Kim says

I have a three-year old back seat driver! As I inched forward while parking, she went, "Some more, some more. OK, enough. Stop."

Jan 2011 updates

It has been a while since my last entry. Some updates needed.

P has been around at home for the last two months which has been great. He gets to spend more time with B than he ever did in the last 7 months. He will start work at the new place after CNY so we have about two weeks left of more time together. Yay.

K has been a good girl most days lately. We think she needs to know B isn't taking up all my time and attention. I've been more mindful about spending time with her. When we dun oversleep on weekdays, I realize she likes to cuddle and chat. I enjoy those moments with her before we all rush into the day and go about getting things done.

The first of her molars have finally made its appearance. We noticed it only on 16 Jan. Hurrah. Hopefully it would help her chew her food faster.

We bought her to the Animal Resort again. The last time she was there, she claimed that she was attacked and bitten by chickens and cried really hard. She also said she never wanted to go back there. This time was such an improvement. She patted and fed some goslings!



In school, she has been exposed to the letters of the alphabet. She is slowly beginning to recognise some letters and is also learning to recognise some simple words. This is both for English and Chinese. She has also started to write some letters (like the letters A and I). We try to encourage her to do that at home too.

Brought her swimming 3 times last week. She ain't so afraid of having her face under water now. She enjoys swimming. I think it helps that B joins us too. She loves playgrounds. We have been bringing her to the one at my parents' place since the two nearest to our place are under renovation. We also ventured to the next cluster last weekend.



We started B with swim lessons. Wanted to do that before he developed stranger anxiety. He likes it, some of the time. I believe the heated pool has helped a great deal. Am sure people would wonder at the need for a heated pool in SG. Well, some pools are freezing. Even I have a problem with them! Didn't want him to have to overcome so many factors all at once.





B has been more active. He is a wriggly worm when we try to change him. He vocalizes his displeasure with no uncertainty. He is better with nursing now, tho' there are still moments when he would complain about having to drink milk. I now only feed him when he is sleepy. He is able to rollover both ways, back to front and front to back. Yesterday (26 Jan) he leopard crawled towards his toy.

Sadly, he isn't turning out to be the enthusiastic and big eater I had hoped he would be. He doesn't enjoy his food much still. However, his favourite are mangoes. He also likes brown rice porridge. Sometimes.

B got to sit on a rocking dinosaur and on a slide last weekend for the first time.

The day we were both depressed

19 December 2010

Jen & Sharon had a Christmas party and we were invited.

There were many kids there so I decided to be more lax with K's dinner and let her join the kids instead of watching her like a hawk. She hadn't been eating well for days already. But it was Christmas, right?

Mary-Jane got her a plate of fried rice but she didn't want it, understandably since there was kiddy food prepared. So I struck an agreement with her. She would eat two slices of ham, some cocktail sausages and a non-spicy otah instead. She promised so I left her in the company of the other kids.

I checked on her once thereafter. The next time I saw her after that, she was without her plate of food. Suspicious, I asked her about it. She said it was finished. I asked if she finished it. She said she was full. I asked what happened to the food and she said aunty ate it. I asked Mary-Jane who then told me that she said she was full and needed help to finish the food. Hmm.

After reminding her of her promise, she agreed to a slice of ham and two cocktail sausages before she could go play with the kids again. This time she sat at the adults' table so we could all keep an eye on her. When I left the table to get a drink, she offered Michele her ham. Thinking she was so sweet, Michele fell for it and took a bite before realising what my daughter was up to. When K offered Mich some more, Mich promptly refused. Sigh.

Later after finally finishing her plate of food, she was given some jelly. This time Mich asked her for some. She replied, "Mummy said I sick, cannot share food."

Dumbfounded. I told her we had to go see TK since she was sick and she then claimed she wasn't anymore.

She finally was allowed to leave the table. She joined the kids who were playing with the toy hamster. The kids were mostly in primary school and they sat in a circle watching the toy hamster run around its cage. K picked it up. The other kids immediately told her not to. She replied, "My mummy said can." This, Siew Li related to me.

When I asked her about it in the car on the way home, she claimed that she had told the kids that I had said she cannot hold it. I confronted her about her lying. She finally admitted that she did in fact lie to me in the car and also to the kids.

P and I went home in almost complete silence and spent the rest of the night in near depression wondering what had happened to the innocence of our three year old.

Kim prays

At dinner, K said, "Never say grace yet." So we did.

Then she said, "Father God, pray for good health for papa, mama and Ben. Pray for Chyna and Dopey, pray for good polarship."

Polarship = fellowship