Monthly Archives: September 2008

“… as my (a) family…”

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had actually wanted to put this in the Random Quotes section of this blog (there, on the right), but thought it to be too significant.
I don’t know if she learnt it from school, or from Sesame Street’s podcast’s [...]

Who’re you gonna call, first?

“Daddee…. DADDee…. DADDEE….”
No, no; “Mummee…. MUMMee…. MUMMEE…..”
No, no; “Jie jie…. JIE JIE!”
(Yes, even Caitlin now understands the prestige that comes with this!)

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I fear a tease coming on, though…

Well, it’s been two nights in a row now that Caleb’s slept through the whole night without waking. Well, almost.
He knocked off around 9:30pm or 10pm, and didn’t wake till about 5:30am-ish.
But that’s good enough for this Daddee and Mummee.
He also feeds less crankily since he’s also had a good rest; but just enough that [...]

Keeping the toddler / pre-schooler busy over the holidays

While I know schools here resumes on Jan 5 2009, and that Caitlin’s school year ends on Oct 25 2008 (I think!), I don’t know when her school term starts in 2009; I have a feeling they don’t have to follow the older kids’ school terms….
Even assuming that her school term does start along with [...]

Adding some colour to this blog

Following up on the attitude of this last post…..
Whatcha lookin at?

I said: WHATCHA LOOKIN AT?

You talkin’ to me?

Heh heh! Yes you are!

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Simple pleasures that mean the world to a toddler :: Part 1

As was much celebrated by us working slaves, last Wednesday was a public holiday for some states including Selangor, which is where my office is.
So, I had the pleasure of picking Caitlin up from school that day.
I had told her the day before that I would be able to pick her up; “Daddee will pick [...]

We’ve got a troublemaker in the making

When babies are just being babies, you tend to forgive them when they are flailing their arms and legs around and inadvertently hits or knocks something over. You know they are only learning and practising their motor skills, and most times over-exert these motors.
Examples of accidents and over-exertions include smacking the carrier’s face, head-butting the [...]

Learning and getting educated through watching TV

Gotta love podcasts!
When I started this blog I was hunting for resources to educate myself on parenting and to also talk about it here- looks like I had my priorities wrong way around!
Anyway, in my search I had found a few podcasts that talk about parenting- these are only audio versions, of peads interviewing [...]

Raising girls and daughters :: Part 3

I used to rollerblade, or more correctly, inline skate (Rollerblade is actually a brand name).
I say used to ‘cos my middle-aged knee has been reminding me that I am not as young as I used to be; since something like 2003.
One time in the late 90’s, way before I was (in the mood of) seeing [...]

The toddler who lied for the greater good?

When this happened; when it dawned on me the whole rationale and intention behind the lie, I honestly did not know how to react, because I did not know which stand to take.
Last night, as usual, I headed over to Grandma’s after work, for dinner and the trip home with the kids to call it [...]

5 big if’s of life

Got me tagged for another, err, tag; by Moomykin
Rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. List 5 things that could make your life very different should it come true.
3. Tag 5 other people.

1. If I didn’t play dead, I would have drowned that day at the rapids, at Kuala Kubu Baru.
See, since I was [...]

Baby experiencing the world!

Oh cool! Mummee and Daddee are bringing me out shopping! Jie-jie’s been bugging them all weekend and now they are actually going to bring us out!
Good thing jie-jie’s managed to finish her home… home… that thing she does when she sits at that adult table… So now we are free to go out!
I am out [...]

Bike seat for toddler :: is it worth getting one?

I had been contemplating getting a bike seat since the early days when Caitlin was born.
I spotted something similar to the YouTube clip below, when I was walking back from lunch today at a bike shop in USJ. It was selling for RM425. It’s not the same as the one in the clip below, but [...]

Raising girls and daughters :: Part 2

After this event Wyluxx, his 16 yr old daughter and I went for a proper dinner (proper meaning we didn’t really have a meal before the event). This was in a typical-ish Chinese restaurant in a shoplot; you know, opened front no doors, siew chow joint. This was still on the foothills of Genting.
Upon reaching [...]

Of security blankets and comfort items

Linus from Peanuts had his blanket. My niece had her father’s t-shirt; presumably ‘cos it had his body odour. Yes: Eww.
For me, I had a stuffed, very out of proportioned, elongated cotton-filled black “Doggee” with kids-fist sized and shaped “legs”; which my older brothers (note the plural) loved stuffing them into the “body” when I [...]

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