Some Hsin "stuff" at 14 months:
-she plays on the floor while we make dinner. She whines a little, but plays with plastic cups, ice cube trays...basically whatever is in the drying rack at the time to stay entertained. It makes making dinner SO much easier.
-LOVES sweets. She eats cookies, donuts, honey buns...anything sweet. We let her eat it all because she is still TOO skinny!
-LOVES her cousin Maudee who carries her around SO proud that Hsin is her baby cousin.
-has pretty much given up the binky. School still gives it to her at naptime, and we do at bedtime, but we are not sure if she uses it or not. She does not have it all day, and she doesn't seem to care.
-her relationship with Shiu has reached new heights. The two are inseperable. I think school has really helped them bond. Hsin's face lights up when she sees him and she holds him with a death grip. She endlessly gives him hugs and kisses, and bites his ears and tail. She hugs him all night, and if she shifts position in her sleep, she shifts him too. When we wake her up in the morning she is wrapped around him with her head on his body like a pillow. With the current cold...Shiu is covered in boogers. Awesome!
-She holds on and stands up a lot more than last month.
-she throws her animals out of her crib at naptime.
-the crew that sleeps in her crib is: Shiu the mouse, Beeps the cat, the pink striped sock bunny Mommy made, the pink terrycloth bunny from Grandpa and Nona, the giraffe, Pickles the black cat, and the big woolley mammoth. Yup...its a big crew, but we love them.
-she talks non-stop at home and in the car. just yammering, singing and talking. When she wakes up in the morning or at naptime she sits and talks to the animals in her crib for a good 30 minutes. Sometimes she gets very serious and shakes her hands while she talks. She looks like she is preaching.
-she claps her hands, rocks back and forth and waves her hands around to music. She sometimes will shake her hiney to music too. She mostly loves rap and hip-hop.
-she has started to wave hello and bye-bye. Usually her hands are backwards though so she is really waving to herself.
-her teachers think she is the sweetest kid in her class. She eats well, and when she isn't sleeping at naptime, she sits quietly on her mat and plays with Shiu.
-she loves goldfish crackers. We had to buy mini ones since she packs them in her mouth.
-she has finally started to drink out of a cup but will not even attempt to hold it. Her teachers and we need to hold the cup for her to drink from it.
-she did wonderfully on her first night being fed dinner and put to bed by Grandma! She even freaked Grandma out a little because she went right to sleep without making a sound.
That's all I can remember right now.
With going back to work, there are fewer pictures, but I will try to do better next month.
Here is what I have though.
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We also took the follwoing picture to use to embarrass Hsin when she is older.
Oh...and the waist of the pants is right under her armpit She even knows she looks like a mess...look at her face!
Rockin the velour sweatsuit!
Hsin was afraid I couldn't see Shiu for the picture so she held him up to be SURE he made the shot.
Later tonight, Daddy was kissing Hsin goodbye as we left to have dinner at a friends house...and everytime he gave her a kiss...she held out Shiu so Daddy could kiss him too.
