23 months, full of surprises

Chab eating breakfast, with tito Joey playing with her...

Chab: Uuuhhh! (Tito Joey eat also)

Tito Joey: Ok.

Tito Joey gets an empty bowl and spoon and pretends to eat in front of Chab.

Chab: Aaaahh!!!! Fake!!!

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I say many surprising things now. Memi, and my family are so amazed. I can fix small things like when pieces of my toys come off, I can put it back on my own. I love drawing with my crayons. I notice all the details, especially when riding in the car seeing all the sites. I know when we are almost to the grocery or to my play gym Activefun.

I have my own name for SM/or the mall - it's ikay-ikay. I dunno, I just made that one up. Memi likes it. I also made up words like bugga bugga, and honkey donkey. Another word I made up is poo poo stick - that means pogo stick.

My favorite food nowadays is cake! I have to have cake once a week or just before sleeping, whichever Memi will allow. :)

I'm noticing that it's almost my birthday and I know the place that I am going to have it. I started looking at lootbags, and tasting LOTS of cake. I love taste testing cotton candy and popcorn too! ;) I'm excited for my birthday. I hope that I can blow out the candles on my birthday cake, that's why I'm already practicing.

I know and use words like gravity, stethoscope, paparazzi and heart pressure.

Recent pictures

There's more in dadi's flickr :)

22 months

At 22 months I mastered climbing up and down the stairs. :) I don't like to be carried especially when I can climb stairs on my own. I ngove watching playhouse Disney. My favorite shows are Clipard (Clifford) puppy days, Mickey Mouse cubhouse (clubhouse), Save-ums, Cocoyo (pocoyo) and Jojo's Circus. I like playing hide and seek, especially in the dark when I can use my pwashngite (flashlight). I love toys and not just toys-things! anything I find new I want to try, touch and hold. I ngove throwing my toys out of the box and making a big mess...Kangat!!! (kalat)

I'm used to sleeping in the afternoon now, and it doesn't take me long to fall asleep at 4pm. But, if I don't get my nap, you can tell I'm sleepy when I say I want to "doog something" or "I want to spill spill everything."

I'm still practicing using the potty. I haven't gotten down to pulling my dipies off before using it, but sometimes I like to sit on it. Mostly, I use the the potty as an excuse to go down from the bed when I know it's bedtime, because Memi doesn't let me go down unless it's for potty. And then, I go straight for the ref!

When something I like is all out, like oreos, I say, "We have to go to the gwocewy and buy more."

I don't like when my clothes are wet, I immediately ask Memi to change my shirt if water spills on it. :)

I love going out for car rides. I sit voluntarily in my car seat, but I won't let the trip go by unless I get a chance to drive too! If we go home and I haven't had a chance to sit at the driver's seat and play around in the car, I will stay for a few minutes, before going into the house again.

I still use my pwaygwound (thank you dadi) but now, I mostly use the slidewee. :) I can almost slide by myself, but I prefer if Memi is holding me. I like playing dagan dagan in the garage with toto Doey too.

My favorite food these days are bubuwan (polvoron), chuckie (chocolate milk), CHOCOLATE, cake, french toast and jengy snakes da sweet wan. (jelly snakes)

My ninang Kat has chickenpox. Memi told me this. So, I said, "I want to buy chickenpox." Memi said, "You cannot buy chickenpox, you can only get it." So, I said, "I want to get chickenpox when I grow up. I want to give Tito Doey chickenpox when he grows up."

Hahaha, said Memi.

I can sing "I have two hands" and "I'm a little teapot" all by myself ;)

Said while sleeping

I ngove the ngitle cat, grabe..I want my own cake!

Bintan, Indonesia

Did I share my beach trip to Bintan with you already? Click on my pic to see more.




It was raining the whole weekend, but I had fun in the playground, riding the golf cart and trying out the duyan.

:)

Reading my Santa's Elf book

The book says:

"Santa's elves work night and day to make the toys to fill his sleigh. And, never ever seem to stop just look around the busy shop."

Trying on shades

Whatyuduin?

I'm a ngitel tea pot

I'm a little teapot short and stout...

I learned that song last night before bedtime. I made memi sing it 10 times until i memorized the song and the actions. Then, after the tenth time, I sang along with her and made her sing it 10 more times.

Then, Memi asked me to sing it all by myself and I did!

Napping, Eating and Meltdowns

Meltdowns! I have lots of them when I am sleepy or cranky. You can tell that I need sleep when I start taking gibberish and I crumple to the floor at the drop of a hat.

I'm still trying to get into a regular nap time. I can't fall asleep by myself yet, unless I am REALLY tired like when I haven't napped for the whole day.

I'm not into eating nowadays, because my second molars are growing, but I can buckle my own seatbelt now.

Here is one thing I like though, SNACKS! Here's a pic of Dadi and me eating nachos and salsa. :)

I'm a bedgtabol gehl.

I ngove (love) eating vegatables. Grandmum calls me a vegetable girl. I don't like meat unless I am really hungry or Memi hides it in the rice.

I've been really cranky for the past days because I'm growing my second molars. I think Memi will blender my food again just so I can eat it.

I love eating corn, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. I want all my meals to have vegetables in them.

Blowing bubbles

I blew my first bubble last night with Dadi and Memi watching. I'm practicing for my birthday coming up :)

I used my dora non-spill bubble holder and bubble wand and blew 5 bubbles! Hooray for me!!!

Memi and Dadi are so proud of me :)

pffffffffff!!! pffffffffffffffffffffff!!!

You Member...?

I can recall many things now, even if they were days away. I like to say, "you member?" (you remember) to you, but I only say the experiences I had with you.

Like with Memi it's, you member the milk spilled from the tea (scoop) and you wipe it with tissue with water from the glass?

And with Gwanmum it's, you member the kakawoach in the gwocy (cockroach in the grocery).

And with Dadi it's, you member the popcorn in the swing? higher, higher!

And with lolo it's, you member the cake and candle...blow! (on lolo's birthday)

I member the buchi, it's hot! it's black... (grandmum's bday at Fu in Serendra). I ngike buchi. :)

I member the special house and the real stars. Want to get it. You member the dog? and the man fixing the ngines (lines).
[brownout at the house, when she stayed under the mosquito net and saw the stars at night and the meralco guys fixing the post]

Expressing myself at 21 months

Going up the stairs in the house, grandad brings me to the 2nd floor. But I want to go to the 3rd floor...

Chab: uuuuhhhhhh! (fake cry)

Grandad: What's that?

Memi: She is protesting.

Grandad: Why are you protesting? Are you protestant?

Chab: Uuuuuhhhh...Memi, I'm protestant!

Ahahhaha...

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Looking in a drawer of grandad's gadgets...

Chab: Memi, what's this?

Memi: A light. For the car.

Chab: Want to open...

Memi: It's closed...

Chab: Maybe... I need scissors.

Starts looking deeper in the drawer for scissors...
:)

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Looking up at the 4th floor

Chab: I want to go there there

Yaya: It's too hot there

Chab: I can try...

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Watching cartoons

Memi: Do you want to watch Clifford puppy days?

Chab: Yah

Memi: Really?

Chab: I'm sure.

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Grandad plays with Chab's polar bear pobee making it stand on hind legs and making roaring sounds walking towards Chab sitting on the bed.

Gwandad: Roaaarrrr!!!

Chab shouts, "NOT ON THE BED!!!"

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Don't clean me!

I hate having having my diaper changed, or wiping my face or taking a bath. But, I still have to do them...

I don't like brushing my teeth too, unless Memi plays the game 'take out'. She says, take out the corn, take out the oreos...or any other thing I ate that day, while brushing my teeth.

I don't like washing my hands or wiping with baby wipes unless I know that I am going to eat something I like after. :)

Remarks

While in the grocery...

Memi: Chab! Look, grapes! There are red ones and green ones. Which do you like?

Chab: Anything. I like grapes.

hahahah...

Had some of Toto Doey's friends over, before leaving...

Jan-be: Elisha, are you sad to see us go?

Chab: No, I'm happy!

ahahaha....

Getting cheeky!

Dadi told Memi I'm probably gaining some weight as my cheeks looked rounder now and I'm getting a double chin...Dadi only sees my cheeks only on the webcam now as he's in back in Singapore, but he'll be kissing them soon! :D Hopefully he doesn't have to go back to Singapore as he's alone there and quite sad (don't cwy dadi...) I can't wait for next month to play gigil games with him before bedtime, and then I have to hug him so he stops tickling me hehe.. "hug!"

Helpful and Sweet

I always like to help Memi when she is doing something. I like doing things together! Especially the sweeping and mopping. That is my favorite. I also help when loading the washing machine when I can. I like putting back what toys I got from my toy drawer and keeping the Memi's old matchbox cars back in their box when I'm done looking at them.

I like to ask, "What you doin'?" to everyone.

I always ask to hold dadi and memi's hand while walking so we can walk together. I always share my food with toto doey, memi, dady, gwandad, gwanmum, ninang kat, tita dec or yaya. Sometimes when I like the food I pretend to feed them with my arm outstretched, then, when they come close with their mouth open, I put the food in my own mouth. Hahah!

I'm 21 months!

I'm a pro at picking up things that you say. I say things like "Oh, dear, oh my, oh my godness!" (that's not at typo). If you say, "Where is your ilok? (armpit)", I say, "I'm on to you." If I'm holding a basket of things and they spill out onto the floor, I say, "Oh, no! My things!!" If I'm hungry already, I say, "I'm ringy, ringy hungry."

I'm still not into changing diapers, and haven't been for the past 2 months. I'm really afraid of changing diapers in public places. I cry and scream just to make Memi stop.

I like playing with my stuffed toys now especially my Singapore Zoo polar bear Pobee and my manatee who I call Dugom. I just started liking stuffed toys starting last month. I like feeding Poby my milk and rocking him like a baby.

I am great at pushing my Disney princess stroller. I don't need help from Memi anymore for steering. I love cars and bikes because I can steer now. I like sitting in the driver's seat of dadi's car and beeping the horn.

One time I was in the driver's seat playing while Dadi was getting HenLin. I beeped the horn even if Memi said not to because there was a girl eating in the shell station in front of the car. She was really surprised by the loud sound and her eyes grew very big!!! I quickly sat down from where I was standing at the wheel so she wouldn't see me, and started leaning my head to the left and sinking down to hide!

I miss my playdate friends and the playground in Singapore. So, Dadi bought my my very own playground! I ngove it!!! I like swinging high in my blue seal swing with the seatbelt on ,of course. Every morning I go out to play, and if I could go out at night I would play all night at the playground.

Memi got me a new potty, and I like to sit on it for 1 second and then stand up and say, "I'm done!" I'm not really interested in using it for real yet. Maybe when I'm used to seeing it around for a while.

It's very hot now here in Manila. I'm so happy that Dadi bought me a wading pool for outside! I use it almost everyday. Dadi, can you put a picture of me in my pool on my blog?

I don't like using my stroller much anymore here because we have a car. I like to walk around by myself in the malls and slide out of grasp if anyone is trying to pick me up.

I can sing all the words to Twinkle twinkle little star now and most of Old McDonald had a Farm. I like to use the microphone when I sing the Backyardigans theme song at the start of my DVDs.

I miss my high chair for eating and can't wait til it arrives. I hope my toys get here soon too!

I have to upload my pictures of the zoo, singapore flyer and my friends Katharina and Janek. Here are some:






Bestfriends!

Webs

Walking through the garden carrying Chab, Memi walks through a spiderweb.

"A spider web! A spider web!", says Memi removing it from her hair.

Chab thinks for a while...

"A website!", she says.

Immunization schedule for chab

Look here

Bishan Park 1

This afternoon, we went to visit Bishan Park for the first time. I loved playing in the grass and running around by myself. There was a lake with turtles and I liked crossing the red bridge.









Here are some more pics.

Vivo playtime

Here I am on the way to Vivo City on the purple line.



Playtime! It's hot!!!

Chinese new year lion dance

Ugh! I hate the drums on Chinese new year. I'm always scared because it's so loud!

I did like getting a shiny new coin, though.


And, I wondered what the lions wrote on the floor with the orange wedges.

Shoe shopping

Last Sunday, Daddy, Memi and I went shopping. We went to Great World City and Marina Square. I got my first pair of sneakers! I ngove it! I've been wearing them everywhere for 2 days now.

I wear them to the grocery, playground and when I am out for walks.

Thank you Daddy and Memi!

Chab talks

Elisha knocking at the door...
"Daddy...Get memi's nenen.."

After pooping, Elisha says...
"Daddy said, BAHO!"

At the playground..
"Katharina...where are you? Elisha is here!"

While eating pancakes yaya made with banana in them
"I don't like the banana flavor."

After eating corn chips and salsa at Margarita's mexican restaurant...
"You member the spicy? You dip it, you get it, you eat it?"

hahahahah

Chab talking to herself

"I want to duggle (juggle)."

"Doctor said.... I'm a doctor..."

"Pastastastas"

"Let's make our own mep."

"I'm going to playgound"

"I will put the ball here"

Walking down the street

This year, I'm doing a lot of walking. Sometimes I just like to jump off the stroller, or maybe not bring it at all.

Here I am walking down the sidewalk going home from mass.

Chab goes to karaoke

Here is the title



Let's sing

My Christmas Holiday 2007

Christmas Holiday Dec 2007- Jan 2008

Oreo Mess

My spoon (Oreo) 1 of 3 from chabudoinky on Vimeo.


Dunk the cookie (Oreo) 2 of 3 from chabudoinky on Vimeo.

"MEME! I WATCH DORA!!!", chab shouts

19 MONTHS

I'm addicted to watching dora and nenen all day.

I can count to 12! wan, two, twee, fo, five, six, seben, eight, nine, ten, angeven, twelve!

I can sing along with the songs, old macdonald, twinkle twinkle little star, little peter rabbit, happy birthday, london bridge, are you sleeping, the wheels of the bus, abc, etc.

I rode the MRT and I saw a bar to hang on and I hugged it and said, "I love you bar!".

18 months, a big girl now

Holiday in Manila


Mastering making sentences, Chab mostly speaks in complete sentences now.

She can jump with 2 feet off the floor for the first time!

She has moments where she is super kulit! Just like her "drunk" episode at Omakase on Memi's bday. See the video where she wants to "Cheers" with everyone at the table.







She ordered ice cream from the waiter at 1 and a half years old! She tapped the waiter who was behind her and said, "One ice cream, please!"

Our holiday spent in Manila was the first time Chab met and lived with so many people at one time, and she was able to memorize and recall all their names.

Chab's version - Their names
Dandad - Grandad
Namum - Grandmum
Ngongo - Lolo Nards
Ninang Kat - Kat
Tita Jec - Jessica
Toto Doey - Joey
Tito Bobby - tito bobby
Tita Pinky - tita pinky
titipia - Pia
Tita gin - Regine
Ngonga - Lola Liza or Lola mila

Now that she is thinking and talking a lot, Memi and Dadi have to start giving her more to learn while at the same time, teaching her the right things she can use for everyday :)


Some things she says now:

Bayooooooott!! Ponoy... (Balot, penoy)

Tahoooo!!! (taho)

tab's (chab's) riding the car.

Daddy's driving the car.

It's moving. when the car is moving

Where's elisha's water?

Ninang Kat is ready na. (as she saw kat dressed up going down the stairs)

I want banggo! (i want mango). She then follows this with... Or banana!

I ngongike (don't like) the foggy fog. (dora episode)

Open the pesents! (presents).

I'm a princess. I want a princess dress.

I ngove it. (i love it) - said after opening a present. it was pj's.

I ngike it. (i like it) - said after eating something she likes, like chocolate, cookies or broccolli.

I forgot to sing. - said after she played her toy piano.

Turn on the ngite. (light)

It's sleeping time.

Engisha swim. Engisha walk.

Come here, come here. -said when she wanted to call the dogs

I ngongike. ( i don't like)

I run the grass. (I run on the grass.)

Do you see the clouds? I found it.







She can sing Jingle Bells, and Feliz Navidad. After watching a Dora episode, she can also sing Feliz Compleanos.

She sang "Big Girls Don't Cry" at a KTV bar at TimeZone. See the video.

Raises her voice, and repeats what she is saying, if she knows she is not being paid attention to.

Can sort simple shapes and put them in their proper hole.

She likes bags, wears them and says, "I'm going to school."

Enjoyed going crazy at the toy store last Christmas.

Was Dat?!?

My favortie phrase now is : "Wasdat?!?"

I speak in sentences now, saying things like:

"I like that."

"I get daddy's shirt."

"Elisha's toes stepping remote."

"It's ice cream."

Dora and Boots Live Best Friend's Day

We went to watch the Dora Show at United Square last Friday. I sat upfront just inches away from the stage :)

At first, I was covering my ears because the music was so loud! Then when Dora, the map and Boots came out, I recognized the songs and started dancing. :)

Above are the pictures from the show, and some pictures of the Spongebob show after.

I can construct sentences

Chab is spinning around and around playing. She says:

"Pinning!" (spinning)

"I'm dizzy."

"West." (rest)

And rests her head on the couch. :)

Chab is playing with her small round mylar ballon of Elmo, throwing it up in the air. She says:

"Catch it"

"Throw it"

"Throw Angmo (Elmo)."

"Weee!!!"

After she does this for a few minutes, she says:

"It's so Fun!!"

....hahahah...

She can construct sentences already and use the appropriate word for her situation! At 17 months :)

What are you doing?

Elisha reaches for the basket and scatters the contents on the floor.

Memi sees her squatting down beside the mess, thinking that she might have eaten one of the small things.

Memi: "What are you doing?"

Chab: "Pooping!"

Pointing out things

Chab takes a taxi to Ikea.

Looking out the window, she sees many trees along the road.

"Fayest!" (Forest!) she says.

Upon approaching the Ikea building, she says,

"There it is!!!"

The cab driver laughs. Memi says, "How did you know?" :)

At home, Chab is watching cartoons on TV. Memi changes the channel. She says,

"What happened?"

Chab is wearing her Dora panty, resting from wearing diapers. She taps Memi on the shoulder and says,

"Aw, man! Wee wee!" and points to her pee on the floor behind us.

Other words that Chab says:
Bath-a-wuhm =bathroom
Mush-a-wuhm =mushroom
Bember = remember
Gagol = juggle
Where are you
I found it

17 months, Learning on my own

I can eat an ice cream cone on my own.

I learned "abante ako!" while watching Game ka na ba. I also raise my fist in the air while saying this.

I can say "help" when i need it. I swinging and jumping, if only i could on my own already. :)
I can almost run run run fast like a big kid. I can use a key and open the tv closet by myself. :)

Had Katharina over again for a playdate. Here are some pictures.

Growing up

I love coloring. I make scribbles just after waking up, before sleeping and anytime I feel like it.

I can hide and pop up saying "peek-a-boo!". I love pretending to bake, or have a picnic. My favorite game nowadays is "find". I like pointing out things in a book while memi is reading. Also, I like finding the green peas on my plate along with the corn, rice, potatoes and soup. This makes eating fun. I can find things in a picture if memi says, where it is near or what the color is, even without pointing it out to me.

Stairs are my new challenge. Each morning I go down 4 stairs and climb up the ramp, go back down the stairs, and up the ramp. I repeat this all morning until I am tired.

I've learned how to swing, and tried doing it from the bar above the slide.

Playground Pro

I've almost mastered all the things in the playground. I can climb up the slide, walk across the bridge, identify the shapes and some numbers, drive the steering wheel, climb up the step to the spiral slide and slide down all by myself!

I can also climb up the car by myself, look!

New words I say in my 16th month

guitar
ang kanky - i'm cranky
ang neepy - i'm sleepy
angavu - i love you
waya - none / wala
sving - swing
ah got you - i got you
amazing
panget
lancsam - slowly in german
santa
hand
sepate - separate
wantandon - triangle
damon - diamond
tandon - rectangle
sikkol - circle
scare - square
pink
wed - red
byue - blue
geen - green
geen peas
motorbike
yengo -yellow
owange - orange
yan!
bown - brown
ipit
ow, hurt, saket
face!
fell/fell down
give
kusus - blues clues
bagans - backyardigans
sogar - sugar
sharp
spin
foot/foos - foot
airplane
copter - helicopter
oval
no!
mix it
corn!
banana- I can pronounce the 'b' now
i-kim - ice cream
zuppa - super!bravo! in german
yours
using- memi's using
memi's/dadi's/yaya's
bike
car
tummy
table
a-one - other one
a-side - other side
ngongo - lolo
fends - the hit show F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
ky - cry. singing big girls don't cry by Fergie
eieio- singing old macdonald
by self
soup
bahwohw - borrow
aykensi
wow! woah!
slide/ wee
foam
da neck
colors - crayons
wite - write
stuck
saya- sira
kuwe - carry
baksit - basket
put there
kendi / kendin - candy
come here/come here memi
help
it's daddy's
picnic
stay there
find
i don doh - i don't know
sand castle
motorbike
elmo
flying
kite
teapot
swiper/fox
cannot/cannot do it
i can do it

By self

"By self!" is what I say when I want to eat using a spoon all by myself. I sit in a big persons chair and eat just like memi and dadi.

Saturday morning

After waking up...

Yaya: Elisha, you want to play? You eat first.

Elisha: Of course!