Kaitlyn 23 months update

Kaitlyn had an explosion of in speech in the last month. She uses conjunctions and makes complex sentences now, such as "I want to eat stirred fried noodles because it smells nice and it's smooth"; and things like "Grandpa's surname is Guan, mum's surname is also Guan." Her Mandarin is still quite a bit better than her English. Guess we have to speak to her a bit more in English to prep her for childcare later this year. She answers simple questions correctly such as "how old are you?", "what is your name?" "what is your surname", "where is ?" etc. She started asking "why" last week. oh the fun begins now...

We are trying to also introduce Cantonese to her. She understands much of it but she doesn't speak it much just yet because we speaks mainly Mandarin and English to her but speaks Cantonese with each other.

She is learning to read and recognises the Chinese Characters in her own name and can spell half of her English name.

She loves to draw and write. Unfortunately our furniture, floor boards and electrical appliances had all fallen victims to her pens and crayons. She coloured in our fridge orange last week!

The Terrible Twos are kicking in more and more. She squeals and barks when she's not getting her way. Very annoying sounds... /sighs. Although, most of the time, she's still very independent and well behaved. Sometime I think she's too independent, because my mother just sits her down to play on her own for hours at a time instead of interacting with her more, which annoys me. I wish I feel a lot better so I could actually play with her more very soon.

She threw her biggest/longest tantrum to date last night... She decided she did not want to eat dinner, instead she wants to go to the playground and play with swings and slides. So she whine and screamed and cried or a WHOLE HOUR. I think my head is STILL ringing from all that noise. Anyways, she did not get to go to the playground. After screaming for over an hour, she finally ate her dinner. ah the joy of terrible twos...

She's back under 10kgs again and her appetite is still very good. Maybe it's just fast metabolism? I shall ask the pediatrician at our next appointment in February.

She has a great imagination. She does pretend tea parties with her dolls and stuffed animals. She projects how she feels/wants onto her toys sometimes. Like she told us last night that her dog wants to go to play on the slides, when we ignored her repeated request to go to the playground. LOL

She does 10 nursery rhymes/songs now and loves to sing and dance. She sings herself to sleep most nights.