In His Time

This is the continuation of our Sunday. After the Baju-less at the Beach episode, we went home for lunch then to my mom’s house for some cartoons; my house has no Astro. We left them there and went to clean our apartment that has recently been vacant. Anyone looking for Holiday Apartment in Melaka? Look for me okay.

By 5pm, hubby went for futsal. To those who never seen a futsal shoe, here is how the studs look like. Slightly different from the soccer shoe. Psst..this is my first time too!

After hubby left, I went to fetch my children. B & C just woke up from their nap but A did not nap at all. So, to get them away from the square box, I brought them to watch their daddy play futsal.

See how they unconsciously arranged themselves…like Do Re Mi.

This is my first time too watching futsal live.

The girls are fighting over a decorative item; a glass vase that contains some shells in it. Since they do not want to share or take turns holding and admiring it, I took it away from them and put in on top of my wardrobe. Don’t want to share, no one gets it.

The next day, Clarissa came in my room, point to the glass vase requesting me to give it to her. I said, “No.” She asked, “Why No?” So I asked her back, “You tell Mommy why.” She answered, “Fight.”

See see see.

It is so difficult for me to snap a decent picture of Clarissa. When I say “Clarissa! Smile” Then will immediately make funny faces of the camera. Then I would tell her that I won’t snap her picture. She will go, “Ok, ok, I smile.” But seconds before I press the shutter button, she will start making her silly faces.

I really envy her smooth flawless face and I always pray that she won’t have my hormones that produces lots of pimple and needing to spend a lot of money on acne cream.

Belle and Barnabas are fast asleep but not Clarissa because she napped late and still fresh at 11pm. So we dragged her along with us for supper! She was so excited to be able to tag along with us. She even told us that she wanted to eat Roti Canai with sugar.

I ordered Roti Bom because it is small and it is prepared with sugar in it. When her Roti Bom arrived, I took away the Curry Dhal gravy from her to give it to her daddy but she pulled it back. I told her that it is hot. She said, “No! I want.”

Look at her eat. Cucuk, Celup, Makan and Minum! She finished half of the gravy. Mine only quarter consumed, the rest I gave it to hubby!

We are supposed to go back there after a month but busyness kept us from bringing her there. We will go tomorrow since hubby will be back early tomorrow. I hope that her power does not increase. Even though she wears her glasses, with every opportunity she gets, she will remove it.

I wonder whether the optometrist there hold stocks of the Incredible Stylish New Frames From Zenni. From their website, there are Variable Dimension Frames From Zenni that we can choose from but we need the smallest for Clarissa because she has a small face. I like the range of Zenni Optical $ 8 Rx Eyeglasses, I might want to get one for myself because it is very cheap and comes with casing too.

Look at what their daddy and uncles did last Sunday. Thanks to them, my children are now enjoying more outdoor activities; not that they do not have enough of it but now they have more reason to stay away from the TV and computer.

Dinner outdoor.

Homework outdoor.

Play “masak-masak” outdoor.

Circus outdoor - Balancing act!

I wonder when can they nap outdoor too!

Oh ya! When they play outdoor right, when nature calls, they give it back to nature. Strip, squat, shee-shee! Hahahahaha.

This is what happened to the Hello Kitty Bread Cutter bought by Chooi Peng from Japan.

Didn’t expect it to be that big; too big for our local bread. And it does not look cute and not appealing to my girls.

So I just put it aside until Clarissa found a better use for it!

Belle’s

Just now was the 3rd time the girls attended the art class. Belle improves a lot but Clarissa is becoming more playful and restless. She ignored the teacher when she speaks to her! She did not follow instruction; colour according to her own liking; when the teacher or me is not looking she grabbed her favorite colour; purple and start colouring everything purple! She gets bored pretty fast if the space to colour with the same colour is quite wide.

Seeing how she responded to instruction, I can imagine how frustrated her kindy’s teachers might have felt teaching her. They did tell me once that she always want her own way and will cry if she can’t have her own way!

Will only send her to art class again once she shows interest in learning and obeying instruction.

They are busy watching Kung Fu Panda now and I am busy updating my list of blogs.

It has been a busy and fun weekend for all of us. Will update soon.

Clarissa, you cannot eat keropok. You got Chicken Pox!

Cannnn…my Chicken Pox already fly away!

On Father’s day, Daddy got 2 Chicken Pox kids. And he went to church without us.

We served him with Sweet Sour Crabs; for lunch and dinner!

Being a Daddy, he brought us for a walk at the beach; Chicken Pox set aside!

Mommy missed the time when Mommy get to sit up there; longgggg time ago.

The girls have to walk with their 2 feet.

Father and son bonding time.

Following Daddy’s footstep.

For supper, we went for ABC with Belle. The other 2, asleep already. Noticed the white dots on Belle’s face? That’s Chicken Pox covered with Calamine!

Oh ya, we didn’t get any present for daddy. Not even office supplies for his shop. He said “Don’t waste money” mah.

Just that a look at this piece of art which I call, Moody Arts.

Clarissa did so well during her first art class but yesterday she wasn’t in a good mood. She refused to listen to instruction. She even turn her face away when the teacher speak to her. Thank God the teacher is very patient and told me that since she is only 3 plus and this is only her 2nd class, that I should give her more time to get the hang of it.

Yup! I was so tempted to pull her out from the class yesterday.

While she was sitting on my lap watching CSI, she saw something similar to hers on my neck. “Mommy, look! You got chicken pox too! Just like me.” Alamak! That’s not chicken pox lar, that’s Mommy’s pimple.

Pimples has started to invade my body now. Not only on my face but on my neck too! People say, once you give birth, you won’t have any pimple. That is only true after Belle and Clarissa but after Barnabas, I think I became a teenager again! I need to start using the natural acne treatment.

Clarissa’s teachers passed me all Clarissa’s textbook, workbook and exercise book; telling me to teach Clarissa at home. So, did I teach her? The answer is NO! She is only 3.5yo and she is having Chicken Pox and she is enjoying her “holiday”. I am not going to spoil it for her. So what did she do with her books? She coloured every picture that is not coloured! Stress free.

Annabelle; it is kinda boring teaching someone who knows almost everything and even words that I don’t know! Chinese words lar tu. =P So I told Belle that she is clever already, no need Mommy to teach. Go watch cartoon. You see lar, this kinda mother also have eh? hehe

How I wish my mother like me.

It started to pop out on Saturday night. No one knows it was chicken pox until the next day, on Sunday, a few more came. My mom said it can’t be chicken pox coz she did not have fever, runny nose or sore throat but that evening she had a slight fever. So confirm lar, it is chicken pox.

Today, it grew bigger with clear water in them. Brought her to the clinic to get a bottle of Calamine and syrup for to stop her from feeling itchy. The doctor told me that when children is down with chicken pox, they do not suffer as much as the adult. They can still be active with no symptoms like the adult. I remembered that I suffered when I had chicken pox in my late teenage years.

So, did I isolate her from the other two? NOPE…I want them to get it too. Easier lar…all get it at the same time and also, they are still young, so it is kinda easy to abstain them from certain food but the tough part is to stop them from scratching! You don’t want to know what I did to stop Clarissa from scratching!

My girls finally attended art class today. At first it was only Belle who registered for it but since Clarissa insisted that she wanted to join too, I let her try. The fee is quite reasonable compared to a few other art classes. Only RM35 for 2 hours a week. In which they teach from using Colour Pencil, Crayon, Poster Colour, Water Clour, Drawing and also Arts and Craft. I almost sign up for the class too but chicken out last minute! hehe.

Future Artist Busy at Work.

The teacher is quite impressed by Clarissa’s colouring skill for a 3.5yo. But she can only stay focus for the 1st one hour only. After that, she got bored and started to scribble instead of colour, so I have to remind her again and again to colour nicely. The outlined is coloured by the teacher.

Belle did well too. She is 5yo, so this is kinda expected of her. Next class, they have been upgraded to using crayon. And Mommy has to spend more but thank God they told me both of them can share the crayons.

Belle was so excited about the art class after I brought her to register on Thursday. She asked when is Saturday, the day she is supposed to start. I told her that she has to sleep 2 nights for Saturday to come. On that day, she told me to drive faster so that she can go home to sleep!

This morning she woke up early, before us and woke me up. I told her that it is not time yet and ask me when is 10 o’clock. Where will the long needle and short needle point to? When I finally woke up at 8.30pm, I saw Belle staring at the clock!

I went to register Belle for an art class yesterday and they required her to have a full set of colour pencil, 24 pieces. I have a lot of colour pencils at home but they are all mixed up in one basket! So, we went to Giant to get a new set just for the art class.

While we were there, I got my back hair trimmed coz I found too many split ends. The hair salon is just 2 doors away from hubby’s shop and the young hairdresser (a guy) is quite close to hubby. So I can expect some discount so I asked him to trim Belle’s hair too; front and back .

We paid RM11 for two. Cheap or not?

While waiting for our turn.

Not so long already.

My favorite family picture now. *sigh* Too bad Mommy is not in it. No one else to hold the camera. Next time we use timer ok.

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The other day I went out to buy breakfast with Clarissa but she kept urging me to bring her go shopping. I told her that I do not have extra money for that. She then told me that she has a lot of money. I asked. “Where?” “In my elephant” she replied. That’s hubby’s piggy bank! Thank God she did not claim our checking account hers yet!

Yesterday was my mom’s 53rd birthday. Yes, she is young. She got married at 19yo and got me at 20yo. So you can guess my age already huh?

When I told my children that “Today is Mama’s birthday.” This is what they told me, “Mommy, I want to give Mama Angpow.” To my children, birthday gift is Angpow, not Toys because toys they can get almost everytime they go shopping with me!

Well, every year I give my mom’s Angpow too. Easier that way, she can buy what she like with the cash. So this year, I split my Angpow to 3 packets for each of my children. I wonder whether she will use her Angpow money to invest in ademco security product. You know lar, she is getting older and alone at home with her grandchildren during working hour.

Upon reaching my mom’s, they stood in front of my mom and sang her the Happy Birthday song then gave the Angpows to their Mama. Then each of them hug, kiss and told her that they love her. I am so proud of them and my mom too. When my dad returned home my mom proudly told him what her grandchildren did to her.

That night all of us went for dinner at Portuguese Settlement. All my siblings and my aunt with her 4 children which my mom used to babysit when they were babies except my 1st sister who is teaching in Kuching .

Clarissa, chewing on her Sotong Fritters.

Barnabas looks worried coz my mom’s put her finger in the fish mouth!

My sis made him cry by telling him that the fish is eating my mom’s finger!

More pictures of the food we had here.

Small children tend to use a lot of the word “Then” when they tell story or report certain event. Normally they will go like this.

Mommy, I saw a cat then I a saw a dog then the dog chase the cat then the cat run to hide.

This is how Clarissa would say it…

Mommy, I saw a cat now I a saw a dog now the dog chase the cat now the cat run to hide.

She confused between the two words. I corrected her a few times but she still prefers to use NOW.

During our trip to Tiara Beach Resort, I discovered something abnormal about Clarissa. While watching the Aerobatic Show at night, I noticed that she sat side ways and watched with her left eye only. So I made her to sit straight. She still watches with her left eyes by turning her head to the left.

Having astigmatism myself, I guess the night lighting is the reason she can’t focus so well. Anyway, to confirm that she did not develop lazy eye, I brought her to see the optometrist last week.

She drops a kind of liquid into her eyes to make her pupil enlarge to diagnose the problem. Thank God her eyes are ok. Maybe it was just a habit that she develops when she was watching TV without glasses all this while.

So now, we just have to remind her again and again to watch with both eyes.

SORRY is very cheap to Clarissa. I think it is because she has to apologize too many times that she became numb to that magic word. After she hit her sister or brother, we will tell her to say “Sorry”. It came so fast, “Sowee”. Seconds or minutes after than she repeats her nuisance again, then she will quickly say, “Sowee”. At times it comes to the extend that her daddy will tell her, “No, I do not want your SORRY!”

What would you do?

I like this one. No need to stop to drink water. And if there is any pile of cowdung on the field that comes his way, can use the bulldozer in his hand to push it away.

Clarissa prefers to just bounce on the ball.

Belle can dribble the ball quite well eh. She played with her daddy a few times and she must be a fast learner too.

I did received a card and a drawing. 2 cards from Clarissa and a drawing from Belle and today I saw an unfinished card from Belle.

This is how they presented them to me.

Clarissa: “Happy Mother’s Day! Look, I’ve got cards for you.”
Belle: “Happy Mother’s Day! I colour Eagle, Mommy chicken and baby chick for you.”
Me: Thank you so much. Admiring their gifts.
Them: Give back to me, Mommy, I want to keep inside my back.

There goes my Mother’s Day gifts.

The maid caught it. We have many of them flying around our house. Poor baby. Will get the maid to let it go.

Then later, BIL brought back 2 puppies for my children to play. They are the neighbour’s and NO we are not going to rear them.

Update: May 14. Clarissa accidentally let the baby bird escape. She was playing with the lid and reading the baby shower invitations and I think she didn’t realised that she lifted it up quite high and the baby bird managed to fly away. I am very happy that it escapes.

Clarissa has been diaper free since October 2007 with only 2 times accident during the first 2 weeks.

Surprisingly she wet her bed 2 days in a row at almost the same time, last night and the night before. The first time it happened, I thought she might drink too much before bed but I doubt it. But when it happened again last night even after making sure she PU before bed, I suspected it has to do with her test.

She is a very carefree girl, with no worries in the world and being pampered by her teachers because she is the smallest, youngest and cutest girl in her class. They all call her “Cute, Cute”. What more with the glasses on!

I read here that Bedwetting is sometimes a sign that the child is upset or worried about something. With the threat that she got from her teacher (canning and not allowed to go home if she refused to do the test all by herself) that once love her so much, I guess that worries her. It also made her confused.

This morning, she repeatedly asks me what day is tomorrow and whether tomorrow is a schooling day.

So I told one of her teachers (the one that threaten her was not around) about what happened and she will inform the principal about it.

Don’t get me wrong. I am ok with the teacher threatening her with cane; I myself always wave the cane at her and use all kind of threat when soft talk does not work. I guess she is immune to me doing that. hehe

The real exam is in June. I hope by then, she will get the message that she is a big girl now and she has to be more independent and not depend on the teacher to do her school work.

Let’s see whether she wet her bed tonight since tomorrow is no school day. If she does, I got to find other cause to this bedwetting phenomenon.

Now I know that the teachers has been pampering Clarissa in school. Spoonfeeding her and even hold her hand to write!

Right after the short holiday, they have short test. First test for Clarissa. Her teacher told me that she demanded the teacher to tell her the answer and hold her hands to write as what they have been doing to her all this while.

Actually I was kinda upset with the teacher. Why in the first place you pamper her???

When the teacher refused to help, she cried, so the teacher have to use the cane to threaten her. “You want cane or you want to write by yourself.” I am ok with that.

Yesterday, the same thing happened, no cane this time. The teacher just tell her that if she doesn’t want to do it by herself, she cannot go home. She obliged, reluctantly.

At home, when Daddy asked, she can even tell him that “Because I don’t want to write by myself lor…”

At Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson

Day 1

Wiping my mouth with the wall deco cloth! It’s nearer to me than the box of tissue.

While waiting for Mommy to give the green jump in light to go to the water park.

This is what I saw people do when they are at the beach.

Our first deep was in the children’s water park. No pictures though coz Mommy went with us. We don’t like the place at all. The slides are not slippery at all. We have to drag out cute butt butt to slide down. We should have asked Mommy to smear some baby oil on our butt butt.

We spend most of our time in the made made pool. Screaming our lung out when Daddy brought us to the deeper side and tried to let us go.

At the man made pool.

This slide is not slippery too! I better go help Daddy…

Helping Daddy set up the carrom board.

Playing colorful sand.

While we were sleeping. Mommy and Daddy sneaks out for a foot reflexology.

Day 2

This is what my truck supposed to do.

Be careful. Come JieJie help you.

I am not camera shy.

I am crying because I do not want to go home!

We had a lot of fun but I am not sure about Daddy, Mommy and Mama.

Do you buy travel health insurance when going for holidays?

Yesterday evening I sent my DoReMi to my mom after hubby left for work so that I can have some ME time. Meaning, sit infront of my laptop and blog in peace. hehe.

When I went to fetch them at 8pm, my girls are missing. They followed my youngest sister for Ikan Bakar, that’s what my mom told me. So I went home with my son.

My girls came home around 10.15pm. The moment they saw me, Belle told me that she ate Chicken Jump Jump. Clarissa said she ate Frog. I did not take that seriously coz Ikan Bakar where got serve frog and maybe Belle ate the Pandan Chicken and saw the chicken “jumping” in the wok.

This morning my mom told me that they ate FROG meat.

They did not go for Ikan Bakar but to a Chinese restaurant. They ordered frog meat dish and let them eat without telling them. They even asked for more. Once they are done eating, my future BIL asked Belle whether she would eat frog. She said “No. So ugly and the skin not smooth one. So geli.” Then only he told Belle that she just ate Chicken that can Jump Jump coz to Belle all meat is Chicken to her. I wonder how was her facial expression when he told her that.