Reading

She's reading the book off memory, she can't read the words yet. Papa So read it so many times to her that she memorized it. We borrowed baby books that are rather repetitive so that it's easy for her to catch on. The library doesn't have a lot of Chinese books but we take whatever that they have. Parents, it's really not that hard to teach Chinese to your kids.

On the other hand, I bought a whole book shelf of Barney story books and encyclopedia that my mom bought for me when I was young (!), and she doesn't seem to be very patient with me reading English books to her. Hmmmm. Other than the fact that he can't move at all, Colin is more patient with me :P I read the entire pamphlet on allergy and pneumococcal bacteria to him at the clinic the other day. I once read a car magazine to Xuan while waiting at some other clinic when she was younger... Her teacher at childcare mentioned that she seem to have lost a little interest when they sing recently cos she's already learnt everything. That's going to be a problem too...

Melody's stadium routine

When she was younger we used to just sit down on the track and play with the "粗粗的". You know, pluck out little bits of the track... :P Then we'll walk up the entire grandstand and look at people run. Now she runs around the field...

Then we'll climb up the stairs...

Climb up the grandstand...

Sit down at the highest point of the stadium, look at the world go by...the stars...

Then climb all the way down again...

Sometimes we repeat the climbing up and down a couple of times more, only that it becomes me carrying her down cos she's too tired to move liao~ :P

Little boy

My little boy is sensitive to the camera. He can be laughing, coo-ing, and when the camera is in front of him, he stares.

One of the best conversation I've ever had.

Cute laugh that melted mommy's heart.

I continued to "trrrrrrrrrr" for about 20 times but this is the only laugh I managed to film :P

Spot the difference

Melody (4 months)

Colin (3months)

Answer: Melody is thinking, "Huh. A fish." Colin is thinking, "Huuhhhh.....What's that? A fish?!" (i.e. he's more worried)

Cheeky Melody

Little little girl was very coorperative when she went for her haircut last week. Totally quiet and still, and I'm not complaining. Then one morning she kept asking me to 盖衣服 and I didn't know what she was talking about, but she was very happy to be wrapped up like this and now I think she found the idea of being "wrapped up" in the hairdresser's to be a novelty?

Can Xuan brush her teeth already? Not so much, she's actually biting the bristles and sucking the edible children's toothpaste :S

Random pictures

My son, the worrier (yah he really frowns alot. Once Papa and I found him sleeping "angrily" at the infant care)...

...can smile very happily sometimes!

And my daughter carries her bags and water bottles with her arms raised cos otherwise they'd slip off

Xuan reading

Xuan has been taught to recognise 大小人不火and now the following too. She's capable of reading more but I haven't been following up with teaching her more words...Her "education" is kinda random and has stalled at the moment cos we're busy with accomplishing the daily stuff like eating, cleaning up, packing...

Pacifier

We were quite proud to tell people that Xuan didn't use a pacifier, and didn't plan to buy one for Chern too, but he is sucking his knuckle so much that nasty rashes has surfaced on both his hands :(:(

Teachers at infant care tell me that he sucks his knuckles when he is drifting off to sleep, and will "spit out" his hand when he does fall asleep. So, to protect my little boy's delicate skin...

Xuan was very against it at first - "弟弟不可以吃奶嘴！" Now I only give him his pacifier when he is sleepy and "looking for" his fist to suck. He does spit the pacifier out after he falls asleep. Hopefully the teachers at infant care don't let him suck the pacifier all the time to quieten him.

Doctor Melody

Look how seious both Melody and Colin are.

Melody is thinking: "I want to take didi's temperature like the way my teachers do." Colin is thinking: "What are u doing??" We think that he'd probably be at the mercy of Doctor Melody So until he can move to defend himself.