Zoe at 11 Months Old
Zoe turn 11 months old on Sat, 1st Dec 2007. It is always very easy to track it as she is born on 1st January - a new year baby.
She is slowly growing out of her babyhood and I really can notice that. Sometimes, I missed the time when she was just a small baby…especially when I see other small babies….hahaha…a weird feeling. She have this very meaningful look when she was small that I loved. Nowadays, she still have that look, only when she is tired and wants to be held…HaHa!
I notice her feet the most, they are so tiny when she was born. I remember telling my hubby haw small those feet and wonder how they could ever support her body to walk. Now, her feet has grown quite big for baby her age and she can already walk a few steps unassisted. I liked to watch her walk, can see the amount of effort she put to balance and open her steps. It is not easy, one will know when they try to program a robot to walk. With this, I think God is really awesome, He created mankind like no other. Who can really challenge God’s creation!!
She can speak more words now, althou it might not make sense to others who dun know her. "PaPa" is her first word and I know Hubby is very happy and proud about that, althou he try to keep it moderate. Now, she says.."ee ya, ee ya" to Old McDonalds songs, "Dah Dee", "Mum Mum", "sheshhh…Sheeshh", "Wou Wou", "Ahhh" and a lot other gibberish I yet to translate….hahahaha!
She is very sociable (in our presence). When I brought her out, she smiled at strangers and will hand things over to people when asked to (dangerous here). She was holding my membership card when I was paying at the counter the other day and happily handing over the membership card to the cashier when the cashier asked her. It sometimes amazes some people that she is friendly and she usually give a big grin when strangers smile at her. She loves children and will try to touch them when they are near. Some brave kids love her response while the shy kids run away complaining to their Mommies that the baby touch them….HaHaHa!
She is also beginning to use sign language to communicate with us. Sometimes, I wonder where she learned all these as I don’t recall teaching her. She rubs her chest when I undress her to indicate that she wanna take bath. She rubs her tummy when she poo poo, probably to tell me she got tummy ache. She waves bye bye pretty well and when asked to. She open and close her fists when she heard the twinkle twinkle little star song. She points at objects in books/magazine to indicate that she want us to tell her what it is. She claps her hands when she is excited and happy. She dance to the music that I played for her, especially nursery rhymes.
Zoe still loves to play with the remote controls and my handbags. She will take out everything from my handbangs to check, just like what the prefect did in my school last time during spot check. She manage to peeled off the plastic lining of one of my membership card. Noonooonoo!
She loves to play with our laptops too. But, I do not allow her to touch my work laptop. She manage to take out keys from the keyboards on our home laptop! I just wonder what else can those tiny fingers of hers do!
Recently, we went out shopping with my mom (this is a rare outings as my mom is always busy nowadays). I start to realise how cheeky Zoe can get when she knows she is in the company of people that love her. When Grandma showed her a toy, if she likes it, she will hug and kiss the toy and show her million dollar smile. End up, she got the toys she wanted because Grandma just cannot resist buying it for her. I tried to stop this type of pampering cause I read somewhere that it will spoilt the kid, and then I can kiss goodbye to ever bringing her out for shopping - I mean just window shopping…Ouch!!!
My Zoe…sigh…just another few weeks more to 1 year old….and I am already wondering how she would be like when she is 5, 10, 15…25!?
Anyway, she has brought a lot of joys to us and our family. A child is truly a gift from God, the journey of growing and learning is not only limited to the child alone, but us as parents grow and learn together as well. What a wonderful and challenging journey! I cherish every seconds of it! 
