My New Baby

Yes, we've got a new addition to the family :) And, it's a baby girl! I got her from Toyland (as Jie Jie called it), and I hand-picked her myself.

Unlike Jie Jie who's not attracted to dolls, I was immediately drawn to the dolls on display. Mommy noticed the similarity to the dolls that I liked - hairless like me! I kept pointing to them and said, Baby.

In the end, Mommy let me chose what I wanted and here's what I got. Initially, she tried to choose others which she thought was nicer, meaning with more hair. But I pushed them all away, and I insisted that I wanted this (grinned!).

But, you know what? Actually my baby had a bonnet too, but I didn't want to let her put it on.

I liked to pull the bonnet away so that I can see the hairless state :) Even Jie Jie laughed at me, she tried to convince me to choose another doll with bonnet, smaller ones, and pulled off the bonnet for me to see, while saying, "You see, this one also no hair one". But I didn't want that, I insisted on this one. Finally Daddy got it for me, I wouldn't even want to let the cashier scanned it so she had to pulled off the tag to scan, while my baby was secured in my hands.

So this week, I took my baby over to the babysitter's place too. And the babysitter told Mommy that I couldn't sleep without the baby, because there was once Mommy forgot to let me take her there. Funny, I was not that attached to it when at home, maybe I have Mommy with me.

This photo was taken this morning, while I was preparing to go to the babysitter's place.

The Little Destroyer

Little Sze Juin had destroyed or messed around just too many things recently. First, she played our laptop keyboard until the letters on the keyboard came out! I had never in my life needed to deal with this before, so I took some time to figure out how to put them back. That was when she’s about 9 months old. Then recently, she flipped my monitor display – instead of the horizontal view, the screen had become vertical instead! It took awhile for us to flip it back. And a few days ago, my hard disk gave me the blue screen of death. It couldn’t startup at all, and I’m still figuring ways to backup my data in there.. sigh!

Ok, that was the laptop. See what she did to her Jie Jie’s handiwork?

Before that, when it's still good...

Well, her recent victims were our precious fridge magnets that we bought when we traveled around - she had broken a few too. There went the one from Jurong Bird Park, Singapore, and also the one that our friend gave us from Korea. And just the other night, she broke 2 that we got from Hawaii! I was opening the fridge door while carrying her, and her hands were too fast! The magnets fell onto the floor and broke, sob sob…

When will she stop destroying things? Uh, I don’t have this problem with Sze Yi last time…

A Night of Discoveries

Yeah, and it's mostly related to SJ too. It happened that I was home alone with SJ last night, for a few hours. Well, I was taken aback by the things she said and did, all out of the blue and the least within my expectation.

1. She called me Irene!

2. She pronounced her name correctly, Juin Juin! That was the first time I heard her saying her name, and it came out very clearly too. Unlike when her Jie Jie pronounced it, Jun Jun, or Ji Jin :)

3. I was searching for her nappy cloth that I brought back from the babysitter's place, and I asked myself aloud, "Where did Mommy put that cloth?" And I heard her answered me, "I don't know".

4. Her electronic toolbench toy was out of order, no more battery. So I told her to give me some time to put the batteries in. However, this little girl went to take another battery-operated mini piano, took out the battery from there and passed me that!

5. She requested for milk in the bottle, but after I made for her, she didn't want to drink it. Instead, she kept looking at the measurement scale and started counting, three, four, five! Haha, before that, she's been counting 1,2,3, and that night, she surprised me with 3,4,5 out of the blue :)

Story Time

Sze Yi had been requesting stories from us since she was small. Last time it used to be Cinderella, Ali Baba, etc… but now they were no longer constrained to fairytales. She would say, “I want the policeman story!”. Or Mommy’s stories, or Yi Yi’s stories, or the story of the lost buttons, or this curtain’s story, or the story about the Monster that went to school (RS), etc… Mostly, it’s on things around her, or whatever that came to her mind. She even requested me to tell her stories about my car’s wiper! She normally asked for stories when we’re in the car, or when she’s trying to sleep. Ah, boy was I glad that she's slowly getting over this habit now!

Sometimes she would request for stories that we’re all familiar with, for instance, Pinocchio, or the Goldilocks and the Three Bears. But mind you, the storyline would need to be modified. Either the main characters changed, or the storyline would be twisted here and there, and once she liked that, I’ll have to repeat again and again and again for several times before she finally let me go. So, it’s normally very exhausting and I dreaded it when she asked me for stories.

Then one day, I heard her telling one of the stories to her cousin Sarah. It was Mommy’s story, and she was telling her cousin how she was born. I couldn’t stop laughing when she said Mommy didn’t want her tummy to be cut, but Daddy told her that she had to, if not Sze Yi couldn’t come out! LOL! Hmm... maybe (and hopefully) she'll tell me stories next time instead of me telling her!

Little Things That Surprise Me

Scenario 1:

SJ saw her Jie Jie fell down, and I went to sayang her Jie Jie. Not long later, she imitated her Jie Jie's falling down action, and waited for me to sayang her! She actually repeated that several times just to get my attention that day.

Scenario 2:
SJ asked me to open the cupboard door, saying yiu yiu (oil). So I took out the oil. I was wondering what she's up to, when she pulled up her baby doll's shirt and ask me to apply the oil on her baby doll's tummy.

Scenario 3:

She got an electronic cow lantern from her Chim Po, where the cow can walk. I told her that it’s a niu niu (cow in Mandarin). Now when I got her other types of lantern, (bird and fish), she would still refer to that lanterns as niu niu. (LOL!)
Also, we once took the girls out for a walk with their lanterns at night. So after that incident, everytime she went out, she would want to bring the lantern along and said kai kai .

Scenario 4:

The two sisters were playing together and then suddenly the big one bully the small one. So we asked Jie Jie to say sorry to Mei Mei. After Jie Jie told her "Sorry!", Mei Mei said, "Gau" (clever in hokkien).

Can You Tell Who's Who?

Obviously, the less hairy one would be SJ :) My, she can wear the kimono that we bought for Sze Yi when SY's 18months plus already! (SJ's only 16 months plus now). Now, would you say that she hasn't been growing up?

The Laundry Keeper

I am now Mommy’s official helper when it comes to folding and keeping the clothes!

Well, I’ve finally mastered my folding skills, I could even fold the shirt like those sold in the supermarket, thanks to Daddy’s training. He taught me how to fold pants, towels, shirts, etc, and even how to turn those clothes back when they were in reverse order.

Once I was done with that, Mommy taught me how to segregate my clothes from Mei Mei’s and I could now put them all in the cupboard myself! Ah yes, all in correct order too – clothes, pants, towels, hanky all went into their appropriate compartments accordingly. I even know Mei Mei’s compartment too, which was placed in a different room because not enough space in my room :)

So now, one less work for Mommy, because she no longer needs to re-audit my work. But then again, it all still depends on my mood. Sometimes, I would prefer to play first, so if she couldn’t wait, then she would have to do it herself! Ah, and when I found out about it, I would get angry and insisted of doing everything again myself, so she had to let me start all over again…