Initially, today Mama plans to introduce Alula on how to put her legs through leggings. However, the plan needs to be postponed as we don't have enough time for it. Today Alula went to Singapore Jurong Bird Park. We left early in the morning as it's

Thanks to the Body Part song, Alula now recognizes her head and hands (at least). That's great because now Mama can introduce Alula to be more 'helpful' on dressing times as part of promoting independent dressing to her. For the past two days, Mama has been

Mama is now repeating the body parts song over and over to Alula - before the bath, during the diaper change, even while prepping Lulu to sleep. She loves it when I sing while demonstrating the body parts being mentioned. Sometimes I demonstrate it on me, and sometimes I touch

It's the second day of promoting independent dressing to Alula. The agenda is only to introduce her of what she can do by herself. The practices will go along in our daily activities together. Yesterday's introduction went quite well. When I sing the body parts song

Alula has been learning to feed herself quite well. Next week she's turning 9 months. According to The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning [http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/documents/teaching_routines.pdf], children in this age range (8-18 months) often can help undress and