Mona's developments

Hello mum & dad,

Sorry that we didn't give much news of us lately. But we have been sick. After Mona's birthday, on the weekend that followed it, Mona felt sick, nothing serious, she has a runny nose. And on Monday we were suppose to go to the doctor for Mona's 12 months injections, and because she has a runny nose the doctor consulted her and found that she had another infection in ears and throat. So she cancelled the injections and gave her antibiotics. A different one because she already had infections and obviously it didn't go completely.
It's been a week now that she is on antibiotics and the antibiotics just finished today, but still she has the runny nose. So i am thinking of taking her to the doctor this Friday to check her out again and see if we can planned for her to get her injections soon.

Mona is growing very fast. It's incredible!! Since she turned one, she has been developing so much. She stand up by herself for longer time and plays so well alone. She is becoming more and more independent each day.

She talks a lot now. And when i say a lot, it's really a lot!! She keeps on imitating our words, it's not accurate of course, but everyday she is saying something new. And when we go out, you can't stop her. She just talks all the way in her pram and sometimes she will get excited when she sees people or other children and talks loudly, so loud that it almost seems like she is screaming... lol it's so funny, because then everyone will turn to look at her and talk to her. And she loves it when they do that.

She also stand up by herself and stay up for longer. She barely need to support herself while standing. And each time she does it we encourage her and she gets happy and want to do it more. She would sit down and stand back up, first holding on to the table or something, and then lets go and then look at her with big eyes and big smile on her face, as if she was saying "look what i can do!" She is such a cutie! She also enjoys walking with us holding her hands. She loves it actually. And now she crawls so much faster, in less that a blink of an eye, she can crawl from the living area to our bed room. And i have to keep all the doors closed, because she goes into the laundry and open the dryer to take out the clothes. She goes and play in the main bathroom and toilet. She opens all my kitchen cupboards and drawers and take everything out on the floor. I had to clear up one of the kitchen cupboards and put some of her plates, cups and other plastic and not dangerous kitchenware in it for her to play. Now she knows that this is her cupboard and each time i am in the kitchen, she follows me and go directly to play in her cupboard. lol

She is also testing us a lot. At dinner time specially, she keeps throwing the food on the floor whenever she doesn't want to eat it. And nothing we've tried has work so far. Sometimes she would listen to us and give us back the piece of food, but sometimes she will look at us in the eyes and throw the food on the floor and then give us a little shy look, that is so irresistible that you want to smile and kiss her!! She really knows how to work with us!! lol

The other time we went shopping, we were going through an aile where they had plush toy, she kept reaching out her hand (meaning give it to me). So daddy got her a little doll, she was so happy and hug the doll ect. We went into another store and they had plush toys (bears, rabbit) everywhere because of Easter. She immediately drop her new doll on the floor and started reaching out for a plush toy that was on the shelf. lol... It was so funny, because her action was so quick, that we would have missed it if we weren't looking in her direction. lol... So funny this girl.

Anyways here are some more pics: