Friday, February 24, 2012

Hello Monkeys



Map was now 16-months old.  And it seemed once her vocabularies had reached 50 words, she learned to speak new words faster than before.


Map at 16 months
Her new vocabularies since the last blog:
  • Hand (for hand)
  • Wokk (for walk)
  • Gi-yaf (for giraffe)
  • Oc-to (for Octopus)
  • Kile (for crocodile)
  • Juu (for shoes)
  • El-mo (for Elmo)
  • Ee-yor (for Eeyore)
  • Hot (for hot)
  • Eeek (for 'more' in Thai)
  • Bub-ble (for bubble)


Yelling and frowning because she didn't want to go home but wanted to go see cats


Map could now make frowny face to show her protest/unsatisfaction/annoyance/irritation.  It was startling to see that Map could now show her other emotion on her face besides smiling and crying.  This frowny face started to surface only around 16-months old.  


Daddy's girl
Yes, I'm Daddy's girl
I have best seat here


Today we went to Bukit Timah Nature Preserve, which was a national park.  There were tons of monkeys there.  They would jump from the tree onto our trail.  Mommy and Daddy were quite nervous when two monkeys were sandwiching us and Map on the trail, partly because we were afraid the monkeys would snatch the cookie from Map's hand.  Map was quiet every time she saw the monkeys there - guess Map was not sure what they were.  


Monkeys - the center one is being beautified as if she is in the salon
You look fabulous, darling!


Map and Daddy at the lookout point


Map and Mommy
Family photo


We walked around to the lookout point.  Map saw a lot of turtles there and said tur-tle many times.  Then we hiked up the trail which was quite steep.  While we walked up we saw a lot of people walked backward down the steep trail and wondering why they did that.  Later we realized ourselves that the steep trail on the way down was quite tough on the knees and it was much more comfortable to walk down backward.  Map was tired from waking up early, so she fell asleep on Daddy's shoulder during the hike. 


The Hike
I'm so tired from hiking
Daddy's shoulder is so comfy!

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