{"id":297,"date":"2006-08-21T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=297"},"modified":"2006-08-21T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T23:58:00","slug":"21st-month-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"21st Month Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nZara is 21mths today, 3 more months till she’s 2yrs old (oh boy, have to start planning for her birthday party).<\/p>\n

~ Weight should be more than 9.7kg (didn’t weigh her this month)
\n~ Height : 83cm
\n~ No new teeth sprouting. She has a total of 16 teeth.<\/p>\n

Dexterity<\/u> :
\n~ Climbing up stairs without holding on to anything, however, we asked her to at least use the wall to support her, just in case.
\n~ Able to rinse her mouth and spit out, even moving her cheek to do a through rinse.
\n~ Able to draw circles (although not perfect).
\n~ Climbing up ladders in the park unassisted.
\n~ Able to put on her pants<\/a> with some help.<\/p>\n

Language<\/u> :
\n~ She can sing and recite some nursery rhymes from beginning till the end.
\n~ Her reasoning skill<\/a> is getting very good.
\n~ She’s learning new words very quickly, and the correct usage of them.
\n~ She’s able to sing along with most of the songs she has on CD, VCD and DVD, for words she’s not sure, she’ll just mumble something to the tune.<\/p>\n

(and lots more which I’d captured in some of the posts)<\/p>\n

Feeding and Food<\/u>:
\n3 meals and 3 milk feeds a day. Eats a lot of snacks in between,<\/p>\n

Her current favourite junk food is chocolate ice cream (she only fancies chocolate flavour and nothing else), which I have to keep a tub in the freezer all the time.<\/p>\n

She only wants to have egg and cheese these days for breakfast and lunch.
\nAnd for dinner, as long there’s a fish or an egg dish, she’s fine.<\/p>\n

She refuses most leafy vege (just suddenly), preferring only beans (long beans, peas). Luckily she takes lots of fruits or she won’t have enough fiber intake.<\/p>\n

Emotions<\/u> :
\n~ Officially weaned off thumb sucking<\/a>.
\n~ Extremely clingy nowadays, probably feels threatened by my growing stomach and the coming baby.
\n~ Showing preference to which kid she likes to play with in the park, she only likes to ‘hang around’ this particular girl, who’s 8mths older than her.
\n~ Very affectionate, giving everybody lots of hugs and kisses, and saying “I love you” to Daddy and me.
\n~ Very emotional, especially when she sees animals in distressed (mummy not in the same league as the animals).<\/p>\n

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