Helene @ 21 months

Helene is turning 21 months this Saturday. It has been some time since I last posted her update at 18 months so she has progressed a lot since then!

She is still quite into helping with the laundry, so hopefully she can help me with my chores next time if her sisters don't want to!

I took her for a trial session at Gymboree at Gurney Plaza a couple of weeks ago. She really enjoyed herself at the play area. But when it came to listening to the teacher and following instructions, it didn't work so well! Eventually she did manage to follow through, but as the teacher said, it was hardly to be expected of a 20 month old toddler!

Following the lesson..the teacher asked the kids to pick up the balls, walk across the "bridge" and drop the balls in a sack.

This was one occasion that I asked her to help wake Heidi up in the morning. After several calls of "Heidi, wake up, Jie Jie get up" and lots of patting, Heidi still didn't move, so little girl climbed on top of her and did this :)

She now likes to feed herself and doesn't want to be fed. So we just put a bib on her and let her do it. It used to be the case that most of the food ends up on the floor, on her shirt and everywhere else except her mouth, but nowadays, 90% of it does get into her mouth. She still loves her food and will eat almost anything, even spicy food! Here she is enjoying some kuay teow th'ng with fishballs :)

Her speech has improved a lot too, so much so that she will copy everything you say, especially the last few words of your sentence. There was one incident when we were at Penang Sports Club and a nice friendly lady came in to the lobby area where we were. When she saw Helene toddling around, she exclaimed "Oh, how cute!" And little girl copied her "Cuuttee!" The nice lady had a good laugh and asked me how old she was. When I said she was going to be 2 in April, the lady said "Oh, she's so tiny!"

Our dear Helene, you may be petite in size, but your big big smile sure makes up for it!