If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Caitlin, when she was about 2 years 3 months old, showing how she can rotate her dummy hands-free!
These are screen-grabs of a video clip I took of her just before bed one night.
This was probably only a few weeks [...]
Seems like a season for sequels. Nope, I haven’t watched The Dark Knight yet….. I have watched Hellboy 2 though…
Anyway, there’s been a build up of activities that have accumulated to a juncture at which there’s been a bottleneck, inhibiting the easy flow of movements, effectively creating a plug that is causing a backlog of [...]
I have 13 nieces and nephews. I can still remember seeing them wobblying their first steps, swaying to children’s music, “taking-a-knee” to see them eye to eye, using baby talk or at least simple sentences, participating in their tea parties, being asked “Is he drooling on me?” when my sister in law was carrying her [...]
Grandma was feeding Caitlin noodles. Grandma didn’t realise how hot the noodles was. Gave it to Caitlin, Caitlin immediately spat out, landing on her chest, and started crying.
Grandma immediately brushed it off Caitlin’s chest, comforted her, and was feeling bad…
“Sorry!! Grandma naughty! Grandma didn’t make sure the noodles was cool enough; Grandma naughty! So sorry [...]
Just came back from another extended-family dinner at Dr Pixie’s; sans the smiley face candles this time. It was really just a catch-up dinner with my parents, siblings, and the 3rd generation.
One of the stories shared was how one of my nephews had really come out of his shell as he reached puberty and into [...]
As prompted by Hissychick’s recent comment, Caitlin’s preschooling does include homework.
Lots of colouring
Math: Colouring the corresponding number of objects and repeated writing of numbers 1-8 at this point. It’s amazing that while Caitlin handled writing number 8 quite well, her number 2 is still problematic.
English: Colouring the corresponding object which first letter is the repeated [...]
To date, I already do these (not blowing my horn- please just read on):
Change his diapers
Wipe the poo, wash the bits
Wash her up after she does both numbers 1 and 2
Dress her, in her uniform or casual clothes after a shower
Shower her: shampoo hair and lather body
Make milk
Brush her teeth
Put her to bed: lie with [...]
Caitlin likes to watch The Little Einsteins.
In it are 4 character kids who fly (Red) Rocket that seems to have a personality of its own. Together they go on their respective episodic adventures. The whole show is based on music, using snippets of classical music such as from Mozart, Bach, etc. They use big words [...]
So I had mentioned before that I was a little concerned about Caleb sleeping on his tummy when he was only at such a young age. Of course then the assurance that it was all ok by other mothers was, well, reassuring.
So he’s been sleeping on his front this whole time.
With his little stunt [...]
Here’s what’s in my car:
Caitlin’s shoes and slippers
My work shoes, by the driver’s feet, almost tucked under the seat
Work socks- don’t ask
The front passenger seat’s headrest, detached, sitting on the front seat itself
A tie on the front seat, within reach when I reach the office
A few more ties, in the storage box behind the hand [...]
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In the dark we chatted quietly- Caleb was sleeping soundly only 2+ feet away on our super king size bed.
We talked about her day, in school, what she learned, whether she went during the day, if it was hard, “Did you drink enough water?” and her diet.
Then it was time to sleep ‘cos it [...]
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This was, and still is a misconception of the Mac OS platform.
I used to be a Student Representative for the Apple University Consortium during uni days. Yup, my first paid employment was all of 10 hours a week on casual rates. It was pretty good then ‘cos I was getting something like AUD13 an hour, [...]
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You hear feedback that she is rude and stubborn, but while you do kinda know it’s the truth, you don’t think much of it because she thinks of you as the fave human being, and would listen to you at least. So that, if she does keep this up while she grows, at least she [...]
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Just wanted to share our little outing this evening…. that almost didn’t happen…
Since the Genting trip and getting a thrill from the ferris wheel there, I thought the next mini adventure for the little one would be to visit The Eye on Malaysia, our version of the London Eye, to be diplomatic After all, [...]
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Just wanna share the joy of a friend whom have just had a new baby.
Congratulations Kathy and Tung, on their baby boy Ivan!
Since Kathy is soon coming to the end of her confinement; and as she has also already declared, she will want to be going out soon! I had only just left her a [...]
Checkpoint:
Caitlin says:
I can emulate Daddee and repeat myself LOUDER when he says “Pardon?”, just like he does with Hot Mummee when she says “Hmm?”
I can wear my socks and shoes on my own now, most times getting the left and right right, or right and left right. Haha I made a joke.
I can make pretty [...]
Yup. The poor kid has to endure the hardness of her stools that she bursts into tears at the pain of it.
And she pushes hard too. To the extent that today, Grandma told me that there was a spot of blood on her pants.
The poor kid does eat her greens, and a great variety of [...]
