diaper free days???

yu ze has been off diaper for day for a long time. we have not gone into serious night training cos he is still drinking quite an amount of milk before bedtime. he always wake up with a full diaper. i think this will make night training very tough.

 

a few weeks ago, we tried to start his night training by waking him up to pee. we end up with a crying yu ze cos we disturb his sleep. also end up with changing bedsheet almost everyday or every other day due to the many accidents despite waking him up to pee. in the end, we are the one giving up. since then he has been waking up in the middle of the night to remove his diaper, wear his brief and shorts and went back to bed.

 

mzybe its true that they will auto train when they are ready. he had gone diaper free (no diaper at all) and without wetting himself for the passed 2 nights. we didn't wake him up and he didn't wake us up too. i think he did wake up and pee and went back to bed. hopefully, diaper free days are not too far away for us.

present?

i was in a packing mood and was clearing up the house. i saw this soo kee box lying around. i thought it was my surprise gift. it was indeed a surprise gift when i opened it up. it was not a diamond ring, it was a minnie mouse plastic ring. yu xi saw me opening it, she came to me and said, 'its mine!'. and she walked away with the box.

 

gift for girlfriend not wife

 

i walked out of the room to look for darling.

 

me: darling, why you buy present for your girlfriend? i don't have any.

darling: (lost and shock) huh??? what present?

me: mei mei, can you show papa what you have?

 

yu xi walked over and show papa her soo kee's 'ring'. i gave darling a sulking face and walked off. hahaha.....

fun, exciting and busy dec

i didn't notice that we will be having an exciting dec till i listed them down.

dec

1 - a walk at the gardens with kat and family

4 - yu ze's camp in cc (eric carle's programme at science centre)
5 - yu ze's camp in cc (mad sciene at serangoon branch)
6 - babies prom concert
9 - fantastic fox
10 - yu ze's camp in cc (making an angry bird robot)
12 - yu ze's camp in cc (super hero dress up christmas party at serangoon branch)
13 - genting

14 - genting

15 - genting & mid valley

16 - kl

17 - kl & back to singapore
26 - darling must go back to school

27 - darling must go back to school

28 - darling must go back to school

i have 3 annual reports to submit to cpe by 28 dec. i can only work on them from 10 dec.

how to squeeze a hello kitty land and the litte big club trip in?

if possible, still need to squeeze another lego land trip. this can delay a bit since most of the rides have a min height requirement of 100cm. yu ze still a long way to that so we can hold this back a little more.

this dec is going to be fun, exciting and busy for all of us.

where is tutu???

we were watching tv while waiting for our dinner to be ready. yu xi walked to papa and asked for her tutu?

 

yu xi: papa, where is tutu?

darling: no more tutu.

yu xi: i want.

me: mei mei, no more tutu. tutu, you throw in the dustbin.

yu xi (look at papa): papa, where is tutu?

darling: no more. you throw in the dustbin, remember?

 

luckily, she only asked that one time and stopped asking. hope this was the one and only time she is asking for it. i'm prepared for her to cry the house down for it and not giving in to her. :P

its over!!!

critical day was over!!!! we had survived 2 days without tutu and no mention and asking for it too. well done, yu xi. she has decided to self wean at 2 years and 7 month old like yu ze.

 

yu xi is better in a way cos she never ask about it at all since she throw it away. yu ze was still asking it for that day that he threw away. he is ok after we explain that he threw it away. he will still go on a repeat mode of asking once a while throughout that day and only stop the next day.

 

i'm so happy that self wean can be so easy and no sweat.

today is critical

today is the critical day. self wean tutu is a happen or not depends on today's response and reaction. there is not a single request of it since morning. however, she did peep into the dustbin seems to be looking for her tutu when she throw rubbish in it. she didn't see it and just walked off.

 

before nap time, she was crying for her sheep. uh oh, is she asking for her tutu (the design on it is a sheep).

 

me: mei mei, what sheep you want? 

yu xi (still crying): mommy, papa take my sheep.

me (still blur): papa, take your sheep?

yu xi: yes, papa take my sheep. (then she walk into our room and point) see papa, take my sheep (her pillow with sheep design on it).

 

then i realise what she is asking about.

me: oh, ok. (facing darling) papa, why you take her sheep?

darling: ok ok, give you. (take the pillow back to her room for her and she went to nap)

 

looking at each other, we just smiled. phew!!! she is not asking for her tutu.

 

we send warning to fil and sil before they came over too. not to mention anything about her tutu. they day ended in peace with no request at all. let's hope this will stay for a few more days to confirm the self wean is a success.

tu tu spoilt

i accidentally make a super big hole on yu xi's tutu. it was dirty so i wash for her. i try to make the hole a bit bigger so that she will eventually throw it away. however, i was a bit too hard and tore too much.

i return the tutu to her after washing. she bite for a while, took it out and see. then she realise the hole is so big.

yu xi: tu tu spoilt.

me: throw in dustbin

yu xi: no (continue to bite)

took it out again and looked at her tutu.

yu xi: throw in mommy's room

me: no, cannot. mommy's room has no dustbin

yu xi: throw in the fan

me: no, cannot its dirty. fan is not dustbin

she bite on it again and walk out. then she came back without the tutu. i found the tutu in yu ze's room dustbin. all went well till around 7pm, she suddenly appear with the tutu again. she picks up from the dustbin, wash and starts biting on it again.

7pm - tutu pick up, wash and bite again

7:10pm - tutu in kitchen's dustbin. she walked to kitchen quietly, threw tutu in the dustbin, gave it a last look and walked off.

9pm - tutu is being rescued from kitchen's dustbin to hide inside mommy's drawer. in anticipation for yu xi asking for it tomorrow.

she went to bed at 8:30pm without it and didn't ask for it too. 

good job, baby. if you really decides to wean off tutu from today, both you and gor gor did a self wean at 2 years 7 months old. will you then work towards diaper free after this and be diaper free in the day and nap at 3 years old like gor gor?

rabbit again

mommy & yu ze

yu ze drags me into his room again to draw a rabbit. he draws the purple one and says it's mommy. blue (mommy draw) one is yu ze, like thomas is also blue. 

drawing

bedtime activity for today is drawing. yu ze wants to draw rabbit so i got him to follow me stroke by stroke in the drawing.

say cheese with his rabbits

yu ze draws the purple rabbits by copying the pink one. he says
1. this is a family.
2. pink is mommy, blue is papa, purple are yu ze and mei mei.
3. papa and mommy wear specs so must draw specs for the pink and blue rabbits.

 

he drew the 2 purple rabbits while i drew the pink and blue.

 

yu ze's house

then he proceed to draw a house himself. he ran out of the room to take papa's key to show papa. he says must draw the key so we can open the door and go home. he doesn't know how to draw the key and get papa to help.

henna

henna

they have deepavali celebration in schoool. yu ze came back with henna on his hand.

 

me: yu ze, what was that?

yu ze: flower. i don't like this. this is smelly, yu ze don't like. chocolate (the paint) is for eating not drawing.

 

i like how school plans such activity for the kids to expose them to different types of religion and festive celebrations we have in singapore.

yu xi's favourite conversation

whenever we are back home late and pass yu xi's bedtime, the following conversation (similar content) will sure happen.

 

yu xi: mommy, how we go home?

me: we are going home now.

yu xi: how? how we go home?

me: we going home now.

yu xi: i want to go home, take tutu, ah low (bolster) and more ah low (2nd bolster) and barney and bj

me: ok. going home now.

 

this same conversation will get repeated depending on how far we are away from home. 'faint'

tiger bites again!!!

tiger bite

yu ze came back with a tiger bites on his chest.

 

me: yu ze, what happen?

yu ze: mei mei, bite me. she just bite then i pull away and painful.

me: why mei mei bite you?

yu ze: she just bite and bite and never let go. then i arhh..... like that

 

i turn to yu xi.

 

me: mei mei, why you bite gor gor?

yu xi: no. no bite. cannot bite.

 

i can't get any answer out from my kids so i text yu ze's teacher. she had left the school when this happened. however, she managed to find out what happen from another teacher. apparently, they were sitting together watching tv and talking among themselves. the teacher can't hear what's their conversation is about. then yu xi just becomes unhappy and attack gor gor. poor gor gor.

pineapple tarts

kneading into a big dough

 

yu ze definitely love baking. he enjoys with all the kneading and mixing. i was preparing my dough for the pineapple tarts. he saw and run into kitchen, wanting to help. quickly run back to his room and carry his little chair out so that he can stand on it and be part of my gang in the making.

he has a part in this

 

i get him involoved in mixing the ingredients and knead them together to form a dough. once the dough is done, we put it in the fridge to rest a while. i guide him how to roll the dough into small balls, flatten it, wrapped the pineapple filling in, sealed it, roll them into balls again and lay them nicely on the baking paper. he enjoyed himself so much in the making but he doesn't like to eat them. when he is older, i will involved him in more cooking and not just baking.

signs of love

yu xi always leave her tutu and bolsters in the living room in the morning when we leave for school. this is to faciliate her recovering them when she comes back from school in the evening. this has becomes a routine for her.

 

as usual, she looks for her bolsters and tutu the moment she step into the house. somehow, she can't spot them today.

 

yu xi: papa, where is tutu?

 

yu ze saw it and pass to her.

 

me: mei mei, why you must look for tutu once you step in? (walking towards her)

 

yu ze quickly run in front of her to shield her from me.

 

yu ze: mommy, you cannot take mei mei's tutu, she wants eat tutu. She can.

 

i love these little action of yu ze. his little way to show that he loves mei mei.

airport

school is closed today. we went airport to see airplanes and let the kids run wild. 

 

yu ze thought we are going to take the plane. he told me must give auntie the bag to go to the box and come out. he meant the convey belts for security check. he was sad when I told him, we are going to see airplanes only not to take airplanes. 

minnie mouse plaster

the 'gift'

yu xi fall down at the escalator and had a small cut on her forehead. she was walking up the steps on the escalator but didn’t stand properly and fall forward, cried all the way up to the end of the escalator. I had to go to the pharmacy to buy antiseptic cream and clean up for wound for her. the pharmacist was nice, she helps me to clean up yu xi’s wound and put a cute mickey mouse plaster on. 

 

we took the sky train from t1 to t2 to t3, board and alight the sky train so many times. they enjoyed the sky train rides and not interested in the rest. we went to the viewing mall too to look at the planes too.