Dearie Nat,

Today we brought you to Dr Tan to have your MMR jab and your first year health assessment.

You are now weighing 10.3 kg, measuring 76.5 cm in length and having a head circumference of 45.3 cm. That puts you in the 75 percentile for everything and the doctor commented that your growth so far is "EXCELLENT!" You can see me beaming from face to face hearing the comment! I'm just so happy that you are doing so well.

The jab was non eventful. You gave a little yelp when Dr Tan gave you a quick jab. All the while I was nursing you as Dr Tan said that would make it less painful for you. I was told to monitor for possible fever after 7 days of your jab. Hopefully you won't get the fever.

At 1 year old, you are able to:

1) Stand unsupported for 15 seconds at least. The longer we clap and cheer you on, the longer you would stand. You will even clap for yourself and look very smug.

2) Walk with support. You could push the little car I bought you months ago and walk everywhere. You also like us to hold your little hands so that you could walk and you walk really fast!!!

3) You could understand and follow instructions quite well. You will clap, dance, wave byebye, kiss goodbye, sign "no more", fly like a butterfly/bird and pretend to kill a mosquito etc when we told you to.

4) You know where your eyes, ears, nose and mouth are in Mandarin. I'm teaching you the English nouns for them right now.

5) You know how to say "neng neng" very well whenever you want to nurse or when you want food.

6) You know how to express your likes and dislikes, as well as your wants. For eg. When you want something, you'll nod your head and when you don't wan't something, you'll shake your head. You nod and shake ur head so hard that your whole body moves together. It is hilarious!

7) You know how to show your affections. When we said "sayang wa wa (doll)", you will carry the doll and hug it really tightly while turning ur body from left to right. When we asked you to sayang us, you will either stroke our face gently with your hand or give us a kiss (more like a lick).

8) You love the yellow Pucca chocolate pretzel tibits that your Daddy bought. Now you will crawl all the way to the snacks table, pull yourself up and reach for the Pucca biscuits. After which, you will crawl back to look for us to open the biscuits for you.

9) You love to laugh. You'll laugh at every funny face that we make or will pretend to laugh along with us when we laugh. Your cries are as loud as your laughter though but luckily you do not cry too often.

I'm sure there is a no. 10 but it is getting very late now and I'm really sleepy so my mind is not working at its best. Goodnight for now, my sweetie. I'm joining you in dreamland pretty soon. You look so peaceful sleeping next to me.



Off we went to Toys R' Us after your health assessment.

Love,
Mommy

natnat's mom at 1:49 AM 0 comments