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It’s a bit surreal to think about where Misha, P and I (even Mika) all were three years ago at this time. Misha was just about to meet the world, and our whole family has changed quite a bit over the past three years. It’s amazing to think about how much she has grown, and most notibly when Mika was born last year made her all growned-up and seem pretty much a big sister now.

Her first year was full of developmental changes, and the more obvious one was her physical side. She looks more and more like P by the day, and we notice a mixture of our characteristics when we both were younger. She has bits of my agility, and pieces of P’s wits and stubbornness.

Between years one and two the changes have seemed to be more verbal.  She’s gone from the basic “no’s” and “nak’s” to three and four word sentences.  She has developed preferences and opinions, and is not shy about sharing them. Like the other day, when I was checking on her diaper (yes, we are still trying hard to toilet-train her, and it *will* happen later if not sooner), she quickly turned to me and said, ‘Mommy, don’t touch my backside’. And when I covered her head with a towel, she giggled and said while pointing to her head, ‘Eh look, like Bik Nana!’ (mimics my sister because she normally wears a headgear in P’s presence).

There are times when she showed us her ‘heck-care’ and strong-willed attitude by refusing to listen to us (we’re still working on this, by the way). But it takes a bit of a gentle approach to reason with her to make her understand why she had to do what we told her to. For instance, like wiping her wet hands with a towel, and throwing used tissue paper into the dustbin, and keeping quiet while her brother is asleep, etc. For P and I, the communication piece has been huge – it’s allowed us to understand her needs better, and learn more about who she is.

Back at her childcare centre, we get a couple of positive feedbacks about her from her teachers. We were told that she has been actively participating in class activities. She can count from one-to-seventeen (skipping fourteen and sixteen in between) and also counting one-to-five in spanish thanks to Dora, and memorizing numbers and alphabets. She recognizes simple shapes like circle, triangle, square, rectangle, star, heart and oval. She knows her primary colours (and again thanks to Dora for the Spanish version as well).

She is learning fast and I hope she would explore more newer things in future.

Happy Birthday, Misha! Sorry that we (mommy & daddy) did not cook up a birthday bash for you this year like we did for your first birthday. But we hope you enjoyed the Mickey Mouse cakes you had hand-picked for yourself. They were tasty indeed.

Lots of love,
Mommy.