Water Activity

Date : Feb 2007

CNY 2007

CNY at Grand Pak Leong House

Date : First day of CNY 2007

Zoey & the gang......

Date : First day of CNY 2007

Zoey with grandparents & Uncle Eric

Date : Second day of CNY 2007

Zoey with great grandmom & grandmom

Date : Third day of CNY 2007

The Wong's Siblings

Date : Feb 2007

Development - 1 & half year old

Zoey is back !!!

Zoey is growing up fast these days, walking, talking a little, and even using a spoon or fork when she eats. She hasn't gotten a handle on is adult table manners. And that's okay, for mummy. It's too early for her to understand or manage neatness. Eating is a learning experience, and at this age learning tends to be messy. So mummy will spread a splash mat under her highchair and set her free; let her learn to use a spoon at her own pace, check out the texture of soup, rice and find out what peas do when thrown.

Every game she plays, whether it's pointing to different body parts when mummy asked her to or putting objects into containers and taking them out again, teaches her about the world around her. One of the things she's learning is that she's an autonomous entity, not just an extension of us.

My little girl understand of the world is growing rapidly. For instance, she no longer thinks pencils are something to eat. She can now grab them and create glorious scribble pictures for mummy.

She gets simple games, and can sit while away long moments playing peekaboo. She like playing peeaboo with her daddy and she will laugh and laugh each time daddy boo boo her. She also able to name the body part - eye, ear, nose, head, hair, hand, leg, tummy, teeth, tougue and face.

At this age she have master few of the vocabulary. These are what mummy can remember at this momment....but Zoey is giving mummy a suprise everday, by saying some new word everyday :-

Apple / Throw / Jump / Cheese / Ice Cream / Open / Close / Stop / Go / Slide / Swim / Yes / Chick Chick - Chicken / Aabit - Rabbit / Meow Meow - Cat / MumMum - Eat / Moo Moo - Cow / Pig / Bear / Horse / Up / Down / Book / Bread / Boat / Scoop / Hold / Poh - Carry / Corn / Milk / Chuk Chuk - Porriage / Bena - Ribena / Swing / Pilo - Pillow / Hot / Cold /

Some of her favourite characters and she able to say out the name :-

Nini - Barney / Jayjay - BJ / Bobbob - Babybob
Bob - Spongebob / Momo - Elmo

When she hear her favourite songs, she will sing along :-

Babaa...babaa - Baa baa Black Sheep
Star Star - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Although she still understanding less than half of what mummy says, she's getting a handle on most of the words we use around her. She's also having a vocabulary spurt and putting together pairs of words, like "Meow Meow Jump" , "Meow Meow Mummum Fish" , "Fish Mummum Bread" or "Hold Ice"

She's becoming much easier to understand now that she often combines pointing with a word or two. And her growing independence is asserting itself in numerous ways: She can undress herself and dressing herself - wearing socks or shoe and feeding her dolly. She can sort things by color, shape, and type, which makes toys that encourage sorting particularly popular now.

Mummy observed a spurt in physical development. Zoey now is surer on her feet, loves to climb all over your furniture, she able to run, though not as smoothly as she'll be able to later.

Now she may also go up stairs by herself, but she'll need help on the way down. Zoey able to kick a ball, too. She can also hold in her mind a clear memory of an object well after you remove it from her vision. Daddy is taking advantage of this new capability by playing hide-and-seek with her favorite toy.

There are some days when all that physical energy is more than mummy can handle. (Sigh).....

After all, mummy can't do anything to change it — flip on her favourite Barney music clip, grab this little one, and sing along with her and dance a few steps together.