Blog Addict

Sei Loh – I’m really a blog addict….I can’t help to stop writing….I’ve never cease to have things to write about. There are just so much in my mind. I thought I can clear it by advance posting and start blogging in a slower pace (one post a day) but even before I start to clear of what I want to write, there will be new things popping up in my mind.

I need to blog all down else I will have sleepness night blogging in my mind….

JS’s The Teacher

Just have to teach the eldest well, and they will take the role to teach their younger sibblings… here’s proof.

Asked her why she didn’t read the book she’s still learning, she said ” my book got too many new words, WH won’t know, I teach him the simple one first.”

Wanting…

I have this urge of wanting another baby now..the urge is so strong that I really hope that I can straight away make  one….but the timing is not right yet.

I remember having the same urge of wanting another baby when JS was 8th months old, but due my grandmother and mum’s advise of letting the body a year time to heal before ‘making’ another, I have to withold my plan until JS was past 1 year old. WH was conceived when JS was 14th months old.

Hubby and me plan to have a Piggy baby.. in order to have piggy baby , the earliest possible time to start “production” would be after Jun06, but I’m also hoping for a year end Piggy so that it won’t clash with my exam period in September, (can’t imagine if my due date is around exam period or having to leave a young baby behind so I can concentrate to do revision and to sit for exam) …so “production” can only start in Feb07…..aiyo…I’m so impatient already……5 more months to go…

JS Can/Wants To Read

OK..this is nothing grand to brat about, just another milestone of JS achieved

She’s reaching the stage that she’s showing interest in reading. She loves her readers and will take the initiative to read the whole book (she’s doing book 4 now)… I would prefer her to go on a slower pace , like one page a day and get to remember the new words well enough before moving on to the next page, but she would insist on reading page after page and she’s not tire of reading the whole book again few times a day.

She gets excited when she spots the words she knows in the newspaper or the books that I’m reading and also her story books. She’s learning to spell and also she will make up words by putting the alphabets together and ask me what words would that be. But she’s still very bad with her phonic that’s why her spelling is still not that good.

She’s also taken an interest in Mandarin well. Started to speak on her own initiative. Last week I took her for the first trial enrichment class in Mandarin, she loves it so much that she’s asking me every night to send her there (I suppose it’s the best way to occupy her time instead of asking me whether she could watch TV all the time when she’s bored and when I’m running out of idea to occupy her)

She’s also taken her own initiative to learn to write Chinese strokes which I don’t have to force her to do.

It’s certainly one encouraging sign to see.

Housewife

Hubby recently filled up a form, under the field “spouse’s occupation” , it’s stated HOUSEWIFE

My feeling upon seeing that….errrr…dont know how to tell…maybe a little lowly, a little self pitied. I prefer being referred to as SAHM, home maker is still acceptable…but HOUSEWIFE….. it’s really a bit turn off to see such title, so unglam, so dull… somehow to me , I have this impression that relates housewife to those uneducated stay home woman in the kampung….

It prompted me so much at that moment that I so wanted to return to workforce so that I can have a better title than a housewife something like  system cordinator/system analyst  or whatever and when asked what company I work in, I no longer have the pride to say XXX MNC.

After 2 years of staying home, though as much as I enjoy my kids, I’m missing some spark in my life.. I’m starting to question what I want to achieve, what I really want, is staying home really something for me? My kids are my priority that I wanted to take charge their education, but what about my own calling?? How can I juggle between them and myself. It’s such a contradicting thought to think about.

If there’s opportunity knocking at the door..shall I accept it??

WH @ 23 Months

    WH wanted to go school like Jie Jie

WH turned 23 months old yesterday. One more month to go before he turns 2.

Weight: Not sure, haven’t weight

Height:  Not sure, never measured (such lousy mother)

He’s getting more independent day by day. Most of the time he would play and occupy himself. 

The other day JS was busy asking me what to do and wanted a lot of my attention when I was reading, but the maid caught WH sitting quietly at the corner, throwing out all his tool kits from the tool box, overturned his car and try mending his car. When I looked at him, he gave me a look and said “fixed car” and continue playing by himself.

His favourite phrase now

“I feed”, “I hold”, ”I do” . ” I eat”

The other day, JS and me were doing some craft out of recylcle boxes, due to I only have one box, I could only do one craft, but WH was looking with a pitiful look and wanted so much to join in the fun. I search the whole house for another box … while helping him to make the craft, he keep insisting to do it by himself by saying “I stick” , ” I glue”

Other phrases he says:

“wear shoes/socks”

“take out shoe”

“take bag”

“drive car”

“sit chair”

“up bed”

“oh ..no”

“go jie jie’s school”

“where… ?”

“wear hat” (when driving his car, he likes to have a helmet on)

Still fear of people looking weird and odd like the clown or those bikers in black leather outfit and even “Mr Noodle” from Elmo’s world

His favourite name being “bob bob” and “kor kor”, thought he would get over it, but he’s still sticking on to these 2 names unless in nursing time, then he would call himself “baby”

Likes to go around the house, tailing behind me , holding on my shirt and said “choo choo train”

Last weekend during the journey home, he insist on occupying a seat by himself and fall asleep by himself through the hour long journey (all the time he’s sitting on my lap, nursing throughout the journey…yeah yeah…we are one typical malaysian that dont secure our kids in the children car seats)

Always with milder and gentler temper, always “kena” bullied by JS. Sometimes it’s quite a pity to see him calling out for his jie jie and yet get no respond from JS to play with him.

Whenever I’m lecturing JS, WH willlisten quietly and occationaly interrupt by calling “mummy, mummy” in the most sweetest voice and also he would ask “why, mummy”

When I explained something to JS and WH doesn’t understand, he would ask “what mummy”

Whenever we raised a little voice over his mischieves…he would straight away cry. If I raise my voice at him, he would go complaint to the maid ” Mummy, scold” ,  if daddy scolded him, he would come looking for me “Mummy, mummy….daddy scold”

He never seize to make us laugh…looking at his face and smile, I can never be angry with him for long and only makes me want to laugh and giggle. He’s such a funny cheerful boy .

The most obvious development this month is language/speech wise. He can imitate/copy what JS said more though sometimes JS and me still have to guess what he’s saying. Other areas there isn’t much significant differences.

Chinese Song

Overheard JS singing this song “两只老虎”

“两就老斧,两就老斧,

跑跑快,跑包快

一就没有ear儿,一就没有eyes

跑away, 跑away”

*fainted*

Homework

I want to rant…

Each time JS brought back home work like this… I would be a SUPER disastified parent and at the verge of pulling her out from the school immediatelly…. I become very “mang zhang” when guiding her doing this kind of homework that I feel there is something very wrong with her school system.

This is what I’m so unhappy about…getting a four years old to write words in between lines, where the kids eyes-hands cordination is still not perfect. I know many school wouldn’t start this until the 2nd half year of the 5 years class, at 4 years old, the kids only require to write in boxes…but JS’s pre-school has been getting her to do this much earlier…and imagine my girl is not even 4….

This is what she wrote by herself…but I have to point on which line and where she’s suppose to start.

This also she wrote by herself….but with a lot of guiding and pointing on where to start and end and also keep reminding her to write the alphabets closely to each other.

This is way too much for her…so I have to write and let her do the tracing instead.

The result if I let her write by her own…. she insisted…but ended up like the above….so I have to erased it off and get her to redo…

Any expert in early childhood education or kid’s development…please englighten me….if this is what to be expected from a 4 years old to acomplish??? For me I personally feel that it’s too much for the kids to cope. I don’t mind her writing in boxes..but not in between lines which might even strain the kids eye sight….

This is acceptable as it’s writing in big boxes…

Note: when I was doing school hunting. One of the school mentioned that the four years old class will start off with alot of sandpaper play and tearing papers (to strenghten the wrist) before actually gettting the kids to do tracing of lines and curves….

Maid’s Task List

One of the search engine term that led to my blog sometime back was “Maid’s Task List” …so I’ve decided to write about it.

I had 4 different maids ever since we have decided to this extra domestic help.

The 1st one. Worked in Spore for 4 years, I didn’t have a task list for her. She was quite capable, but my MIL thinks she got a mind of her own. Being new and inexperience in handling a maid, we return her back to please MIL.

2nd maid, we’ve decided to get an inexperience maid, since we thought that experience one would have mind of her own. She was only 18 and never worked before. She had got some training in Indon and in M’sia so I dont have a task list for her thinking that it was unnecessary and I again my fault of not giving her a task list and occupy her and control her, she ran away.

3rd maid..from this con agent, was super OLD. No working experience as a maid and the con agent never give any proper training…but I had a task list and house rule for her the moment she steps in the house…but she’s just too old and slack and with attitude problem that we returned her.

4th maid…Indon agent lied. They said she only got 2 years working experience as a maid, but when she arrived, she honestly told me that she has worked in Penang for 2 years and PJ another 2. The first 2 years her main task was to take care of baby (the ex employer let the baby sleep with her…*roll eyes*) and the 2nd time she was mainly taking care of the household as there was another maid doing the childcare job. Nevertheless I given her the same set of task list and house rule as the 3rd.

Wet Ones….

Lately when JS asked for a kiss, she would say “I want a wet one”

If I just planted a kiss on her cheek or hand, she will not be sastify and say ”no no, give me a wet one”

She wants me to give her a wet kiss with saliva over ….*yucky*….

Where does she learn about wet kisses????? I wonder