To My Dearest Precious Anthiea

When mummy and daddy were childless for almost 3 years, we wondered if we would have a child of our own. Miracle happened when Heaven gave you as a gift. Mummy and you must have been fated to become mother and daughter in this life :)

Mummy can still remember on your first day in nursery, you were very frightened. When I was at the door, saying bye to you, I could see you having tears in your eyes and whispering "mummy come ... mummy come"

I went to nearby shop to buy sweets for you, as a promise to you that if you did not cry on your first day, you will receive your reward.

Mummy stood outside the classroom for an hour, just wanted to be the first person you would see when teacher opened the door.

When you saw me, you were so happy and proud to tell me, "mummy, I never cry!" and you sure did not shed any single tear throughout your nursery days, though on your 5th day, you wet yourself in school. Heehee ....

You were a very quiet and soft spoken girl in class and had never given teacher any problem.

As you advanced to K1, you were still quite a child. That's for sure because you were only 4.5 years old. It's your childhood, you must enjoy it.

About 3 weeks into K1 life, your form teacher complained to me that you did not understand instructions well.

She asked you to draw 3 circles and coloured them. Maybe you love to draw and colour very much that you colour the whole paper instead.

However, I do understand the teacher's intention. In primary school, you must learn to follow instructions in order to do your worksheets. Anyhow, after this incident, you have learnt and made progress.

During February 2008, your auntie did something wrong and mummy sent her packing. Mummy decided to take pay cut and worked partime so that I can bring you to school in the morning.

It was indeed a tough path ahead but mummy never regretted this decision as I was more involved in your growing up.

In K1, you started to learn more about our Mother Tongue. I should have blamed myself as since birth, I always speak English to you. Hence you face difficulties understanding what your Chinese teacher taught in school.

Mummy decided to help you, to make amends for myself. I forced us to speak more mandarin at home. It proved to be useful as your spoken Mandarin made a great improvement.

By the end of your K1, you are able to converse in Mandarin. Mummy is so proud of you. You also have opened up yourself. You are more daring to speak up sometimes.

This year, is your final year in kindergarten.

Being more mature and responsible, your teacher made your monitoress of your English class.

For a girl who is quiet and soft spoken in her nursery, till now a monitoress of the class, Mummy is so proud of your achievements! :)

Next year, your classmates and you will be going to same/different primary schools. Mummy decided to plan to have your 6 year old celebration in school. This is the first time you ever had celebration in school and you were very happy. I am glad :)

I could see you are well-liked by your friends as when they saw me preparing your cake, all of them exclaimed, "Happy birthday Anthiea !" Two of your classmates even gave you kisses and hugs too !! Aren't you the happiest girl in the world ? :)

When Year 2009 comes to an end, it will mark another beginning of your milestone as you are going primary one next year !

Mummy still cannot believe ... my precious gem, my sweetest, my most wonderful girl has grown up.

Today is one of your big day, your K2 graduation concert.

Mummy had seen how hardworking you are when you learn the dance steps, going for many rehearsals. When you are bathing, eating, trying to sleep, you are still dancing. Heehee ...

I know you will put up an outstanding performance for mummy, daddy and didi tonight. Mummy will shed buckets, buckets of tears .... of joy when it's your turn to up the stage.

Mummy is always proud of you and Mummy always loves you.

Love,
Mummy

Wean Off From Bottle

Finally, Anthiea is not using bottle to drink milk.

Her Friso milk has finished and she started to drink soya milk. It's weird that she doesn't like soya milk in bottle and so I asked her to drink from cup instead.

I'm not sure if she consider slow in weaning off bottle, but whatever ... she is officially wean OFF !

Yeah !


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Two Hands Please

I am very particular about having two hands on the dining table while having meals.

Each time should my kids or hubby did not put their two hands on the table, I will remind them by saying, "two hands on the table please."

So far, only my son has to be constantly be reminded of. Hubby had been nagged by me ever since we were together. Heehee...

This table manners have been disciplined by my mother when I was young and it has already been blueprinted in me.

Are you particular about this too?

Taiwan

One of our favourite TV programme to watch together is 百万大歌星

My kids love to see the stars coming out and watch if the participant forgets the lyrics or not. As for me, I prefer this than local programme because all the participants in 哈林's show are singers. I love Nono's humour too! :D

There was once my daughter overheard 哈林 saying Taiwan, so she asked daddy what Taiwan is. He explained to her Taiwan is a country, far away from us, need to take aeroplane to reach there.

Then she asked, "Then daddy, where is Tai-two?!"

Hahaha .... We all have a great laugh!

HARLOW !!

CAN ANYONE STILL REMEMBER LING THAT'S ME ??!!

Heehee.

I apologize for the absence in the blogging world, because I am very busy.

Busy wth,

1. restaurant cities !! Look, it's with "s", because I promise to play my nephew and niece restaurants.

2. started a new game called cafe world, also busy with their cafes.

3. rearing fishes in happy aquarium, it's quite easy for the kids to play this game.

4. harvesting in farmville

So you must have guess what I am busy with of late, YES !! FACE BOOK !!

Oh my .... the addiction is too strong that the first thing to do in the morning is not to brush teeth, is to switch on the pc and the last thing to do in the night is not brush teeth, is to check for any cooked dished in cafe world! FAINT!

With this strong addiction, I left with no time to blog at home. Previously, I secretly blog in office, but of late in office, I don't know the reason, whenever I sign in to blogger, the layout looks so weird and I cannot even post or save my draft. So cannot blog in office.

Ok, enough said about me :D

My daughter,

is going to graduate soon and she is busy with her rehearsal. Her graduation concert will be held on 5 Nov, Thursday. We are so excited about it!

Two days ago, I just received a letter from her primary school, about her orientation on next saturday. The letter also states her classroom and so on next saturday, we will meet the parents and classmates. Time to exchange phone numbers! Heehee...

My son,

lately I bought an assessment book for him to write. He has shown some interest in assessment books after seeing his sister doing one. It's always easier to teach a child when he is ready for it.

Something more happening ... which is his teacher, school principal and me become fast friends and we are in facebook together ! It's easy to request about his feedback now.

Term 4 is going to end soon and we are going to have new routine next year - my daughter will be in morning session, my son goes to K1 from 8-12pm, and me requesting to work in the morning.

It will be a mad rush in the morning for me with regards to the logistic and in the afternoon, I will be around to guide her in the homework. I hope the new routine is manageable for me.

Ok, that's all for now. I will try to wean myself off the games in facebook so that I can blog more often. :D

Happy Sweet SIX Birthday !

To our dearest princess,

Happy birthday from daddy, mummy and 弟弟.

Get well soon!


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PS: Both the kids are down with high fever on the birthday. Busy sponging them!