At 18 months, Erita started on training pants, but only for the least vulnerable time slots of each day.

Coconut is feeding herself by use of spoon, but only for 20% of the meal time.

She is now more demanding in food, in quantity and flavor, and favors juicy soya braised pork or scallion steamed fish over soft rice, capped off with half a banana mixed with yogurt. For banana, she favors the organic variety from grandpa garden to the supermarket Dole brand. For drinks, she prefers water to juice, unless it is watermelon juice.

Papaya is Coconut's second favorite fruit, able to watch it grow, and picked, and can pronounce the name.

Coconut now demands that daddy be telephoned twice daily, just to say hello and scream gibberish.

Ai Li now consciously decides 'yes' or 'no', whenever asked 'do you want to sleep?' or any other action. If she responded 'yes', then we have a fuss-free task in putting her to bed or take her out; and the answers are mostly 'yes' since we only ask the questions at habitual times.