Daddy's Birthday

I'm very happy and blessed that i could celebrate my birthday with the love of my life and my babies :)

Its the first time mummy made a cake and it is a super delicious chocolate cheesecake. yum yum

Thank you mummy for the wonderful surprise and the special cake. I love you... and the babies too :)

Making Sentences

On the last day of school, Samuel brought back alot of work done in Term 3.

Most of the work done are in loose sheets, they do not have any exercise book (I do not understand why).

From the loose sheets, I found some interesting sentences that he made in the "making sentences" worksheets.

Short - The short is long

Universe - The universe is in the sky

Finger - The hand got finger

2009 Term 3

End of term 3 started on the 12th of September. Samuel will be on school holiday for 2 weeks. We started to plan our family holiday since July, a 9 day trip to Brisbane/Gold Coast.

On the last day of school, Samuel brought back a lot of homework (he hardly brings back any homework), mainly english and bahasa homework. I have not seen anything on mathematics and I wonder how is he progressing in mathematics. I have to make sure he finishes his homework before we go for holiday.

He will be graduating his Montesorri end of the year. Although he will not be promoted to Year 1 because of his age, his class teacher has asked us to transfer him to another school if we decide to send him to traditional school in future. It would be best that he adapts to at least a year of kindergarten before going to Year 1 in traditional school.

Mine Means Mine

Jesse is very particular about which things belong to who. Samuel at his age, and he still is very particular about positioning the things. Eg. we have a set of 7 dwarfs bought in HK which are kept in our living room display cabinet. When our maid wipes the cabinet, she will put aside the dwarfs and rearrange it after cleaning the cabinet. Samuel can spot the mistakes. He will rearrange which dwarf comes first then followed by the other dwarfs. He will rearrange back to the original position.

Jesse has followed his foot steps in positioning things. In fact, I think she is a little extreme. When I'm driving my car, she will say that I'm sitting on daddy's seat. She doesn't allow anyone sit on the left rear seat, her seat. Even if she is sitting infront she doesn't allow anyone to sit there. To her, the driver's seat is daddy's seat, next to daddy, it must be mummy's seat. Hers will be behind mummy and Samuel's seat is behind the driver's seat.

At times, when she sees daddy using my Mac she will not like it. Sometimes, she doesn't allow daddy to use my Mac at all. When I'm sitting on the recliner chair where daddy sit most of the time, she will say, "No, wrong". Sometimes when I use daddy's things she will also say, "No, its daddy's one".

The Ugly Side

Jesse doesn't like to look at the mirror when she cries. Nor she allow us to take her photo. At times, I will purposely bring her to the mirror :p and she will show me the No No No sign and turn away. I think she knows she looks ugly when she cries :)

Baking Cookies With Samuel

I'm not a good cook nor am I good at baking. I can only cook simple dishes and I don't know how to bake. Since it was a public holiday on Monday, I decided to bake some cookies with Samuel. I bought those pre mixed ingredients to bake some cookies. I only need to add butter and egg :)


I got Samuel to assist me in mixing the butter, eggs and pre-mixed ingredients. When it turned into a dough, I wanted to shape it into some disney characters- mickey, minnie, pooh and tigger but I think I put too much butter. It was alittle too soft to shape. So we ended up doing just round shaped cookies.

I tried to spread out the dough in the tray but it "grew horizontally" so much so that it sticked and joined each other. The round cookies ended up to be one very big piece of rectangle cookie, as big as the tray. LOL
The second tray looks more presentable, well at least to me :)

Verdict

Mummy : Too sweet especially the chocolate chips
Jesse : Yummy! I want cookies, I want. [and she keep asking for more]
Samuel : Wah this is the cookie. Yummy mummy.

Jesse Sleeping

Jesse loves to sleep with me, at the edge of our bed, between our bed and Jesse's cot. There's a 5 inches difference in height between our mattress and hers. Most of the time, half her body will be on our bed and half on hers. At times, she will be at the very side of our bed.

Convincing Jesse to Sit On A Car Seat

Since Jesse was a baby, she will not sit on her baby car seat for anything more than 5 minutes. We have a baby carrier + car seat (which she refused to sit on). When she was 1+, we bought her a new car seat, hoping that she is willing to sit on it. It didn't change her and she refused to sit on it. 

If we travel (in our car) with our maid, Jesse always climbs front and back, back and front until we reach our destination. If we are travelling without our maid, she will sit with me in my front seat. If she sits on my lap without much movement, I will be very happy. It is almost impossible for her to sit quietly on my lap. She climbs all over and jumps on my lap too! (She will hold on to the handle and keeps jumping)

Now.... and finally! She is sitting on her own car seat every time we go out. Although this is a big relief, I must say, I kinda miss the time when she sits with me in the car.

So, what made her sit on her car seat now? 

It was a month ago, on a Saturday morning when we sent Samuel to his school, we brought Jesse along. After we dropped him off in school, we saw one of his classmate's parent. She brought along her 1 year old baby who was happily sitting on her own car seat. We told the parent that Jesse will never sit on her own car seat. We brought Jesse to see the baby who was happily sitting on her own car seat. 

When we left school, Jesse was asking for her car seat. Her seat was not in the car. (We took her seat out from the car since she refused to it.)

Jesse wants to sit on her car seat like the baby. When we put back her car seat in the car, she will say "sit like a baby, hmm?" 

Since then, she started to sit on her own car seat. It has been more than a month now and she happily (willingly) sits on her own car seat. 

Although I kinda miss her sitting on my lap where I can hug her, I'm happy that she is willing to sit on her own car seat now. 

Yeah !

Jesse : I do like goofy k?

Mummy : Do what like goofy?

Jesse : This one (show me our bolsters)

Mummy :You mean row the boat?

Jesse : Yes.. (She tried to use our bolsters to pretend to row a boat)

Jesse : I do horse ok

Mummy : Ok

Jesse : Don't say yeah ok

Mummy : Don't say yeah?

Jesse : Yes, don't say yeah ok

Mummy : Why?

Jesse : Because I'm not strong

Mummy : Not strong?

Jesse : Yes, see... never mind... I do green ok

Mummy : Green?

Jesse : Yes the slide (she's refering to her green colour slide)

Mummy : Oh the slide.....

Jesse : Yes, I show you ok..... (show me how she slide on the floor) Don't say yeah ok
Mummy : Ok

Jesse : Clap hands ok

Jesse : I want my bolster.

She put our bolsters and hers on the floor then started jumping.

Mummy : What you doing?

Jesse : I'm dumping (jumping) like a flog (frog). Don't say yeah ok.....

I have no idea what does she meant by don't say yeah.... probably she doesn't want us to cheer for her.

Play Pretend

Jesse loves to play pretend. A couple of days ago, the maid left our pillow cover on Jesse's bed. Upon seeing the cover, Jesse took it and looked at it. She then covered her chest with the pillow cover and said, "its bra" (giggling), followed by over her shoulder and telling us its a jacket.

Later she took her umbrella toy. She told us that its cold, so she cover herself with the so called jacket while she put on the umbrella.

She has better imagination than Samuel at her age.