Hannah's Milestones

There is 4 more days before Hannah reached 11 months. However she progressed so fast and has grown so quickly that i cannot believe she is not yet one year old. Yesterday she has learnt to climb down from the bed. For the past few weeks i had taught her to go down with her backside first. We practised a few times but i don't think she understand how the whole thing work. However, yesterday morning as we were playing on the bed, she crawled to the edge of the bed and look down, then she looked back at me before turning this way and that way. Finally she let one of her legs dropped over the edge of the bed while both of her hands firmly gripped the bed sheet. She let herself down too quickly but i was there all the time hovering on top of her with my hands close to her body, ready to catch her if she fell. She was extremely pleased with herself and proceed quickly to the bedside table to grab my phone. I am very happy too. It is a very important skill which she has to master. I have had horrible thoughts of her stumbing down from bed head first.

Hannah has been cruising when she was 8 month old. She is very confident with her skill now and is trying to let go of her hands while crusing in her playpen. She is a very smart girl because she know when she is on a mattress, she can let go of her hands and fall hard on the soft mattress. But when she is on the floor, she wil never do that. She can crawl very fast too and sometimes i will play catch with her and she was really excited. She also know which furniture is safe to hold onto and which is not. For example, if she wants to take the tv remote control on the plastic chair, she will hold onto the solid sofa beside it because she knew the plastic chair will move if she place her weight on it.

her new found skills also mean more troubles. Yeh yeh put a lot of feng shui objects all over the house. We have a small coffee table push against the far end of the living room where yeh yeh put a glass of water surrounded by his chinese horoscope animals. We also have a small fan there. To prevent hannah from reaching these, mah mah put a scratchy rubber mat on the floor. It managed to stop her from going further as she disliked the scratchy mat on her bare feet. However, two days ago, mah mah reported that she has finally brave enough to stand on the mat, stepped up high enough to pull the glass of water over, poked her fingers into the fan and fiddled with the buttons on the fan. Fortunately, the fan was not turn on, or else her little fingers will be chopped off.

Yeh yeh said he will remove his feng shui objects for the sake of his granddaughter. I was very glad to hear that.