17 months

Rachel turns exactly 17 months old today!

its amazing how fast a child grows and learns...

i've been keeping count of the words that she can say. i think its slightly more than 60 words! i may have missed out some, though. anyway, here's the list:

mama
papa
ah mah
ah kong
kong kong
mah mah(referring to grandma..i think the word "grand" is abit harder to form la)
ball (referring to ball & also balloon!)
duck
clock
pork
kakak
please
mop
out
up
elmo
amen
fall down
Bible
ti-ti(meaning dirty)
dog
car
hair
toes
bye bye
where
no more
remote
bear
nen nen
fish
shh..
walk
cold
book
apple
ee-ee (referring to both jee ee and sar ee)
mum mum
gurt (meaning yogurt)
bread
no no (shakes her hand left to right indicating no..)
cup
nana (referring to banana)
key
eye
poh (meaning "pls carry me")
cut
close
door
star
baby
bob (referring to baby bob from Barney & friends)
ney ney (referring to Barney)
cuit (referring to biscuit)
cheese
pis (referring to her rice krispies..she loves rice krispies!)
hi (waves her hand to say "hi")
chiak (when playing pee-ka-boo)
knee
go go (pointing to the door indicating that she wants to go outside)
kai kai
bird
pain
stop
ray (meaning "hooray" !)
A
B

water

push

when we sing the song "If you're happy and you know it" ..she'll smile and gladly do the actions, i.e clap her hands, stamp her feet and lifts her hands and say "hooray".. we tried to teach her to say "amen" but she prefers to say "hooray" when doing the action for this song!

when we sing the song "Jesus loves me this I know.." she'll walk to the room and look for the song book which has the title "Jesus loves the little children"... hehe. she can relate to the word Jesus..

and at night, before she sleeps, we'll pray with her. recently, when we tell her Rachel let's pray together. she will stop whatever she's doing, fold her hands together and sit still while we pray. previously, she wont sit still..she'll fold her hands for 2 seconds then she'll start wiggling away... but now she has learnt to sit still until we finish praying. of course we have to keep the prayer short and simple la.. hehe...

the other day, she found a piece of plastic on the floor, she picked it up and to my amazement, she walked straight to the wastepaper basket and threw the plastic in there! i was expecting her to stick it into her mouth (which is normally the case)....

oh.. i can go on endlessly about the things that she is capable of doing..... but probably another day la....this post is getting too long... hehe.

i'm just thankful for the wonderful child that God has blessed us with. our darling Rachel! :)