Dayana is 1y 2mo

i've been super busy the past month, don't ask me doing what, i just felt like my whole head has been serabut for the month of October. my memory is getting from bad to worse. can anyone kindly suggest a solution to my problem? anyway, October was also the month when Significant Other left for the States so i had half the month mostly to myself, especially since it was difficult to get a suitable time to Skype, what with the 13-hour time difference. it was also during this time that Dayana started to show signs of having her own individual personality. and some of the traits she used to have earlier seems to be slowly fading. weird.

# for starters, she started to walk just as Daddy left the country. how cool is that? walk here, walk there. experimenting, falling on her butt (thank God for her padded tush), grabbing everything at sight *kepala pusing*. Daddy bought her a new pair of hard-soled Clarks for her to wear. it's bright pink. totally clashes with 3/4 of her wardrobe. hahahaha. oh and she can already fit into the shoes Uncle Fahmi and Auntie Johanna bought for her aeons ago. she loves wearing her shoes so much (she'll pick them up and bring them to me to put them on her little feet) so i've made those shoes to become her house shoes to be worn indoors. lol.

# i guess it's normal for every baby to buat semak? she is so the very pandai at making a mess. scoot... scoot... sepah sepah.... finish... then off to scoot to another place... continue to sepah... hahahah. i think every baby is born with this skill. i put all her toys into one big box. once i set her on the floor, she'll toddle towards the box and get to work by grabbing everything in the box and throwing them onto the floor (like she's looking for something, padahal gaya je lebih, chis). tried teaching her to clean up after herself. sometimes she'll do it, but then she'll just grab the toy she just threw in back onto the floor -.-.

# she likes to flip through her small board books that Uncle Alif bought for her. her favorite book is the animal book where there's a picture of a cat in it. i guess it reminds her of Rusty. hahaha. sometimes she'll kiss the cat photo by putting her forehead to the book. lol. the books that her Auntie Yaya gave her are also her favorites. when she's stuck in her crib i just leave her a couple of books to occupy herself. it works... sometimes =P. before she starts screaming her head off wanting down.

# sometimes she'll grab your hand when she wants your help on something, like pointing to a picture in one of her books, or during the time we went to my uncle's house at Melawati and we were just about to eat pizza. i guess she got impatient so she grabbed my hand and steered it towards the direction of the pizza, lol.

# she'll step onto the grass ONLY if she's wearing shoes. she landed on her butt once on the grass and totally refused to push herself up until someone picked her up. haha. my mom has this green carpet-mat-thingy (like the mats often found in cars) in the kitchen which she refuses to step on. i guess she thinks it's grass. hahahahahha.

# she'll give you a high five is you ask for it. this one was taught by Auntie Nor. lol.

# she knows where her belly button is. is you ask her, "where's your belly button?" she'll lift up her blouse and point to her own belly button. she's also fascinated with other people's belly button too. she'll prod and poke. geli ok. lol.

# knows where other people's nose is except her own. if you ask her "where's your nose?" she'll point to your nose, anyone's nose la, except her own. kekekeke. susah ini mau ajar the parts of her body.

# talks like org besar but ntah ape2 she bebel dengan penuh confidentnye, it's in her own incoherent language. hehe. it's nice when they babble like this. it's like they totally understand what they're talking about. but one word (or syllable) that she seems to like to say more often (well, it sounds like it) is 'tak boleh'. hahaha. or more like 'taboley!'

# shakes her body to music. she's a fan of all the songs / adverts on Playhouse Disney.

# she likes to see other kids her size and same eye level. i think she's bored of being around oldies like us. hahahaha. she'll want to go up to the kid and play. sometimes they'll play with her, sometimes she'll be ignored. lol. i'm very happy we had that outing to MV with the other mamas, she at least got to mix with kids her own age. should do this more often =).

dayana mingling with fatnin lol

# she can already tell the difference. like the other day i bought her a pacifier to replace the one she's been using like, forever. the one she has was pink, so i got her a green one. she spat out the new one and insisted on having the old one. haiz. i tried tricking her yet she still knew the difference. membazir jerk beli. but funnily enough, i bought her another Chewy, this time in green but she didn't mind the difference in color. cheese.

# like i said, she knows the difference. like when we're eating together and she refuses her own food, wanting to eat from Daddy's plate. but if we pretend to take food from Daddy's plate and feed her her own food, mau pulak. hahaha.

# i found one of those release tension balls that you squeeze when you're stressed (to kononnye release stress) and we play catch when she's in her crib. she'll throw it onto my bed and i'll just throw it back to her. she finds that amusing.

# she waves bye bye, after a lot of prompting.

# she's seems to be starting to have clear ideas about what she wants. hence, the protesting. when she points to something that she wants, she'll be determined to get it. she'll mengamuk if you don't give it to her. she especially loves remote controls and my phone. press press press pressssss... habis setting aircond, and the astro settings, yada yada, haiz. but sometimes she can be distracted by something else, but you hafta be quick about it. she is smart, after all, haha.

# she can still fit into her S size Drybees. haha. tiny and prim =P.

# if you give her a comb she'll try to comb her own hair (or she'll offer to comb yours), but so far she hasn't grasped the technique yet. just like how she'll grab my phone and imitate talking on the phone, but she'll rest the phone on her shoulder instead of by her ear. hahaha.

just keep combing...

well, that's about the few things i remember. i guess you could say her major achievement would be starting to walk. most of her milestones focus on her exploring her surroundings on her own. and you know how a baby that just found her legs can get. expect rarer occasions of babywearing from the mommy's end =(.

once she got her legs, tak hirau dah bende lain

is it time to make product #2? lol.