Two of K's firsts

We've been wanting to bring K for a movie but never know for certain if she'd sit thru one. We decided to try, but to watch one at the usual weekend screenings at the club so we could just walk out if she got too restless but yet not feel too terrible about the ridiculous amount we pay for the tix.

We waited for a suitable movie that we thought she might be interested in. On 5 Sep, we brought her to watch her first movie. A BBC documentary no less! It was one on meerkats. It was 83 mins long and she sat through most of it. Only during the last 10 to 15 mins she was restless and started to play with the water in her bottle. But what a feat for a 20 mths old. Although she didn't want to sit on her own seat throughout the movie. Well done, little one.

We shall have to do this more often until she can sit through one. Then it would be movies at the cinema proper, cheesy cornchips and popcorn!



On 12 Sep, we brought her to her first live concert. It was the Hi-5 Surprise concert. Initially, we weren't very keen to go because we very much prefer the old cast but we got complimentary tix from the Chengs. We are very glad we went.

This cast turned out to be much much better live than during studio recording....very weird. But we enjoyed it very much. K was happy just to sit on our laps throughout and only warmed up during intermission where she went wild dancing. During the second part of the concert, she was uncontrollable and almost did forward rolls on my lap several times. Funny girl.

Carpark coupon tabs

This is how you keep a little girl engaged for 15 mins or more...

....provided you have a doting grandfather who would sit beside her to help her with the tabs.

A new adjustment in school

I dunno really whether K realises that there has been a change in school. Her (and my) favourite teacher at school is no longer there. She has resigned. Wed was her last day. I was quite sad and I felt a little sad for K when I first found out. But I wonder if she would understand at this age.

K helped to make a card for her.



And was very eager at the idea of presenting the flowers when I told her in the morning that I would buy some flowers for her to give to her teacher. When she was actually supposed to do it, she went all shy and coy.

Last man standing

The family (well, K and P at least) have just recovered.

Kim started to run a highish fever on 3 and 4 Sep. Then it subsided. I was very relieved cos her fever never left so quickly before. Rashes started to appear at her diaper area. I thought it was due to the fever. Then there were more spots on her hands and feet. Oh oh. I suspected HFMD. So I got TK to check her out on Sunday in church and he said it was nothing. So we went on our merry way and did normal things. Although her appetite was somewhat affected.

Tuesday night we were to have dinner at the Chengs. When we arrived, there was just Dawn there. The kids were out - TK had Joel and the other two were at Chinese class. So K got to play with some toys. I thought that I had better get Dawn to check her out too just in case she went around the whole house and played with every single thing only to later be diagnosed with HFMD. It was confirmed! Oh no. Only because she had ONE blister on her left foot. The rest were just spots. The conclusion: it was a mild case. But she couldn't go to school. Had to wait for everything (read: that ONE spot) to dry up.

Sigh. So I kept her home on Wed. But she really did seem fine to me, except for the usual mealtime fights. Thu morning, I brought her to see our GP who agreed that his retrospective diagnosis was HFMD but said that she had recovered already. Which meant she could go back to school! I kept her home most of the day and only sent her to school for lunch and her milk before bringing her home for her nap.

So that was Thursday. Day. That same day, P felt unwell and so stayed home after going to see the doc to check out K and get mc for P. That night, he was feeling so terrible and ran a persistently high fever. He had reached 40 degrees! And poor baby was so ill and feeling all woe is me. Went to see doc again in the night and doc said he had tonsilitis. Fever broke in early morning but was very tired on Friday.

Went to see doc again on Sunday....cos he had spots!!!!! Yikes!!! He had caught HFMD from K!!! Oh sigh. So that meant that he couldn't handle K at all, couldn't do the dishes, had to try not to touch anything in the house and had to wear socks. Poor P. His was not a mild case.

Oh don't worry. We are now safe to be around. And I won't attempt to post any pics of the blisters on P, tho' he made me take some. :) I'm just glad to say that everyone is well again. And thanks to those who were praying for K not to get it again and for me to stay clear of it.

Latest interest - singing

She likes to sing along. Currently, she would only be able to pick up some words, mostly the last word of a phrase. She especially enjoys doing actions to a song, improvising along the way.

Here are her two current favourites.

Row row row your boat




两只老虎 (And I always thot it was 三只?!) / 手在哪里

You are being watched

We have heard that children learn by imitation. And so they do.

Here is K putting on her imaginary contact lenses.

And here she is trying to put on anti-perspirant!

Hand in hand

I caught this on video last week. It was in the late afternoon and the kids are usually allowed to do their own thing. You will see that they are rather aimless and are just randomly walking around.



I thought it was quite cute that K was holding her friend's hand and walking around.

You will see that this friend is much taller. She is also rather conscientious about keeping books which are left lying around, as compared to stepping on them.

I am told that our "very social" daughter quite often holds hands with her friends and just leads them around. At least this time it's a girl. Was there ever a boy? Ah yes. Read on.

Last Monday night while we were having dinner, K was given some icing biscuits. You know the kind that looks like a belly button with some bright icing on top of it. And as a child, you usually only eat the icing? Well, it is no different today.

We were sort of randomly chatting with one another and K. I was asking K about school. Then I went to the kitchen while she ate the biscuits. Suddenly, she said, "Nove." That means "love". I asked her who she loved and she said, "Yee Chin". Peen swears she meant "Icing" from the biscuit but mommy knows better. She meant her friend Eugene from school. I repeated myself at least thrice and asked her, "Did you say that you love Eugene?" To which she nodded and said, "Orhhh...nes (oh...yes)" much to daddy's dismay.