I bought 2 kids from the market!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
AN's Fish
Wanted to shoot a picture of this fish that AN drew but before I could, ER, with Mr Liow's help, added 'colour' to it (much to AN's annoyance that her drawing was destroyed).
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Adrielle
I don't know how I should title this post about my little girl. This is about her.
She got me upset again, because she wouldn't take no for an answer. She asked for bubble bath but I wouldn't allow her one because she didn't want to get up after that last week. I had told her after that, that she wasn't going to get bubbles this week as a punishment. But she forgot (can't blame her. She's not time-savvy yet). And this time, gently reminding her that she is facing consequences for disobedience didn't work. My patience wore thin and I got SERIOUSLY upset with her.
Everyday now, there will be something that she haso to be punished for, either a bad behaviour, or bad habit. Mr Liow says I blow up too fast on most occasions. I guess so. I'm dealing with a 4 year old who has her own little world where she resides in sometimes. she's still little and I'm thankful for Mr Liow's reminder that I don't have to punish her for every little negative display of emotions. I need to work on myself regarding this.
Sometimes I wonder why she's more matured at 3 years old and growing increasingly childish at 4 years old now. Is it just AN, or do some children do more childish stuff as they grow older?
Mr Liow took her out for me to cool off and so that I could feed ER. Things were back to normal after they came back.
A while ago, slightly before nap, Mr Liow was helping me watch over the kids while I was in the toilet.
Shortly after, I heard AN screaming in tears and coming out of their room to look for me. First thought was: "Must have been punished by Mr Liow for being naughty again."
I opened my door to see what happened and when she saw me, she started crying and complaining. She wasn't crying in defiance or because of a punishment. She was crying because she felt painful for ER who got smacked by Mr Liow. She was heartbroken and I could hear that in the way she cried (like when I accidentally threw away a brochure she wanted for craftwork).
She recounted the event tearfully: "Ethan wanted the big pillow and daddy snatch from him, then daddy smacked him!" When she finished her sentence, she started crying so painfully I wanted to laugh. I looked at Mr Liow and he said he didn't touch her. He had no idea why she was in tears.
All these while, she had always been constantly protective of ER, reminding whoever had reprimanded ER that he's still a baby and doesn't know what's going on. She wouldn't allow anyone to scold him, let alone smack him.
I think that smack on ER hurt her more than it hurt him.
This tender hearted jie jie melted me. How could I be so upset with a little girl like that, so often? But then again, a little girl like that can be up to mischief too.
She pleaded with me to tell daddy not to smack ER and continued sobbing in distress till I told her I'd speak to him.
The moment she went into the room again, she started hugging the little boy protectively.
Whatever nasty struggle we had this morning disappeared. Thank God for opening my eyes to the sweet jie jie who's so protective of the younger one. Sometimes she's not too willing to share with him, toys that she's currently playing, but she will either find an alternative to pass to him, or let him have them after she's done.
I should be thankful. And this incident is something about AN's love for ER that I've noticed for the first time.
She got me upset again, because she wouldn't take no for an answer. She asked for bubble bath but I wouldn't allow her one because she didn't want to get up after that last week. I had told her after that, that she wasn't going to get bubbles this week as a punishment. But she forgot (can't blame her. She's not time-savvy yet). And this time, gently reminding her that she is facing consequences for disobedience didn't work. My patience wore thin and I got SERIOUSLY upset with her.
Everyday now, there will be something that she haso to be punished for, either a bad behaviour, or bad habit. Mr Liow says I blow up too fast on most occasions. I guess so. I'm dealing with a 4 year old who has her own little world where she resides in sometimes. she's still little and I'm thankful for Mr Liow's reminder that I don't have to punish her for every little negative display of emotions. I need to work on myself regarding this.
Sometimes I wonder why she's more matured at 3 years old and growing increasingly childish at 4 years old now. Is it just AN, or do some children do more childish stuff as they grow older?
Mr Liow took her out for me to cool off and so that I could feed ER. Things were back to normal after they came back.
A while ago, slightly before nap, Mr Liow was helping me watch over the kids while I was in the toilet.
Shortly after, I heard AN screaming in tears and coming out of their room to look for me. First thought was: "Must have been punished by Mr Liow for being naughty again."
I opened my door to see what happened and when she saw me, she started crying and complaining. She wasn't crying in defiance or because of a punishment. She was crying because she felt painful for ER who got smacked by Mr Liow. She was heartbroken and I could hear that in the way she cried (like when I accidentally threw away a brochure she wanted for craftwork).
She recounted the event tearfully: "Ethan wanted the big pillow and daddy snatch from him, then daddy smacked him!" When she finished her sentence, she started crying so painfully I wanted to laugh. I looked at Mr Liow and he said he didn't touch her. He had no idea why she was in tears.
All these while, she had always been constantly protective of ER, reminding whoever had reprimanded ER that he's still a baby and doesn't know what's going on. She wouldn't allow anyone to scold him, let alone smack him.
I think that smack on ER hurt her more than it hurt him.
This tender hearted jie jie melted me. How could I be so upset with a little girl like that, so often? But then again, a little girl like that can be up to mischief too.
She pleaded with me to tell daddy not to smack ER and continued sobbing in distress till I told her I'd speak to him.
The moment she went into the room again, she started hugging the little boy protectively.
Whatever nasty struggle we had this morning disappeared. Thank God for opening my eyes to the sweet jie jie who's so protective of the younger one. Sometimes she's not too willing to share with him, toys that she's currently playing, but she will either find an alternative to pass to him, or let him have them after she's done.
I should be thankful. And this incident is something about AN's love for ER that I've noticed for the first time.
Monday, August 29, 2011
While Waiting
Outside her music class waiting for teacher to come, and testing my new phone. It's FAR better than my Beam. Love it!
Tattoo
Mr Liow got a tattoo. He wanted a dragon, or some patriotic chinese words but the little princess preferred something like this:
The So-Cool Daddy
The So-Cool Daddy
Friday, August 26, 2011
ER's New Ability and Habits
He's starting to 'sing' lately. He holds a 'note' for longer than his usual blabbering.
He has a new hobby too: he blows bubbles, with his saliva. Yes, it's disgusting, but undeniably adorable. Because he's a baby. Babies get away with most things. ER gets away with messing up his jie jie's things. She gets upset, fumes, but immediately jumps to his defense when he gets reprimanded for his misdeed: "He's just a little baby. He doesn't know what he's doing. Don't scold him."
I had been teaching him to get off the sofa by pushing his lower body down first, before his upper body. He's still attempting to dive his way down! He got it once this afternoon and managed to get off the sofa safely but not anymore after that one attempt. Not bad though. He does it once, he'll do it again.
He's standing on his own, unassisted. He's not very good at it yet, but when he's engrossed, he forgets he's not leaning against anything and stands for that few seconds.
He's still cruising like he did weeks ago, so there's nothing new yet.
He had learnt to 'pinch'. It doesn't take him much to pick something up with thumb and index finger now.
I love having conversations with him. And he's entertaining me by 'replying' more lately (just weeks ago, he would struggle to break away so that he could crawl and explore). This is one different behavior from baby AN who would, on most occasions, gladly sit on our laps to 'talk' to us, or just watch when we talked to her. ER just keeps trying to break free more often than not.
ER had been banging his fists together and shaking his hands. I wonder if he's starting to use the baby signs I had been using with him (namely, 'more' and 'enough' in these cases). I take these actions at face value to mean what I suppose they should mean, repeat the sign verbally and act upon it (if he bangs his fists, I'll say "more" and continue with what we had been doing, or "enough" and then stop). Hope this will help him understand the signs better, especially since he is able to do these actions with his hands now.
He's starting to imitate us. He sees AN drawing and when he gets hold of a pen/pencil/crayon, he starts rubbing them against paper like he saw AN do it. We hold a hand up, he'll do the hi-five with us. We open and close our palms to say goodbye, he does the same. I put dirt or stuff like hair, into the Delphin when it's on air-purifying mode, he saw, and then at attempted to push a toy in too.
He shows his emotions in the most obvious manner: he smiles and even laughs without provocation when he's happy, and cries bad when he's upset, usually when it's night lately. He has to see me, or be near to me. Best if I carry him. Nothing else stops those tears.
He's all over the place now. He'll be my workout from now on.
He has a new hobby too: he blows bubbles, with his saliva. Yes, it's disgusting, but undeniably adorable. Because he's a baby. Babies get away with most things. ER gets away with messing up his jie jie's things. She gets upset, fumes, but immediately jumps to his defense when he gets reprimanded for his misdeed: "He's just a little baby. He doesn't know what he's doing. Don't scold him."
I had been teaching him to get off the sofa by pushing his lower body down first, before his upper body. He's still attempting to dive his way down! He got it once this afternoon and managed to get off the sofa safely but not anymore after that one attempt. Not bad though. He does it once, he'll do it again.
He's standing on his own, unassisted. He's not very good at it yet, but when he's engrossed, he forgets he's not leaning against anything and stands for that few seconds.
He's still cruising like he did weeks ago, so there's nothing new yet.
He had learnt to 'pinch'. It doesn't take him much to pick something up with thumb and index finger now.
I love having conversations with him. And he's entertaining me by 'replying' more lately (just weeks ago, he would struggle to break away so that he could crawl and explore). This is one different behavior from baby AN who would, on most occasions, gladly sit on our laps to 'talk' to us, or just watch when we talked to her. ER just keeps trying to break free more often than not.
ER had been banging his fists together and shaking his hands. I wonder if he's starting to use the baby signs I had been using with him (namely, 'more' and 'enough' in these cases). I take these actions at face value to mean what I suppose they should mean, repeat the sign verbally and act upon it (if he bangs his fists, I'll say "more" and continue with what we had been doing, or "enough" and then stop). Hope this will help him understand the signs better, especially since he is able to do these actions with his hands now.
He's starting to imitate us. He sees AN drawing and when he gets hold of a pen/pencil/crayon, he starts rubbing them against paper like he saw AN do it. We hold a hand up, he'll do the hi-five with us. We open and close our palms to say goodbye, he does the same. I put dirt or stuff like hair, into the Delphin when it's on air-purifying mode, he saw, and then at attempted to push a toy in too.
He shows his emotions in the most obvious manner: he smiles and even laughs without provocation when he's happy, and cries bad when he's upset, usually when it's night lately. He has to see me, or be near to me. Best if I carry him. Nothing else stops those tears.
He's all over the place now. He'll be my workout from now on.
Innovation
With Lego, you can have everything imaginable, and construct-able:
From a cell phone
To a camera
From a cell phone
To a camera
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