Janelle has learnt how to help me mop the floor with her clean hanky and T-shirt! She happily grabbed her hanky in one hand, her T-shirt in the other, and went crawling round the whole house - mopping the floor in the traditional way!
Time flies and she is now 10 months old! She now learns things real fast and is getting cheekier and naughtier by the day!
"Boo - hoo! Some people have said that I look like a balding old man! *sob sob* I'm not an old man! I'm barely 10 months old!! I just have very little hair, especially on the top of my head. Will you pray for me that I'll have more hair?"
For more of Janelle's funny expressions, check out her 9-month-old photo album.
No more pacifier for Janelle! She has self-weaned from it after 9 months of depending on it to soothe herself to sleep. A good time to wean off pacifier considering her teeth are popping out, plus her current pacifiers are getting a little old and grubby - so I don't have to buy new ones!
Time to throw all her pacifiers away! But perhaps I'll keep one - just in case! 
Janelle is learning things fast and thought I should keep a record of what she can do at 9.5 months old.
Motor skills:
- crawl
- cruise round furniture
- pull herself to stand, and ALMOST able to get into standing position from a sitting position without any support (my, she has strong legs!)
- walk with support
- stand without support
- pick up small little pieces of food to feed herself
Hand Signals:
- bye bye
- no more!
- Praise the Lord
- clap hands
- friend-kiss
- point at things
Language:
- Daddy (first word)
- daa-daa-daa (like a broken recorder)
- some other strange-sounding stuff that I can't quite make out
Other behaviour:
- Loves to kiss us! Her kiss is simply wet and yucky. She hasn't figured how to pucker her lips to kiss yet, so she opens her mouth wide with tongue sticking out and plants a big fat wet kiss on our cheeks/lips/anywhere!
- Will "sing" to herself just before she falls asleep. When she starts her "singing", it's a signal that she's sleepy and wants to sleep.
- An extremely loud voice for a baby. Highly embarrassing when we bring her out and she starts "daa-daa-ing" away at the top of her voice.
- Loves to kiss her reflection in the mirror (especially the mirror behind our main door of house). As a result, my mirrors are all smudged with her fingerprints and saliva!
- Ransacking all my drawers/cabinets within her reach. Her all-time favourite cabinet is my accessories-cabinet in our masterbedroom. It is very low - at her height when she crawls - and hence well within her reach. She'll slide open the cabinet and start ransacking all my boxes containing accessories. Once, she kept a ribbon in her mouth for goodness-knows-how-long before I discovered it. Thank God she did not attempt to swallow it!
- Laughs / smiles when we (adults) laugh! She sure knows how to appreciate jokes :)
Realised that our little girl is really growing up fast!
We went for a free makeover/photoshoot today and got 2 free digital pictures. Of course the package came with the usual sales pitch urging us to sign on as customers and to buy more photos, etc, but we stood our ground and voila! - we got 2 free pictures!
But our parking fee came up to an exhorbitant $15 for 2.5hrs of parking in CBD! Oh well, guess that's the price we have to pay for a free makeover-photoshoot!
NB: My hair looks messy in this second picture but we like our little girl's expression in this photo so we chose it. Anyone knows how to photo-edit away my messy hair please let me know! Thanks!
Been getting really lazy and busy to update this blog but figured since I've got it started might as well get it going! :)
1) WOW Worship (3 Nov 2006)
Yesterday we had our WOW Worship Service for all our poly graduates and current students to come together to worship God. It was a great time not just meeting up with old friends, but also a great reminder that regardless of which poly or which year we were from, we are united in the bond of Christ! Hence we can worship our great God together
W - Worship; O - Obedience; W - Witness
May we all learn to Worship Him, Obey Him and be a Witness for Him!
Janelle thoroughly enjoyed the WOW Worship! Not only did she have her friend Hannah to play with (see picture), she was "singing" away with the music - though I must say her "singing" sounded more like some tribal shout and it was truly embarrassing for her voice to be heard above the voices of the other 70-over people!
2) Tooth Fairy Revisits
Janelle's upper right tooth is peeking through her gums! That explains why she has been constantly chewing on her fingers these days. After 2 crooked lower teeth, the first thing I prayed for when I saw her upper tooth was that she would have straight upper teeth with no gaps in between! Haha such a shallow prayer! But it sure looks like her upper teeth will have a gap in between. Oh well, can only take heart that this is the outward appearance that man looks at - but God looks at the heart!
