Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ler Tao's 1 year old milestones

I brought Tao for her 1 year old vaccination 2 days ago and below are her milestones.
Height: 74cm
Weight: 8kgs (the growth chart reflects that she is not growing enough and we were advised to give her more solids and healthy snacks). I think this is due to her falling sick before and also our 'war' of weaning her and she drinks only 2oz of milk each milk feeding time a few weeks ago....guilty, guilty
Teeth: 4 at the top and 2 at bottom with another 2 erupting at the bottom

Language:
1) Calls her grandma 'Ah Ma' (much to her grandma' s delight) and calls me either 'Ah Ma' or 'Ma Ma'.
2) Calls her sister 'Ah Jie'
3 Recognizes her dad and grandpa by pointing but not able to pronounce yet
4) Will point and say 'bird' and 'ball' when she sees one
5) Imitates what adults say in two syllabus eg. he4 shui3 (drink water), sshh sshh (refers to hot), huai4 dan4 (referring to her when she misbehaves)
6) She will pass things that she is holding to us when we say 'gei3' (give)
7) When she does not want her grandpa/ dad to carry her, once they say 'chi4 kong1 yuan2' (go to the park), she will agree to be carried.
8) Understand and wil follow our command like shake her head, wave goodbye, gong xi and clap hands.

Temparament:
1) Will cry pitifully when left alone or when she sees people going outside/ upstairs without bringing her along
2) When we refuse her something (food or toy), she will lie on the floor, roll about and cry. At the same time, she will see if we are looking at her or not
3) When she sees adults tending to her sister, she will be jealous and go to the adult for attention too
4) When she cries for us to tend to her, she will stay at where she is and refuse to come to us. Instead, she will cry until we go to her.

Meals:
1) Her milk feeding problem is solved once we realize that she does not like formula. So I am mixing Organic Phytomilk with lesser formula for her (as mentioned in my previous post)
2) As she rejects eating her porridge, I have also started to use Multigrain Ramen from organic shop, 'mee sua' (fine vermicelli) or steamed rice. I will prepare some soup based dish (chicken/ pork and silver bait) with vegetables and/or fish and lastly, add noodles, vermicelli or rice and stew until very tender due to Tao does not have molar for proper chewing yet. She seems to like the variety that I have prepared for her so far.
3) Snacks on fruits (like avocados, bananas. apples, organic raisins and blackcurrants), rusk biscuits and bread.

Physical Coordination:
1) Crawls on all fours most of the time
2) Likes to climb onto furnitures. She will push stools to the side of coffee table, climb and sit on it
3) Able to stand without support when she is unaware like when we pass toys to her but once she realizes, she will quickly hold for support or sit down
4) Unwilling to walk yet. We try to hold her arms and let her take some steps but she will just stretch her legs to the front to sit down

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