18 GOING ON 19

It’s terribly late of me to do an 18th month development commentary on Nunu today, as she’s approaching 19 in a few days time anyway.But it's not fair if I give it a miss, so I’ll just make this a quick one, in a totally random order:

She’s 9.5 kg and 78 cm tall.

She has 8 teeth.

She had her last 18 month jab last Thursday and gave the doctor a good fight.

She’s not really physically stable – she still stumbles and trips takde angin, takde hujan. Maybe she’s a klutz like me, I don’t know

She runs funny - in a total careless abandon way, very much like Rachel or Phoebe when they went jogging in the park.

She can kick a ball forward and throws a ball upperhand.

She can hop like a bunny rabbit.



She’s really good with shape sorters now. And she can unzip zippers and unscrew cap bottles.

She arranges toy cars in a straight line and her colour pencils back in the box (not perfectly neat, of course but she tries!)

I can trust her to eat on her own using a spoon. Most of the food goes into her mouth, but she likes to stick out what doesn’t suit her taste and throws it down on the floor.



If we are in the car, she insists that I throw the unwanted food bits out through the window.

She loves wearing other people's shoes, and especially my house slippers. Well, at least she doesn't find them delicious anymore :D



She can take off her pants and diapers, but she has no idea how to take off her shirt.

She likes to drink Nespray Honey with a soft spout bottle, and occasionally in a cup.

She still prefers nen-nen, none-the-less

She knows the key words in her nursery rhymes and sings along to them.

She knows where her legs, toes, armpit and belly are - and she can name them too! Belly-button is no more "butter" but "battenn" now.

She understands gender differences - knows the differences between a girl and a boy, a kakak and an abang, an uncle and an aunty.

She has been conditioned to be extremely fearful of ants, roaches and lizards.

When climbing up the stairs to the bedroom to turn in for the night, she calls out “Bye-bye! Nite!” even though there is no one around but me.

She can walk down the stairs unattended, but with supervision.

She regularly helps me throw bits and pieces of rubbish into the dustbin.

She has several favourite TV programs -namely Afi dah Abah, Tom Tom Bak and Mutiara Hati.

She demands we switch on the 'tatun' channel for her, but it doesn't mean she would watch.

She insists we rub on 'ebet' if she feels 'atai' or if she hurts herself.

Last night while watching the news, she calls Sammy Vellu "Adin" - who is Mak Nab's next door neighbour :D