I was browsing my hubby’s iPhone and found some interesting pictures. Let my children show you the right way to eat and drink.

The most comfortable position of eating


Eat with 2 spoons


Or drink with 2 straws – Orange & Coke Cooktail. Who needs a shaker??!!

Yesterday Timothy woke up from his afternoon nap and was in an annoying mood. He started to whine making noises as he wanted daddy to draw one of his Transformers. Daddy gave in and drew one for him. He was coloring it and adding some pictures of his own. He went back into his normal self. He really knows how to annoy daddy and I with his whining. If we scold him, he will cry nonstop and I am not exaggerating. However his crying has reduced as he grows up.

I had some friends over for a pot bless dinner and he was showing his Transformer drawing to some of them. Towards the end as I was cleaning up and he was playing with his “kau fu”, my brother, I threw some paper away. I didn’t know what it was.

After everyone left, he started looking for his drawing and couldn’t find it. He started whining again asking me to help him find. He didn’t want to go to bed until I find the drawing. I was able to send him up to his bedroom but he was still whining.

I had no choice but to go to the dustbin and dig out the garbage to see what I threw. Fortunately it was on the top. I had to sanitize it with some dettol spray before I went up to his bedroom to show him. If he didn’t see it, I bet he will not be able to sleep in peace. He was happy again. Sigh.

I don’t blame him as I will feel not satisfied if I lost something and couldn’t find it. However as an adult we can get over it. I guess Timothy needs to learn to get over things. Any idea how to teach a child to get over things? I tried distraction but it didn’t work.

By the way, I tell you in a couple of days he will forget about that piece of paper and he will chucked it to the dustbin himself.

The other day I was in Borders browsing some books. I love to go to the craft sections. I saw this book on making Amigurumi. I never heard that word before. Amigurumi is a knitted stuff toy. It can be done either by knitting or crochet. It is a Japanese art.

I fell in love with all the little stuff toys in the book. I didn’t get the book because I knew that the Internet will have some free patterns for me to start something. If I fail, at least I don’t waste money on the book.

I was eager to go to the thread shop to get the yarn and a needle. I text shoppingmum to find out what needle size to buy. She is the guru when it comes to knitting or crochet. I got everything and started working. I must not stop else it will never finish. I must do from start to end.

Hey I haven’t been crocheting for 20 years. I did a little crocheting when I was young but never really make anything out of it. I think I did make a hat, I cannot really remember. However it is amazing when I picked up the crochet needle, I started to remember the stitches. I was doing this while watching the Moonlight Resonance online.

Here ya go…cute? Next I will make a bunny.

Last Saturday I received a package from the postman. I always look forward when the postman comes because he may delivers some surprises for me or the family. 🙂 It was for Emily. I told her and she was all excited. It was 3 beautiful dresses made by Jess.

Immediately Emily wanted to put it on and I took my camera. She loved the tang lung yellow dress. Now she can wear it during mooncake festival celebration in our taman next week, carrying her tang lung. Here they are and aren’t they beautiful?

As for me, I caught a flu bug on Saturday and my system has been down since. However still no fever still…sigh. My nose is all stuff up and feeling very tired. Yesterday I had kerabu fried taufu and I can only taste spicy. I cannot taste sour or salty. :wall: My bak kut teh tasted blend, so is my hokkien mee. I lost my taste bud. Sad hor?

Worst is I am having department team building today. We will be watching “Money Not Enough”, tell me about it.

I must say that Lego is one of the must have toys for children. It will allow you children to sit down and use their creativeness to create something. In turn it makes them use their right brain which is good. Look what Tim and Emily have made. They have hours of fun with it. Whenever I have a chance to go to US, I will loot some Lego back.

Another good construction toys is LASY construction but I heard it is no longer in the market. I hope someone will bring it back.

Tim’s Transformer Robot:
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Emily’s Gun:

Sometimes I am really amazed how children can absorb the things we say. I was telling my son things and I thought he was not listening but I often find surprises. Here is what I heard when Tim was having a conversation with Emily.

Tim: You cannot bring this toy over there (to the babysitter’s place).
Emily: Can.
Tim: Later lost then you know.
Emily: *ignore*
Tim: You don’t listen to me, is it?

Those were my exact words to Tim when I asked him not to bring his transformer toys to babysitter place. And I thought he was not listening to me. I have to really be careful of what I say at home. My hubby was upset with me when he copied me by saying “Your Head”. My bad. Yeah it is difficult for them to unlearn what they have learned. :wall: So next best thing is to confuse him by saying “your feet”, “your hand”,…etc. :giggles:

Emily has turned into Cik Mina. A malay name I gave her. She was giggling and called herself Queen Mina.

I wanted to get “baju kurung” for Emily. I didn’t know whether she would want to wear it or not. Now is the season to get malay clothes as the Raya festive month is coming. Yesterday was the start of fasting month also known as bulan puasa.

Anyway the other day, I was shopping with her in Giant and ask Emily whether she would like to wear baju kurung. She saw and she wanted. I wanted to get a nice blue or pink flowery pattern for her. They didn’t have her size. They were either too small or too big. This one that I got, the top fit nicely but the skirt was a little too long. I have to keep pulling it up for her. It was the only one left that is close to her size. Next time she wear this, I will double/triple fold up for her.

Why Queen Mina? She wore to church on Merdeka Day. As the same time, she made a crown in her Sunday School class. She wore the crown and called herself Queen Mina. :rolleyes:

I was having a conversation with Tim and Em. I asked both of them whether they missed por por.

Mummy: Haven’t seen por por for a long time. Do you miss por por?

Tim & Em: Yes I missed por por.

Mummy: You call por por to come to Penang and visit you. *testing the water*

Tim & Em: We go visit por por. I want to go por por house.

Mummy: I called por por and ask her to come visit us.

Tim & Em: Don’t ask por por to come here. We go to por por house. I like to stay in por por’s house.

Both of them like to go down to KL more than anything. They always ask me when they can visit por por. I wonder do they really missed por por or they want to go KL?

Why do they like grandma house? Maybe it is the dog or the food or the shopping or por por gifts or just being there.

With these 2 children of mine, I can set up a laundry business. Maybe not. Every time when my hubby or I take in the laundry, my children will volunteer to help fold clothes. They can fold their own clothes, of coz not to perfection. I often have to fix some that are jotting out. I am sure they treat this as a play thing for them.

“Mummy first make it flat on the floor. Beat Beat Beat till it is really flat. Then fold and fold and fold”

Who is complaining right? As long as I get all the clothes fold. It is good to teach the children to do little house chores. You can use fun way to teach them. At this age, whatever we asked them to do, they think it is fun.

They are very happy to water the plants, wash the car, put the laundry into the machine, mop the floor, wipe the table after meal and sweep the floor. Next my hubby is going to teach them how to wash their own school shoes.

Oh, Emily requested that I buy her a toy iron so that she can help me iron. :rolleyes:

This is the second time I saying this, “Who needs a maid when I have them?”

Yesterday, daddy cut a pear for Tim and Emily. He put 3 pieces on each bowl. He put it on the table for them to eat. Tim was enjoying his mooncake. Daddy came around and took one piece to eat. Now on the table are 1 bowl of 3 and the other bowl of 2.

Emily came around to eat her pear. I said “Give me one piece”. She took the bowl of 2 and offered me. I took 1. Wow I thought she was very generous and nice of her to take the bowl of 2. Later she passed to Tim and asked him to take 1. Tim took 1.

She took the bowl of 3 and said “It’s all mine”. :rolleyes: