The Sisters

Now that Ru is 18 months old, an active and cheeky toddler who can easily tire out her caretaker, especially her heavily preggie mummy. But it is also at this stage that she and her elder sister begin to have more fun playing with each other! Though there are the usually fight on the same toys, pushing on each other and sibling squabbling, there are also the hugging, patting and kissing of each other. Each night, Xi will walk over to the side where Ru sleeps and both girls will hug umpteen times and unseparable before I force Xi to go back to her side of bed to sleep. When Xi fell and cried, Ru will go over pat pat her sister, kiss her and brought jiejie's water bottle for her to drink. And when I scolded any of them, the other one will be either crying or angry at me! How ungrateful!!!

#3 is arriving anytime. Can't wait to see the three girls playing, go to school and have fun together!

Reading "It's Not Fair"

Turn on the volume.

Her new pettiskirt

Here's a video clip on our little miss Yun Xi dancing with her new pettiskirt. :)

Reading books

From young, we have tried to cultivate the love for books and reading habit to Xi. I have bought plenty of books online (www.thebookpeople.co.uk) and from book stores and it seems to have worked for her as everyday before her nap time and sleep time at night, she will "pester" us to read books for her, not one or two, but could be four, five or more. It's like a marathon. First she will pull my younger sis to her room to read for her (as she knows I will be busy with housework). If daddy is around, daddy will continue part 2 of reading. And lastly will be me, by reading another 2 or 3 books for her, before she will want to wear her socks, pants, and allow us to switch off the light for the night.

We have seen great improvement in her word recognition since the start of her school and lately, she shows her curiosity in understanding the meaning of the words in the books and keeps interupting our reading to her to check on the meaning. Two weeks ago, I realise she can finish reading most part of this book "It's Not Fair" by herself, and yesterday, "The Three Little Pig".


(You can buy the full book collection of 10 books from here, strongly recommended: http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=177164)

This is another collection of books which she loves, Princess Poppy Collection . Beautiful books for girls.

(http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=140670)

As for Ru, while reading to her sister, she will run around the room and the house carring a bag filled with little books. Sometimes she will bring a book to us and want us to read for her. But the moment we open up the book she has run away already. Sigh.... Anyone has any method to let my little girl to sit still for 5 minutes?

Xi's sports day

Xi had her first sport day on 21 May 2010 at Toa Payoh stadium. The weather on that morning was superb. It was great fun to see so many young kids and energitic teachers, and parents who participated the games with their children enthusiastically. Though the N1 kids did not participate as well as they normally did in school and at home during the 1st part of the warm up sing and dance led by the Mandarin teachers, all of them managed to finish the team races which came after that.

Xi and her good friend, Olivier


With her English teacher, Elizabeth


The class queuing up for their first game. From left to right, Angel, Cayley, best friend, Phoebe, Ethan, Olivier, Xi, Chloe and Jeremy


Waiting for the next game to start


With friend, Angel and her Mandarin teacher, Yu Jiao

A day out

Last weekend, my elder sister and BIL came over in the morning to bring us for a trip to Jacob Ballas, the Children's Garden. It was nearly 2 years since hubby and I and Xi last went to the garden. I thought to take the opportunity to expose the gals to our mother nature since most of the time they stay at home or indoor. But I have the feeling that Xi might not enjoy as she is a typical city girl, who dislikes to be under the sun and the soil and sand.

Indeed, she was not interested at all at the plants, the slides at the Tree House (though her favourite game at playground is the slides) and the playground which is on the sand. The only thing which she was interested was the suspension bridge but she would only dare to cross the bridge with us holding her hands. :( We left the garden after 1 hour.



After breakfast, we went back to my sister's house and the kids had a great time playing at the playground.









We went home after lunch and the exhausted sisters had a good nap until past 6pm.

My little Ru

My good friend, CP has asked me before why I posted so little about Ru in this blog. Oh, how could I leave out my lovely 1-year-old? I love her so much that I feel guilty when I am expecting #3 (just as how I felt towards Xi when I was expecting Ru) and I can't bear to scold her when she was throwing tantrum just for a simple reason of wanting me to carry her!

She is such an endearing little darling whom the first thing she open her eyes was to look for me and crawl to my side wanting me to bao bao her to sleep; she has this sweet and clear voice which can melt anyone's heart when she calls him/her; she will give me a pat when she sees me coughing, she is as active as a little mouse in her every waking up moment; she will cry when she sees her jiejie cry when scolded; she will touch mine, her jiejie or her own tummy when asked where meimei is; she will hum or sing along with jiejie when listen to music; she will clap her hands after jiejie sings a song; and oh, she has the sweetest smile in the world which touches hubby, Xixi and my heart so much that we always like to hug her tightly, kiss her and smell her baby smell.

With a meimei coming along, my biggest wish is she will love her meimei just as how Xi loves her, and that the three sisters will remain loving to each other forever and ever...



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