Sophie is 10 mths old!
Dearest Sophie,
I can’t believe it! It’s been ten months since you’ve entered into our lives and turned it all around, in a good way. 
You’re turning 1 in 2 months. Wow….
You’ve started crawling around lots (still commando style) and really fast if you have your eye on something. You spend your days exploring everything – the carpet, shoes, mommy’s magazines, food crumbs, handphones etc… It’s amazing how you can spot all the small little crumbs that I missed. Thanks for pointing it out to me so I can clear it! You also help to clean the floor each time you crawl. Very helpful. Hee… Recently you’ve ventured into the rooms and sometimes I can’t find you. But you love to be found… coz I will also come to lift you up, give you a hug and big kiss!
You love food and you’ll eat almost anything. So far you’ve not rejected any food. However, you’ll get bored if I feed you all the time and you have nothing to feed yourself with. You’ll also start making noise if I take too long to get your food ready. It’s thankfully easy to feed you and I really thank God for that. It brings me SO much pleasure seeing you finish all your food. Since you turned 9 mths, we started you on tea time. You get an extra yogurt treat after your nap and milk. You love it! I’m totally amazed that you can finish one tub of Yoplait Baby Yogurt (rather big one actually..) at tea and 2 hrs later, have dinner. Where does all your food go?!?! Let’s hope that it’s the brain… hee.
You love new things, new toys and new experiences. Flip side is that you get bored easily. I used to divide all your toys into 4 bags. One bag for each week of a month, hoping that you’ll forget about your first set of toys by the time it comes back to its turn. But nowdays, by the second/third day you’re bored and you can’t be bluffed. So we have to rotate your toys every few days. It’s cool coz on the first day each time, you can spend a long time sifting through the whole bag giving me lotsa time to catch up with cooking and chores. Although you like new experiences, it generally takes you a while to warm up like the last time at the Gym class.
You love to interact. You love playing "Where’s Sophie" – I’ll pretend that i can’t find you and look around for you and you’ll wait for me to find you (establish eye contact) and if I still don’t, you’ll make some noise like "hey!", and I’ll say "oh there you are!" and you’ll smile and laugh. You love it when people ask you "What sound does a lion make?" and you’ll give your famous roar! It’s hilarious! We’ve since moved onto "What sound does a monkey make?". You love it when people come by or if you see kids at the playground. You’ll stretch out your hand to touch them. It’s so cute when you do that. You’ll also smile widely at the next door uncle each time he calls you. Sometimes you wave bye.
You’ve started "talking" a lot and your general understanding has grown lots! Very noisy these days. All sorts of sounds you make. Sometimes you imitate me, esp me last word. You’ve started calling "dada" or "di" or "da…di" when I ask you where’s daddy. But you’ve yet to call me "mama". Instead you call me "nana" or "jiejie"… strange…. It’s really fun to communicate with you these days… You seem to know a lot of things like when i say mummum which is time to eat and you’ll start moving your lips/mouth, would you like a drink and you’ll look at the bottle, you’ll point at various things in the books as I read, etc…
You can jive! You’ve started bouncing to music recently. You don’t do it very often but it’s very funny when you do.
You fell sick for the very first time (besides the colic) last week. It’s been hard on you sniffing and having a runny nose, throwing up in bed and being completely miserable. But thank God you’re ok now and you could still sleep through the night without much difficulty. It’s only in the daytime that you need me with you most of the time. On the other hand, we spent the past few days exploring every part of the house since we couldn’t go out!
And most of all, I think I am your fav person in this whole wide world. It’s been hard to leave you on your own these days coz I think separation anxiety has set in big time. On good days you’ll play by yourself while I’m in the kitchen but on bad days each time i put you down, you’ll whine or protest. Also when Daddy n I go on a date or when i leave to go to the market, you will cry! Poor thing you. You just started doing this coz in the past you’ll be totally nonchalent esp if mama (my MIL) plays with you. I really hope you’ll grow out of this and be really confident that I will never leave you and not come back.
Daddy and I love you very much.
Love
Mommy