the stomach. We had cut down on certain food like egg yolk and fish, just in case they were the cause of the rashes.
I had also let her taken a bite of my bread, as she was drooling at my food.
Activity Books: Completed in April 2012
After skipping the 9pm drama and bringing the kids into the room for some "learning" activities, Ian has been progressing a little faster on the workbooks. This month, we have completed another 3.
Kumon: My Book of Numbers 1-30
I had worked with Ian on this book for several months. Progress was slow in the initial stage as he was just learning how to write his numbers. I stopped the book for about 2-3 months in the midst of it as he was getting impatient with the repetitive writing of the numbers. As the other Kumon books do cover the numbers again, I had started him on the other books to reinforce the lower numbers. The last exercise was skipped, as the other books would repeat on that.
Kumon: My Book of Coloring - At The Zoo
I dug out this book from my stash in January or February, and pondered whether to keep this for Isabelle, or to let Ian practise his colouring skills. The earlier exercises were very similar to the previous Kumon colouring books, with a small circle, square, or triangle in the middle of the picture for the child to fill in the colour. Towards the later part of the book, the pictures started to get more complicated with finer details. We were so happy to see that Ian's colouring skills had vastly improved over the exercises. He was colouring within the borders most of the time, and getting better at it. However, it must have been pretty boring for him to do the colouring on his own, as he always requested us to do it together with him. Sometimes, when his progress was simply too slow (for example, doing only a very small portion of the picture a day), I would sit down and colour together with him and he would do more. I wondered his fast improvement came from our consistent home-teaching recently, or from his childcare? Probably, both.
Sticker Activity Book for 4-5 Years Old (EQ)
A very recent purchase from Dangdang. This series of sticker books has been a favourite of Ian. He could sit down and do some of the activities on his own, sparing us some time for other things. He did about 2-3 exercises at one sitting, and hence, the book was completed in about 2 weeks (not doing on a daily basis).
Kumon: My Book of Numbers 1-30
I had worked with Ian on this book for several months. Progress was slow in the initial stage as he was just learning how to write his numbers. I stopped the book for about 2-3 months in the midst of it as he was getting impatient with the repetitive writing of the numbers. As the other Kumon books do cover the numbers again, I had started him on the other books to reinforce the lower numbers. The last exercise was skipped, as the other books would repeat on that.
Kumon: My Book of Coloring - At The Zoo
I dug out this book from my stash in January or February, and pondered whether to keep this for Isabelle, or to let Ian practise his colouring skills. The earlier exercises were very similar to the previous Kumon colouring books, with a small circle, square, or triangle in the middle of the picture for the child to fill in the colour. Towards the later part of the book, the pictures started to get more complicated with finer details. We were so happy to see that Ian's colouring skills had vastly improved over the exercises. He was colouring within the borders most of the time, and getting better at it. However, it must have been pretty boring for him to do the colouring on his own, as he always requested us to do it together with him. Sometimes, when his progress was simply too slow (for example, doing only a very small portion of the picture a day), I would sit down and colour together with him and he would do more. I wondered his fast improvement came from our consistent home-teaching recently, or from his childcare? Probably, both.
Sticker Activity Book for 4-5 Years Old (EQ)
A very recent purchase from Dangdang. This series of sticker books has been a favourite of Ian. He could sit down and do some of the activities on his own, sparing us some time for other things. He did about 2-3 exercises at one sitting, and hence, the book was completed in about 2 weeks (not doing on a daily basis).
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Trip: Singapore Discovery Centre
Ian's childcare was closed for 2 days, hence, Hubby brought us to the Singapore Discovery Centre for a day trip.
It was the first time all of us visited this attraction. We visited the army training centre, and also the exhibition, followed by a 3D movie on tornado. Perhaps, the person who enjoyed this trip most was Ian. Probably the most interesting thing there, was a robot who could actually interact with us.
Ian fell asleep in the cinema halfway through, and thankfully, Isabelle was also sleeping throughout the movie. Hence, we had a chance to rest for a while. There were other movies, such as Battleship, but with 2 kids in tow, it was out of question.
Good thing that the tickets were complimentary from Hubby's company!
It was the first time all of us visited this attraction. We visited the army training centre, and also the exhibition, followed by a 3D movie on tornado. Perhaps, the person who enjoyed this trip most was Ian. Probably the most interesting thing there, was a robot who could actually interact with us.
Ian fell asleep in the cinema halfway through, and thankfully, Isabelle was also sleeping throughout the movie. Hence, we had a chance to rest for a while. There were other movies, such as Battleship, but with 2 kids in tow, it was out of question.
Good thing that the tickets were complimentary from Hubby's company!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Activity Book: Big Preschool Workbook
After working on this workbook for more than a year, Ian has finally completed almost all the exercises in it. I skipped some pages because it was a little easy for him, but in general, he enjoyed doing the exercises in it (tracing alphabets, numbers, phonics - beginning and ending letter sounds, colours and shapes, pre-reading skills, and reasoning).
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