Xuan draws a family portrait

This is our 全家福。The circle on the top left is her (which means she's not that egocentric!). I'm the one with hair, then centre is didi I think, right most is Papa So. We're all butterflies with wings :):)

She likes to draw boxes and circles then cut them into equivalent quarters..

Sports and trophies

Once upon a time, my mom had a lot of trophies but they all became my sis' toys...Now my trophies will suffer the same fate...

Luckily I have a lot (heehee, haolian a bit)...Other than the most memorable ones, think I'll donate all of them to his toy pile...Something for you to work towards, my son!

Look at him watching games so intensely...

Racket sports?

Woah! Got the makings of Federer! :P

Watching Papa play basketball :)

I noticed that he is not a very "soccer" boy, more ball handling rather than kicking. Of course he is too young to tell but his interest in sports is hard to deny, whereas Xuan is more a "clubs and society" girl :):)

Playing with other kids

Didi charms the older kids at the playground. He does that often! :):)

This kid's grandma was quite amazed at didi's balance going up and down the stairs. The boy kept watching us cos we were having so much fun running around while he gets his "不要跑，跌倒啊！流血！" He started following whatever didi is doing and we ended up playing together for quite a while :):)

Family Day

Yet another day at the zoo...

Celebrated Grandma's birthday at night with everyone :)

外婆gets a kiss! :)

姐弟十二连拍

Drinking my milk...

喝牛奶有什么好拍的……

还把我们挤到这么靠近……

Bleh!

弟弟由始至终都相当配合……看着镜头喝milo...

Bleh bleh!~

Bleh didi

Hee! 终于笑了！Mama So have been “来，看妈妈，笑！”for like dunno how long...

Bleh 姐姐

我的两个小顽皮

Yee! Take your hand out!

My two darlings :) Love the innocent look on didi! And the sparkling eyes of Xuan! :):)

一二三

Didi can say 一二三and one two three! He says eleven twelve thriteen too but you have to listen closely, haha. I notice that he doesn't open and close his mouth that much, which makes everything that he says come out sounding like vowels. He is starting to sing a lot too! But again, you really have to listen closely...hahha! His teacher enjoy listening to him sing just like the way she listened to xuan hold her concert back in toddler's class at MFS... :) But of course when xuan sings it's much clearer what she is singing :P

Resolving conflicts

Mama So bought some fake food products like those seen at Japanese restaurants as toys for my children, and didi is particularly fond of the pau recently. In the car, Xuan took his pau and he was crying/whining for "Bao, bao~~". Mama So chose to ignore and observe how pretty the clouds are.

After a while, Xuan said to him, “弟弟说‘请给我包’就我给你。”(She always put “就”in front of the sentence. Recently she uses “原来”for “应该”，e.g. “这个原来是妈妈蜗牛吧。”) Of course didi couldn't say that, so she repeated it while looking at him intently, waiting for him to say something. Didi said, "Arh". I found it so funny that I have to intervene, "弟弟说please", and he said, "Arh". I told xuan, ＂弟弟的"ah"就是"please"啦" and she gave up her toy willingly.

I am sooooooooooooooo proud of my little girl for being able to resolve conflict on her own initiative (mimicing how I resolve conflicts between them previously). She used to cry/whine and compete to see who is louder. Papa So and I have mastered the art of "one ear in, one ear out" so she knows I am just going to ignore or get angry if they cry. I seldom hear "You see didi did this-and-that" considering how many times conflicts arise at home.

Training didi to deliver fruits to xuan whenever I cut fruits for them helps. He offers biscuits to people without people asking. Explaining and delivering my promise helps. Xuan used to fight to watch the dvd that she wants, but I say, the one that didi wants to watch is shorter. When he goes to sleep you can watch the longer one. So now when she wants to watch tv, she offers to let didi watch first without demanding her way sometimes.

Cute didi

I can have a lot of expression too!

Happy kids

Although there seem to be not enough space in Spore for kids to run around in, we can still make do with what we have... :)

That's my McDonalds~

Their fav Mcdonalds at Hwa Yi CC:

http://mymelodyso.blogspot.com/2009/10/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-macdonalds.html

Outing with 4 kids

It was a busy morning with 4 kids and 6 adults. Super crowded. Super noisy! But they love the company of their cousins! :):)