Her Baby

Christmas party., originally uploaded by judebabe.

I am quite sure the kids didn’t mind that we only gave them their presents on the 26th.

They had fun playing, and unwrapping their Christmas present.

This year, the adults sat down in circle for games. And it was hilarious to see two men playing against each other in Twister.

We invited another family to join us.
And too welcomed two babies since last years’ party.

With them running around next year, we are so going to need a bigger place.

Ps: Am I the only one who thinks that the kids grow too fast?

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Her winter outfits.

Amanda is settling well and enjoying herself back in her own home.
She is happy to see everyone she missed while she was in Singapore. Especially her friends, boys, all older than her, in our estate.
They had a group hug, and was happy to see each other again, for about 5 minutes.

She too missed her toys.
And took out each and every one of them from her toy storage box… and had lots of fun with them for days.
Her current favorite, talking on her mobile phone, her Micro Scooter and her Silly putty, where she rolls them in buns and dumplings.

And almost everyone, who haven’t seen her for the last two months, exclaimed that she is grew so much.
Height and speech development.
Compare her to the girl, two months ago, I too think she grew a lot.

She observed that her daddy loves spicy stuff while I don’t.
She stops the older boys from fighting, and tells them not to play with scissors.
She stopped me from slicing silly putty with her toy knife, and said she will do it!
Because the knife is very dangerous. *rolls eyes*

After 2 months, she still remembers everyone. And isn’t shy with them.
She continues to love dancing, singing and recite Chinese poems for everyone. And does the cutest curtsy when she is done.
It would have been great, if she would sing a louder or go slow with her poems.

Having fun at Home.

She was having so much fun here! And when we teased her about going back to Singapore, she didn’t want to, till today.
She probably realized how much she miss her grandparents, yee-ma and kao-fu, when she saw them on facetime.
She told us to bring her and her baby doll back to Singapore.

As for myself, I am either always packing and unpacking stuff in the house.

De-clutter!!! And ongoing never-ending project. The loft. The living room. And my wardrobe.
Now that the new additional room is ready, I am so looking forward to pack stuff in it.

My mornings are either busy with de-cluttering or running errands.
And I am either out, or online window shopping at home when Amanda is having her afternoon nap.
I try to get out in the afternoon, as shopping online its so bad on my back and posture.
But online shopping is too addictive. That I had find it so hard to pull myself away from it, to blog.

Though I often wonder if anyone is still reading this neglected blog. :)
Be back soon! :p

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Amanda’s nearly-8-weeks stay in Singapore is coming to an end.

She misses and often ask about our home in Yuncheng, she can tell us that her home is in Yuncheng,
I am sure she had lots of fun in Singapore.

I can’t help but to feel that she grew up quite a bit during my 3 weeks absence.
And this 3 weeks apart made me patient with Amanda again.
I don’t flare up as much.

She now holds our hand and follows us when we out.
She used to have a mind of her own, running around at the malls.

She speaks well and is able to express herself very well.
She questioned me, why can’t she not go to bed?
I was caught off guard, it was her first time using 为什么，Why.
Surely I must answer that.
So in my most authoritative tone, because it bed time and because Mummy said so.
Which she accepted it (for now).
She must have finally figured how to use Why?, after me asking her so many questions.

I know kids who usually have problems differentiating, 你, 我, 他，You, Me, He/She.
They don’t quite know how to use it, and would repeat after whatever the adult said.
But Amanda uses it well.

She picked a few more English words but not understand when strangers tried talking to her.
I have to explain, she doesn’t understand English.
When I am shopping, She greets sales people, Ayi Ni Hao, repeatedly.
One day, she will understand that in Singapore, young adults, prefers to be addressed as Jiejie / GorGor.
And that everyone else is Auntie and Uncle.

She dropped her 咱们, and picked up, Wah lau!, with a Singapore accent. Haha!!!
She picked it from our conversation, and probably found this expression very funny.

She loves to imitate us talk in Cantonese by talking gibberish and often uses it to avoid eye contact when she thinks she is in big trouble.
She knows we find cute and silly when she does that.
Especially when she randomly inserts alphabets, a bit of Gonggong, Porpor, and characters of Teletubbies and In the Night Garden, here and there.

Fine with me, I am learning from books, to pick my battle and to avoid unnecessary power struggle.

She continues to love dancing, and loves to sing.
Happy birthday, London bridge and twinkle twinkle little star, barney theme are her current favorites.
I am working on her pronunciations, because these are the only lines she knows in English.

Her diet, she is now less choosy with food. Accept eggs. And sometimes eats her veggie / meat together with her rice. She used to spit them out when eaten together.
She loves her chicken rice and dark soy sauce and accepts gravy in her rice too.
Loves noodles. Loves durian. Loves Grandma’s soup. Beans. Prawns. Crabs. And Kueh Tu Tu (coconut cake). Which she usually stuff the entire snack into her mouth.
When she is happy and satisfied with her meal, she dances.

Its going to be cold when we return Home to Yuncheng this Sunday.
Hope she quickly adjust to the change in climate and environment.
*fingers crossed*

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I may have mentioned one too many times, about how much Amanda loves to perform and dance.

In the day, she dances whenever she hears music.
In the evening, she dances to neighbors in our estate.
And when she goes to latin dance classes with me, she does her best in moving her hips and arms along with everyone in the room.

About 2-3 months ago, her favorite line was, 我要跳舞, I want to dance.
Its her way of asking you to put on a song on the iPhone for her to dance.
I used to put on a few dance hits… till I found her favorite, Poker face.

In this video, she was dancing to the weekly part-time helpers.

She listens and dances very often to it, so much that I think she sort of choreographed a dance to the music.
She seemed to be thinking of steps to dance along to the music.

I was too occupied for the last 2 months. That I neglected this blog.
That I almost forgot about this video… and hopefully not forget, this very cute phase of Amanda’s.
I am reminded of it, when I came across some really videos of toddlers doing their ABCs, Numbers and dancing.
(I was downloading videos for Amanda to load onto iPad, hopefully to keep her occupied when we are out and on the plane.)

She still loves to dance, but these days she is more occupied with her bicycles and scooter at home.

Amanda, Don’t grow up too fast.
Mama needs time to catch up on this blog.

Errm… No?

Mama is too occupied these days, and I think we may be able to find more time to play and snuggle (whenever you want to), when we return to Singapore in another week or so.

Meanwhile, I really need to catch up.

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