Intellectual milestones
13mos. - Mastered shape sorting and matching skill, she learned how to place the shapes in the correct spaces without any help. At 17mos+ she still digs it out to play with it.
14mos - At 14mos, she has mastered her colors and alphabet. She loves colours. At this tender age, she already has her favorite colour - Yellow.
15mos.
Numbers – She knows her numbers from 1-10 and she could arrange the numbers (block) in order of 1-10. Sometimes, she got mixed up with 6 and 9. She adores this game from the iphone apps called '123 Counting'. She counts the number of objects and select the correct number. She would clap her hands and signs 'good' when she gets it right. A highly recommended game for toddlers.
16-17mos
Alphabet - She is able to do ordering (A-Z, using alphabet blocks).
Words - Recognizing some words from books/cards and matching words to pictures
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Language milestones
Words she can say now
Apple
Baby
Bye-bye
Poopoo
Papaya (papaya means something else to her)
Um (her version of umbrella)
Ambuls (ambulance, she learns this word from iphone apps)
Peter
Daddy
Mama
Papa
Moo moo (cow)
Doog (Dog)
Abajik (Abacus)
Mm (milk)
Schot (scotts emulsion)
Bee
"Sshhh" to hush someone
Chi (cheese)
A-me (Amen)
She says “bay-bee!” when she sees other toddlers and babies, in life or in pictures. She would kiss the babies or dolls on the pictures. She knows her pooh bear is “baby.”
She clearly understands tons of stuff, and follows simple instructions like “put that back where it goes please” or sometimes, I will ask her to look for my things (I’m a disorganized mom, you see), “Darling, can you help find mommy’s handphone?” (It's amazing she always knew where my things were, Observant? I think so), or “Darling, can you help find mommy’s hairclip? (She always tries to clip it onto her somewhat scanty hair, and when it slips off and she giggles out loud). She is just amazing.
What amazes us as parents, is her ability to recognize the words in the books and cards, some easy and some really difficult ones. She just loves this letter and word recognition game.
I was trying to think of all the words she knows :- (I will usually say the words and she points to the words)
abacus, aeroplane, ark, ball, balloon, boat, apple, door, dog, cat, umbrella, ducklings, daddy, hello, Jesus, baby, king, queen, book, oranges, hippo, helicopter, flower, goat, Heidi, leaves, garden, Peter, Jane, shop, porridge, sun, star, tiger, lion, monkey, penguin, vegetables, comb, hair, zebra, car, fox, pig, ladybug, cow, duck, moon, boy, girl, hand, bed, eye, foot, mouth, cheek, chin, nose, forehead, ears, arm, finger, banana, yellow, red, green, pink, purple, green, blueberries, pea, pear, grapes, tricycle, dress, piano, pot, fish, frog, giraffes, horse, snake, wasp, rabbit, awake, asleep, elephant, big, little, Goliath, purple, rainbow, circle, square, heart, oval, rectangle, triangle, bees, bag, Noah, cockerel, goose, water,
She is able to match all of the above words to the pictures that I arranged randomly. (A bit of hard work on mommy’s side, having to find those pictures, usually I'd go for printables from the web☺)
She looks more carefully at the pictures in books now, and points to different things in the illustrations. So everyday, she learns new words and things, and those that look or sound unfamiliar to her, she stares intently and signs to me, waiting for me to tell her what each one is.
Oh, did I say that papaya actually means something else to her? To little Hayley, banana is called papaya. Whenever she sees bananas, she says Papaya, we always correct her but she insists that it’s called papaya.
Since last month, it has been an EXPLOSION of language for my little darling at home. She realized that using signs and words can help her get what she wants, beyond just food and milk. For instance, everytime after shower, she would point to the cotton swab and lotion because she wanted me to clean her ears and give her a sebamed massage. She loves being 'sebamed-ed', probably because she gets some oil on her hands and she can suck it off of her fingers and you will see me screaming my lungs out during this after-bath time.
She is also getting more specific with her food requests. She points to the general areas of the kitchen she knows things come from. For instance, If she’s pointing at the fridge, she probably wants her apples, yoghurt, Laughing Cow cube cheese or Scotts Emulsion. The counter is definitely her Gardenia bread (She loves them), cookies or bananas. But when I ask her to clarify, and say the word out loud, she would say 'schot' or 'papayas' (for bananas, that is)
Pottying
She would tell me with sign language or say 'ng ng' or 'poo poo' (or sometimes by getting her potty and bringing it to me) that she either had to pee or poo or that she JUST did. I am excited and thought maybe we could do the real potty training this month. Yes, if I'm not too lazy.Social milestones
It’s so cliché but my little girl is a ray of sunshine. She’s quick to smile and she can brighten an entire room with her sweet voice. She's giving us kisses and hugs and she blows kisses to everyone she meets, friends, relatives, her doctor and even strangers who stopped by to play with her.
And she absolutely hates the playpen though, it doesn't matter what toys are in there, she just does not want to be in there. This is what happens in the playpen.
Our little darling has got the rhythm in her and she just loves dancing to any type of music (whether she's in the car) or in the malls.
She loves pretending to talk on the phone and when I get on the phone she'll pretend to get on hers and start mocking me. She loves wearing shoes and asks for them all of the time. She likes wearing them around the house even when she doesn't need to wear them. I've caught her already trying to put my shoes on.During my devotional/prayer time with her, she will have both her hands clasped together with her heads bowed down, sometimes she looked up just to peep at me, and when I say Amen, she will start clapping her hands. I can't tell you how very blessed I am to be able to do this with her everyday.
Some of her favorite things
Her favorite books for the past 2 months - Heidi (she loves Heidi, wants me to read it to her in the morning after breakfast, after lunch and bedtime, I can recite the whole book to you now, hahaha) Peter and Jane (early readers), Noah and the Ark, Baby's First Bible Stories, The Very Busy Spider, Ladybird - Big and Little (learning opposites now), Ladybird - Counting
Her favorite cartoon/movie
The Sound of Music is a huge hit with little Hayley. She's seen it dozens of times now, (we would only show her the musical numbers although she has watched the movie with us once, from the beginning to the end, to which we were surprised that she actually sat there with us right through). She loves Do-Re-Mi, My Favorite Things, So Long, Farewell, and especially Lonely Goatherd, she would clap and dance along.
She is okay with Barney now, so will be playing that for a change. Honestly, as much as I love Sound of Music (talking about growing up with the film), I'm getting a little bored with it now.
Her current favorite toy/game -
Word puzzle, picture puzzle (Bought from Daiso, only cost RM5 for 3 mini puzzles, she adores it)
Her self-invented "Stack and Topple" game - she stacks all her books, then pull a copy from the bottom and watch the books topple over.
She loves her 'Sketch and Erase' Board, I'd usually leave her alone, and she'd scribble to her heart's content, but most of the time, she brings it to me and have mommy draw for her. (but the fact is, mommy can't draw, so mommy usually ends up teaching her how to write the alphabet, numbers).
Abacus - She loves the abacus we got for her from Ikea. She enjoys sliding the beads back and forth as she counts 1-10. When she gets bored with counting, she would dig out her color flash cards or any toys and point the beads of each color to the matching colored cards/toys. Sometimes, I could hear her saying 'blue'. I can't believe she's growing up so fast. Writing these updates kind of makes me sad thinking about how fast time is going by. At least I'm getting to spend lots of time with her and enjoying these years.
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