哥哥 suddenly started having a fever this afternoon. He was ok yesterday and this morning he was still jumping about, as usual. He woke up suddenly from his afternoon nap and I saw his face was flushed. Must be the chocolates he ate last night. Sigh! Hope he will be well soon.
Did this craft with 哥哥 last night. I think this is only suitable for older kids. The younger one might hold the ‘petals’ to hard and break it.
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I was playing with 妹妹 when she suddenly said "I". I thought she was babbling again. Then she walked to pick up something she saw on the floor. It's the letter "I"! Then she picked up some more and say it out as she picked them up.
Oooo! It made me so happy! What a wonderful Anniversary present this is!
I had a memorable birthday this year. For a start, 爸爸 went to work only at 12 noon. No. He did not take ½ day leave. It was because he went to work the night before and only reached home in the morning at 6. Then, my best friend of 18 years sends me a bouquet of flower and cake (and my favourite!). What a pleasant surprise! 爸爸 said now he don’t have to get me a cake. We were able to have the cake together. 妹妹 sure enjoys it. Thanks, Bonny!
Then my mobile constantly beeps for messages. Birthday greetings from all the mommy friends. So sweet of them! And there are more greetings from my site! Wah!
In the evening, I made Glutinous Rice Balls 汤圆 (for the 1st time) as it was Winter Solstice 冬至 too.
Yeah, I did have a memorable birthday. Thank you everyone for making it a special one!
It was Winter Solstice 冬至 yesterday. I had my first attempt in doing glutinous rice balls. Being my first attempt, I don’t want to be so ambitious. I bought all ready-made ingredients.
The outcome was okay. I’m not skillful enough. The balls keep breaking when I knead them and all peanut fillings came out. Lucky, I have enough dough.
Oh well! Practice make perfect. I’ll be better … next year.
I am finally able to video 妹妹 reading a word I scribble on a book. So happy to see the 'fruit' of my labour. ^_^
Made this super easy Jellyfish with 哥哥 few days ago.
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There you have it, your own Jellyfish. We hung it near the fan and we can see the jellyfish ‘swaying’
I had a pleasant surprise on Friday when 妹妹 pointed to the word on a flash card and said it correctly. Oh, she can read! From the look on 哥哥’s face, he was surprised too! I showed her a few more cards and she could read those too!
I haven’t been able to test 妹妹 because she would simply grab the cards when I asked her to pick the correct one. So this really gave me the boaster to continue teaching her.
I encouraged 哥哥 to practice writing and spelling by telling him that he can now help me test 妹妹. But he would have to know how to spell and write the word first. For the past 2 days, he kept writing 妹妹’s favourite word, ball, on pieces of scrap paper and kept running after 妹妹 asking her what the word is. I kept hearing 妹妹 saying ball, ball, ball ….
Ai yo! Time to write a new word!
妹妹 has this habit of hugging and smelling her pillow sleep. But I do wash her pillow. No smelly pillow, okay! It’s the tag of the pillow to likes to smells. My hubby and I were both baffled. It’s really amusing to see her smell it. Sometimes she will offer the tag to us to smell too.
Lately, I sew a little pillow and a pillow case using some fabric salvaged from some old clothes. And I sew in a tag I got from a cushion I bought to the pillow case too. Hopefully the next time when we go out late and pass her sleeping time, the little pillow will help calm her down and make her sleep in her pram. Right now it’s impossible to still be outdoor after 8pm.
While buying fruits, 哥哥 saw these cardboards (and a polyfoam fruit tray which I'm planning to make flowers) from the fruits cartons. He went to ask the uncle if he could have them and bought them to me, saying we can do crafts using them. Ai yo! 妈妈– big garang guni, 哥哥– small garang guni. Okay, okay, we shall use them to do a small Chirstmas tree.
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You can now decorate the tree. 哥哥 hanged the star we made 2 weeks ago as decorations too! The only thing missing is presents under the tree!
The craft Joanne did with the twin for the teachers' Christmas Gift gave me the idea to do this. It’s great because we can use it to hang up on the Christmas tree we will be making later (already made by the time you see this).
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When it’s dried, you can use it to decorate your Christmas tree.
I cooked Hokkien Mee yesterday and 爸爸 rated it 4 out of 5 stars. Not bad for first attempt. I asked him if there is anything that he would rate 5 stars. Without a thought he said, “ That’s simple! Salted Eggs lor! A 5 stars any time!” Grrrr!
