It's been almost 6 months since I last posted and our little bean is now past 3.5 years. She sure doesn't look like it, weighing 18.2 kg and certainly more than 105 cm. Dr Appan said that she was certainly in the 97th percentile the last we saw her at the 3yr checkup.
Sumana is a lot more aware of her environment now, not that she wasn't in the past but nowadays, she's growing into a little girl who is quite sensitive to her mum's moods. She could sense when I am angry event (which of course isn't a rare event with my fiery temper and her "siao siao" behavior like her dad) and plant a kiss and a hug almost immediately to appease me. With each day, it's apparent who she takes after in terms of character. Not me, but her daddy dearest. She doesn't hold grudges, likes to dance and sing spontaneously, talks loads with familiar faces, likes to play, forgets things quite easily, holds on to friendship dearly and is quite endearing. Like her father, she is chatty with family and friends but shy with strangers.
Sumana is also quite girlish. Although she's never read a single "Princess" book in her life, except The Little Mermaid, who incidentally saved the Prince and not the other way round, she knows a princess when she sees one. She loves pink, which I suspect is a result of peer pressure and loves the Strawberry Shortcake doll her GodMa aka Gan mummy gave her. She has begged me to give her a Barbie Doll, which I refused ... and disallowed all that I know to give it to her.
Sumana also has a dear friend, Claire, whom she plays with everyday in school. They attend the same ballet class and is inseparable. Claire, who is 10 months older, is certainly the big sister and the leader, much to the denial of both the girls. They don't understand why Dou is taller but younger. haha. But it seems like the friendship with Claire has "stablised" her moods and made her grow up. But the thing that mummy here has to do is to help her establish her own identity and to learn how to be independent with her best friend. You see, Sumana wants to be Claire the 2nd, which I think is normal at this age. With much talking to and explaining, she's beginning to see why she has longer hair than Claire, why her friend would miss schools on some days and why they live in different places and why their mummies have different occupations. (Yes... she insisted at one point in time, that I become a dentist like Claire's mum. ._.)
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