Tee, my little pumpkin
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Monday, May 25th, 2009I have been to Pulau Redang many, many times because I used to be a beach bum but now, at the age of 4.5, Tee has already been there twice, amongst some other beautiful beaches of Malaysia.
Why do I love the beach? I love it’s scent, it’s views, it’s sounds, it’s air……it always relaxes me.
Why [...]
The over confident preschooler
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Last Friday, I went grocery shopping with my Mom and bought 10 mangoes comprising Thai Lilies, Local yellow mangoes and Indian mangoes. We also bought rambutans, apples, persimmons, kiwis and oranges. Plus a whole load of other stuff. Needless to say, the bags were heavy.
Between my Mom and I (one weak with cancer and one [...]
How to nurture a creative child
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 [...]
Toddlers and diarrhea
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009My poor baby is suffering from a serious case of diarrhea. I have never ever seen brown water gush out from a large tap exploding like a bomb before in my life. And I really mean water gushing out!!! It made me so worried that memories of her hospital stay when she was 14 months [...]
Selecting books at the library
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Tee had her first taste of a proper library at the very young age of twenty months. There she was encouraged to select her own books and ask the librarian if she could borrow the book, please. Then, she would choose her books randomly, by bold, bright colours. The bolder the better. The bigger the [...]
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 [...]
Yoga for Toddlers
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Tee looks like she is practising her yoga here. I’m not sure exactly what was going on as I didn’t take these pictures. At this very moment here, whilst Tee enjoyed herself with some relatives (and did not miss me at all, mind you), I was being wheeled on a surgery bed up to the [...]
4 year old dressing up
Monday, May 11th, 2009Look at my dearest vain pot. She insisted on wearing her diamond earings to dinner one night. She is becoming increasingly vain, always pushing her hair behind her ears and smiling different poses in front of the mirror. She certainly does not get that from me but I sure know where she gets it from!!!
The [...]
A glorious Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10th, 2009To all the wonderful Mothers in the world out there, and that includes YOU!!!
I woke up to 400 emails this morning - all SPAM!!!
That is because I haven’t had time yet to install the anti-spam softwares into all my blogs. I haven’t even had time to UPDATE all my blogs, so ambitious, hahahaha……
Bad news? The [...]
Children at the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday, May 8th, 2009Last Sunday, Tee had her first taste of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Usually, the age limit to the MPO is 8 but on Family Days, which they hold once a month, younger children can enter. Unfortunately, this time round, there were only 3 four year olds and I could tell that they were still a [...]
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 [...]
Four year old rollerblading
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Tee has been wanting to skate or rollerblade ever since she was three. We got her a set of blades but decided they were just too dangerous and kept it away.
Just last week, she saw the rollerblading rink outside Jungle Gym at BSC and wanted to have a go. So we let her. After that, [...]
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 [...]
Playing RISK with a 4 year old
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009After weeks of bugging us to play RISK with her, the Hubs finally relented. What does a little girl know about RISK? I used to be a RISK fanatic when I was in my teens for a good 10 years playing till the wee hours of the morning in all spots of KL and now [...]
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, [...]
Children copying adults in speech
Monday, May 4th, 2009I am probably the closest person in the world to Tee, in that we’ve had the most time alone together than anyone else; and this is pretty obvious when she speaks because she speaks exactly like me!!!
Because she is a typical preschooler, she’s always dawdling when we need her to be fast, especially when it [...]
Look what I found?
Monday, May 4th, 2009Because I had recommended a friend to the opening of this place in her area, today she sms’d me to ask where it was again but by then I had already deleted the details off my email and smartphone. Since I was in front of the computer, I decided to see if I could find [...]
Playing an aged old game - Pick Up Sticks
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Recently, Tee visited the Science Centre with her school and as one of the gifts that her school rewarded her with was a game of Pick Up Sticks. Do you remember playing this as a child??? I sure did!!!
But today’s Pick Up Sticks are no longer sharp like the ones we had. They now have [...]
How to watch Formula One when your kid wants to watch Barney
Friday, May 1st, 2009If there is one indulgence that the Hubs MUST have, it’s his fortnightly viewing of the Formula One. Before I met him, I didn’t even know what Formula One was. Now I know a little, but since Michael Schumacher retired, I’ve lost interest. Jensen Button is cute though.
Tee and the Hubs used to have these [...]
How to have a great holiday
Thursday, April 30th, 2009I’ve learnt that it doesn’t matter where you are or what you do in a holiday that matters but great company. Even if we had stayed at some crummy resort, and we might have as well done that, as long as you have great company, it is all that matters.
I kid you not.
I was wondering [...]
Bad eating habits
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Tee, like myself, loves food. But lately, she has been addicted to desserts and sweet things. Almost after every meal, she’d ask what her dessert of the day was.
We visited the dentist yet again. By now, I’ve spent just under RM1000 on dental bills within this last 6 weeks. That’s a LOT of money for [...]
Eating in Cameron Highlands
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009After an entire morning of picking up trash, hey, that’s 4 kilometers mind you, of steep uphill struggles, we were famished. Our meals were all packaged up by the resort so we ate there mostly, despite cravings to get out into the town to eat real food.
Breakfast at the resort was good - ample supply [...]
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