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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Well, firstly……it helps that both her parents are creative architects although not only architects are creative (and some not at all!!!) but if at least one parent is creative, your child has a good chance of being creative. But fret not, because creativity can be TAUGHT!!!
Yes, bet you didn’t know that!
Of course, we didn’t [...]
Tee staying back at school
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Tee has recently asked to stay back in school for after school activities. What happened to Mama time? Am I THAT boring? *sigh*
My girl is really growing up and the school doesn’t help as they shower her with so much love and attention and FUN. She loves her teachers. She loves school. She has never [...]
Kids sharing food at school
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Tee comes home everyday with interesting food stories to tell. She is very fussy with food and makes demands on what she wants for breakfast and snack every day before bed. If she gets bread and jam, she would moan that she is soooooooo sick of bread and jam.
Can you believe it?
The Hubs can’t be [...]
Pampering your child early
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Most people would think this is a bad idea from the onset. I certainly did. But my masseuse told me it was good to show children the nice things in life so that they will have a taste of the good life and then will be forced to work for it, or at least they [...]
Children eating raw carrots
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Thrice now, Tee has asked for some raw carrots. She has NEVER liked raw carrots so this is really a surprise for me. She is influenced by the TV and possibly from school but hey, I’m not complaining. I call her my little bunny and she crunches on even more raw carrots. Without any dip.
Many [...]
The benefits of Tee reading early
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Oh, how she is going to hate me one day!!!
Gone are the days of me having to read to Tee whilst she takes a poop. Yay!!!
Now, I can actually have up to 30 minutes of FREE TIME in TOTAL SILENCE!!!! Whenever she takes a poop, that is……it is so liberating that my four year old [...]
How we got Tee to help us clean our bedroom
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Last weekend, the Hubs and I had a mission to give our bedroom a BIG spring clean. This meant hoovering the entire bedroom from ceiling to floor, to picture rails to the back of pictures, to curtain rails to fans and lights, to the backs of furniture to cupboard grooves and surfaces. It also meant [...]
Heavy heart with tears in my eyes
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Today, I left Tee at Art Class (2 hours whilst I blog) and walked away in tears and a really heavy heart. Why? Shouldn’t I be deliriously happy that I can lavish a whole 120 minutes to myself?
It is her first proper class today and she is participating in it with 6 other rowdy, matsalleh, [...]
Who do you think Tee gets her brains from?
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Many people commend me on the way that I bring Tee up because she is doing so well as a kid but seriously, little do they know that I am a lazy ass mother. It is sheer luck that I have been blessed with a daughter who can hold her own and is resourceful enough [...]
Tee’s First Written Contract
Monday, April 20th, 2009Last night, Tee just did not want to go to bed. She was busy watching Playhouse Disney and after about a hundred times of telling her that it was bedtime, she made a deal with us. She said she really, really, really neeeeeeeeee…………ded to watch the end of the Mickey Mouse show and the Hubs [...]
Preschooler who loves learning
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009That would be Tee. Instead of playing with any of her million toys (we have more toys than any kindergarten!!!), she has asked to do her workbooks. Again.
All the Moms out there think I’m this super crazy Mom who feeds her daughter with tons of work and that’s why she is more often than not [...]
Spelling GRAY - GRAY or GREY?
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009I am very, very lucky in that Tee loves doing her work. Today alone, she sat for 3 hours doing her work. THREE WHOLE HOURS, LADIES & GENTLEMEN!!!! For a four year old, that is a lifetime!!! But hey, I’m not complaining…….
She spent the first hour doing some writing because her writing is atrocious but [...]
Birthday marathon week
Thursday, March 19th, 2009This year, just before my birthday arrived, I was thinking…..F#%@. My birthday is coming and it’s school holiday time. That means instead of having the day or week off, I have to work doubly hard, which is moving more places carrying a heavy Sony idiot box strapped to my belly and threatening my brain cells [...]
And off to Kota Bharu we go!
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009This year, despite booking 4 months early, Malaysia Airlines was already fully booked thus we had to resort to Air Asia. Nothing wrong with Air Asia except that Tee actually enjoys the train ride to KLIA and when we take Air Asia, we usually just take a taxi straight to the LCCT so she skips [...]
My poor little sick puppy
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Just before we left for Kota Bharu, Tee fell really ill with a stomach flu. She ran to us early one morning with her hands cupped below her chin and puked all over the bed, to which the Hubs and I jumped out of bed and rushed her to the bathroom leaving a trail of [...]
Swimming progress at four years old
Monday, January 19th, 2009Tee got to swim on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend after a long no swim hiatus. Lucky girl!
Currently, she still uses her arm bands and insists that she will only remove them at the age of forty (have you ever seen a grandmother in the pool with arm bands? well, if you do one [...]
What to do with a Chocoholic toddler
Friday, December 5th, 2008Tee has my chocolate genes, unfortunately. This means that I have to SHARE with her any chocolate that comes into my existence. Even chocolate elephants! *sigh*
I make her brush her teeth super clean whenever she has chocolate and force down gallons of water. And before I give her chocolate, I either make her work for [...]
How to occupy a kid at home - Part 1 of 10
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008See this mess? This type of mess is all over my home and it has been for the last few years. Once you get a kid, you kiss order goodbye. That’s a warning for you stuffed up anally ordered people.
We have stuff everywhere that’s collecting dust. Most of the stuff belong to Tee. Too many [...]
Pumpkin pasta for kids
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Tried and tested, simply nutritious and absolutely delicious!!!!
I made up this recipe today. Try it. You must!!
ONE serving for a Tee sized little person. That’s about ONE METER TALL.
Boil some pumpkin in salted water (say, 3″ x 6″ worth of pumpkin without the skin nor seeds and a pinch of salt in water) until pumpkin [...]
Daddy, my lovely Daddy…..
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Tee and her father, they have this wonderful relationship which is completely separate from mine with her. I am the mother. I shower her with love and attention, abundantly. I shower her with scoldings and naggings, just as opulently. But when push comes to shove, it is always, always the mother that children come back [...]
Snow in Malaysia??
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008OK, two guesses what the above picture is all about.
For the longest time, Tee has wanted to see real snow. She wants to feel it, touch it, be in it and keeps asking us to take her to Canada or Switzerland because she wants to see snow!!! Sometimes she asks for England too, but not [...]
No more birthday parties from here on
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Yes, we decided last night, the Hubs and I. What would really make him happy, and me too really, is that we no longer attend the many birthday parties that we have taken Tee to in the past. She will just have to adjust and learn that we cannot attend the crazy 30 or so [...]
Tee’s boring playdate
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008A friend of mine needed some babysitting today so I welcomed her girl to come over to play with Tee.Tee was initially very excited asking every five minutes if she was on the way but things very soon changed when she arrived.
For the first hour of the morning, the little girl was whining and asking [...]
The Man Who Planted Trees
Sunday, November 16th, 2008We went to watch the above at the Actor’s Studio and got to sit right up front on stage itself where we got completely frozen drenched! But the advantage was that we got to sniff first hand the scents of lavender and woody musk from stage.
Everyone else who went for the play were terribly surprised [...]
My daughter makes me crazy…..
Saturday, November 15th, 2008When I complain to Tee that she never listens to me, her MOTHER, she says,
“Mom! Can you see that I am not an elephant??? I don’t have BIG EARS!!!”
When she eventually says that she DOES listen, then I say, ok she listens, but nothing ever seems to sink in!!!
And she says,
“Mom, there is something stuck [...]
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