My 'cultured' daughter

Xuan gets in touch with her roots... (the paper turns black when there's water and goes back to normal when dried)

And her 'international-ism'.

Guess who bought her this dress? (Not me!)

Baby ate my homework

You know the excuse we used to laugh at in jokes...it's true!! See the remnants of my homework... :(:(

And the culprit...he puts everything his hand could lay on in his mouth now

Semi solids

Chern is starting on his Nestle cereal :) He's adjusting well to the spoon, probably because of the pacifier? His care givers at infant care insist that the cereal box says "for 6months and above" so he only started cereal at infant care on 25th April, past his 6months birth date. When Xuan was about 5months old, she ate hard boil egg yolk, drank boiled pear water, suckled on fruits like dates, but Chern? No one has time for him so he spend most of his time watching the sky and drinking milk only. Sigh, poor second born. 没有人理我，呜呜……

Melody and her Melody Rabbit

Every girl's must-have? :)

Maybe didi is hoping to get a ride...

Realized that I seldom buy her toys that are just "toys"...Anyway she seem to be more entertained now by drawing on a piece of paper and a pen. Her childcare teacher says that she's not the kind who enjoy toys too much. She's more bookish. Brought her to watch a play "Bear and Chicken Goes Camping" by Little Company and she managed to sit throughout, though she did complain that it's a little dark :P

Xuan doing her sister-ly duties. Sometimes, when she's in the mood, she is actually quite generous with Chern.

A tribute to the baby cot

The baby cot was assembled when I was 30.5 weeks pregnant with Xuan...And it has shared many of her moments...

Spinning around at 2 months...

Lying on her tummy at 6 months...

Pulling herself up at 8 months ...

More standing at 10 months...

It was never taken down even when she moved to our bed at 11months, cos Mama was planning for another baby soon. And he did sleep on it...

Raising his arms at 3 months (so short his arms!!! Thats why babies are so cute!! :D:D)

Smiling at Mama so happily at 3 months :):)

Tummy time at 4 months...

He sleeps with me now on the bed, cos xuan sleeps with papa in the master bedroom, and the cot cannot go into the other bedroom (we tried to sleep together in the same room but it gets too noisy and restless at night). So...

*Trumpet music in the background*

Notice someone in the foreground trying to crawl but ended up going backwards and ended up halfway on the ground.

The baby cot retires at the So residence and will be serving another baby somewhere else...Til the 3rd baby comes (if there's ever another one), bye bye cot!!

小毛驴

Dr Melody

Checking for Hand Foot Mouth...

小和尚

Before:

"You're bringing me to do what?"

After:

"Haha, it wasn't too bad!"


小和尚即使吃着奶嘴，也可以把手指/抓起衣服塞进嘴巴里……

:):):)

Busy Mama

I used to be able to mark with xuan on my lap, even in the bus.

But my son is not that coorperative...

Cutting nails

I have been cutting their nails since Xuan was born...often, I cut their nails when they sleep, but recently xuan lets me cut her nails while she watches TV. Didi is also quite coorperative :):)

The first time I cut her flesh, I cried. The poor thing, a pin-head sized blood appeared on her tiny finger and she stopped crying when I started screaming louder than her. I think I cut both of them twice :P Xuan dropped from the bed twice and never fell again. Didi has fallen thrice so far I think :P:P Not proud of it, but something to be taken into account when we measure their IQ later in their lives? :P:P

Fine motor skills

Papa So bought Russian dolls to see the amazement in our eyes when he open up the doll again and again to reveal yet another doll. There are 10 in total and the tiniest doll is like the size of a barley. Xuan used to say "我要玩doll", now she can open them herself!

Also bought her this "educational toy" which is meant to teach her logic when she's older. Now it's more of a motor skill practice as she push the buttons to match the colours.

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She recited her first poem today: 鹅，鹅，鹅，曲项向天歌，白毛浮绿水，红掌拨清波。I was so shocked! I never meant to teach her 唐诗，though I do recite this before meals sometimes:　锄禾日当午，汗滴禾下土，谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。我并没有刻意地教她这首骆宾王的诗，but it's in her hanyu pinyin book (which, again, I'm not teaching her hanyu pinyin, we just look at the pictures inside), and there are alot of kiddy rhymes in it. When I flipped the the "e" page, the one with the 鹅, she just started reciting this poem which is on this page. 真是无心插柳柳成荫！I don't really believe in making kids recite poems. Cos they don't understand what they are saying. And what's the point of learning 窗前明月光 if you don't understand the true "feel" （意境）of the poem? Kids don't understand the sense of nostalgia. I don't see what's the point of her reciting 鹅鹅鹅 as well but it's, like, the elementary poem that a kid from China will learn, so I'm quite excited about it anyway! :):)