TV shows

What are the tv shows everyone's watching nowadays? I don't watch that much tv thanks to Miss Noelle, we now only watch tv when she goes to bed (8:30). But luckily most of our shows are on later at night anyway. This is the list of what I'm watching/obsessed with:

Grey's Anatomy - have been watching it since season 2 (already caught up with season 1)
Glee - this is new obsession, the music is GREAT and the characters are very interesting
Top Chef - this is probably the best season so far, I love Jennifer!! she for some reasons reminds me of Meredith from Grey's, lol. the 2 brothers are really talented too. but Robin needs to go!
Desperate Housewives - I didn't watch it consistently until 2 seasons ago? It's quite addicting

I wanted to watch Fringe again, but it's the same time as Glee. That's about it, not that many shows huh? We do flip the channels when our shows aren't on.

Talking girl, part 2

So Miss Noelle is definitely talking more and more!! Today, she says "ugg", which is really "bug". And she points it out and says "ugg" when she sees a fly. So I can kill it, haha. She also says "nooo", which is nose. We took a video of her at lunch time today, it was very entertaining. Miss Noelle decided to play peekaboo...

Noelle's first youtube

I'm going to see how youtube works with upkeeping videos, we shall see.

Talking girl

Noelle is now 20 months old and she is starting to talk more and more. She has mastered saying "mama" (and it's for me! well, most of the time) and "no" (ever so very clearly). One new thing she enjoys doing is making us go thru the ipod songs, she'll shake head and say "no" if it's not the song she wants. She basically goes thru almost her entire song list, sheesh. Noelle sometimes actually says "what's dat?" or "ooooh, what's dis?" but not very clearly, or at least her words aren't clearly separated yet. More like "whatsdat?" and "oooooo, whatsdis?" But very close! Oh and she loves balls. This little girlie will spot a ball miles away and she'll start saying "a ball" or "ball" while walking toward the ball to get it. Sometimes I think she says "bowl bowl" for her snack bowl, and "ba-ba" for her bottle. She doesn't say it all the time, so it's not official yet.

I love having a talking kid!

She also knows some of her body parts, like eyes/ears/mouth/nose/head/arms/belly button. I may have to start teaching her those in Chinese, just so she can be a little bit bilingual. My parents are on my case to teach Noelle Chinese. But I don't like to use it when her daddy is around, so he doesn't feel left out. And they use only English at the daycare. So it's not much opportunity for me to use solely Chinese with her. But I guess I should try harder.

18-month check up

This is just a quick update. Miss Noelle had her 18-month check up last week (I know, almost a whole month later). And she's now almost 22lbs (our skinny chick) and is 31 inches tall. Her weight and height percentile is around 10-20th, not bad but wish she could be a little bigger. However, her head, OMG, is off the chart!! On the doc's monitor, her head measurement is over the percentile. We've got a big head baby :-P Now we just need to tell the rest of her body to catch up, lol. She also had two shots, but she did good. Well, the mommy was too chicken to be there, so the daddy took Miss Noelle for her appointment.

Picky eater

I'm getting lazy with updating my blog!! Well, I was really hoping I can have some pics on this post, but I guess not. So we have a little picky eater!! It's getting harder to figure out what we shall give Miss Noelle. Well, she's not THAT picky, but to the point we hope she could be a little better with her choices. She really likes pasta and rice, everything else is all up to her mood. She also is a miss independent. Miss Noelle wants to feed herself. It's good that she wants to work on using the utensils to eat, but it also gets pretty messy. She'll eat from my forks tho, so that works. I've been trying to give her more veggie and fruits, but she usually will just spit it out or eat very very little of those. And apparently she doesn't like L&L's BBQ chicken either :-P But we had jamba last week and she LOVED it. She was a smoothie nazi and took my jamba and won't give back. She likes Orange Dream Machine (my fav as well). We are thinking of making our own smoothie and maybe toss in some fruits and veggie and see if she'll drink them. We don't have a juicer tho, I want to make veggie juice for her. I don't think blender works as well, cuz you get the pulps and I bet Miss Noelle will shake her head at the pulps :-P

And yes, she loves to shake her head. She nods her head once in a blue moon, but shaking her head is her fav. Sometimes she'll shake her head too fast and regrets it right away, lol. Today the daycare called me up and they told me Miss Noelle had bit her tongue while playing. She bleed quite a bit but was all better. She apparently had lunch and was napping, so I guess it didn't bother her too much. My little brave girl!! She is now more active and loves to run around, that means chances of her getting hurt increase tremendously. We just gotta keep an eye on her. She also loves to "talk", still no actual words yet. But boy does she love to yap! There's this one time, we were just sitting by her big girl bed and talk. Miss Noelle held the whole conversation, she "talks" and "talks" and "talks" to the daddy (without much stopping in between). It was sooo cute! But if she doesn't start saying actual words soon, I think I may have to worry. Her 18-month check up is next week, so we'll see what the doc says.

We are also on the process of helping her to get rid of bottle. We now offer her milk in a Elmo sippy cup and give it to her at every meal. She still doesn't drink much milk from it, but hopefully this will help her to get used to the cup. We still can't get rid of the bottle completely, cuz otherwise she won't get much milk. She doesn't need as much milk now, but does need enough in her system each day. Miss Noelle decided not to like brushing her teeth as much now either. She used to love brushing her teeth with the little kiddie toothbrush. Now she'll shake her head and won't open her mouth. I had to use this little rubber thingy with the brush on the top and it fits on my index finger. I basically just stick my finger in her mouth and brush that way. She actually lets me do that, but she'll bite me every now and then. And have I told you she's a hard biter? It HURTS! Ah the joy of being a mama.

Big girl bed and apple juice

OK, now that it's been almost 2 weeks since Miss Noelle switched to her "big girl bed". We can say now that she's definitely enjoying it. Every night after her last bottle, she'll walk to the bathroom sink to have her teeth brushed (while the mommy holding her of course). And then she'll carry her George with her and walks over to her bed. She doesn't lay down on her own, but when we put her down, she'll just hold her George and drifts to sleepyland. She still wakes up a couple of times some nights, but that's about it. In the morning, I don't really know when she usually wakes up. But she's always up before my alarm goes off. Cuz I'll hear noises from her side (little feet walking on the mattress). Sometimes she'll stick her binky in the daddy's mouth (he's on her side), hahaha. Miss Noelle actually sleeps in her bed sometimes for naps too. She actually wants to take her naps in her bed, cuz she'll carry her George and reaches for the bedroom door in the afternoon. But most of the time I have to head back to work, so we can't let her nap in her bed. We do that on the weekends tho, if we are home during her naptime.

Gah, I really need to start loading pics here too. I just uploaded pics from past 3 months to facebook two days ago. :-P

OK, this is a little overshare. But Miss Noelle has not been regular for the past few days. She's always very regular, ever since she was born. Wait, even right before she was born :-P This little girl pooed right before I delivered her, so we didn't get to cut her cord. Because they don't want her to cry to suck in anything (ew), and that the moment she was born, the med crew took her away to clean her. Anyway, so she's always been regular. She somedays even poos a couple of times. So the past few days she has not had any #2. We just read that having too much ice cream may cause constipation. Ooops! We've been giving her ice cream quite a lot lately. And she sure enjoys that :-P She loves holding the ice cream cone too, and it's so messy. So I was getting worried that she may be constipated and I don't really know what I should do. Then I remembered someone said that they gave their kiddies apple juice whenever they have poo poo problem. So I gave it a shot this afternoon. Miss Noelle drank a tiny bit of apple juice. Right after she watched her video, homegirl had a big, glorious #2!!!! I was so happy to see 'em, lol. Things you never thought you'd be glad to see before you become a parent.

Big girl bed!!!

OK, it's not really a big girl bed. But we took her crib mattress out and put it on the floor last night, and Miss Noelle slept in it the whole night! She did wake up a couple of times crying, but that's pretty normal for her. The daddy fetched her binky and she's back to the dreamland. She went to sleep around 9:20 and woke up around 7:10, not bad!!! Miss Noelle really likes her "big girl bed" tho, she keeps going up and down on it, laying on it and all. I hope this is a good start.

She's also really enjoying the VBS music, lol. It was last week and she's still listening to the music and dances to it. It's not cool when the mommy or the daddy turns it off, she gets mad.