I want more cards!

My little 妹妹 wants more flash cards! I have showed her flash cards when she was about 6 months old. After 2 months, she could pick out the correct cards when asked. At the same time she also loses interest in it. Early this month, I showed her flash cards again. This time round, she seems interested again. Last weeks she just refuses to let me stop showing her the cards! I can show her 2 rounds of 5 sets of cards, which contain 10 to 15 cards per set, and she still wants to see them. If I stop she will be angry and she will start to pick up the stacks of cards and start to see it herself! I went to the Popular Bookshop to look at the flash cards they have. I found that either the cards too small or the words are too small. The topics are always the usual like colours, shapes, animals, body parts, etc, which I have already made. Seems I have no choice but to make some more on my own. There goes my beauty sleep again …

Revenge

You know how people always say, children are God’s gifts, children are the joy of our life, children make our life complete …. These are all the nice stuff about children.

You know what I think about children? I think they are sent here to take revenge for their grandparents! Ha ha!

I remembered how my parents kept nagging at me …. Wake up, you will be late. Hurry, finish your homework. Eat faster, you food is getting cold. Pack your room, it’s so messy. Now Warren is taking revenge for his Ah Gong and Ah Ma. Ha ha!

Seems like I doing exactly what my parents did!! Ha ha! Hmmm … I have not been a good girl! Ha! Ha!

Capricorn Woman

I'm a Capricorn woman, you know. The Zodiac has so much nice stuff to say about this sign, it makes people who know me want to throw up reading it. Ha ha! must show my hubby about the part it says Capricorn is a 3 in 1; perfect mother, a perfect housewife, a perfect wife. Ha ha!. Got this extracted for my sister's space.

Capricorn Woman - December 22nd to January 20th
A tall slim, cool and quiet woman. Once she is mad she can be very fierce. She can work better than some men and she is very high confident woman. In her opinion, woman is not just a flower or decoration at home or at an office and certainly not a weak sex who needs protection. She likes to control and hide her weak emotions. She will never try to change anyone, but she will learn to accept them as they are. If she does not like someone, she will not comments or criticize but she will completely ignore that person. She hate plastic and an artificial flower because it make her feel that you are not being sincere.

She loves real flower and it's scent. She loves a guy who wear after shave cologne. If you are a type of a guy who wear your Jean one month before washing, or wear an old sneaker, then you can forget about her. She loves music and nature even there is a rare case otherwise. She loves to go picnic in nature, so if you don't have so much time for her, you can take her fishing too. She is not as jealous as Aquarius or Leo woman, but do not cross the line O.K. Better not to see she gets mad, especially in front of public when she feels like loosing face. She loves to make up and dress perfectly and very neat, so never rush her for this matter. She has her own goal in life and does not care if you have a doctorate degree or not, if she thinks you are not bright then she will not care about you at all. She likes smart people by character not by certificate shown. If you can not show her this quality, go and take a bus and go to the next stop.

She does not like a dreamer who talk about his dream but never put his hands in action to make it happens. Don't bother to tell her "everyone is doing it, you should do it too", or "I think you should do it, it's good for you", because she will do what she wants to do only. She is a neat and tidy person, so if your apartment is a pigsty , do not take her there. If you go out on a date with her , try to be presentable such as nice and clean dress, clean nails or else it will be your last date. She is a cool type and will not nag, so easy on your ears. She is a slow but sure type. She will always respect and honor you and will never try to make you loose your face.

If she loves you, she will help you in anything you do. She likes to help people and expect nothing in return. If she asks you for a favor and does not get one, she will feel very disappoint. She has a high hope and a high faith and beliefs in her own confident than believing in "Luck". If she is your wife, you will have nice and clean home and a gourmet cooking. If your parents visit your house, they will be please. She is a 3 in 1 means , a perfect mother, a perfect housewife, a perfect wife or you could say "happily ever after".

If you want to see what your Zodiac says about you, go visit my sister's space and have a look. http://annieterri.spaces.live.com

妹妹 is in Hall of Fame

Last month, I submitted one of 妹妹's photo to SingaporeMoms.com for their June Cutest Baby Contest and 妹妹 came in first! One of the rewards is entry to their Hall of Fame. And here it is ... http://www.singaporemoms.com/community/node/45117

妹妹’s first pair of shoes

2 weeks ago, my 爸爸 bought 妹妹 a pair of shoes. She has never like to put on socks or soft shoes. Everytime I put on for her when we go out, she will pull it out and throw.

As usual, when I put on the new pair of walking shoes for her, she immediately tried to pull it out. I let her stand on the ground and she still kept looking at her feet, kicking away. I think she got used to it now.

Every morning, I’ll put on the shoes for her and we will send 哥哥 to school together. When we reached the school, I’ll let her come down, holding her with one hand, she will walk 哥哥 to his classroom, wave to him, then walk back to the door. She has been doing this since we got the shoes. The teachers there commented that she walks like a ballerina tip-toeing as she walks.
She’s getting better now though she still prefers to crawl. Faster lah.

School Concert

Last month, 哥哥's school informed the parents that there would be a performance by the children in the school's concert. The school wants to seek our permission to let them participate and to buy their costumes.

I have attended the one organised by 哥哥's pre-nursery school last year and it was quite fun to see the children's performance. 哥哥 was only 3 years old then and didn't do much. Still it was nice to see that he could stand in front of a group of adults with his classmates moving to the music. No stage fright.

Anyway, 哥哥 told me they have been practicing in school for the performance. They will be doing a dance to the song 高山青. So cute! He can hum and sing some of the words and dance some of the steps taught by their teacher. I went to search of the song in Yahoo Music. After some searching, 哥哥 finally told me I got the right song! Ha ha! There are so many versions to the song! He asked me to play it everyday so he could practise. Ha ha ha! I could actually see more dance steps today! Can't wait till October for his school concert!

My Little Pink Card

My hubby came back last Saturday evening. He took many photos on his Project Site and I was helping him to download and to burn it in a CD so he could bring it back to his office to work on it.

Guess what? I suddenly remembered I left my little pink card in the Scanner!!! Ha Ha! I had it scanned because the organizer of SingaporeMoms.com wanted it as a verification to claim the prize Trenyce has won in the Baby Contest. After that, I had totally forgotten to keep it!! Muddle-headed!

All those searching and worrying that someone might pick it up and use it to borrow money from the loan shark! No kidding! That was the first thing I worry about when I found my IC missing.

Doesn’t matter now it’s back. Got to be extra careful now.

My 2 Angels

This evening my sister picked me and the kids up to bring me to the police station to report lost of my IC. Sigh! I have been searching high and low for two days... No sign of the little pink card ...

Anyway, after that we went to 鼎泰丰　 for dinner. The kids and I shared a bowl of 牛肉拉面. My sis had Fried Rice and we all shared 一笼小笼包. God, I hope I got the Chinese words right!

妹妹 was enjoying herself very much. She ate 2 小笼包 and 1/3 bowl of the 牛肉拉面! 哥哥, on the other hand, was at his usual fussy-self. Not eating much.

When we were on the way home, 妹妹 couldn't stop playing with 哥哥. She kept going over to her brother's side to lie down on his lap and they couldn't stop laughing! How I wish I had the camera with me! It was such a lovely sight. My sister did take a picture on her super clear handphone, hope she will send me a copy.

哥哥 can really get out of hand and has always driven me up the wall. But every time I see how much he loves and takes care of his sister makes me forgets all his misbehaviour. I have seen how other older sibling fights with or bully the younger one. So I am really very happy that 哥哥loves his sister so much. Let just hope they will not fight when they are older.

My silly little sweetie ...

I was playing cooking with 妹妹 this evening. She loves to play cooking. I gave her a plastic bowl and a spoon and she began ‘cooking’. After cooking for a while, she suddenly lifted up her spoon and wanted to feed me. She then went back to carry-on with her cooking again and then started feeding me again. Hmm …. I think it’s more like she is stirring the ‘food’. Ha ha! Then the song, Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes came on (we were watching Your Baby Can Read too). I asked her where her toes are and she could point out to me. I continued to ask her a couple more and she could correctly point out too. The funny part was when I asked her to show me where her hair was. She grabbed her hair so hard that she started to cry! Ha ha! My silly little sweetie.

妹妹 the telephone operator

My dear 妹妹 has decided to be a telephone operator. Her favourite past time now is to crawl to the telephone and pick up the receiver as if the phone just rang. She will then say ‘ah-o’ which is hello to her, then continue to babble on the phone, press some buttons then hang up. Ha ha! Then, she will crawl back to the playroom to play again. After a while, she will be out again. So funny!!

Angry 哥哥

哥哥 saw me ironing a lot of my hubby's clothes and asks me what I'm doing with so much of his father's clothes. I told him his 爸爸 is going way to somewhere far to work again. He got angry (again). He kept grumbling ... then I cannot see 爸爸 for so many days, how? Why always go so far to work? His office is here mah! Ha ha! I can imagine him calling his father the next few days to grumble about it again. It's always the same every month. Ha ha!

Ba, ba, ba

It seems that 妹妹 is learning all the ‘B’ words now. First, she calls her 爸爸, ‘ba-ba’ but has now correctly called him ‘pa-pa’. Then she uses ba-ba again but on bubbles. She calls bubbles, baaa-ba. Ha ha! After that, it was bird, bear and now, bye. She will wave and say bye to anyone who say it to her. Ha! Maybe, I should teach her how to sing Baa, baa, black sheep. I think she will like it.

When I grow up I want to be …

Last year, 哥哥 told me when he grows up he wants to be a Pilot, so he can touch the clouds; he said. That ambition lasted for a few months. Then he wanted to be a Chef. He said he wanted to cook nice things for me to eat, so I can ‘retire’ from the kitchen. How sweet! That ambition lasted longer.

Beginning this year, he said he wanted to be Bob the builder. I told him he couldn’t be Bob because he is Warren. Ha! Ha! So now he calls himself Warren the Builder. He will build whatever you ask him to build, though sometimes he will reject your request saying it’s too difficult to do it. Ha! Ha!

His father has been trying very hard to persuade him to change his ambition without success. Ha! Ha! Anyway, to encourage him to read and learn the words in the book, I ‘re-created’ one of his Bob the Builder storybooks using PowerPoint. Now he can click and listen to the words. Since he likes to play on the computer, I thought this might just work. I will re-create more if he likes it.

Washing, washing ...

妹妹 has grown so much that it’s so difficult to wash her bottom after she poo. She will struggle, kick, wiggle and do all sort of things just to get off your grip. One of these days, she might just succeed and fall down.

New word for Trenyce

妹妹 has spoken a brand new word, 'UP'. Every time, I want to pick her up from her play-pen or bathtub, I would said, ‘妹妹, come! Up, 妹妹.’ I guess this is how she learns the word. And the funny thing is, every time when she says ‘Up’, she will lift up both her hands and lift up her head to look up. Haa! Just like waiting for me to lift her up. I just realised she can even remember the title of her storybooks. Last Friday, I left 3 books on the bed and I told her, ‘Let's read, Get of my tail, Little Whale.’ She excitedly crawled to where the books were and picked up the correct one! Hmmm ... I’ll try another one today.

妹妹 comes in 1st in Baby Contest!!

Oh my god! 妹妹 has come in first in the Cutest Baby Contest organised by SingaporeMums.com! Gosh! I can't believe it! http://www.singaporemoms.com/community/node/44946

She was in the fourth place with 100+ votes behind the third placing. And now she has won first! I was about to turn off the pc, and I thought why don't I go check on the results to see who the winners are for the contest. And there I saw her photo! This is the first time I have actually (indirectly) won something! Maybe my luck is changing! Maybe I should buy some 4-D. I still can't believe it.

VCDs for my kids?

Currently, I'm letting 妹妹 watch educational VCDs. 哥哥 watched all these when he was a baby too. For mommies for just don’t have the time to teach. May I suggest these VCDs.

Your Baby Can Read http://www.infantlearning.com/videoclips.html
It works like the Flash Card method. Word, Pronounce, Action/Picture.

So Smart! Series
There are a few titles to this series. Recommended for babies 6mths and above.
Only picture with classical music。 A couple of title recommended for older kids have narration.

Brainy Baby Series
Also has a few titles catered for different age group.
The ones I bought are titled 'English' which is similar to Your Baby Can Read but the word appears together with the picture and 'ABCs' more for older kids. It teaches phonics as well. You can get all these from Popular Book Store.

Spend some time with your child to watch these VCDs. It will bring you closer to you child and your child gets to learn together with you.