titter totter

Dinara is finally venturing towards walking! she started tottering one two steps forward last week. progress! well, she started pulling herself up from the floor and wobbling on her two little feet trying hard not to fall on her butt. which she did a number of times, half of which was a result of her elder sister brushing past her without so much of an 'excuse me'. hmmmph. encouragement is needed for her to walk a longer distance than the usual 'one-two-three-step-fall-on-butt-continue-by-crawling' to get to destination. and we give her lots of praise for her little achievement.

she's also good at dangling on furniture. or peoples legs.

i spy something on the floor

Dayana, who always believes that the spotlight must shine on her first, will immediately begin imitating what her sister was doing at that particular moment, like tottering towards us as if it was her first time doing so, or exaggeratedly picking herself up from the floor like she's never been able to do it before, and expecting praise from us, lol. the one habit yang tabley tahan is putting things into her mouth. aihhhh, up to the point that she seems to be doing it without even noticing she's doing it @_@.

when taking photos, she'll also demand to be in ALL the photos. lol. she reminds me of me last time when i was young.

me wants to interframe lolz

dear Dayana, you've already received tons of praise from us before during your first-time achievements, lol. and we Love you.

i know i've seen or heard most of my friends' kids already walking even before they even turn One, but i'm not worried. both Dayana and Dinara happened to start walking about the same time of 14 months old. their teeth only came out well after their first birthday.

Dinara has already started to show separation anxiety at 1.1 years old. before it was easy to leave her with Bibik or abandon her for even just a little while, she was ok, no fuss. now? huwaaaa garang wooh ini minah. she'll mengamuk in protest every morning before i leave for work. unless i snake away without her noticing lah. haha. she'll mengamuk each time i put her on the floor. mengamuk each time i take inappropriate things away from her.

there was one morning i heard her yelling her lungs out downstairs, it turns out Bibik took away her blanket during bath time, and she was pissed. haha. she seems to imitate her sister so easily just by observation. aih. ohh Mommy doesn't need another Wi-dragger around the house @_@. she's even getting the hang of Sketch-A-Pro. just hand it to her and she'll know what to do with the pen. but half of the time she'll put it into her mouth for the sake of tasting it.

tell Dinara you wanna see her teeth, and she'll show you her tongue. better yet, she'll stick her susu-stained tongue all the way out for you to inspect. kekekekeke.

i've heard her mumbling 'Dedi' about a hundred times, but when it comes to Mommy, she'll happily belt out 'Mama!' then Dayana will scurry over and amplify the word 1000 times over T_T.

one weekend Dinara saw my dad giving my brother a back massage (he had his shirt off) and you know what this little one did? she lifted up her blouse and patted her belly. kggal.

she saw a bunch of people clapping on TV and she also decided to join in on the clapping as well, together with a 'yay'. hehe.

took Dinara for a very delayed immunization jab at the GP on the 27th last month. i went in the evening so i didn't get the usual friendly Dr. Jeya. the one on duty was more stern looking and didn't seem very friendly with my kids. he mentioned that a mild fever was not an excuse not to bring your child for immunization (twice i brought Dinara to the Dr for her jabs she was sporting a mild fever so i wasn't allowed to give her the jab). so now i'm confused. can i or can i not give her the jab when down with a slight fever? pffft. i'm gonna stick to my favorite Dr. next time. at least Dayana likes him (as opposed to last time when her jabs were due hahahahahah).

i recently taught Dayana how to use the laptop instead of the usual iPad/iPod/iPhone. she was so used to the touch screen concept she kept jabbing at the laptop screen T_T. i taught her how to you the touch pad first. i logged onto Disney Junior and let her play the games there - Imagination Movers, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Pirates, to name a few. at first she got irritated because the window kept moving up and down on its own by accident (scroll noob) and she kept demanding 'Up! Up!'. aaaaand she kept bugging me to do it for her 'Mommy i cannot how!' T_T (apa punye English ini??!) but i showed her how to use the scroll bar on the right and told her 'You try Dayana, Mommy dah show you how already'. at first punye la takmo buat sendiri. but lama2 she did it herself. phew.

learning how to navigate a laptop

i just wish my laptop had a bigger screen and loaded videos faster. sangat2 lembap itu lappie, the videos kept on hanging half way. to simplify things, i just told Dayana 'the video rosak, so cannot see'. she was satisfied with that answer - for now. so every time i come back from work, instead of asking for the TV, she'll ask for her 'laptok'. senang2 dia declare my laptop as hers. lolz.

sometimes when she's naughty and we scold her, she'll throw a tantrum and merajuk... but then after awhile she'll slink up to us and say 'Daina sayang Mommy, Daina sayang adik, Daina sayang Daddy!'. guess that's her way of apologizing i expect. ade one time tu i scolded her for bullying Adik, she went to the next room and silently cried - merajuk tahap maksima. kesian betul anak Mommy. =P~.

will add more later, and pics too =)