[Xiang: 2y11m] Completion of 3 year old class . Holiday Program

19 Nov 2009

Tomorrow, Xiang will complete his 3 year old class. I have no regrets of enrolling him so early, although he is a year end baby.

It seems like yesterday, when we took him for his 1st day class. Then he continueously crying for months! He was such a baby (and he still is, as compared to his classmates told by his teacher).

So after a year completed, what does he gain?
1. Friends - towards the end of school semester, teacher commented that he started to chat with friends in class. (haha, teachers don't like this!)
2. Confidence - not a great degree, but he dares to talk with teachers now.
3. Motor skills - hmm, he's still weak in this.
4. Learning - He's good in this, he knows well his phonics and the items which teachers taught.
5. Prizes or Awards - haha, none for my little boy. He is those so-so grade, not too good and not too bad either.

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I have been visiting various schools and centres for holiday classes. I have actually quite keen to enrol him into Bao Bei Chinese Learning.

Wei Xiang doesn't want it. All he wants during the holiday is stay at home and stay with me. When I mentioned about the word "Bao Bei", he will cry immediately. Not those screaming-yelling-cry, but really sad soft sobbing while muttering "我不要去宝贝。。。。我要在家和妈咪一起。。。"

I give up and so, for the coming holiday, I will work out a holiday "program" for him. Well, not those forceful daily schedules. Only one objective in my mind ---> improve his gross & fine motor skills!

[Xiang 2y11m; Qi 1y8m] Year End Concert; Tantrum before sleep

10 Nov 2009

Yesterday was Xiang first school concert. Thanks to H1N1, the school decided to cancel the big event and did a small concert within the school compound. Parents are not invited due to space constrains. So sad and disappointed that I can't see his first school concert. Hopefully there will be photos available for us later on.

Xiang came back home yesterday with blue eye-shadow. I think he had some Chinese Traditional Dance performance but whenever I asked him to dance for me to see, he kept on jumping around and waving hands. Sigh, not so sure this boy really knows how to dance at all!

We had a good laugh at him when saw him being make-up ... like a girl!

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I'm having difficulty with Qi night time. She was so noisy now. Before this, we just put her to her cot, and she'll fall asleep after awhile. For the past few days, she was shouting VERY LOUDLY and I think she did it deliberately. Then she kept on asking for "shh shh" in potty even though we put diaper on her. When we put her on potty, she sat for awhile, then quickly stood up without pee-ing and SMILED at us. This is very annoying especially after N times and already closed to mid-night. Or she'll asked for toys to play but we can see that she's already so sleepy. She just wanted to continue playing. So for these few nights, she was scolded either by me or her daddy, and cried herself to sleep.

Qi cried and screamed just like being forced to take medicine

I received the same complaint from her nanny, that she likes to SHOUT and getting nottier. I knew that she's not those graceful type of girl but all those screaming and shouting really give me headache and ear-pain.

[Xiang 2y10m; Qi 1y8m] This is the way I wash my car ...

10 Oct 2009 - Backdated post

On a warm evening, my maid was washing car, and my 2 kids joined in the FUN!

Squeeze squeeze squeeze .....

Scrub scrub scrub .....

Hehe ..... so fun!

meimei digging out the rag while gorgor waiting for his turn to add water in the bucket

See ..... all clean!

How come the bubbles sticked to my hand??? (gosh, she's all wet at this stage and her cloths could twist out water!)

Conclusion: It's FUN for them, but TIRING for the adults!

[Xiang 2y10m] M!

20 Oct 2009

A day after Xiang has his 3 stitches.

Xiang was doodling on paper while I was doing work. Suddenly...

Xiang: "Mami, 你看! Old McDonald."

I was so surprise to see a nicely written "M" on the paper.

(Note: Xiang loves McD fun fries, sometimes when he saw the sign M, he'll say it's Old McDonal just like his song)

I couldn't believe that he just wrote an M :"Wow! 再写给Mami看!"

He smiled proudly and showed me again ....

Using his fingers to trace out a M!!!

[Xiang 2y10m] – 1910 : 3 stitches

This is the day which I’ll never forget. Xiang has his first experience of being stitching up.

I brought Xiang to one of my good friend’s house. It was a happy gathering until Xiang fell down. I was too slow to react and just watching him fell from sofa. I heard a loud sound and knew he hit something.

When I picked him up, I was not able to see his face yet, one of my friend shouted: “OMG! BLOOD!!!”. Xiang was crying furiously “头疼疼!!!”. My brain was blank then. He put his hand over his forehead and I too put mine over his hand. Another friend handed me some tissues, then only I realized both of hands are covered with blood, some dripping into his arms & shirt. I told my friend to send us immediately to clinic.

Xiang was amazingly brave, while we rushed out the door. He has stop crying. I told him that we are going to doctor and he’s going to be alright. He understood and told me that he wanted to go to the doctor.

I am so glad that my friends remained calm. I overheard that they were calling the clinic to confirm the available of the clinic. It was lunch hour and there’s none doctor on call. So we headed to another nearest clinic. It’s at the second floor of a shopping complex.

Once we got down the car, everyone was looking at us. There’s a man who’s so helpful. He opened the door for us and even run to stop the lift for us (the lift’s door was open when we saw it). We headed straight into the clinic though there were lots of patients waiting outside; I guess all doesn’t mind seeing the blood from Xiang’s forehead.

The doctor was superb, speaking softly to Xiang, washed and cleaned his wound. Xiang was brave too when having his stitches – 3 of them. The third one is a bit painful, a little crying from him, then all done.

See, he got the blue-black on Sunday (fell from playground). Then on Monday another scar on his forehead. I hope that his scar will not be permanent.

P/S: He seems not getting his lessons, today he climbed up my window grills, letting go one of his hand to grab the baby powder bottle from my high cabinet. Then second time, he pulled his kiddy table to take down the big swimming pool from the store room. Haiz ….

[Xiang 2y9m] Appetite down again

My nanny told me, we can’t talk good things in front of the kids or else they will turn bad. I am not sure how true that is, but it’s what I experience now.

Since I fully took care of Xiang, he has been eating his meal. Slow, but he eats. Last week, I was telling my hubby, my friends and writing in online friends comments boxes that he has been eating well.

The last few days were our nightmares. Sometimes, he didn’t even want to see what’s for lunch or dinner and directly asked us to make milk for him. Sometimes, he just took a bite and immediately clasped his hands over his mouth.

Yesterday, I was so so so furious when he put up the act again when I was trying to feed him.
I told kakak to stay far away from him, and I went to take my own lunch, leaving him alone. He was crying badly in the living hall, calling “mami ... mami ….” but I just ignored him. After a good 20 minutes, I asked kakak to try feeding him. I’ve made up my mind that if he rejected again, he will go on empty stomach! He as if knew I was not going to “manja” him anymore and he finished whole bowl of porridge! It works!

Again, at night, I firmly told him if he’s not eating his dinner, then I’m not going to bring him to see the diggers & dump trucks at the JJ construction site. He finished it.

This morning, I asked him what he wanted for lunch, he replied me mee. So I cooked udon mee for him. After picking him up from school, I firmly told him only after he finished lunch, I will take him to the JJ construction site. It works again!


So now, I’m not going to mention anymore if he’s eating well. Call me superstitious, but I want to be the safe side.

[Xiang: 2y9m] Finally playing

I've mentioned that Xiang was scared of the fireworks sticks. We gave him a try again on last Monday night.

We curled the wire to a real looooong stick.

Finally, he's playing

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Fun fair near Queensbay Mall

We went to Penang on 19.09.09 Saturday night, came back on Monday morning. Sorry Penang kaki – Steph & Yoki, I didn’t call you coz our schedules were so full.

I went there to attend my coursemate’s wedding ceremony, a Buddhist wedding ceremony. This is the first ever experience, with charming and monk conducting the ceremony, so special.

At night we make a trip to the fun fair near Queensbay Mall, very nice park indeed, and the kids have so much fun.

This one can fly up punya

This one just go round and round, I was so worried that Qi will stands up, coz there's lotsa space in front of them. Luckily the kids listen to me and hold on to the side only.

I think they enjoy this most, and it will go bumpy up and down, and round a track.

This one fly up high, and quite fast too!

Helicopter ride, I'll be dizzy if I were them.

Chu Chu Train ride, hehe, I'm tired and wanted a ride too :P

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Lanterns Night

I still have so much work to do, but I wanted so much to write down the wonderful time spent in my hometown last weekend. Blogger sickness!

We went back to Ipoh on last Friday 18 Sep, we entered into Tapah rest area and were so surprise to receive our first ever Hari Raya Gift from The Lion Club.

The kids were so happy to meet each other again, all played crazily, laughing and running around. When one asked for milk, the others also followed.

On Monday night, my second sister took out the candles, lanterns and fireworks for the kids to play. We were so surprise to see that Xiang stepped back when my second sister lighted a fireworks stick for him. This was what he said:

“不要吓我…. 我怕怕!” (Don’t frighten me … I’m scared!) He walked away so far whenever he saw the fireworks sticks being lighted up. I actually feel heart pain, coz I see the shadow of me in him. I am a very timid person; dislike all loud noises and horror movies. Xiang is just like me, sigh …

So he was playing with candles and lanterns all night. As long as he enjoyed himself, I don’t want to push him to accept the fireworks sticks.

Qi on contrary likes the fireworks sticks a lot! She kept on asking for more, and didn’t even want to play the lantern nor the candles anymore. I should go to pasar malam one of these days to buy more sticks for her.

It was a wonderful night, everyone of us, including adults enjoyed lighting up the candles and hanging up the lanterns. I hope that we could make another trip back to hometown again next week for the celebrations.

[Xiang 2y8m] Udon noddles; Dish washing

As I am a lousy cook, I'm going to do the posting of my dish more often as a record for my future reference and also to improve on my skills. So, all comments & suggestions are welcome!

My sister gave me a pack of udon noddles, so I cook it as our lunch today. I uses anchovies + small onion as soup base. I have prepared a lot and keep in in freezer, so that in future I just need to dig out some and put them in water to make the preparation of the soup base faster. Lazy mom :P

*Wipe sweat* My son able to finish a big bowl without much fuss, even taking in some vegetables.

While I was cooking, my son kept on following me around. He helped me to wash the noddles and the fish balls (of course I need to do it again!). When I've done with cooking, he's still messing around in the kitchen, using the excuse of washing dishes to play water! I didn't stop him though, hoping that one day, he could be my helper after all! I finally put it to a stop when I declared it's meal time.

[Xiang 2y8m; Qi 1y7m] Playing Time

It has been a long long time since I invested in their toys. Since the H1N1 fear, we did not went to shopping for such a long time. I took the chance of my 3 hours free time to quickly went searching for their new toys in ToyRus last week. All the toys cost me a bomb, but the quality is very well worth it.

Their lacing set

I have been looking for this for a long time. I have another lacing set which has smaller beads & holes at home, but my kids motor skills are just not that good. So I finally got a bigger one.

Their new Slice & Play set

Both of them love it very much, and I'm surprise that Qi has the strength to cut the "vege" & "fruits" apart! But to my frustration, I just realised that enfagrow milk is giving out it as free gift!!! If I knew ealier, I would have bought something else! *arghhhh*

Their blocks set

Last time when I was young, I too have a similar set. This is indeed a good buy, boosting up their imaginations. We build small houses, tunnels and even slide (with my help most of the time). The kids have fun moving their mini toy cars around. I didn't manage to snap many pictures though, because they will run down the whole thing in less than 2 min!

Qi's doctor set
I did bought her a cheap-pasar-malam doctor set before, but it has all kinds of sharp edges and easily broken apart. Since Qi loves it so much, I've decided to invest in this set. See how she pretends doctor on my "injured hand", :P

Xiang's giant puzzles

I got a RM40 voucher and therefore, decided to buy this giant puzzles for Xiang. He loves doing puzzles. I think it's really worth it, he knows his ABC, but if I asked him "What's after D?", he won't know it's an E. I use the traditional method to teach him, since he knows ABC songs, I asked him to sing it out in order to get the next alphabet. After few days of doing, he's able to do better, singing ABC song to himself to complete the puzzles. Any mummies have better idea to let the kids learn about the sequence of ABC?

[翔2Y8M] 嘴嘴,再见!

Err ... 应该说不要再见!!!

这是翔第二次戒奶嘴.第一次,不到3天后我就投降了,他每晚磨到3点都不睡,哭喊着要他的奶嘴.
再动起我的念头是Maggie,在看到她为KIYO再戒奶嘴时,我想也是否应该再试看.真的要多谢她!
翔其实早在一个月前,在奶妈家已经没奶嘴吃了(也很谢谢她!),奶妈也对我说晚上别给他了.可是每天一回到家,翔就找奶嘴吃!

上个星期六(8月22日)晚上,在我姐姐家住了一晚,就对他说奶嘴忘了拿.他哭哭几声就算了,也明白事理的没吵.(在此之前,我一直对他说奶嘴的坏处.)

星期日(8月23日)晚上,回到家,翔自然讨奶嘴,我又对他说了奶嘴的坏处,也对他说奶嘴不见了.他搬椅子四处找-->当然找不到咯! 那晚他磨我陪他玩到12.30才睡.他愿意上床是因为我给他看我红红的眼睛,对他说妈咪眼睛坏了!上床,转转转,翻翻翻,睡了! 哈哈哈!过第二个重要关头!

星期一(8月24日)晚上,上了床关了灯,翔再讨奶嘴.我们提醒他说奶嘴不见了,也提醒他奶嘴的坏处+他3岁了,不该吃奶嘴了.他没出声,转转转,翻翻翻,也睡了! 哈哈哈哈哈哈! 成功了!

直到今天,有的晚上他讨奶嘴吃,我们重复的提醒他,他也不坚持.有的晚上他没讨就睡了!

翔,2岁8月,终于对奶嘴说拜拜了!!!!!!希望真的能成功吧!

[翔2Y7M, 淇1Y6M] 打针. SG LONG H1N1

带两个小瓜去打针了,疹所满满的生病小孩.

还好医生给我们进另一间房间,因为只打预防针,不看病,所以不用排队.

问了医生,说不会影响H1N1药物的效力,但这针也只是对平常的伤风感冒有效而已.

为何我还是给孩子们打呢? 因为我听说我们那儿的H1N1很严重.

SG LONG学校关了,因为好多学生受传染,昨天还听到说有位学生去世了!

我们今天也没有给翔上幼儿园了,再看看迟些怎么办吧.我怕怕呀!!!

感冒预防针,打吗?

我前几个星期问了孩子的儿科医生,有关于感冒预防针. 医生说是不能预防H1N1,可是至少,可以增加孩子们对普通感冒的抵抗力.孩子们比较不容易生病,那么也可以减低对H1N1风险.

哦?那好,打吧!

对不起,感冒预防药断市了!放你在waiting list吧!

*#$*%&!!!


昨天接到医生的电话: 药来了,要打吗?


孩子们的爹说,看报子说预防药不可乱吃,不然到时对H1N1的病菌就没效了.吓???那打还是不打好?


上网找了找, 现在的感冒预防针是对流行感冒(seasonal flu)的预防,并不能预防H1N1. 原因是感冒预防药只对100%吻合的病菌有效,但流行感冒病菌每年都在变,所以也不是100%有效的.研究显示1到15岁的大约77~91%有效.


我想问问大家的意见.如有经验的可以分享下吗?你们的孩子们打了吗?


参考网站:
http://www.medicinenet.com/flu_vaccination/article.htm
http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/flu_vaccine.html#
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/swine_flu.html#

美丽的一天 (好友的注册礼)

八月八日2009年

很好意头的一天,我的好朋友之一在这天注册了!那里能错过呢?!

当天她好漂亮,非常喜欢她的礼服哦!

她们都是中学起认识的好友哦,虽然我们不常见面,但大家都明白,有什么事保证可以上刀山下火海的!

哈!男的是好友老公,我以前读女校的.

很宽阔的礼堂, 我两个宝贝乱乱跑,把一排排的椅子当游戏玩.


爱美的淇一直看着新娘.


新郎不小心撞到淇.你看,淇多么的气!我们惯了没反应,只有新郎在那儿紧张,很有爱心的男人.


心里有满满的感动,真心希望好友幸福,快乐,百头谐老!

翔[2y7m] 翔点滴

前天我和翔在房间玩,他不小心的弄跌塑胶椅,打到我的脚趾母.

"呜~~~ 阿爸,翔弄妈咪. 妈咪脚痛痛"

不要以为翔会”sayang”我,他知道我假假的.

翔还想玩塑胶椅,我坐下不让他拿,看到他要哭了,才甘愿站起来.

可是我忘了他一直拉,所以他就往后跌,手打到门(放心,不是很痛的)

翔: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 妈咪弄翔...手痛痛…”还学我假假哭,手还假假擦眼睛!

翔爹刚好进来房间,翔那里会放过妈咪!

翔嘴巴扁扁的.: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 妈咪…翔弄妈咪...”哈! 他紧张要向爸爸打小报告,句子颠倒了.

再来!

翔: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 翔弄妈咪… 手...”还是错!

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈! 笑死我了! 爸爸站在那儿一脸不明白.

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作天是十五,翔爹一早就准备拜拜了,当然,还有很八卦的翔.

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翔爹准备了三盘水果,由于苹果不够,所以放了2粒橙在其中一盘.

翔爹把两盘纯苹果的放好神台后,就去忙拿茶杯.还有一盘杂果的就放在翔的小桌子上,想过后才出去放在天宫台.

当翔爹过后要拿剩余的水果, 吓!剩下2粒橙!!!不会吧,翔吃啦??!

咦?嘴巴没有啊??? “翔,苹果呢?”

翔带爸爸到地主公那儿,好卡哉!苹果在那里. “做什么放在这边?”

翔:“一样的…放一起”

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翔爹在烧”大金纸”,翔很”帮忙”的站在爸爸身后,慢条斯里一张张传给爸爸.

爸爸顶不顺他的慢吞吞“翔很慢的… 快点给爸爸…”

翔听后就踩油加速,飞快的把大金纸拿给爸爸.轮到爸爸手忙脚乱了.

翔不耐烦: “阿爸很慢的!!!!!”

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爸爸蹲下来在烧金纸.

突然看到翔也在不远处蹲下来.可是他把其中一只脚伸长放左边,又再把它放右边,又尝试把它缩起来,脸上还有一点点困扰+痛苦.

“翔,脚怎么了?痛啊?”

翔没理会爸爸,一边努力的转换他的脚,一边瞄爸爸. 原来他在学爸爸的蹲法!

哈哈哈哈哈,爸爸笑到没有气!

P/S: 爸爸蹲法:像古时接受国王的恩赐那样蹲下.
再P/S: 我上班了,很可惜,看不到,有爸爸的口述我都笑到眼泪流!

[翔2y7m] YAKULT厂,芙蓉烧包之NO.2校外旅行后感

7月31日,晴朗

一大早起床, 翔爹带我和翔吃早餐ROTI CANAI.我对翔说我们要去看YAKULT厂,要去做包包,和老师们一起坐巴士去,就好像上次去动物园般.翔想了想,说:”还有坐TRAIN”.原来他还记得我们上次去动物园乘坐的LRT.

8点,集合,同样的老师训话.望望四周,只认识一对夫妇,3年班参与的学生比上次的少.上了巴士,翔坚持站住,因为坐下他看不到窗外.

翔看着外面对我说:”妈咪,车扁扁!” 虾??那里?什么车扁? 他又再说:”BAS 高高” 我才明白他要说什么:”不是车扁扁,是车矮矮” 一路上他都很兴奋的看窗外,站在不同的高度看,感觉不同吧.后来,老师宣布卡拉OK时间到,翔看了几位小朋友唱,样子好像有点跃跃欲试,我问他要不要唱,胆小的他竟然点头,还爬下坐椅站住等.可是轮到他时,他拖着我的手说:” 妈咪带…”,老师也好像很惊讶看到他.他唱得小小声的,几乎听不见他声音,可是老师们都很鼓励的称赞他,我也好高兴好高兴了 ^_^

一路上,翔问了我N次,妹妹呢??? 爸爸呢???后来,他带着要哭的声音说:”我要爸爸…”他看到他有些朋友是爸爸或父母陪同,有所感触吧.还好在他”下雨”前我们到了YAKULT厂,连忙转移话题. YAKULT厂真的好干净,看了他们的生产管理,我以后更可放心的买.一开始,厂安排的讲解对翔来说太闷了,还好过后有免费YAKULT喝,我也有哩^_^过后就去看他们的生产过程,我们不得进入,只从玻璃窗看.全是机器生产,我都觉得好有趣.翔一直看着整条满满的YAKULT空罐在传送器下运传,我看他只明白这个吧.

第二站到了芙蓉烧包,顺便吃我们的冷掉的KFC午餐,好难吃LLL!洗了手,翔就”做”烧包.所谓的”做”,只不过搓扁预备好的面团,然后由工作人员放馅包好,再把它放进孩子们的小手里.孩子们把它放在有号码盘中,拿了个号码牌就完了.我们没机会进入看他们的制做过程,只在大银幕上看.我还以为孩子们有机会搓面粉团,那样一定更有趣.

在旁有个小小的室内篮球场,有几粒小球,翔也进入玩.他没信心的一面出来了,拿不到球,就跑向我说:”没有BALL”我没帮忙他,叫他自己拿,球滚下来就去追.说了几次,他有点明白了,也好多次追到球,还从从下投蓝,哈!可是只要他的朋友身手向他要,他都会轻易的把好不容易才到手的球让给他朋友们.还有一次,有个女孩因为抢不到球而坐在地上哭,他经过她就把球让给她,女孩也对他笑笑.我从来没看过翔的这一面,我当场就想抱抱他(忍下来了,不想破坏他玩耍的兴趣),感觉上有点阿妈老怀安慰!(在家,他常抢妹妹的玩具的.)

过后,我在他们的店里买了烧包,还有一包果子冻,找了个地方做下休息.开了果子冻给翔,他超爱吃.他看到朋友们望着他,自动的跳下椅子派果子冻.朋友吃玩了再向他讨,他也再分,不一会儿,整包分完了.虽然在家,他也很乐意分享他的食物,可是我没想到在外他也很大方.我突然间有点明白,为何有好几位小朋友都很爱照顾他(老师说的),因为他对朋友的体贴,因为他的乐意分享.

3点,回家的路程,翔已精疲力竭,倒头就睡着了.我望着他,脑里还是想着刚才的事,还好我让他去,也还好我一起去,不然我都看不到他那么美好的一面.

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[翔2y7m] NO.2校外旅行

明天(7月31日)拿了一天假,为了陪翔去幼儿园所主办第二次的校外旅行. 幼儿园规定3岁班的学生只有在家长陪同下才可以参加此活动.他们将参观Yakult厂还有芙蓉烧包.孩子们还有机会亲手做烧包 (过后会给我们吧,不然还有谁敢吃!!?)

这次又将会是我孤身作战.我记得翔爹他在无法参与上次的动物园之游说过,下次一定不缺席.翔应该不记得了,我倒是很失望,其中最重要的是他的不守诺言.虽然我明白翔爹都为了有个更好的家庭环境而努力的赚钱.可是爸爸也应该参与孩子们的成长过程啊.虽然有妈妈陪同,可是如果也有爸爸在的感觉肯定不同.

我小时候,最最最不满我父母的是他们的不守诺言,他们的约法三章90%是不可靠的.其次就是他们过于保护我,连中学的校外旅行考察我也无法去.当同学们回来时,我更本无法和她们交谈,只因为我没参与,考察的后感报告我也无法做.(还好是团体报告,也还好我有一班好朋友们,肯接受我这个什么都不懂的团员)

无数次我哭着对他们喊:”你们骗我~~~”/”我要去~~~”,更多的时候,我躲在房间里哭着想离家出走(胆小怕事的我当然只是想想而已).这也是可能为什么我有一段非常叛逆的时期,对父母的不礼貌,吃饭后就躲房间不肯出来,还有假期的晚上不到3点是不回家滴.

我曾经有个员工,她在大学的成绩是顶呱呱,什么奖章都有,所以我们对她的期望也很高.她第一个星期来上班就吓了我们一跳.她爸特地请了一星期的假,老远从家乡来到这里.只为了每天上下班时,坐在她身旁指示她驾车,可是当时她已有执照几年了.

我们厂里的生产部向来是和我们品质部的”死对头”.因为她一个小小的错误, 生产部趁机投诉大老板.结果她就坐在那儿懊悔足足哭了3天!还有一次,她乘朋友车来,因为当天她感觉到信心全失,不敢驾车来上班(我们听了都目瞪口呆,不懂说什么好).每个星期六&日,她肯定回家乡,躲回爸妈的怀抱.后来她没做多久,承受不了压力,回家乡另谋高就.我们每个都觉得很不可思议,可是也证实了成绩好,并不代表以后你可以闯一番大事业.

看到别人的经历及自己小时的不满,我都时时刻刻都提醒自己, 不可重蹈覆辙!


P/S: 不懂为何写那么多,本来只想写个郊游就算了,越扯越远.
P/S2: 我要改用中文了,练习下,以应对将来的函授课程.

[Xiang 2y7m] Right, or Wrong

Last Saturday, we brought our kids to the playground in the evening to shed off some of their energy (and end up our energy too!!!). Xiang did not want to use the stairs and insisted to “walk” up the tube-type slide. We were trying to stop him at first, making angry faces and telling him he’ll disturb other children who were sliding down and might even hurt himself. Guess how did he react? He stood beside the slide, giving us a pity look and not willing to move a step. No matter how we coaxed him afterwards, that climbing up the ropes seems fun, or the swing is available, or even threatening that we should go back home instead, he just wouldn't move at all and shaked his head, saying “不要!” after our each suggestions.

Finally with a sigh, I took off his shoes, put him inside the slide tube, with a light pat on his backside and told him “没有人下来了… Go Go Go!!!” He reacted like an animal with his chain untied, dashing up the slide. When he reached the top and emerged from the tube, he waved to us and gave us a big bright smile.

Seeing him like this makes me think again. We adults are making and following all the rules. Who says the slide can be only played one way sliding down? Why not going up instead? The kid is creative in his playing while all I think of is “that is not right”. I’ve sent him to music class in order to expose him to creativity, but I’m blocking him in real life, aren’t it contradictory?

I still have a lot to learn about holding back my “no”s and my “don’t”s. The straighter I am with my boy, the more he’ll resist. I guess that if he did hurt himself along the way, it’s just part of growing, and even if so, he’ll learn from it. Who actually went through childhood without a scratch? If I did not give in to his wishes earlier on, I wonder how the story would end? Dragging a crying toddler back home most probably and I’ll sure miss his big bright smile!

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[Qi 1y4m; Xiang 2y6m] Hair trim

Finally, I've brought my gal to the hair saloon to have her first hair trim. Don't be surprise, yup, her FIRST ever experience. Even on Qi's full moon, we just snipped off a few strays of her hair by my sister.

She was basically screaming and crying in the hair saloon, shouting "美美!!!" because she was thinking the lady were cutting her "beutiful" hair away! It was so so so hard to trim her hair, think the lady just manage to snap her scissors a few times and she declared that it's done After this, I will go get a pair of scissors and trim her front hair by myself. I think the result will be the same as she was struggling so hard in the saloon to get a proper cut.

We too brought Xiang there, this is the first time he's willing to put on the apron and little crying. But he heard Qi cried, he too started sobbing but still under control.