I love her to bits. Sometime, she likes to push the boundary a bit far but I know there is nothing wrong with that. The only issue is me. Sometime I felt like I just didn’t have the wisdom nor the patience to tolerate her normal toddler antics and I snapped. And then my guilt would just take over soon after. She is very apologetic too so my hearts would just dissolve whenever she says “Sowiii…kiss?…kiss?”. Sometime even when I did not mutter a single word but looked cross and upset, she could sense it immediately and apologise, even when it was not her fault.
She is a keen helper too. I always send her on simple errands and she just enjoys being helpful and getting it right. She likes helping me finding the remotes and whenever dinner is ready she would help calling her daddy out loud to let him know that it is time to eat. What a delight.
At 22 months, her ability to communicate is progressing remarkably, and I am always impressed at how quick her brain could pick things up. She is learning to count, she has not quite grasped the concept yet but she can pronounce the numbers from 1 to 10 though not in the right order. She is now able to put 2 or 3 words together for example, “mommy, come back”, “mommy, look”, “mommy I want this, please”, etc. She sounds so endearingly cute when she speaks but I suspect the last example would probably do more harm to my hard-earned cash later on.
I always wonder if her amazing progress is as normal as any kids her age would have. But I know being a first time parent will always have something to do with that wonder. Though sometime I try not to get carried away into thinking that my child will be a super genius toddler who will graduate with first class degree in quantum physics from Oxford by the age of 8.
Her lovingness always touches my heart. Every morning before I set of to work, we would do our daily routine of kisses and cuddles. But this morning, she gave me extra as I was about to go out the door. She came running back to me and adoringly gave me another big hug. And it just made my day.
