My baby girl has turned 18 months old already.
Tay had her 18 month well-baby check up yesterday and got a couple shots. She weighed in at 12.4 kilos (27lbs. 5 oz.) and measured 84.4 cm (33.2 in). She grew 4 cm since June when she had her last check-up! She only gained .4 kilos, though, so I guess all her running around is keeping her weight down.
At the beginning of September, we went on a quick family vacation to Cebu, Philippines for Labor Day weekend. Tay's little friend Aiden and his family came as well so we had a wonderful time playing in the warm waters and relaxing. Tay got some color on her white white skin so she even has tan lines! Lucky for us, though, she didn't get burnt, so no painful moments to report. She did break her first glass, though, on this trip (and nearly put me in a panic). The room we stayed in had a little "step" in the living room area. She kept walking around and around holding a glass of water, but she wasn't paying attention at one moment and fell off the step! I heard the shatter of glass (as she fell off behind the couch) and I ran over to pick her up, only to see a litt shard of glass stuck in the palm of her hand. I dusted the rest of the glass off her her and picked the glass out of her hand. Luckily, the cut on her hand was only superficial and stopped bleeding shortly thereafter. We cleaned it out, called for hotel crew support for the glass clean-up in the room, and put her down for the night. Other than that little mishap on the first day at the resort, the rest of the vacation was fun-filled and a learning experience as Tay began swimming and floating on her own with the help of her puddle jumper. We got a great video clip of her just floating and learning to kick her legs...check it out here on youtube. She has also lost the fear of jumping into the water without one of us catching her; again, see on youtube where she is just hopping into the water and the adorable pose she strikes before she leaps in!
The weekend after we got back from the Philippines, my mom - Shingil's Halmuni - came into town for a visit. Tay took to her right away...luckily because we have talked to her on the phone frequently and occasionally even video-conferenced with her over the internet. Tay calls her "Noh-noh" and puckers her little lips when she says it...I'll try and capture it on video and post on youtube when I can.
Yesterday, we went to dinner in Bundang with my mom's friend so we got home very late (later than Tay's normal bedtime). We washed her up quickly (no bath since she got shots), said our good nights, read a story, said our prayers, and I laid down with her to put her down...well, after about 10 minutes of laying there, she heard her Halmuni's voice talking to her Appa. She sat up straight in the bed and looked in the directly of the door and shouted "Noh-Noh!" Then she crawled off the bed and went running out into the living room to find her...
Needless to say, she slept in this morning...ah well.
Tay's vocabulary is expanding ever so rapidly! Her latest additions are hello (hewo), anyong (anong - Korean word for "Hi"), Aiden (aieee), Donald (nonal), Malia (ya-ya), oatmeal (no-nea), egg (ee), open please (ehpee pees), spoon (boon), cup (petka), noon-koh-eep-qui-tuk-mori-eemah (noon-koh-eep-qui-tuk-mori-eemah - Korean word for "eye-nose-mouth-ear-chin-head-forehead"), slide (ide), crawl (kaw-kaw-kaw), uh-boo-bah (uh-oo-AH - Korean word for "piggyback")
Also her favorite dances and songs lately are the Hokie Pokie, Singing in the Rain, Itsy-Bitsy Spider, 5 Little Monkeys, "Gom seh mari" (3 Bears), and "Jeul-gup-gae, choom eul choo-da-ga" (Happily Dancing).
And in other good news, she's poo-potty trained! She still can't tell when she needs to pee early enough to make it to the potty on time every time, but sometimes she makes it. But with poo, she goes running to the potty after telling me "poo-poo" and patting her bottom. The next 4-day (Columbus Day weekend) will be the training weekend for pee - full force. Underwear or bust! :) I'm prepared for a lot of clean-up...
I love my growing baby girl...so sweet and just so funny...
