my favorite number 9

happy 9 months Dayana!

here's a short list of her monthly progress =D

1. she's confirmed bored with her toys already. bought her Lamaze stacking rings and her very first doll. haven't given them to her yet though. bought them when she wasn't around. is the Lamaze soft sorter worth buying?

2. likes to interact with Rusty. Rusty is quite okay with Dayana pulling his legs and tail sometimes. she likes to yell at Rusty, especially when he starts climbing walls. hahah. she hasn't mastered patting him yet.

3. has this little habit of patting you on the arm... learnt from watching Little Einsteins?

4. wakes up in the middle of the night when she wants to poop. she used wake up at 2am when Daddy was away. Daddy would Skype at 2am and automatically she'll wake up at that time. so i try to put her to sleep earlier... which sometimes works, sometimes does not.

5. sometimes it's difficult to get her to sleep early at night, even after having only short naps during the day. sometimes all it takes is to turn off all the lights and lie down beside her before she decides that she's actually sleepy. the maid has an even more difficult time putting her to sleep, even with the buai.

6. lompat lompat lompat! (yerp, still her fav).

7. doesn't wanna breastfeed as she used to when she was younger *sigh*. she practically struggles in my arms and arch her back and CRIES whenever i attempt to hold her in cradle position, as if she's about to be poisoned or something. i don't think farrahar's theory of teething is one of the reasons why she's behaving like this *sigh lagi*.

8. is more open to the relatives in the family and the occassional strangers, but if she sees Mommy or Daddy she will immediately reach out to grab her us and insisting we carry her instead =D.

9. ada gaya when attempting to drink from any kind of cup. but she hasn't mastered the sipping part yet. hehe.

10. shows signs of separation anxiety sometimes when Mommy leaves her for work in the morning. but is easily pujuked, so a sigh or relief for now.

11. on 19th may noticed signs of her two bottom tooth emerging. but until now they seem determined not to show face. oh well. as long as Dayana isn't uncomfortable...

12. we used to bribe her to move forward by placing things she's never played with in front of her out of her reach. apparently it worked, haha. in the last week of May she recently started crawling! even though she's a little bit unstable... lol. one evening when Mommy got home she abandoned her xylophone to clumsily attempt to crawl to Mommy! she will then try to 'climb' Mommy... meaning pillow barriers will no longer be applicable anymore...

13. am contemplating buying a walker to keep her occupied. what do you think?

my cutie pie in her Carter's dress