Impact of demolition work

Ever since the demolition work near my mum’s place commenced, Kaikai has been imitating the project with whatever he can got hold of. He will raise his voice as if it was a machine “ Ennnnn king kong king kong…..ennnnn king kong king kong”.

Meanwhile baby Xuanxuan watching her brother with great interest and would follow suit and made loud noise….. wowowo so noisyyyyyy.

another random updates

10 Oct 07

My Off day :I took one day leave today to take care of the two darling as 婆婆（mum) was not free. As usual, I brought them to library, they loved being there. Especially Kaikai, we have been telling him to lower his voice when he was in library, so when we reached library, he would put his forefinger on his lip and say shhhhhh.....

9 Oct 07

Xuanxuan’s porridge :We have tried feeding xuanxuan with porridge in Aug but not very successful. So we waited her to reach seven month and tried again. Think she is not really for it yet as she kept pushing porride away and “blow” it all over her face.

Xuanxuan’s Walker

Papa went IMM and got Xuanxuan a walker. We have been looking for a suitable walker for Xuanxaun 2 weeks ago. After comparison we found that this walker was still the best among all. The only thing Mommy didn’t really like was the colour… they did not have pink colour. But this was a small issue, importantly, Xuanxuan love this very much.

First class at BJG

Kaikai went for his first Baby Jumper Gym class this morning. This morning we have to spend spme time waking up KaiKai for his first class which started at 9am (Kaikai slept at 1pm the night before). Mommy told Kaikai “time to go school” .Kaikai has a beautiful picture of what school was (mommy has been brainwashing Kaikai since weeks ago, hopefully KaiKai will love going to school). Who knows, this little boy said 不要. After trying a few times, finally Kaikai was awake and immediately he looked for 妹妹.

After feeding, washing and changing, Papa drove mommy, Kaikai and Xuanxuan to Baby Jumper Gym located at HomeTeamNS Bukit Batok Clubhouse.

Today’s topic was “School”. Kaikai was familiar with this topic。

1 So Kaikai read happily with the teacher and “read” loudly when teacher read those words his was familiar with. When he saw familiar items such as colour pencils, crayons, he would said “画画, drawing”; when his saw school bag, he would read “bag”, followed by “一样，一样” because he has one at home.
2 When one kid threw plastic clip on the floor, Kaikai picked it up and gave the teacher. Teacher said “Thank you”. Kaikai was so happy and proud. Yes, he was proud. He turned and looked at me with a big smile, then run to hug me.
3 Kaikai would queue up to collect things from teacher. Sometime when he waited too long since teacher attended to other children first, he would look at mommy and want to come back (he thot teacher forget him). But mommy would signal to him and ask him to wait. Finally, Kaikai collected his item, he would run to mommy with a smile again.

Next was Science session, Kaikai was introduced the term “absorption”. Every child was given some tools to play with.

Finally was the “Gym” session where all children were brought to the indoor playground. Kaikai love this most, he was able to recognize the route to this room independently. After the session, we even stayed for another 20 mins for Kaikai to play around.

As this was the first class, it may be too early for me to conclude. But my comment was, Kaikai might not learnt much academically, but, he learnt to socialize, queue up, follow instruction and it helped to develop his courage and teach him to be independent. Mommy was there to watch and guide him along. Hopefully by the time he joined playgroup and all on his own, his would be able to adjust better and faster.

Another updates of milestones

For the past 5 months (since May 07, after I started working), I have made observation and checked with mum on whether Kaikai wet his bed during his sleep. I was pleased to say that except one or two occasions when Kaikai was super tired and he 尿尿 on his bed, the rest of the time his bed was dry. In the middle of the night, he would wake up and call mommy or Papa for help otherwise he would sleep through and 尿尿after he wake up. So I presumed 90% toilet train.

During day time, Kai would inform us if he wanted to urinate. Of course, there were accidents and some time he was just naughty and refuse to tell us. So I presume 90% toilet train.

As such, I would declare, Kaikai is 90% toilet train (without much training from mommy and daddy). Mommy and Papa were merry. Hope Xuanxuan would follow his brother’s foot step.

Kaikai was able to recognize lot of items. I have tested him via flash card; he was able to relate items on the flashcard with the actual object. This was the game, mommy and papa played with him recently and he enjoyed running around to find these objects. When we praised him, he was super happy and gave us big grin.

As for Xuanxuan, at seven month, she was able to:

1 shake a rattle
2 put whatever she gets hold of in her mouth
3 sit on her own (at time she will fall over to one side)
4 say mum mum when hungry. Actually she can do this few months back
5 push baby gym, she love minie (as there was a mirror attached to it and she loved looking at herself)
6 take books, cards, pencils.
7 make angry noise when 哥哥 takes toys from her
8 smile happily & sweetly when she sees familiar faces and cry when stranger (not familiar to her) wanna carry her.
9 like to jump up and down and dun like to sit still
10 Love watching DVD (those nursery song with young children singing). Just like Kaikai. At this point of time, both do not like those “ang moh” children DVD, they like “local” children or “Chinese”…. Strange?? When I play Hi 5 to them, none interested.

Talked about DVD, Kaikai and Xuanxuan will fight with their Papa for TV. Since KaiKai and Xuanxuan love the same DVD, they were in one team and Papa another. When Papa watched news, Kaikai would pull Papa’s hand and said “看看baby” and Xuanxuan would make impatient noise, shift here move there, could sit still. When Papa tuned to their favour channel, both esp Xuanxuan would sit quietly there watching.

Bits N pieces

Kaikai spoke to me in Hokkien (厅，这个，那个，箱子). This day, Kaikai was cranky, 耍脾气。He wanted something but we did not understand what he wanted, so we ignored him. Yet he kept making irritating sound. So we have to ask “yes” or “No” type of questions to guess what he wants. Finally we strike the jackpot. He wanted to go living hall instead of sleeping in sarong. A simple request yet we adult dun understand because…….he spoke Hokkien + English. Wah Piang, how we knew he could speak Hokkien.

In fact Kaikai has shown signed that he could speak Hokkien somewhere in September 07. 婆婆，公公 spoke to little Kaikai in Mandarin, mommy and Kaka communicated in English, Papa a mix of both languages. We did not speak to Little Kaikai in Hokkien. Only when we decided not to let him know certain issues, we would communicate in Hokkien. So this little boy has picked up Hokkien subconsciously daily. 伤脑筋 what language should we used now???

I have also observed something cute Kaikai did when we cross the road. Must write this down. Sunday (30 sep 07) we went IMM, while crossing road, he put up his palm like a stop (wait) sign to the driver who stopped his car to let us cross. He did this again today. Nobody taught him yet and he understood road safety. That’s great.

As for little Xuanxuan, I have introduced fruit to her since Saturday, 29 Sep 07. I started with Puree pear. Today her dessert is apple. I thought this would make her poo poo softer, who knows my maid told me her poo poo was hard. Would try to introduce more serving for fruits and water to her.

Kai join the National Library family

Today, Kaikai received his library card.

Back in March 2007, Papa has started to bring Kaikai to Library. At that time mommy was observing her confinement. From April 07 onward, mommy would bring Kaikai to library almost once a week. Mommy want to introduce books to Kaikai & Xuanxuan hoping they would love and enjoy reading. Since 20 Sep 07, mommy has started to build a mini library for the two little sweetie at home. Mommy did not want to force Kai or Xuan to read, just hope they would love reading and it would form part of their daily life. Reading was very important as that was where one could receive lots of information and lnowledge.

These are two pic taken in May 07 when Kaikai was still very 乖。

Initially, he would 乖乖sit on the floor, took out books, flipped through them and left them on the floor. Mommy has to put all books one by one back into the book shelve. After a few weeks, he would “walk” around library with books in his hand (as if he was reading them). Now, he would run around the library and shouting “ where is mommy” “where is meimei” “where is papa” “ Oh where Oh where”… we have to quickly stop him and ask him to lower his voice and threaten to leave library. So he quieted down, yet this last for less than 10mins and he would start touring library.

So far, librarians did not say anything but constantly keep a smiling face when they saw us. Probably we restricted Kaikai to Children corner or talk aloud corner ,when he increased his volume, we as parent did our part to stop him.