Preschoolers and LEGO

Posted on June 28, 2009June 28, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Of  late, my little Tee has been obsessed with LEGO. I am terrified that she has an overdose of architectural genes from her parents and seriously pray that she does NOT end up an architect. But her incredible creativity and imagination tells us time and again that she.......click to learn what next.

Getting your preschooler to play the piano

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Tee's piano teacher has complained that she doesn't like to play piano anymore. So after investing 10k in a piano, this is what is happening.  She only likes to do her theory work and she has noticed this since we changed her piano lesson day from what it.......click to learn what next.

Transformers 2 with a 4.5 year old girl

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Tee was a huge success at the movies last night. Together with her Daddy, who was ever so brave in bringing his precious girl to watch the very loud and scary Transformers, they managed to watch it together and thoroughly enjoyed their night out with pop corn, orange.......click to learn what next.

Improving Spelling in preschoolers

Posted on June 27, 2009June 24, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

At the beginning of this year, Tee had never spelt a single word. I had registered her for big school the following year and when I heard that at big school (this big school anyway) they gave the students 20 new words to spell each week, I was.......click to learn what next.

Forgetfulness in Pregnancy

Posted on June 26, 2009June 24, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Would you like to win some US dollars? Then hurry on to my little competition for some good, clean fun. *********************************** Today, I forgot to bring Tee’s piano bag filled with all her piano books to her piano class. For the whole day the day before, I kept.......click to learn what next.

Encouraging your budding artist

Posted on June 25, 2009June 24, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Please, if you have not yet participated in my little competition, please do so. I am not trying to garner extra visitors to my blog or extra page clicks. It is simply that I had no ideas for naming Tee's many faces and came up with the idea.......click to learn what next.

A rough pregnant day of words

Posted on June 24, 2009June 24, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

I cannot stress how horrible yesterday was for me. My body just felt like it was about to tear apart. I tried having an afternoon nap with Tee around and usually she is very good if I turn the TV on or if she is focused on playing.......click to learn what next.

Preschoolers as models

Posted on June 23, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Of late, Tee has been very reluctant in getting her photographs taken. This annoys the shit out of me. What happened to the never ending poser who would drop anything to pose for the flash? These days, the moment she sees me walking up with a camera, she'd.......click to learn what next.

Win USD10 competition lacking response

Posted on June 23, 2009June 23, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Hear ye! To date there has only been two participants in my little contest. What's happened? Due to this, I have decided to make the competition more interesting to warrant a better win. I mean, what's the fun in winning if you only beat one other person? So........click to learn what next.

Organising books

Posted on June 22, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Over the holidays, another task Tee was made to do was to arrange her books. We arranged them into authors for the ones which we have a lot of (Julia Donaldson, Roger Hargreaves, Dr Seuss, Sandra Boynton, can't remember who else, oh....Simon James, etc) or the entire series.......click to learn what next.

Organising Hair Accessories

Posted on June 22, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

This is Part (I don't remember what) of the How we spent our school holidays series - LOL Whilst Daddy was busy moving furniture around and Mommy was busy in the kitchen, Tee was instructed to organise her hair accessories. She has countless hair clips, hair bands, watches,.......click to learn what next.

For the love of fish porridge at Spring Garden KLCC

Posted on June 21, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Actually, Tee loves all kinds of porridge. In fact, she loves all things mushy as she is such a lazy ass who doesn't like chewing. You'd think she was a grandmother of ninety seriously! She just wants to get things over and done with super fast so she.......click to learn what next.

The many faces of Tee

Posted on June 21, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

This is a competition which ends at the end of June 2009. Write captions for each of the pictures below and win USD10 (into PayPal) for the best group of captions. You can enter as many times as you wish. Be creative, be original, be hilarious!!!

Institut Villa Pierrefeu Swiss Finishing School

Posted on June 20, 2009June 16, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

That is exactly where I need to enroll Tee in when she comes of age. My mother always, always said that I needed to go to finishing school in Switzerland and I told her it was pointless, a waste of money. But now looking at Tee's mannerisms and.......click to learn what next.

How we spent the school holidays – Part 4

Posted on June 20, 2009June 15, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Well, we swam a lot! Swimming is Tee's all time favourite past time. She claims she can swim like a fish, a dolphin, a whale, a shark......her Mom was a professional swimmer. In reality, she can swim. If her toes can reach the floor of the pool, that.......click to learn what next.