About my girl :)

My little girl was given a tiny gold ring from my domestic helper for her 1st birthday. We put in on the third finger on her right hand. She had it on for the whole day on her birthday and she was so pleased with it that she kept pointing at it, as if she was showing it off. We notice that she does appreciate "pretty" things, eg. pretty clothes, hair accessories etc. She's so girl.. haha... we do hope that she will not become too vain though haha! :)

We took the ring off after her birthday.. and on monday, while my domestic helper was playing with her, she tugged at her clothes, kept pointing at her third finger and used some sign language to ask for the ring... Woah!! That to us was pretty amazing...that's how much understanding she has now.

She's really growing up and getting smarter in some ways. But there's something worrying...just now, she kept trying to get down the sofa her way even though she has already learnt the right technique of getting down. That was super dangerous and of course I said, "No" a number of times. The more I said, "No" and tried to explain to her that what she was doing was dangerous, the more she wanted to try her own way and even shouted at me to show her displeasure.

Then I thought to myself, "do I really need to let her fall down once so that she learns it the hard way?" I really don't wish to have to come to that.. cos she will hurt herself in the process. Thankfully, when I realised that the hard way was not going to work, I tried to do it the soft and encouraging way. Finally, she decided to use the right and safer technique to get herself off the sofa. Phew...

But this incident gave me some insight into Candra's personality and disposition. It's not the first time she's shown us something like that.. just that this time round, it involves something "dangerous".

Guess we are all like that in some ways. We choose to be rebellious and choose our own ways at times even when we have been warned of the danger.

Well, I do hope that we will learn how to guide Candra to make the right decisions...but if she really does need to learn things the hard way at times, I guess we as parents just got to get ourselves ready for it. Sobz :(