These days

Nowadays, Sera would climb into our bed just after Johan leaves for work at about 5.15am. I really don't mind because I'm usually too tired to protest or to carry her back to her bedroom. So she and I would sleep in for another hour or two before we finally have to start our days. Usually, I'm up before she wakes so I would spend a few minutes just looking at her. It's just amazing how big and fast she has grown ... next week, she turns 18 months! That's 1.5 years! And everyday, she lets out some 'tricks from her bag', just to surprise Johan and myself.

For example, early this week she picked up our clothes from the floor and dropped them into the laundry basket. Ha ha. I really laughed because Johan and I sometimes choose to ignore the laundry basket outside our room and simply throw our clothes on the floor. Opps! Thanks Sera. And she loves to imitate me ... everything I do (I know, I have to be very careful!). Every morning, she would stand and watch while I put my contact lens on. I would give her the disposable plastic containers as she likes to drop them into the bin. But nowadays, she would pretend to put 'contact lens' on her eyes as well, just like me. Ok, this mama here finds it funny ... I do!



Sera and her love affair with shoes! It's a girl thing, right? All girls love shoes. I may have cultivated her shoe fetish from early on, I admit, ha ha. But to give you an idea just how much she loves her shoes ...

- she wants to wear her shoes even before she wears her clothes
- she tries on different pairs of shoes (including mine) during the day and prances around the house in them
- she understands the word shoe-rack and if I ask her to put her shoes back on the shoe rack, she'll very carefully
return her shoes on the top tier of the shoe rack
- her shoes occupy half the top tier of the shoe-rack, while Johan takes the other half. I have the second tier.
- she'd try on the shoes of visitors that come to our house or if we visit our neighbours, she'd try on their shoes!
- and finally and not surprisingly, she knows how to say the word 'shoes'

And just to change the topic (because I can see a lot of accusing fingers pointing at me), Sera also has picked up other words like - bye bye, hello, nice, bird, night, yummy, cat, stop it, mole, poo-pah, fish, ball, smile, nose, eye ...