FollowPine nuts and pumpkin seeds. Sherilyn counting her pine nuts away as she pops each nut into her mouth. I always stock up boxes of healthy snacks in my house for the gals to munch on when their little tummies rumble or simply to use as baits to stop a toddler’s meltdown.Alycia and Sherilyn’s favourite…
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Our Lunch
This is what we have for lunch today : A lung-nourishing soup…. ‘loh hon koa’ (a brown black dried fruit with seeds inside) boiled with snow fungus, ‘mutt zhoa’ (dried honey dates), some red dates, ‘kei chee’ (wolfberries) and kampung chicken (free range). Stir-fried yee meen with diced chicken breast, tofu pok (tofu puff), vegetables,…
Before Alycia and Sherilyn Came Along…
Before Alycia and Sherilyn came along, daddy would sometimes carry mummy to the bed like a white knight sweeping his princess off her feet. After the both of you came along, daddy complains of backache to mummy all the time but the pain seems to have miraculously vanished when you both asked to be carried.…
Wholesome lunch
My lunch menu for my maid to cook yesterday was a wholesome one. This is what the gals had for lunch yesterday: Oat meal cooked in ABC & sweet corn soup. I added some homemade chicken nuggets (leftover from the previous night’s dinner), chopped french beans, cheese and sprinkled with some pine nuts. I use…
Toys Rationing
Kids Say The Darnest Things
Young Artist At Work
Alycia drawing a birthday cake, balloons and popsicles. Eversince Alycia attended pre-school early this year, the artistic sense in her has been uncovered. She loves writing, colouring and drawing. I guess daddy’s artistic genes have rubbed off on her coz daddy can draw pretty well, really damn chun wan. That was one of the reasons…
Feeding Toddlers Medicine
Alycia and Sherilyn have never been easy feeders when it comes to medicine. Thankfully, they rarely fell sick when they were younger, maybe once or twice a year. When they were younger, there must be at least 3 people around in order to get them to swallow their medicine and those sick days were full…
Learning Through Singing
Sherilyn has always loved music, singing and dancing. When she was a baby and cried each time, singing and playing soft music had always comforted her and lulled her to sleep. I have recently discovered a new way of teaching my 2 gals. Since it’s really difficult to make them sit still classroom style with…
Blogger
Blogger has recently added a word verification protection thing to prevent spam as some bloggers had complaint of their blogs being locked out but this word verfication thing is really driving me nuts and I’ve been wasting so much time meddling with it. Don’t know if other bloggers on Blogger are also facing this problem…
Alycia Can Tell The Time
Remember I wrote about Bedtime stories where DH taught the gals to read the clock? Well, I have been teaching Alycia how to read the clock for the last 1 week, though not consistently and last nite when I asked her to tell me the time looking at the ‘Tell The Time’ flashcards, she managed…
Sherilyn Has Swollen Lymph Nodes
We just came back from the paed’s clinic. My poor baby Sherilyn’s lymph nodes on her right neck, just below her jaw are swollen and infected. She has also been having gluey yellowish-greenish goo on her right eye for the last 3 days and I thought she was just plain ‘yeet hei’ as the chinese…
To Go or Not To Go To School?
I can’t believe that it is already June, which means it has been slightly more than 3 months since I had stopped sending Alycia to pre-school as she has been falling sick continuously eversince attending pre-school in January 07. As the school term will reopen in a week’s time, I have been asking myself this…
Please Help Locate Madeleine McCann
Folks… please help Madeleine’s parents reunite with her little girl. For God’s sake, she’s only 4 years old. Whoever abducted Madeleine for whatever reasons, please spare her and end her parents’ and loved ones’ misery. Fellow bloggers can also help by putting this banner in their blog. Please click here to obtain the codes :…
Cool learning method… strewing
A few days ago, The New Parent wrote an interesting article on strewing up…. a method of introducing new things to his little girl through discovery. I thought what a cool fun way of teaching Alycia and Sherilyn to read through discovery. Yesterday when the gals were having their afternoon nap, I strewed flash cards…
Miss Pukey Sherilyn
Sherilyn is nicknamed Ms Pukey coz she throws up very easily from the time she was a baby right through now. She pukes when she cries, when she eats food that she doesn’t like, particularly meat, when I brush her teeth, when she gets choked on food or when she’s over-eaten and simply when she…