Preparing K for arrival of B

K has been looking forward to B's arrival. I say this because she would often talk about wanting to buy things for him or she'd ask me to buy things (specifically socks) for him. We finally took her to choose a pair of socks for him.



He will wear this back from the hospital. I hope that would make her really proud to see him wearing what she had chosen.

She told me the other morning that when B got older, she wants to share the bed with him. I thought that was really sweet.

In order to prepare her mentally for those nights where I would spend in the hospital, I brought up the topic a few weeks ago.

I told her that when B is born, I would need to sleep in the hospital for a few days. She said no. I told her that it would be for the best because in the hospital, the doctors would be able to take care of me and of B. She still refused. When I asked her who would take care of me then. She confidently replied, "Kimberley!"

Due to the extra weight I'm carrying, the tendon from my bum down my legs have been hurting quite a fair bit, K is aware of this. When I try to bring up the topic of my stay in the hospital again just last week, she refused to hear that I would spend a night away from her. Instead, she started to pray," Father God. Pray mommy backside ok. Jesus. Amen."

Parent-Teacher Conference Jun 2010

We had another Teacher-Parent conference and had an update on things that K has been doing in school.

According to her Eng teacher, she drew the picture below. P and I are VERY skeptical to say the least. She is not able to draw circles and definitely can't position them to form facial features.

Yes, she does love playdough.

Our cheeky toddler has a sense of humour definitely. Am glad she also displays this in school.

She has been playing make-belief at home. Did I mention that I've been promoted to grandma? She has two kids apparently. A boy named Fire Engine and a girl named Church. The boy has been hospitalised because he injured his foot. In the picture below, the little one on the left is Renee. She loves playing with Renee. According to her Teacher Catherine, she enjoys being stimulated by Renee who is very intelligent. Apparently K picks her friends who are able to engage her and stimulate her. The other friend whom she enjoys the company of is Nasmin. She was unable to pronounce her name initially and would call her "Dustbin". We were amused but made it a point to try to correct her. We simply can't allow her to go on calling her friend a receptacle!

In the right picture below, the little girl on the left of K is Nasmin.

Here is her Chinese report....which I am sure P hasn't read and which I took a long time to digest. Haha.

She really enjoys painting as I am sure all kids her age do.

This is the art piece from the report above.

This is the piece where she used the pieces she picked up during an outdoor session where P captured the kids going wild. According to the Chinese teacher, it was the one time where the kids were on their absolute worst behaviour and it all got captured on film! She has rather embarrassed. Haha. Nonetheless, the kids really had fun that day.

Discovering her interests & inclinations

We discovered that she has got rather good hand-eye coordination, much to her daddy's delight. He did used to play tennis and table-tennis for school. Now he can't wait to start teaching her tennis. She's got a nice follow through.

K meddling with Ah Foh's Ukelele. She's quite a natural at strumming, after you teach her to use her nails to strum instead of her tiny little fingerstips.

Our little toddler is growing

22 May 2010 - Our little toddler has finally, at 2 years 5 months, 3 days, broken the 11kg mark!!

A baby step into the Quilter's world

Been sewing for about two years now. Can't say that I've accomplished very much. Have mostly made clothes for K. And she doesn't really complain about the stitches being crooked or that the seams do not meet so I've generally had quite a smooth learning journey. Have steered clear of mammoth like projects like quilts cos in my mind, I've never quite understood the need for them, at least in our household. Down duvets are so nice and comfy. Why would there be a need for quilts?

It all started when I finally got down to attending the two free sewing lessons from Brother that came with the purchase of my machine, which I never signed up for. I got to know this nice lady who told me about the quilting lessons that she went for and the things that this same store sold. I decided to go take a look at this place at Tan Boon Liat Building.

I was introduced to the various lessons that they conducted and was very interested in machine applique and machine quilting. I've done some appliques but they haven't turned out too nice so I decided to sign up for these two courses. It was fun and I've learnt alot from the ladies who attended the same courses as me.

After the two lessons, I decided that I would put my new knowledge to good use and make my mum a mother's day present. I decided to make a wall quilt for her. I looked for something simple and something which I thought I'd be able to complete in two days. I found this free pattern by Lucy Fazely.



Using whatever fabric I could find from my stash, I made this. I enjoyed the free motion quilting (beige background) very much. It was a little scary at first but I thoroughly enjoyed this project. The 3D flowers and bugs took the most time to make. But I think I would be taking on more wall quilting projects. What fun.

Home transformation

With baby on the way, we could no longer ignore the fact that some parts of our house was looking more like a storage dump that a functioning room. After much thought and consideration, we decided that we need to finally put in some more needed cabinet space so we can put baby in our third bedroom, instead of in the living room.

After many weeks of stress and packing and moving of boxes around the house, enduring the noise of the renovation and then cleaning up AND unpacking, we went from this:



to this.

Father Dot

We pray with K every night before bedtime. She now tells us when we miss out someone. Her usual pray request is for us to pray for so and so to be "not sick".

Three or four weeks ago, she said her first prayer.

"Father Dot. Pray Gong Gong and Mama not sick. Amen."

Yesterday, she insisted that we hadn't prayed for Gong Gong and Mama again. We did but she was very busy talking while P was praying. She also has a tendency to list a whole long list of people we "haven't prayed for" to push back time to sleep.

So I told her that she should pray then.

"Father Dot. Pray Gong Gong and Mama not sick. (In) Jesus' (name). Amen."