An Update

Brushing Teeth:

• Coco doesn't like me to brush her teeth with a brush, even the plastic kind for babies. However, she watches with excitement everytime her brother brushes his teeth.
• She would hold the tooth brush and brush my teeth instead.

Eating:

• She only eats egg and rice for dinner these few days. No longer likes to eat meat. She will go sit herself if it's egg. Otherwise she runs away.
• She ate all cookies yesterday, probably because Angel wasn't there so no one gave her cereal in school.
• Ms. Chen noted she's reluctant to use the straw cup these days.
• I used the straw cup (without the straw) for juice and she had no problem finishing.

Learning:

• She learned how to open the fridge. Took me a few tries to get her to hold the handle tight and pull. Each time I said 'Hold TIGHT and PULL'. She holds on to the handle with both hands tight and expects me to put my hands on her shoulder to pull. I just rest my hands there and she pulls. It's psycological. If I don't put my hands there she waits.
• I also tried to help her on the speech part. I've been watching some YouTube videos. I sit face to face with her and keep repeating certain words with stress to her like 'MA Ma, NOse, APple, BAnana' etc. Sometimes I tried to help by manually close her lips. As Angel had mentioned, I see Coco trying to imitate mouth movement at times. She would close her mouth and seemingly trying to make a sound, though no sound.

Last week or earlier, while Coco was watching Dora, I noticed she suddenly got down to the floor and crawl around in circles. I thought that was very funny. She normally flaps her hands. Then my husband noted there was a fish swimming in circles on TV.

An interesting note: Coco is pretty tidy. Even when she was crying, she would put the bottles upright if they fall down. A few days ago, while I was in a hurry I knocked a bottle of honey down on the floor, she was crying but she got down and put it up right by herself.

She makes the 'Mmma' sound more when she's crying. Ms. Chen noted she's been saying that these days.