Hi. I figure if you've come this far
you're either really enjoying your visit and obviously know a genius child when you see
one, or you're family and just checking in to see the latest brilliant development of
Alexandra! (Hey I didn't call this the Brag Board for nothing!).
Well here goes.................
| October '99 |
| I sure fell behind on this area, didn't I. Hopefully
I can fix that now. In the middle of May '99 Alexandra and I went
off to Fiji to visit with Daddy. We had a wonderful two weeks and Alexandra loved
playing all over the boat.
From Fiji we headed off to Vancouver to spend a month with my parents.
What a blast that was! Alexandra loved being able to run around in her own
garden and just be an outside type of kid. Her vocab doubled at least and her
dextiry it amazing
She has just had her two year birthday party and I can't believe how
quickly the time has gone. At her 2 year check up she's 13kg (29 lbs) and 92 cm.
She's right where she's supposed to be according to the doctor. We did all
the developmental tests and surprisingly (just kidding) she did really well. The
doctor was very impressed with her speech and then she broke into Indonesian and the
doctor was floored! I did just a little bit of gloating. So now it's full
sentences and lots of them.
Her favorite shows at the moment are Blue's Clues, Bear in The Big Blue
House, and Thomas the Tank. We seem to have gone off the Teletubbies, and not a
moment too soon I might add.
I tried to start Potty Training...what a joke! That's enough said
on that subject.
All in all it's been a pretty good month and hopefully will continue so.
I'll try to keep these a little better updated, for those of you that are
interested. |
| April '99 |
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| 2nd - We were over visiting a friend today and
Alexandra walked into the room I was in dragging my purse behind her. She handed the
strap to me grabbed my other hand pulled and said "home". I got the
message pretty quickly! I don't think it's a trait I want to encourage but it sure
showed me that things are developing in that cute little head. Four more teeth this month! Just a couple more molars to go and then it's a
full set!
Swimming was big this month. We tried to go down to the pool
everyday (didn't always work but we tried). She's so much more confident in the pool
now. Today she was walking along the bottom (of the baby pool) and lost her footing.
It didn't faze her at all, she just practiced floating on her back for awhile!
She's really starting to get the hang of swimming now. |
| Her vocabulary is huge now. She actually
put together her first "sentence" this month. I asked her one morning what
she wanted for breakfast and she pipes up with "toast, butter, honey". So
I gave her toast with butter and honey! Food in general though is still a touchy
subject. She's still only eating French toast, raisins, bananas, apples, cheese,
and yoghurt! You'd think it would get kinda' boring after awhile. Hopefully it
does soon. |
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Her 18month checkup went as well as could be
expected. She was happily playing away in the waiting room and toddled in after me
to the doctors office, stopped,looked around, spun around and walked out saying "Oh
no, Oh no". Well we got over that and most of the rest of it was fine until
the doctor gave her the immunizations! At least she doesn't need anymore for awhile
now. She was 12.5kg (28 lbs) and 85cm (33.5 inches). I guess the limited diet
can't be hurting that much! |
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| March '99 |
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| Alexandra is almost going to need a new
passport before she is even 2! Martin has been down in Australia fixing up the boat
for the last month and so Alexandra and I went on down to Sydney so we could see him.
Boy do I miss the days when she was small enough to go into the bassinets the
planes have! The flight down to Sydney from Jakarta is a night flight which I
thought would be good as she would sleep the whole way there. There were two empty seats
next to us but she didn't want to sleep there, she wanted to sleep all over mummy! |
We spent the first night with Martins Aunt and Uncle in Sydney. Once Alexandra saw
the "woof woof" and the special door for the dog she was in seventh
heaven! In and out that dog door for two days! Once Martin arrived we moved
right into town, Darling Harbor, and stayed in a fantastic place close to the Maritime
Museum. When we arrived there Martin was already in the room and I was a little
nervous about Alexandra's reaction when she saw him. Silly me! Martin opened
the door, Alexandra took one look at him and started running (or a version there of)
calling out Daddy! After 3 days there we went up to Cairns (N. coast of Queensland)
with Martin as he had to get back to the boat to finish off the overhaul. |
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Alexandra and I managed to fill in our days while Martin
was working. We went to the "Wild Animal Park" one morning. Feeding
the Kangaroo's was a different experience for Alexandra. She wasn't' too sure about
having them eat out of her hand but was happy with Mummy feeding them and then she could
touch them. The most exciting thing as far as she was concerned there was a small
earth mover that was doing some work in one of the animal enclosures! We stood and
watched that for a good 15 minutes! One of the great things
was that we could go out for walks! Not something that we can do here in
Jakarta. We took the stroller and headed off to parks and all over the place.
I can't believe how quickly her vocabulary is coming along. She now says "big
boat, fish, toast, juice, toes, nose, habis, mandi (bath), bus, car, knows all the
Teletubbies, tummy, eye, plane, swimming pool, water, and just about any other word that I
say, including some that I shouldn't be saying. Oy! |
| January '99 |
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| Well it's been a big month this month.
We started with New Year which went off with a big bang here in the apartment.
Without anything to break up the sound of all the fireworks it was really loud!
Alexandra was not impressed! Some of them sounded like bombs going off so it took a
while to get her calmed down and over that for the evening. |
| She's really good now about not touching things that she
knows she isn't supposed to. Every now and then she'll try something but look at me
first just to see if I'm going to have the same reaction. Her new trick this
month is to grab my hand and pull me to touch what ever it is she knows she's not supposed
to do or touch (hence the do little angel). I wonder how long this will last? |
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| We had two molars come in over New Year and
now there seems to be another three of them coming in at the end of January! That
poor little mouth. It hasn't been a great month for health either. She had her
first dose of the flu and just lay in our arms for 24 hours and didn't say a word but
slept and moaned. I felt soooo useless. Her fever spiked at one point to 103.5
and I rushed to the doctor. He of course told me everything was fine, her fever had
come down by then. Then just the other evening I thought I heard her coughing so
went in to check on her and she decided to be ill. Amazing how when it's your own
child it doesn't bother you as much. I think it was just all those molars coming in
as she seems fine now. Her vocabulary sure has improved this
month. She now asks for "juice" in the morning, points to any type of
padlock or door lock and says "lock". "Key" is another new one,
must go along with the lock thing. She actually walked over to the video machine the
other day pointed at it and announced "Tubbies". But the big news this
month is "DADDY". She's got Martin wrapped around her finger with that
one. |
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December '98 Although this is Alexandra's 2nd Christmas it's the first one where
she has shown any interest. Last year at 2 months it was a little hard to get much
reaction from her. I tried for the obligatory photo with Santa but that was not an
especially memorable event. Alexandra was really fascinated by Santa until she
realised that I was going to be handing her over to this big fat guy with a huge white
beard, a silly red suit, and she had no idea who he was! We did get our picture but
I ended up sitting on the armrest with them. Oh well.
Alexandra has developed a shoe fetish this month. Any
shoe is fair game...on they go and off she goes. If you're missing any shoes let me
know they're probably in my closet, or somewhere else throughout the apartment. |
 
  
   
  
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