20091206 mommy's thoughts

Not much update from the last 'mommy's thoughts' (occupational hazard makes me feel like putting '' for the ' after mommy, but hey, this is no programming).

Kate has just completed her year end performance, as seen from the previous post, and its fun to see her enjoying herself so much.

We had a meet-the-parent session with her teacher, and the progress was OK.  She is talking much, as can be seen by her teacher and us.  Less echoing maybe, or maybe I am just too confused to  know what is echoing or what is endless repetition (mommy go bomp bomp (bath), daddy watch tv, kathleen play(s) with lego, she would chant on the way home everynight).

At my mom's place, she is driving me crazy as she refuses her dinner.  Sometimes just like 5 spoonfuls.  Sometimes, NIL.  I ended up losing my temper every night.  Papa cannot stand it, and took over and fared better.  He threatened her 'if you don't eat, you cannot go home', and she will say 'I eat'.  Gosh.  On better days, she ate like what was half her serving when she first started having dinner at my mother's place.  But at least she is eating (though I will not have the heart to threaten her at every spoon).

After 3 months in CC, she also started to eat abit of a certain fruit.  Which makes me very happy.  I hope that she will continue her progress and eat more variety and bigger servings.

She is still not toilet trained in poo business, and is still wearing diapers while sleeping and when going out. 

She had learnt all the alphabets in school, but does not seemed to recognise them much.  Then under the recommendation of mommy blogger tamarind, I got the Leapfrog's Letter Factory and let her watch it.  This gal insisted on watching it almost everyday (which drive papa crazy because it means no TV for him).  And then one day about 2 weeks later, she brought her magnetic letters nearer to the main door (away from the tv), and then I noticed her picking up a letter randomly and then said the letter's name and its pronounciation.  Eg, she would pick up J, and then she would say 'J says 'jej'', the way it was spoken in the DVD.  After that, she progressed to reading out capital letters on signboards, and books (see armadillo video a few blogs down), and now can even read out small letters most of the time.  I am impressed. :)  I am getting the next DVD in the series, and hope that it will help her in learning phonics, and later reading.

 Her mandarin, on the other hand, is almost non-existent, even though Chinese is being taught in school.  So it seems that mommy has to start cracking her brain again, and worse come to worse,might just send her to enrichment class next year or the year after that (definitely before primary 1).

Back at home, she seemed to understand more things than ever.  My back pain turned out to be a bulging disc (confirmed after a MRI scan), and doctor's advice, among other things, is not to carry heavy things.  So after explaining her a few rounds, nowadays most of time she would understand, saying 'Mommy back pain pain, cannot carry' though sometimes she still demanded to be carried, especially when she is tired or sleepy.  And on another day, when I took out a swiss roll from the plastic bag for her breakfast, a worried her go through the plastic bag and then said 'no mian bao (for) mommy'.  And on other day, on the way, she suddenly said (without eye contact) 'I love you' and then added 'I love you mommy'. So sweet. :).  Of course she is not up to par with her peers yet (one of them said recently, 'my por por can cook, but mommy and dada cannot cook' which send all of us into laughing fits), so she will need alot of practices.  And recently she even know how to say 'errrrrrr' when she is expected to respond but she need more time to think and phrase  her words. :)

Oh, and now she know how to take out her DVD, on the DVD player, put the DVD inside and enjoy her show.  :)  She also learnt how to operate the PSP way before I did (personally speaking, I disapprove of her playing with PSP cos of the harm that the repetitive actions will bring) 
And lastly, she is now 3  years old.  :)