19 December 2005, Mon

Baby is starting to have a mind of her own. Once she has her mind set on something – like grabbing the remote control or messing up the newspapers – she will be very determined, and the only way to avoid a teary protest is to distract her with something else.

She’s also found that she can make her dislikes known. I was at the PC while Sri was cleaning the house. I placed Baby in the high chair next to me. For a while she was happy to sit in her high chair playing with the string of soft toys which we usually tie to the chair. But she soon got bored and started grumbling. I found a ball and let her play with it. But she delighted in throwing it onto the floor and then leaning over the chair to look for it. Each time I picked it up, she would throw it again. This happened more than 10 times. I started to worry that bending over to pick it up might aggravate my tail bone fracture, so I said “no more” to Baby. She quickly became upset and started crying until I picked her up.

When Sri started vacuuming, Baby heard the noise and the busybody in her had to go out to take a look. I didn’t want to walk and carry her because of my back so I told her that Auntie Sri was vacuuming the house. But Baby really wanted to go and take a look and started struggling and crying while trying to look out the door. I had to carry her out and she was happy to finally see the source of the noise.

Sri said that Baby is getting naughtier and she now knows how to complain about things. :)