Beanie's update

A little update on Beanie:

She is hitting 16 months soon, Geez! My baby is officially a toddler at 1 year 4 months. She has started to exert her independence and at times, insisted of doing things her way.

Example:
We were supposed to head out for an outing, and so I got her to wear a pretty little dress. Beanie got very upset that she had to wear a dress and started a melt down. She pulled and tugged at her dress while screaming her head off. End of the day, I had to change out the dress and she wore a pair of tights and a T-shirt instead. Ok... Beanie is NOT into dresses.

Beanie has also started to say a few words. Below is her list of words:
1) MaMa
2) PaPa
3) Car (she will say "CAR...." whenever she sees a car. She will climb on the sofa everyday to look out of the window to spot for cars)
4) Bus (Same action as above, just that instead of "car....", she will say "Bahhhhh")
5) Turtle (We have a puzzle where she has to match various sea creatures to their respective cut-out shapes and somehow, she has taken a fancy to Turtle)
6) Bear (All animals are "bear" to her. When she sees a dog, she will go "BEAR!!!". When she sees a cat, she will go "BEAR" too)
7) Milk (sounds more like "ilk" actually)
8) Bird (She will point out pigeons and go "Bird....")
9)马 (the only chinese word so far, thanks to a picture book)

Beanie has also began to connect pictures with actual items. Just earlier this evening, she was trying to tell me that she wanted to eat grapes. She kept pointing towards the fridge but both my maid and myself had no idea what Beanie was trying to say. Exasperated, she fetched one of her picture books, flipped to a page and pointed to a bunch of grapes.

"Ohhh, so you want to eat grapes?"

Beanie nodded and ran to the fridge. And so I gave her a little bunch of grapes to munch. She took the bowl of grapes to her picture book, pointed at the picture of grapes again and begun to eat her grapes quietly.

All these while, I was very amused by her. My little Beanie is growing up so fast!