Cagalli's Corner

Here are the tricks that Kalli learned this week:

1. Show your tongue - Kalli would stick her tongue out - obviously, hehehe


2. Twinkle twinkle - She not only sings to this tune, but now she even raises both her hands and does the close open - twinkle twinkle di ba? :)


3. What did the lion say? - She would roar! - or atleast try to, hehehe.

Oh, and last night she threw a tantrum when we were trying to put her to sleep! She's learning a lot these days - the good and bad, tsk tsk tsk.

By the way, she already has 4 teeth! There's a gap between her 2 upper teeth though, and I'm a little worried about that :( She has learned how to chew and bite and is eating quite easily now - even her finger biscuits. She loves mashed potato, avocado, and cerelac brown rice. Last night I fed her mashed carrots from the kaldereta that we had for dinner. She has also eaten rice with sinigang soup, some fish meat, minced letchon manok, mashed sayote with rice and tinola soup, mashed banana, grapes, papaya, mashed kalabasa, and many others. She doesn't seem to like sour food and drinks. Her face goes "mukhasin" when we make her drink orange juice or sinigang soup, hahaha. We bought her a high chair last week (an early gift from grandpa for her 1st birthday) and she loves eating at the table with the family :)

Anyhoo, here's a picture of Kalli doing her version of "blowing the candles" ;)

My oh my, but how time flies. Kalli's now 9 months old! It seemed only yesterday when she had her 8-month birthday and her titas and grandmas baked her a cake. Now she's 9-months old and has added a few more trick in her sleeves. Let's see...

Last week she has learned to wave bye-bye, moving her arms - elbows to hands - left to right. She has also started mimicking our actions and has learned to answer the telephone! Everytime we say "hello" she would put her hand to her ear. This trick gets better when you put an actual phone (mobile or not) in her hands. She would bring them up to her ear, and sometimes even start babbling, as if talking to somebody on the other end! Oh my goodness, I worry that she'll be "telebabad" when she gets older, hehehe.

Ofcourse she still does her "up-down" trick where she lifts her arms up and says "aaaaa" (her version of up). She has also learned to sing, not just with grandma now (that was her "thing" with grandma - and only grandma - for the longest time), but with any of us who sings her favorite "TARARAN" song. She also sometimes sings "TWINKLE TWINKLE" - all with the lyrics "Aaaaahhh". Her thing with Grandpa? The "huli-huli". Grandpa would catch her and she would lie her head next to his - cheek to cheek - and say "Aaaaah". Notice that that's her favorite letter? Hahahaha. But she can also say the letters E, O, M, P, B, L, Y, N and R - when she's babbling. She can't seem to pronounce vowel I, so no mommy or daddy yet. Sadness :(

Hmmm, what else? Well, she knows "No no no no" and will shake her head left to right empathically when you say it. She also knows "Yes" and will nod her head - up down.

Physically she has grown taller - she can now reach the top of her crib and has started moving around, holding on to the rails (and sometimes letting go and trying to walk on her own!). Her hair has grown longer - what little there is anyway. We sometimes tie it up and make a pig tail. She looks quite the big girl when she wears her hair like that. She has started losing weight - I guess because she has grown more active. Her legs are still full of "bentisingkos and dyis" because of her old mosquito bites :( Kalli has the most sensitive skin!

We're trying to teach her to blow a candle in preparation for her 1st birthday (which I already started planning, hehehe. Save the Date - November 10, saturday). But so far she has only learned to pout her lips - sometimes spouting saliva instead of air, hehehe. Oh well, she still has 3 months to learn.

She likes to be carried by "mamamamamama" all the time. Her daddy thinks I'm spoiling her. I disagree with that. I just don't like seeing her cry is all. What's wrong with that???

Anyhoo, I think I've written quite a lot already... so that's it for now. Until next entry :)