Big Sister, Big Sister
Look at the moon, look at the star
It's night time we say Good Night
The "Big Sister" no doubt refers to Xi as she always calls herself as "Big Sister" and her meimei as "Little Sister".
Bedtime song for Xi
Just want to record down this bedtime song i created for Xi. She loves to sing this song herself or with me during her bedtime:
Big Sister, Big Sister
Look at the moon, look at the star
It's night time we say Good Night
The "Big Sister" no doubt refers to Xi as she always calls herself as "Big Sister" and her meimei as "Little Sister".
Big Sister, Big Sister
Look at the moon, look at the star
It's night time we say Good Night
The "Big Sister" no doubt refers to Xi as she always calls herself as "Big Sister" and her meimei as "Little Sister".
Ru was jealous of Xi
Ever since I was pregnant with Ru, I have been worried of sibling rivalry between the gals and so had bought a lots of books on new baby and talked a lot to Xi to prepare her for the arrival of her meimei. All this effort seems to have paid off as Xi is taking the arrival of her meimei pretty well from the start and loves her meimei very much.
Never did I thought that Ru will be the one jealous of her jiejie especially she is only 6 months old, going to 7 months old. We were at my aunt's house 2 days ago after my work and when sitting on the floor with Ru playing on the bumper playmat, and Xi running around the living room, Xi suddenly held on to me wanted me to carry her. When Ru saw i carry her jiejie, she immediately turned her whole body to face me and yelled at me to carry her! She only stopped crying when my uncle picked her up and patted her. Haiyo, so young can get jealous liao.
It's always very cute to see these two little babies together, sitting side by side. En En is Ru's little cousin, about 1+month older than Ru. En En is very fair and smiley and at 7 months old, already can crawl very well and stand by holding on to furnitures. She even knows how to waive bye bye to people. Smart gal! Ru is still learning to crawl (now she can only reverse crawling, haha!). It will be real sweet in the future to see the two cousins playing together. :)
Ru's first solid food
Ru had her first taste of solid food 1 day before she was 6 months old, on 19 July 2009, because it was a Sunday and I want to be the first one feeding her her 1st solid. Like her sister, her 1st solid food was Healthy Time Brown Rice Cereal and how she loves it and wanted for more after i fed her 1 spoonful of the cereal. However, next day her nanny told me this gal refused to take the apple puree which i made for her :( that she turned her head away after she first tried it. Even when the nanny mixed the apple to the cereal, she knew it and refused to take. However, I told the nanny to try feed her again in the evening, and this time, she finished all. :)
Thanks to mummy YM for making this portable highchair for me! It makes feeding Ru so much easy and she seems to be happy sitting into it and been "tied up". :)
Thanks to mummy YM for making this portable highchair for me! It makes feeding Ru so much easy and she seems to be happy sitting into it and been "tied up". :)
Did she call me "Ma Ma"?
A few days ago while busy on my housework and Ru was playing by herself on her playmat, i heard she calling out sounds similar to "mama". I thought she was simply making baby talks plus she has yet 6 months old, too early to start talking right?
Two days ago before bedtime when hubby and the gals were playing in their room and I was making milk for Xi, Ru suddenly called "mama" again. This time everyone heard, especially Xi who kept shouting "Mei mei is calling mama, mei mei is calling mama". My heart melt when i heard my precious baby made her 1st word which was "mama" and quickly went to hug her.
Yesterday while driving the gals to hubby's office, Xi made Ru cry until so bitterly, and she called again "Ma!!!". Aiyoh... I wished i was not driving then and can carry her to give her comfort.
Has Ru really started "talking" and calling me? Actually I can't be 100% sure yet as at now but I do think she will start talking soon as she has been making so much noise lately when people talking to her, and humming along her sister when she sings.
A fun day out at Da Yi's house
Two weekends ago when hubby was away, my elder sis and her hubby, David, came to our house in the morning, brought us breakfast, then off we left home for a day out with the gals. My sis and David adore the gals, and the gals have great affection to them as well.
We went to the NTUC at Bukit Timah Plaza for some groceries before we headed back to their condo. The condo's playground is newly refurbished and Xi had a really good time playing with the slides which is her favourite, though she only dared to slide down slowly at the beginning. To encourage her, David, my BIL slided along with her and challenged her to see who can slide first, and it worked! Xi not only played with the slides which are of lower height, but also went up further to slide down from the higher ones. Xi also first time played with the swing which is specially for younger kids. She enjoyed it very much and not scared of swinging high. Ru though still too young to play any of these, she had an equal good time soacking in the comfortable morning sun and the swift wind.
After lunch, Xi surprisingly followed my sis to her bedroom for nap. We were surprised because all this while she only wants me or my aunty to accompany her to sleep. My little gal has grown up already and not as sticky as before. I am pretty pleased at this little milestone of Xi.
After her nap (whilst Xi managed to take 1.5 hours of nap, Ru was wide awake throughout the afternoon. Haiz.... Don't know why she can always nap so well at her nanny's place but never during weekends when we look after her.) we brought the gals to swim! If you have followed the blog, you will know Xi was afraid of water and does not like swimming. So we were pretty happy when she enjoyed soaking in the pool with her new Hello Kitty swim float and some toys to play. She even followed my BIL to adult pool. Ru cried a bit initially when she was in the pool, due to the coolness of the water, but after awhile she was happy "floating" on the water. That set us for more swimming for the gals in the future. :)
Thanks to my sis and BIL for a great day! Hope next time Papa will be able to join us.
We went to the NTUC at Bukit Timah Plaza for some groceries before we headed back to their condo. The condo's playground is newly refurbished and Xi had a really good time playing with the slides which is her favourite, though she only dared to slide down slowly at the beginning. To encourage her, David, my BIL slided along with her and challenged her to see who can slide first, and it worked! Xi not only played with the slides which are of lower height, but also went up further to slide down from the higher ones. Xi also first time played with the swing which is specially for younger kids. She enjoyed it very much and not scared of swinging high. Ru though still too young to play any of these, she had an equal good time soacking in the comfortable morning sun and the swift wind.
After lunch, Xi surprisingly followed my sis to her bedroom for nap. We were surprised because all this while she only wants me or my aunty to accompany her to sleep. My little gal has grown up already and not as sticky as before. I am pretty pleased at this little milestone of Xi.
After her nap (whilst Xi managed to take 1.5 hours of nap, Ru was wide awake throughout the afternoon. Haiz.... Don't know why she can always nap so well at her nanny's place but never during weekends when we look after her.) we brought the gals to swim! If you have followed the blog, you will know Xi was afraid of water and does not like swimming. So we were pretty happy when she enjoyed soaking in the pool with her new Hello Kitty swim float and some toys to play. She even followed my BIL to adult pool. Ru cried a bit initially when she was in the pool, due to the coolness of the water, but after awhile she was happy "floating" on the water. That set us for more swimming for the gals in the future. :)
Thanks to my sis and BIL for a great day! Hope next time Papa will be able to join us.
你懂Micho Jackson 吗？ "Do you know Micho Jackson？"
That was what my big little gal asked her Yi Po one fine day when the whole world was mourning for Michael Jackson. Obviously she learned of "Michael Jackson" from my uncle (her "Tiu Gong") when he mentioned this name to her the day before. When asked her further whether MJ is a girl or boy, her answer is "girl", haha... Guess the kids equalise long hair to girls and short hair to boys.
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Just want to record down the following conversations I had with Xi just a few days ago. I am amazed at how my 2-year-old gal knows the cause and effect so well:
Mummy: 歙，妈咪昨天去那里？ (Xi, where did mummy go yesterday?)
Xixi: 去买报纸。 （Go to buy newspaper.)
Mummy: 为什么妈咪没有带小歙去？(Why mummy did not bring Xixi along?)
Xixi: 因为下雨。(Because it was raining.)
Mummy: 妈咪下次才带你去，ok?(Mummy will bring you along next time, ok?)
Xixi: Ok, 下次没有下雨妈咪才带我去.(Ok, next time mummy will bring me if no raining.)
Xi: 妈咪，我要吃葡萄。（Mummy,I want to eat grapes.)
Mummy: 没有葡萄了喔！(No more grapes already.)
Xi: 我不要吃blueberry。(I don't want blueberry.)
Mummy: 妈咪给你apple ok？(How about Mummy give you apple, ok?)
Xi: Ok，用手吃。(Ok, i want to use hand to eat.)
Mummy: 你不要用fork吃吗？(You don't want to use fork?)
Xi: 不要，用手吃。 妈咪切小小块，不要大大块。 (No, I want to use hand. Mummy cuts into small pieces, don't want big pieces.)
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Just want to record down the following conversations I had with Xi just a few days ago. I am amazed at how my 2-year-old gal knows the cause and effect so well:
Mummy: 歙，妈咪昨天去那里？ (Xi, where did mummy go yesterday?)
Xixi: 去买报纸。 （Go to buy newspaper.)
Mummy: 为什么妈咪没有带小歙去？(Why mummy did not bring Xixi along?)
Xixi: 因为下雨。(Because it was raining.)
Mummy: 妈咪下次才带你去，ok?(Mummy will bring you along next time, ok?)
Xixi: Ok, 下次没有下雨妈咪才带我去.(Ok, next time mummy will bring me if no raining.)
Xi: 妈咪，我要吃葡萄。（Mummy,I want to eat grapes.)
Mummy: 没有葡萄了喔！(No more grapes already.)
Xi: 我不要吃blueberry。(I don't want blueberry.)
Mummy: 妈咪给你apple ok？(How about Mummy give you apple, ok?)
Xi: Ok，用手吃。(Ok, i want to use hand to eat.)
Mummy: 你不要用fork吃吗？(You don't want to use fork?)
Xi: 不要，用手吃。 妈咪切小小块，不要大大块。 (No, I want to use hand. Mummy cuts into small pieces, don't want big pieces.)
The gal who eavesdrops
There were many occassions Xi would say something which caught us off guarded and wonder how come she knew, as in we never mentioned or talked about those stuff to her or directly in front of her. After some thoughts, then we realised she must have constantly overhearing our conversation and remembering them even though most of the time we just mentioned casually once and forgot afterward.
Some examples:
1) Papa was cleaning the windscreen of our car in a petrol station.
Xi: 爸爸在做什么？ （What is Papa doing?）
Mummy: 洗镜子。（Cleaning the windscreen.）
Xi: 有鸟大便。 （Got bird shit.）
Mummy: Ha???
Xi: 树上有小鸟大便。 （Bird from the tree shits)
She meant the windscreen was dirtied by bird shit from tree.
2) When at 姨婆 (Yi Po)'s house，
Xi: 歙歙要进hospital了！ （Xixi is going to hospital.)
Yi Po: 为什么呢？ (Why?)
Xi: 因为歙歙生病。 (Because Xixi is sick.)
My aunt later asked me whether the doctor mentioned of hospital in front of her, then i recalled she actually overheard i asked her papa that time during blood test whether need to admit her to hospital if her blood test showed she has dengue.
3) During a journey to fetch hubby after work:
Mummy: Xixi, where are we going now?
Xi: 去接爸爸。（Go fetch Papa.)
Mummy: 去那理接爸爸？(Go where to fetch Papa?)
Xi: 去office接爸爸？(Go office to fetch Papa.)
Mummy: 然后呢？(After that?)
Xi: 去mam mam (eating). (Go eating.)
Mummy: Mam mam 了呢？(After eating?)
Xi: 回家找小姨吃葡萄，冲凉，喝milk milk睡觉。(Go home look for Xiao Yi to eat grapes, shower, drink milk milk sleep.)
Some examples:
1) Papa was cleaning the windscreen of our car in a petrol station.
Xi: 爸爸在做什么？ （What is Papa doing?）
Mummy: 洗镜子。（Cleaning the windscreen.）
Xi: 有鸟大便。 （Got bird shit.）
Mummy: Ha???
Xi: 树上有小鸟大便。 （Bird from the tree shits)
She meant the windscreen was dirtied by bird shit from tree.
2) When at 姨婆 (Yi Po)'s house，
Xi: 歙歙要进hospital了！ （Xixi is going to hospital.)
Yi Po: 为什么呢？ (Why?)
Xi: 因为歙歙生病。 (Because Xixi is sick.)
My aunt later asked me whether the doctor mentioned of hospital in front of her, then i recalled she actually overheard i asked her papa that time during blood test whether need to admit her to hospital if her blood test showed she has dengue.
3) During a journey to fetch hubby after work:
Mummy: Xixi, where are we going now?
Xi: 去接爸爸。（Go fetch Papa.)
Mummy: 去那理接爸爸？(Go where to fetch Papa?)
Xi: 去office接爸爸？(Go office to fetch Papa.)
Mummy: 然后呢？(After that?)
Xi: 去mam mam (eating). (Go eating.)
Mummy: Mam mam 了呢？(After eating?)
Xi: 回家找小姨吃葡萄，冲凉，喝milk milk睡觉。(Go home look for Xiao Yi to eat grapes, shower, drink milk milk sleep.)
