every month<\/a>, just to capture Zara’s development. She turned 14 on Saturday, I had been so busy, only have time to do this now.<\/p>\nWeight: ~ 7.9Kg (weighed 27\/12) but I believe she’s about 8.5Kg now b’cos she feels very heavy.
\nHeight: ~77cm
\nThis month, she sprouted another tooth, so she has 4 upper teeth, and 4 lower teeth now.<\/p>\n
Dexterity :<\/strong><\/p>\nwalking up stairs while holding up the rail, or the wall<\/li>\nlikes bouncing on her feet, a bit like jumping, but not lifting herself off the ground yet<\/li>\nwalks up and down stepsLanguage :
\n<\/strong>She has us amazed on this area, her understanding of the language is really good, and she’s picking up new words almost every day. She’s also started to join them to make them into phrases. Additional words she’d learnt this month :<\/li>\nNah-yen (lion)<\/li>\nNam (lamb)<\/li>\nmoong (moon)<\/li>\nSpicy (after saying this, she’ll stick her tongue out panting)<\/li>\nLaugh (Giraffe)<\/li>\nStairs (she sometimes confused this with UP, she’ll say ‘stairs’ when asking me to carry or asking me to lift her up to the bed)<\/li>\nPanda beh (Panda)<\/li>\nPane (Plane)<\/li>\nPaink Paink (Pain, she says this while pointing her index finger to her chest)<\/li>\nSkeh Skeh (Scared, she says this while patting her chest)<\/li>\nBig<\/li>\noh-nang (Orange)<\/li>\ngap (grape)<\/li>\nnai-nai (night night)<\/li>\ntir-tee (dirty)<\/li>\nsoo (shoe)She says phrases like :<\/li>\nTatak, wis (kakak, fish; meaning she wants kakak to give her fish)<\/li>\nBye Bye Nah-yen\/Papa<\/li>\nGo up stairs<\/li>\nGo park<\/li>\nBird bird fai (fly)<\/li>\nMore more biskuh (biscuit)\/moonermang(banana)\/wise (rice)She knows almost all the body parts : *eyes, ears, head, *nose, hair, neck, face, stomach, *pet-pet (private part), *breast (thanks to breast feeding), legs, hands, feet, pointer, belly button
\n(*she knows how to say the word too)<\/p>\nFeeding \/ Food :<\/strong><\/li>\nFavourite is still fish<\/a>.<\/li>\nStill mainly on breast milk, but on days when supply is low, she’s willing to take a bottle of formula even from me unlike previously<\/a>Emotions :<\/strong><\/li>\nStarted calling me Ah Meen<\/a> (Ah Mee slowly turned Ah Meen)<\/li>\nbecame even more clingy<\/a>.<\/li>\nGiving me more kisses on the lips nowadays<\/li>\nShowing some toddler tantrum nowadays, by crying, kicking her legs, arching her body when she doesn’t get her way<\/li>\nSociable<\/a>, but when confronted by a stranger, can be a bit more quiet then her normal self<\/li>\n<\/div>