Family Update

Naughty Pie just reached one and a half years old... What a milestone! What huge changes!

The most noticeable change in her is speech.
"Daddy, Mummy, Ah Ma, Gong, Po Po, Jie Jie, Gor Gor, Ah Bek, Sim, Kak Kak..." Ok she knows all the important names.

She is a talker, a screamer, and a persistent negotiator: Two most important words in her life which she fully exploits to her utmost advantage are "More more more MORE!!!!" and the infamous "No No NO NO NO NO!!!"

 

Book, Water, Nose, Milk, Apple, Eye, Hair, Mouth, Ear, Cheek, Shoe, Socks (which she loves to pronounce as Sucks), Press, Hello,谢谢, eat, soup, sleep, brush teeth, bath, hot hot, Bye Bye, Pain Pain, Night, Kiss, Bear Bear, Ball Ball, Scared Scared, Wet Wet, ,  etc.... Oh then she sings a funny version of twinkle twinkle little stars. It goes like this ".... star...are....high...sky...star...are". 

She is starting to be very selective in her choice of playmates. Not everyone is welcomed and her favorite strategy in every game got to be divide and conquer. On that note, she usually wins. Between Kenneth and me, Ken is certainly the one who disciplines and puts his foot down. One glare from Daddy and Megan usually backs off. With me trying to remove something from her? It will generally end up in a tug of war and "no no no NO NO NO!!!!"

She thinks Daddy is more intelligent than me. She listens to daddy's stories calmly n falls into sweet slumber but when I tell the exact same tale, Megan laughs uncontrollably. Damn, am I an animated clown or what?

She eats. Ken feeds her everything to my disapproval. He is trying to make Megan a potato chip addict. I was told that potato chip is the Andy Warhol of the food world - it is about the surface, the texture, the instant overwhelming gratification. Yah Yah I understand that but Megan is still too young for that!!! Yes she eats cheese cake, chocolate, ice-cream, french fries and almost has no regards for the legal owner of whatever we place on the dining table during meal times but hey... NO potato chips...

She climbs. Discovery of chairs, movable ones that is light enough for her to drag or push around must feel like Columbus discovering America for the very first time (fine, he did not discover America, he found it)... In truth, the world is a badly designed place for the little ones, everything is of a wrong height. Chairs to Megan is certainly not for sitting but for standing on. Everything that was denied to her suddenly become available... and boy does she milk that chance. We suspect chairs give her stature - her "no no No NO NO" always sounds louder when she is 45cm taller...

Vain, Megan is pretty vain. Loves to do "make up" like her Ken's sister. Any string can be a necklace, any rubberband can be a bracelet. And she loves bags. Not to carry anything but to lug around the house. Easy peasy, Mimi custom made a pink haversack with adjustable straps and a blue sling bag with a ladybird button. NICE!!!!! I also want....

All in all, family time is fine and often hilarious.