Happy 31-month-old to my Darling!

I'm so guilty that I've been too busy and missed joltin down her milestone which happening in lightning speed. 

The next thing I know is that Darling turns 31-month-old already! The newborn that I've cradled and woke up each night to breastfeed is now a young little girl. I'm so glad that her nature is very cheerful, outspoken, talkative and creative as I do not want her to take after me who's quite the opposite!

Potty Training

Darling's totally an expert now handling both pee and poo very well. Before doing the business, she will raise alert to the people around, then get her potty ready, pull down her pants and sit down on it. One of the great milestone of learning self-care skills. But I'm struggling to shift her poo routine from bedtime to daytime. It's really inconvenient to poo upstairs as she doesn't have towel after washing. And it disrupt her bedtime too. Anyway, I'm glad that she will inform me,"Oh, oshi! Oshi!" Then she will get her potty ready, remove her pants and nappy, sit down and get her business done. I'm proud. 

Speech

Darling can pretty much say anything she wanna express quite accurately. She observes and learn to speak like us so well by picking words up immediately. Sometimes when we will say it with a different word or misheard her word, she will repeat the word by saying,"See my mouth, beautiful!" That's exactly what we did when we teach her pronunciation. So cute and hilarious! 

Singing

We've exposing Darling to piano at home just to see how much she likes it. And her music class is going pretty well even sometimes can be quite boring for her. We will be upgrading her to the 3yr-old class for next semester. Gotta prepare her to be independent soon!

Manner

As much as we can, we remind her by showing her how to request for things with manners. Magic words like please, no thank you etc. She learned to say when Grandma cooked her chicken drumstick,"Thank you PoPo for the drumstick!" She practice it very well without us asking! 

Just last weekend at the park, she's happily popping bubbles as a family is blowing huge bubbles. Kids ran towards the same huge bubble so accidentally she and a toddler sort of knocked at each other. Then she ran back to me and I told her nevermind it's ok. To my surprise, she walked to the gal and say sorry! That's really great and I hold myself from telling her there's no need to apologize for the accident cuz I didn't wanna stopped her good manners practice. Eventually she will be able to judge what's right and what's wrong :)

Tantrum

Tantrum is the major challenge now in her terrible-two stage. She will grab forbidden things and refuse to release, even by exchanging or persuades are hard! She will wail and scream at my parents and just ignore anyone who tries to console her. 

I'm against body discipline but when other babysits, it's out of my control. And I rather try time-our method. But so far there's no opportunity to try it as she's listening well and calm down each time we explain to her and divert her attention to something she likes. 

Meal

Darling is no longer using her high chair for meals. Reasons are she's kinda hard to be fit into the high chair and Mom is no longer able to carry her up. 

So I implemented the manual seat belt for her on the adult's chair. As much as we can, we try not to let her walking around during mealtime. Otherwise our effort of training her from young will be down the drain!

Dancing

Last Sunday was Darling's very first Ballet class. I bought the groupon voucher without checking it's actually for 4yr old and above. So we let her try anyway. Starting well with the friendly instructor. Norra seen that it's kinda fun thing to do with the bigger sisters and enjoying quite a bit. It doesn't last long till the loud music started. She turned to me and wanted to cry, walked to me and never wanna go back to the group. Half way when the music stopped, I managed to convince her and she's actually walking towards the instructor again. When the loud music started playing, she turned back immediately. Oh well, I guess she just has to give it a few more classes to warm up. Though, she's still the cutest ballet dancer ever! :D

Mommy love you more each day!

xoxoxo