Life Practises - Brushing teeth with toothpaste

Today is the first time ever lil missy tried toothpaste. she loves it. We have been letting her brush her teeth using toothbrush for nearly 8-9 months now, after she is one yo.

Jenny recommended this brand : First teeth.- not cheap though one small tube sgd12 plus. but for baby safety, im willing to pay a bit more.

100% Ingestible Baby Toothpaste
Contains Milk Enzymes...The Best Natural Protection for Your Child's Teeth
Fluoride Free
For Ages 3 Months to 3 Years
Real Apple-Banana Flavor

Compared to Other Toothpastes, First Teeth®:

Contains No Fluoride or Saccharin

No Artificial Preservatives or Colors

Made with Natural Fruit Flavors

Totally Safe if Swallowed

Naturally protects, like Mother's Milk.


Directions: Wash hands. Place Infa-Dent® Baby Toothbrush as far as possible on index finger. Squeeze a small amount of First Teeth® Baby Toothpaste on bristles. Use small circular brushing motion on teeth and gums. Use daily, especially after meals.

Active Ingredients:Lactoferrin, Lysozyme, Lactoperoxidase (Enzymes are derived from milk and eggs)

Inactive Ingredients:Glycerin, Purified Water, Xylitol, Sorbitol, Propylene Glycol, Pectin, Xanthan Gum, Silica, Natural Apple flavor, Natural Banana Flavor, Calcium Lactate, Aloe Vera

Happy teeth brushing !

Arts & craft

We have been doing quite a number of scribbling/drawing/colouring/finger painting/palm painting even collage in this month alone. I really think it's not bad at all as i try to make this a weekly thing for missy.. she is getting better with her hand control of the crayons/colour pencils..

To make sure she gets the access of the materials to unleash her creativity ..i always pasted a huge mahjong paper at our glass door and she just take her crayons/colour pencils and scriblle.. draw.. and only friday or sunday i will let her play with finger play with sponges and she evolve to using palm to chop on the papers..

We recently did a collage too.. which is a simple one with my help to prepare the torn magazines then she just take the paper and paste it onto the 3 balloons outline.. i will let her practise more of such craft.. good motro skill

New Words

Today im surprised when missy said "touch touch" woah.. her vocab really is expanding.. she wants to touch the toys during our visit to Kiddy palace and keep saying touch and when we passed by Levi's shop, i war the hat onto her head.. after that she keeps saying hat hat.. so i got to really watch what i say.. she is learning fast..

Language updates

Missy is able to pronounce "s" now.. Yipee ! Good job my lil girl. we have been stressing on the "s" on her words. like " say pleasssseeee" " say bussss".

hey, the hard work paid off.. now missy says " please".. with the "s" and 'bus" with the "s" too.. heee..

So proud of her..

more words from missy:
27. pom pom - bathing

28. want want - means she wants something

29. play play - she wants to play on something

30. draw - she wants her arts set- scribbling

31. teeth

32. dog - she will follow with hoof hoof

33. cat - she will follow with miaoo

34. take take - when she wants us to give her something

35. nail nail - when she wants nail clipper

36. hair

37. mirror - learnt from HI-5 mirror mirror song

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38. touch

39. hat

40. bag

41. eat

42. bread

There should be more but i cant recall now.

18 month old and she can say so much. how a child grow. Simply amazing and interesting !

Book: Entertaining and Educating Babies and Toddlers

Just completed this book. A very comprehensive books with suggestions on activities from birth till 2 years plus.

I just adopted some of the activities over the weekends with Missy. one of them is the flour mixture. Not bad

Childhood Vaccination -Completed

Missy completed all her compulsary childhood vaccination last saturday. The had her 5in1 booster at 18 month-old and had fever overnight. that was the first fever she gets from all her jabs.

She had all her optional jabs too except Hep A which we shall take it later before she is 2 yo.

Missy is going to her weekend enrichment this weekend. so with all her jabs taken. Im more relax. heee.

More New words

The speed Missy picking up new words now is beyond our expectation. She can imitate the sound prety well now. 18 th month old really is a milestone

Some more words from Missy to-date:

8. clock - or tick tock - she say the same for watch

9. car - she say car for all vehicles except bus

10. buz - for bus , the 's' still a missing one

11. tar - for star with missing "s"

12. un - for Sun with missing "s"

13. fih - for fish with missing "s"

14. boy

15. girl

16. un-ty - mum always say look at aunty opposite exercise. she always say un0ty when look at opposite block

17. die-dao - fall down in mandarine

18. Nake - for snake

19. noze - for nose

20. eye - for eyes

21. mouh - for mouth

22. an mo - fro massage in mandarin, she likes to climb on our back when we lye on floor, so we always ask her to help us massage our back

23. book - for book

24. dan- for dance

25. Shoe- for shoes

26. Key - for key


Most of the words she pick up from our daily reading of Eric Carle book. The first words and animals.

Somehow, i still don't have much liking for Eric carle book. not as fun. We still read Let's go for a bear hunt & Goodnigh Moon.

There are some other words that Misys understands but unable to pronounce such as caterpillar (she is able to say pillar only) and rooster (she can point at the picture but not able to pronounce). It's ok as as we go along, she will pick it up. Shall record when she is able to add "s" into her vocab.