At month 20, DD fell in love with everything I had. She attempted to put on my coat, hat and glasses. In particular, she loved to try on my shoes. I also noticed her pretend playing with toy animals and her dolly. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 20 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | March 2, 2010 4:39 pm | Comments (0)

At month 19, DD continued to test her locomotion skills. She loved book-reading. She also desired to help, by imitating what we were doing. She started to show feelings and emotions as an individual human being. She showed more affection towards her toys, especially her teddy bear and dolly. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 19 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | February 2, 2010 3:01 pm | Comments (0)

At month 18, DD was on the move every minute except sleeping time. She still kept one habit that soothed her—sucking her thumb. Growing with her height was her tamper tantrums. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 18 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | January 4, 2010 1:46 pm | Comments (0)

In the beginning of 2009, M and I planned to take pictures of DD all year around and choose her best pictures to make calendars for 2010. [......]

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Tags: Baby calendar | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | December 21, 2009 2:21 pm | Comments (0)

At month 17, DD continued to constantly test her physical abilities. As to language development, she seemed to understand every word out of our mouth, no matter it was English or Chinese. Her growing independence is asserting itself in numerous ways. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 17 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | December 1, 2009 1:28 pm | Comments (0)

At month 16, DD further challenged her physical limits and learned to use tools. She became a creative climber.

Her language development reached a milestone. She understood much more than she could speak. It was amazing to watch her do (or not do) exactly as we said, English from M and Chinese from me. She also began to show the urge to build social connections, especially with children. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 16 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | November 1, 2009 1:37 pm | Comments (0)

The 15th month is what pediatricians consider a “milestone” period—a time that most babies walk right out of babyhood. This is absolutely true to DD. Since she was quite confident on her feet, she was very keen to experiment with different ways of moving: trotting, running and dancing. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 15 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | October 2, 2009 9:20 am | Comments (0)

On DD’s one-year birthday, grandmas told me soon I would notice some signs that my baby—small and cute though she is—wouldn’t be a baby any longer. I understood, since I already glimpsed her growing sense of independence, emerging negativity, primitive temper tantrums and sprouting my-way-or-highway-mind-set.

However, I never expected these behaviors would constitute the theme of her second year. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 14 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | September 3, 2009 12:05 pm | Comments (0)

Once the baby has a taste of freedom, it will be hard to hold her back. That is absolutely true. Once DD, a risk-taker, tasted the freedom of walking, it was difficult to prevent her from toddling. During month 13, she continued to make progress, physically, emotionally, socially and cognitively. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 13 | Baby's Growth, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | August 6, 2009 11:13 am | Comments (0)

This month DD turned to be one. I cannot believe how fast time flies. A full year has passed by! DD grew up from a tiny, bony, little baby who didn’t even have the strength to lift her head to a healthy, strong, chubby one who could crawl swiftly then cruise to any place she wanted, confidently climb upstairs and downstairs without second thought, and ambitiously took her first independent. [......]

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Tags: Baby’s growth, month 12 | Baby's Growth, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | July 2, 2009 11:20 am | Comments (0)