Before I’m swamped with all the prep for Chinese New Year, I think I should finish this update on my tot 
16 months old – the Mad Hatter
Our toddler must have been British in her past life because she loves hats LOL
This Mickey Mouse hair band was a party gift her brother received but she has claimed it as her own.
Her favourite is a sailor cap she wears when she plays with her toys – a thinking cap?
Other “hats” she’s tried on include one of my straw hats, her brother’s old caps, a pail, a grocery bag and even her brother’s underwear!
Mind you, it’s a pair of Thomas the Tank Engine (she loves trains too) underwear and it’s CLEAN. Try as we did, she REFUSED to take it off!
Another memory this month is her first haircut: a total disaster. When I brought her to the hairdresser’s, she agreed to sit on the chair and even put on the smock.
However, the minute the hairstylist (a young guy) held a bit of her hair and snipped it, she let out a BLOOD-CURDLING scream as if he’d snipped her ear!
The poor dude must have been traumatised and I quickly checked if she’d been cut. She wasn’t – she just didn’t want a haircut. She howled and I tried putting her on my lap but nope, she’d cry when he touched her hair. I then tried holding her while he snipped but she kept trashing about, I decided that it was too dangerous.
See the really short edges on the left side of her fringe?
Maybe she knows she’s got bad hair days and decides to wear hats until it grew out
17 months old – The Food Critic
See my little “foodie”?
It’s a joy to cook and serve food because she’ll come running. As a baby, she’d bounce on her high chair and YELL when she sees or hears the sound of crockery or cutlery.
Now, she smacks her lips when she sees photos of foods or even food appearing on TV.
She’s a total opposite of the fussy eater and I think that she’s been a great influence on her brother.
When he sees her eating a new type of food, he’s more willing to give it a try since another kid is happily chomping it down.
Also, she loves fruits and vegetables and unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a sweet tooth.
While he loves sweet potato, she hates it until I steamed some sweet potato and cut them into cubes. She used to dislike fish too (which he loves) but now, thankfully, both of them like steamed fish, fried fish or baked salmon with herbs.
Since she prefers savoury foods, while her brother likes bland Chinese food, I always need to plan a meal that would satisfy these two different “customers”
18 months old – the Daredevil
Toddlers know no fear and ours seem to be a Michelle Yeoh in the making.
Since she could walk, she has:
a) climbed up dining chairs and then on to the dining table to help herself to a snack
b) climbed up her brother’s chair to reach at his pencils, books and other untouchables
c) climbed up to about 6 steps high up the bedroom window grille and dropped herself down on the bed for a good bounce!!!
d) climbed up the backrest of the sofa and attempted to stand there O_O
This little girl (less than 3 ft tall) spells TROUBLE.
21 months old – The gymnastics begin
This toddler loves music and shakes her head in time to catchy music or even gets up to dance.
Favourite song? “Meet Me Halfway” by the Black Eyed Peas
But I was taken aback when she started doing her gymnastics:
I worry about her neck and spine when I see her like that but this monkey enjoys doing this. She still does this now although she hasn’t successfully tumbled over yet.
I have no idea what to do but just watch – the cheeky monkey will giggle at me while she’s upside down! Sometimes, I ignore her in case she does it to catch my attention. Doesn’t she make you nervous?
22 months old – the Fashionista
Remember how she loves hats? She loves to get her hair done too by Msr. Big Brother.
I was busy with something one evening when her naughty brother pushed her towards me saying, “Look, Mummy, I decorated her hair! She looks so pretty…”
Code word = “pretty” and the vain pot started swirling her hair here and there like a shampoo model! Clearly, she loved it
The kiddo has very thin hair so I urged the boy to SLOWLY tug out each clothes peg but she didn’t flinch. In fact, she sat patiently while the artistic hairdresser designed another hairstyle for her.
Check out what she did with the “auntie” hairband use to I wash my face:
Here are her other headgear:
And that’s my toddler update. Next? The Terrible Twos 
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Loving this post so very much. She is really such a cutie and a girly-girl lah.
how adorable. Looking back at those pics, it must have made u very happy and proud of your girl’s milestone!
Hahaha…I’m sweating as you mentioned her climbing & “gymnastic”. my niece also active like that and one day she got stitched on her forehead because she jumped from bed and got hit on the forehead. don’t know is that because the girls have big brother to look up so they tend to be “braver” ? in that case, if I finally get a baby sister for Marvel, I’ll better hold my breath & prepare my weak heart.
she is so adorable!!!! and she doesn’t look like her bro at all other than some resemblance at the mouth.
here’s wishing you all a very happy dragon year ahead!
She’s boyish, yet girlish, at the same time. Haha! What a cutie.
that’s a good series of her antiques, so cute….i hope yr terrible 2 won’t be as disastrous as mine
mine is such a fierce little boy…screaming & yelling to his neverending demands 
Paik Ling – Wait till you meet her – my family members are horrified that such a “cute” and “girly” girl can have such fiery tempers!
Lilis – Hahaha, I pray that you’ll have a sweet, little girl coz this “cili padi” is really LOUD and NAUGHTY. I wonder how she’ll be when she enters kindy…
syn – Good eye, you! Both of them have similar mouths but are as different as night and day. Happy Dragon to you, your girls and everyon else at home too!
A Mom’s Diary – She’s a paradox this one hahaha
jacss – She looks sweet but she’s TERRIBLE! Fierce, screams and yells too. My family was so shocked when she threw her tantrum. Thank God she behaved well at the in-laws’ place or I’m done for
I wonder if it’s the second child syndrome? Then again, I was a sweet child while my sister was…err, otherwise. The same goes for Hubby hahaha. We truly wonder where it comes from…
i think it’s probably because the second child has big sibling to look up and learn from, while we as the parents also might tend more loosen up, that’s my theory, we’ll see if I finally get the second child on my hands, LOL
Lilis – You are right about having an older sibling to look up too.
And parents being more “loosen up”? Actually, it’s busy with the first one that sometimes leave us less time to fuss about the second one’s food and activities. Or the other way around.
Now, I’m “The Most Popular Mom of the Year” because BOTH of them want my attention. If I read to one, the other one will push her book to me. If I kiss one, the other will push his cheek towards me too. If one coughs, the other will pretend to cough or cough even louder!!!
Can you imagine how crazy things are??? I was surprised my daughter’s first word after “Papa” isn’t “Wait!!!”