drawing (11 oct 10)

March 2010(3 yrs 5 mths) ~

charlie been scribbling her master piece on paper for a while but they are usually too artistic to interpret.

April 2010 (3 yrs 6mths) ~

a big improvement in her drawing. In some, you can see pictures with face and body. It started with only a circle face and eyes.

The big character is a bear. The small brown one is a sun. As for the little colorless one below is an unknown. If u notice, her drawing is made out of big and small circles or rather ovals. May 2010 (3 yrs 7 mths) ~

Sometimes she will add fingers to her drawing like the one below.

June 2010 (3 yrs 8 mths) ~

nice pic. She seldom color her pic after drawing them. Aug 2010 (3 yrs 10mths) ~ Her drawing is forming out pretty nicely by now.

This is rare pcs using triangle as head.

Did u notice a car at the bottom? This is the first time I saw her drawing a car. She is always drawing people or animal.

Charlie learns to draw character with hair and leg shaped like caterpillar. She will even tell you who she is drawing although they look pretty much the same.

Oct 2010 (3yrs 11mths) ~ her latest pcs. notice there is a different in the leg.

making snowskin mooncake (29 aug 10)

Bao yi yi initial the ideal. She is always the one suggesting lot of places and things to do. It is more like an experience for the young ones as they dont seems to really enjoyed making it. Except the part that Janice did many weird design as usual.

Show and Tell (22 aug 10)

YY practising his show and tell for school. As usual, I have to draft him a short write up on his fav animal for him to recite in class. In the end I realised that I did a pretty good job working on the content. Unfortunately, all was wasted as yy told me his Chinese teacher told the class the content will not be taken into consideration as some children did it on their own with little help with their parents. It was fair but why cant the teacher tell us in adv.

This is only the first part. The second video is too big to upload.

SYOG competitions (21 - 22 Aug)

We went for a few YOG matches too. I am responsible for getting the ticket, planning in adv and Levin supposed to go with yy. Afterall, I'm not keen in sports at all and dont want to bore myself spending hrs siting there.

To my surprise, all the matches we went for are quite entertaining. Watching a live match is so much different from watching it on TV. Being an audience, hearing the crowd cheering, the MC making announcements, participants walking in, what is going on between breaks which are normally filed with advertisement on TV if you watching at home.

We went for the boxing match with janice. As usual, she dont want to be photographed.

Beside the match, janice and yy were busy munching and eating. In less than half an hr, Janice kept pestering me that she wanted to go get snacks to eat until I gave in.

Before the match started, there are a string of health and sport event held at the Suntec City where a couple of matches were held that day. YY and janice participated in the boxing training crush lesson.

YY and myself went for equestrian and football match on the next day.

For the equestrian competition, we are required to keep silent at all times inorder not to distract the horse performance and no flash photography.

In the evening, we rushed for the football match ~ Singapore vs Haiti. For all the 3 matches, there are quite a crowd trying to buy tickets outside the venue. Cannot figure out why cant they just get it in adv.

ps Singapore lost to Haiti 0 - 2 in this match.

Health Supplements (10 aug 10)

Ever since, Charlie started attending her 3 hrs nursery class. She has been failing ill every 2 weeks. Fever, cough, flu, diarrhea and vomit, turning their turns. Previously for yy, I gave up and switched him back to nanny barely a month when he had to visit doc every week. Partial being yy was only 2 years old then and I don’t have a domestic helper helping with the workload.

Medicine for her diarrhoea and vomit. Still got one more bottle inside the fridge.

This time, I hope I am more prepared. I will try to boost up Charlie’s immune system with the supplements I bought. They are colostrums, multi-vitamins and omega 3 6 9. The only issue will be I have to remember to feed her with them and when can I feed them if she always has to take medicine.

Different characters (10 aug 10)

Charlie and yy are of 2 extreme personalities. Charlie is more outspoken and daring while yy is more shy and quiet. He is not so daring to try out new things like bicycle or slides at playground. In addition to these, I cant help but notice that yy tends to keep his stuffs while Charlie will just use whatever is given to her.

Scenario 1 ~
When da yi yi gave them sticker, Charlie will give her stickers away or paste them on her water bottle, books, papers while yy will keep the stickers.

Scenario 2 ~
I bought both the kids one bottle of bubbles each. Charlie will kept on blowing and blowing, making bubbles. As for yy, he played with the bubbles blown by Charlie or tried to catch the bubbles. When I asked him why he was not blowing the bubbles, he replied saying he wanted to keep his bottle for the next round.

Scenario 3 ~
I got both the kids a set of blink pen (color pen with sprinkler). Yy will try means to keep his set away for his personal use and keep using Charlie’s pen when they are doing coloring together. This goes the same when I bought them a set of Crayola magic pen each. Not sure if such difference in behavior is due to the difference in their age or personality but I feel their character does play a critical role.

Left or Right ? (8 aug 10)

Charlie is a left handler. She writes, eats and draws with her left hand. My latest discovery, she even plays balls with her left hand. As for which foot she start to walk with, hmmmm I’m still monitoring. Do u notice which leg charlie walks with first.