Ideal preschooler nap times and durations
Monday, March 31st, 2008This post is going to make me sound like an an unappreciative you-little-shite-taking-us-for-granted son in law...
Archive for March, 2008
This post is going to make me sound like an an unappreciative you-little-shite-taking-us-for-granted son in law...
Instantly orphaned, so sad..
Friday, March 28th, 2008It just tears me up inside thinking of the "what's next for me?" for the child, especially. Baby safe but four die in crash http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/28/nation/20771732&sec=nation By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH TANGKAK: A two-month-old baby girl miraculously escaped death but her parents, grandmother and brother – all Singaporeans – were killed when the seven-seater vehicle they ...
Lookie what I can do, at 11 weeks old…
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Yo-check it, Adults! I am starting to hold my head up I am starting to hold my head up! I can also do this already! Yo man I am so clever now! Heh heh! I overhead Major-Adult-2 saying something about the "skydiving position"... What's position?
Blog design revamp…
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Yes folks, I am getting bored with the current look; in less than, what- a year? Yeah yeah, at this point at least one of you would be sniggering, going "I hope you don't get tired of your wife as quickly haha." Seriously, I had that exact quote thrown at ...
Our first parent-teacher meeting
Monday, March 24th, 2008So, over the weekend we attended Caitlin's preschool to chat with her teachers on their appointed day of parent-teacher meeting, to see how she is doing in school. In summary, Teacher Ng shared the following about Caitlin:
How to prepare toddler for preschool
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I can't remember when the word "school" was introduced to Caitlin. But she got the concept pretty early: School is a place where children congregate for some joint activities. They also wear uniforms....
Somewhere in between..
Monday, March 17th, 2008I have been advocating to new-parent friends to invest in a good camera to snap away at their kids. In fact, as a digression my older brother was recently bitten by the photography bug, and invested in a high end camera. He now regrets not getting into it earlier 'cos ...
Fridge art
Friday, March 14th, 2008She is at the age where she can reach for things on the kitchen counter, strong enough to open bedroom doors, kitchen cabinets, the fridge. She'd steal peeks at her Daddee in the shower, help Daddee squeeze the toothpaste tube She is also of the age now where she will be ...
Lead by example, set by you
Thursday, March 13th, 2008So it's the school holidays this week, and Daddee and Caitlin get to sleep in some (since Daddee is playing chauffeur Mummee gets to snooze on regardless). The timing couldn't be better. Given we were all down with the flu last week (and Daddee still has a cough; so does Caitlin ...
Another one (or two) of those days
Sunday, March 9th, 2008As you know the whole family is down with the flu, and there was no sparing Daddee either. Daddee had to take Thursday and Friday off work; the sickness was aggravated by a general lack of sleep anyway, due to Caleb's overnight feeding and Daddee's inability to manage his time yet ...
Our first academic argument
Thursday, March 6th, 2008It's not a bad thing. It's actually something good. And it's another you-had-to-be-there moment... We are on the road home. Caitlin is strapped in her seat at the back, watching the world go by. Okay, just watching the traffic go by... Caitlin: Daddee, what is "bus" in Mandarin? Daddee: ba si (don't know ...
One (or two) of those days
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The setting: At home, pre-pre-dawn. Only an energy-saver bulb light is on. A sofa faces a tv. Beside the sofa is a small foldable table, on which sit an oversized mug with a small amount of hot water, a hanky, and an Avent milk bottle with 5oz left in it. The cast: - ...
Top 5 notable unique parenting experience for me
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Actually, these are in no particular order! That moment of realising we can have a pseudo conversation. At the age of early-2 whenever I put Caitlin to bed, we'd be chatting, mostly about anything her young mind can take. These have generally been 3-4 word sentences from her, with grammatical errors and ...
Toddler’s first Monday going to preschool
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Caitlin doesn't know the term yet, but she (along with Daddee) exhibited the clichéd Monday morning blues this morning- dreary eyes, slouched shoulders, I-wished-I-was-still-in-bed; at least for Daddee*, 'cos Caitlin quite happily got out of bed when I softly woke her with "Hey, wakey wakey, gotta wake up to go ...
Infant development tracking- An ongoing journal
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I didn't start something like this with Caitlin. So I have actually forgotten when she achieved the following milestones: Sleep through the night When she understood our "cue" to pee; we used to pull down her pants and make "shhhhh shhhh" noise to get her to pee, to reduce the risk of ...
