Emily is learning to speak in 3-4 word sentences. I think she is a very fast learner. Here are some new discoveries:

#1 pour water here
#2 want some more
#3 nah kor kor take
#4 ice cream nice
#5 kor kor some more here
#6 mummy move move
#7 mummy come here
#8 God good (*from the song God is so Good*)
#9 Bye Bye C’ya
#10 kor kor sleep, papa sleep, shhhh

Later she will be a talkative gal. Oh she just learnt how to scream. :wall:

How many hours do you sleep now, especially after having children? Not many I presumed.

Previously when I was single, when I had all the time in the world, I used to sleep in especially during the weekends. I can wake up like in the afternoon. I used to sleep a lot! In fact I love sleeping, it is one of my favorite past time. I was also a vampire, like to keep awake at night, because of the quietness of the night. I used to burn a lot of midnight oil, studying, doing homework, surfing on Internet and watching TVB series and etc, until 3-4 am. I remembered when I had to do my final thesis for final term in University I stayed up until 7am to complete it. I can stayed awake for more than 24 hours and I can sleep through for 24 hours. I guess average I slept 10-12 hours a day and at least a 2-3 hours nap.

With children, I can do that no more. :cry:. Especially when Tim was born, he was a demanding baby. He didn’t sleep well, he wakes up at least 3 times at night. When he wakes up in the morning, I have to wake up. No more sleeping in! When he arrived, my sleeping routine was overturned. I have to follow his sleeping pattern. He drove me nuts, at 1 point in time, I almost said to myself “1 kid is enough!!” Thank God, by the age of 2, he slept through the night. Tim trained me to sleep less or maybe I was growing old that I do not need so many hours of sleep. Average I slept 6 hours per day and only 30min to 1 hour nap during the weekend. Emily was a sleeper like me and she didn’t give me much problem.

Both of them is well trained, sleep early so that I can go back to staying late nights. They sleep by 9-10pm. I have 2-3 hours to enjoy. Often they have 1 nap during the weekends for 2-3 hours, and I will take the opportunity there to nap too. Average now I sleep 8 hours a day. However I still miss sleeping in on Saturday till noon. :think:

Sorry I painted 2 goodie-2-shoe children. Actually both have their naughty moments that drive me crazy.

Moment #1

I bought both of them a book that look like a phone that rings. Wow, now they have their own handphone. One is blue and the other is orange. Emily likes the blue one. When Tim is playing with the blue, Emily will cry for it. Fight starts, no punching or anything but noise fights.

Moment #2

Both given a bottle of Yakult to drink. Tim will take his own sweet time to sip. Emily will sip it all in 1 breath. She will eye on kor kor’s bottle and will want to grab it. Tim will protect it by screaming. Noise fights again.

Moment #3

I have 2 potty, one red and one orange. Both will attack the same color potty. I don’t know why, I guess fighting is part of their growing up.

Moment #4

Mummy sat down on the floor to watch TV quietly. Along came Emily, sit on mummy’s lap. Tim will come and squeezed his butt into mummy. End up, both will be on top of mummy.

Moment #5

Tim dislikes doing his homework. Actually he is still too young to understand what homework is. One time, he has such a strong will, no matter how I bribe him with chocolates, sweets, jelly, all his favorites, yet refuse to do. He just stared at his book and refused to pick up the pencil. However when he is in a good mood, he will just do.

Moment #6

Both want to go downstairs. Both ask daddy to give them a piggy back ride, we called it “horsy”. Both cry at once, wanting daddy to carry them both at the same time. Daddy created “double horsy” that is carry 2 (>28kg) on his back.

And the fights go on….. Fortunately I have 1 boy & 1 girl. Sorry twinsmom, next time if yours fight for the same boyfriend, not sure what you can do.

Today hubby had to go for training, left me alone with the children again.

7:30am Tim woke up with dad.

8:30am Woken up by the noisy bird outside my window. Emily woke up too.

8:45am Dad left for training.

9:00am Switched Mother Goose for the children to watch. While Mother Goose is babysitting, I prepared lunch. I boiled ABC soup and cook rice.

10:00am Bathed the children.

10:30am Switched Hi 5 for the children to watch while I pan-fried the fish.

11:00am I got online and read some blogs.

12:00pm Lunch Time

12:30 pm Children got their potty to poo poo, while mummy cleaned up.

1:00 pm Both sent up to the bedroom for a nap.

1:30 pm All of us dozed off for a nap.

3:00 pm Emily woke up but was waiting for mummy to get up. I slept late last night, so I nap longer.

3:30 pm Tim & I woke up.

4:00 pm Water fun time for the children in the bathroom with the swimming pool. Both love playing water.

5:00 pm Heated up the rice and soup, prepared dinner.

6:00 pm Dad came home, mummy took a shower and all have dinner.

7:00 pm Mummy took both children to GIANT for window-shopping while hubby can have some peace and rest.

8:30 pm Prepared the children for bed & made milk for both of them.

9:00 pm Mummy bloging about the day. Later watch some TV, today American Idol will be on.

Another day passed. Children happy & Mummy happy.

My babysitter has been teaching Emily mandarin. She has thought her how to address people. She can address people once we point to the person and said “Jiao Tar” (address her/him). The best is when she addressed ku ku, babysitter hubby’s sister. She will make her lips pucker and make her eyes small.

Now this is very cool because as and when I want her to call me, all I have to say is the magic words, “Jiao Wor”.

Me: Jiao Wor
Emily: Mummy ah

Me: Jiao Wor
Emily: Mummy ah
Tim: Mummy.

Isn’t this cool? 90% of the time this works but the 10% when she wants to tease mummy and ignore me.

Every evening before bed time, I will spend a quiet moment to read to my children. Although half of the time, they will not be listening but you will be surprise that they do learn from the story reading. Emily will try to flip the pages and Tim will be lying on the bed. I bought a bible for toddler where they have big pictures and a few lines for the story.

One story that I read to them goes like this:

The Tower of Babel

One day some me made a tall tower. It would make them look important. These men were very proud. But God did not like this.

For them to listen, I acted the story out. God was angry. Show them angry face. Why God angry I asked. I said, because people don’t listen to him. Show them angry face. I ask them “how angry?”. They show me their angry face. Why angry? Because people don’t listen to God. Pointing to the ear.

Now, whenever they don’t keep their toys, I said mummy is angry, I will show my angry face. Emily will try to follow by putting her both hands on the body and show her cute face. Tim will say, ” mummy angry”. Later they understand and keep their toys. Sometimes Tim says “Scare, Scare, mummy angry”.

Children can learn very fast at this age. My hubby has successfully thought Timothy how to pray at night. He can say a few lines and end with Amen. He can also sing, “Yes Jesus Loves Me” and “God is so good”.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Prov 22:6.

Yesterday while I was folding laundry, Emily came, pointed at the clothes telling me who it belong to.

Pointing at kor kor clothes, she said “kor kor”.

Pointing at pa pa clothes, she said “pa pa”.

Guess what I did, I point to my clothes, she said “mummy”. I point again she said “mummy”. I thought I heard her wrongly. She knew how to call mummy all along and she never want to call me. What a cheeky gal??!!

Here introducing Emily to model for Jess fashion collection. Emily is an experience model, does a couple of jobs for daddy, in the modeling industries. The pay out for her is affordable. It is called FOOD. As you can see, she is getting a pay out while modeling.

Aren’t those dresses pretty and the model too?

Yesterday I received a package for Emily. It was sent by this wonderful and thoughtful mom name Jess. She told me a few days ago that she will send Emily something but she kept a secret on the content. After opening the package, I found out she was very talented. Guess what it was? I am giving you the suspense that she gave me. :whistle:

I just like the internet world, I have made so many friends and build a mothers network. Most of all, I received wonderful gift.

My company reception ping me to say there is a registered package for me. I bought something special for my little helper Emily. A mom who has a pair of very creative hands made it. The package was nicely wrapped too.

Here is it. If you like it and you want to order, go here.

Dedicated to Twinsmom.