Saying goodbye

Earlier this week her school principal informed me that one of her classmate, who've also been the pioneer in this kindy, together with Victoria and a small group of other kids, was leaving to another kindy. The inevitable has come. I would have thought that she only needed to say good bye to her friends next year, or when she leaves kindy to start primary school. This girl, K, is a very close friend of Vic's and back home I explained to her, that K is going to a bigger school, just like what Vic will be doing one day. We remember our old friends, and hopefully have the opportunity to meet up still, and look forward to making new ones.

We bought K a little photo frame, which Vic chose because it had many animals on it, like "a happy family." Then I picked two of their pics and sent it for printing yesterday. Vic wrote on the back of the photo, "To K, from Victoria with love, 012 XXXXXXX) And I asked her, what will you say to K when you pass her this present? Vic answered, "Please do not forget me."

I will miss you too, K. (I see her classmates every weekday)

What has William been up to lately?

At 15 months now, my boy boy still has not learnt how to talk. Once we heard him call Kakak when the maid walked upstairs, but that didn't happen again.

He can definitely understand us, from what we see. When we say, throw this.. he goes to the dustbin and throws. Then he tries to pick up other stuff from the bin.

When we say take the towel, or on the fan, or take the remote, he does exactly that. Or keep the drumstick, and he tries to lay them on the drum set. When the stick falls on the ground, he picks it up again, and repeats this for another 2 times. I'm thinking, does that mean he's one who's a tidy freak? I hope so, so I don't have to grumble so much about picking up after the other person's stuff in this house.

William has also grown interest in toy cars. He plays with the Hotwheels cars given by Uncle Julian and Aunty Winnie, and yesterday Daddy bought him another car from Toys' R Us. He chose the Mr Bean car but only in red. : ) Victoria insists it's not Mr Bean's car, because "Mr Bean's car is green."

William also likes to manja with either myself, the maid, or his jie jie. He used to do this by lying down on our laps, then now he does this by reversing slowly until his buttocks touches us, then conveniently sits on our laps. (With kids, we have this habit of sitting on the floor more than using the sofa). Sometimes he does the same, by reversing himself and using his buttocks as a touch censor before he sits down, without looking even at where he sits.

William also likes to hide my handphone on the bed, then ask, "Vaaaa?" with two open palms for added effect. :) He's also like Victoria, now picking up our pillows and with all his little might, attempts to throw them down the bed onto the floor.

When he wants to go out, he wears his own shoes, kept just beside the door. Actually these shoes are crocs imitation which are quite large (hand-me-down from Victoria) and we let him wear them at home.

OK, that's all for now. Boy is trying to off my pc as I type this.

Turn round and round

William learned a new trick to humor himself today. He stands and turns round and round. This just makes him laugh and squeal in delight. Then when he sees the sister nears him, he squeals even louder, and hugs the nearest person to him. This boy, when he plays, he plays real hard. But when he's serious, he can be very serious.

She wants to be 5 years old!

Lately Vic keeps telling everyone that she's 5 years old. I think this came about when her kindy teacher commented that she looked like her 5 yo classmates because of her height and maturity. Then when her music teacher asked how old she was, she put up 5 fingers. Occassionally she'd tell me that she's five, actually and that we got her age wrong, haha. And she has also noted that she is now taller than our dining chairs, compared to a year back when she could hide unnoticed behind the chairs.

Victoria can't wait to just grow up. At this age, I guess any child would be the same. She looks forward to get her car licence, she wants to go to big school, she wants to eat all those yummy looking food that we adults can eat (including junk food), she talks about getting a job and going to work, etc. When I give her bath, she will wash her own hair and scrub her own body. Then she will rinse the soap and shampoo off (I know, her grandparents would probably not believe this!) and I only have to do a quick rinse to ensure there's not excess soap.

She's also talked about having her own baby next time. When she was 2yo, her idea of a husband is one who bring her go pee pee, one who carry her and feed her food. Now of course it's different. She doesn't say, but last weekend she jokingly called Daddy her husband! Haha.

MMR immunization

I took William for his MMR immunization jab which was supposed to be taken when he reached 12months, but the hospital paed said he should take the Chicken Pox vaccine first, so we went ahead with the paed's advice. Then in early July, he was supposed to go for his 3rd Prevener booster jab but came down with high fever. He recovered last Wednesday.

All these while we've been bringing him to this private hospital where he had all his immunization jabs, but now that he's past the 1 yr mark, we decide to change him to our other paed in TTDI. He got poked in the left buttock and didn't cry at all. The cost of his MMR jab yesterday (this paed recommended that he went for MMR first, because that will give him the protection instead of a booster jab for pneumococal which he already has the vaccine in him) including consultation was only RM80, less than the consultation cost alone of the paed in the private hospital. Imagine if we'd added in the cost of the vaccine in the hospital, it'd have blown to nearing RM200!

Anyway, William measured 81cm, not much of height gain but he's still above the average. As for his weight, eversince he lost some two months back, he hadn't gain much. In early May, he weighted at least 11.5kg but now his weight is hovering at 10.7kg for the past one month. Although still above the average, however the paed is concern that there is no weight gain for the past 1 month.

Admittedly, he's not keen on his porridge at all, and insisting more on what his jie jie eats or what I eat. We have tried organic gluten-free pasta and he loves it, and thyme added to his porridge. I will have to pick up more fresh herbs to add taste into his porridge.

This boy loves his carrots, best in soft chunks so that he can bite them. He'd rather choose carrots over potatos, which is the total opposite from Victoria. A few times I had to resort to adding very small chunks of carrots with this porridge and show it to him before he agrees to open his mouth. Other times, we distract him with table toys. Another note to add is, William likes his food warm, and if it's not, he's likely to push them out of his mouth.

He used to like his dhal and lentils, but not so now. Millet on its own? No no, even if it's mixed with apples. So I add a spoonful into his porridge everyday. Will have to relook the net for some yummy tasty salt-free, sugar-free, egg-free, wheat-free recipe.

Blur pic, taken from the mobile phone, but I simply adore the way he stands (very casual, relaxed.. as if he's talking to a chick)

You are my special angel

Two nights ago, Victoria insisted to watch her Cinderella movie on our laptop. She wore a whole headset by herself, whilst I shared one with Hubby. A short while into the movie, she took off her headset and told me, "Mummy, you ARE my special angel."

Aiyo, so sweet. (Mind you, this phrase doesn't come all the time, so this is really special that's why I just have to post it here, hehe)

Having fun in IKANO

A quick outing at Ikano a couple of weeks back. Vic and I sat on the animal mobile which costed RM5 for only 5 minutes! Of course, this is also because the lady in charge said we could sit two persons, so I made the money worth it lar. It's quite cool actually, coz Vic had to step on the accelerator instead of the automatic electronic type.

Mummy unabashed.

Then we hopped over to Brands Outlet and played with the sunglasses there.

I think this looks quite cool on ya. But only when you're 16, young lady!

Finally we went upstairs to check out the Harvey Norman sale and whilst William walked around, the opportunist sister quickly sat in his stroller. So the brother volunteered to push her.

Pushing the sister... the Queen Victoria