It's been 3 years, since I last started posting about Jasmine, where did the time go?? Although the updating is getting tougher and tougher with my me-time getting lesser and lesser, I am still determine to keep this going. So here goes.
Early in the month, we took her out for play dates with Yee See & Jessica Kong. Just to have her interact with other kids. So there were playground plays with Lisa, Asher & Zach. She had a lot of fun, although now Asher & Zach is her favourite imaginary friends, and the 2 boys probably don't think of her as much. Oh well!
It was a playground date that turned out to be more than just playground.
We had Lisa, Zach & Asher at the playground behind our house.
Then on Sunday, she met Lisa and they instantly became snack friends.
And we met Lisa again for somemore playground dates.
They had so so much fun together.
Jasmine learnt some monkey moves inspired by Lisa.
Believe that she moved about so much that her feet rubbed against the sandal with much pressure and she felt pain on the left foot. She told me pain and asked for plaster. This happens quite often that I felt the stride rite shoes is getting a little disappointing. Sometimes I let her apply cream, and other time I gave her ice. Ice is most effective, even for mosquitoe bites as well.
A swimming date at Court 10! 3K was unexpectedly close again so Court 10 was our safety net.
After the swim with Lisa, we passed by durian stalls and bought some home. The stall owner can't open it up on the spot due to the long queue so Joshua did it in our kitchen. So it was durian education for Jasmine.
Understand where the yummy fruit come from.
In attempt to make our weekend evening tea time more interesting, I told her we can have it on her picnic mat. And that's what we did, we lay out her little picnic blanket on the floor next to dining table and have whatever tea or snacks, including durians. Haha. It's simple yet fun. And now, in her room, she likes to open up the 2 green chairs and pretend cooking food.
She likes to feed didi :)
First Saturday in August, we hosted for Salt meeting, where there were about 30 plus adults in our house. During the sharing, Josiah was drinking milk lying on a pillow at upper landing. She saw him holding milk bottle with only one hand, she scolded him and asked him to hold with both hands. Josiah was shocked! Also, she loves feeding Sonya water. And at the end of Salt, she even noticed that Sonya forgot her water bottle, she went to the door to remind Daniel & Jade. She said "forgot". Am I proud!! That night Rosalind also gave us a pack of old girl clothes, there was a pink pom pom dress that she immediately wore and was happily hopping about. We also got an old combi car seat from them, just nice to be used in Forte, as we returned the sweet cherry one to Yee See, and let Jasper take over the Joie car seat. :) Upgrade.
We finally bought the inflatable pool for RM180 and tried to inflate it when it arrived. Needless to say, she & Jasper loves it. She particularly was drawn to the basketball hoop.
4th August, when I was feeding her dinner, I gave her tomato, she made a sad face and said "this one not nice". I am thankful that she still eat, she didn't vomit out. This little girl is starting to express quite a lot of opinions.
5th August, we had homes, while Joshua was leading praise & worship, she stood next to him, holding her bible outwards, throughout the whole session, like she is co-leading worship! She had observed praise & worship so much she knows how to say "praise the God".
After homes, she often asked to play with the piano. We are definitely planning to buy a piano and get Joshua to start coaching her... maybe after her 4 years old birthday.
She heard us tell Jasper many times, do not eat the door stopper. One day she tried to tell us Jasper got the door stopper again, she said "stopper door" instead. And she knows how to tell Jasper to eat porridge.
8th August, morning drama. She woke up in the morning, came to tell us "must close door". She went back to her room, closed the door and continued sleeping. I believe she had a dream that made her confused with awake or dream... she got up grumpy that morning, cried a lot. At Lian's house, she didn't want to let me go off to work.
9th August, 4am drama. She woke up at 4am, came to our room and said that she had peed in her diaper. The way she walk about in the dark telling us she had peed is just priceless. So I changed her into panty and then she goes back to her own room to sleep. After a little while she came back over and asked for milk. Joshua made the milk for her and she slept off on our bed.
With the bag of clothes from Rose, first was the pink pom pom dress that she wore everyday for about a week or more.
She got new pajamas pants from the hand-me-downs too. Quite fancy and airy kind of pants. She will tell me "see my pants?"
And a jacket, that could be used for the December Taiwan trip.
Speaking of which, Jasmine has invented herself a new game, riding horse.
So I found a second hand car seat of the brand Evenflo selling for RM300. I like the colour and it fits Jasmine's weight, plus it comes with a built in seat belt. It is for kids 9kg and above. So Joshua took Jasmine along for the COD transaction. On the way back, they drop by Mcd's drive through for ice cream. Joshua said along the way home, she kept telling Joshua to drive slow, otherwise her ice cream drop.
She loves her new car seat. She could climb unto it on her own because it is lower vs the Britax one.
That sunday itself, on the way back from church, the first time she was to fall asleep in it... she realised there are no headrest like the Britax car seat. She told me she wants to change car seat. I feel so sorry for her... so I tried to put Joshua's jacket on the side for her to rest her read.... and she fell asleep on it despite it being uncomfortable. The next time she was to sleep again, I tried to give her a small pillow, didn't work, I even offered her my red head pillow, she laughed and said "no mummy, this is too big, this one your one".
So my next shopping list item is baby car seat head rest pillow. We had an opportunity where I could walk into Little Whiz to look at their head rest, the brand is Benbat. They selling one for RM79! I searched on Lazada immediately and saw RM40+. So I did tons and tons of search on Lazada, Carousell and Preloved, finally ordered one on Lazada for RM30. :D Solved our problem a little bit! The Benbat only arrived a day before her birthday, so I could tell her, it's birthday present from me. :)
Meanwhile I'm thankful when she stop asking to change back to the old car seat and just live with it. I did try to give her the little car seat cushions on the strap, but I know they can't do much... this was us on our way back to Muar.. yes a Muar trip, Jasmine is quite adaptive. :)
Lian told me she's been saying "dream come true" and we were all clueless where she learn this from. One morning I told her to do writing at Lian's house. She replied "I scribble". Wow. Bedtime reading, she will point at Peter & Jane book and said "this one not good". But after she changed into her pyjamas came back, she saw the merry go round book cover on Peter & Jane book, she said "so fun so funny".
Her pink box, I gave her a pack of tissue to put into those tiny drawer. She made me pretend sneezing so that she could help me wipe off my nose with it.
We took her to take the BRT bus. We took train last month and thought will be nice to take bus so she knows the difference.
The moment she enter the bus she said "WAHH". Some guy found her response amusing.
The BRT stopped us at the Lagoon Walk, we walked one round to the mall, did a bit of shoe shopping and back to BRT again. While we are walking, she said that we are in the mountain. We spotted the elephants, I told her is Dumbo and Dingy, the twin elephants.
When I hold her hand with my left hand, she felt my rough thumb from me picking the dry skin. She said "I don't want this". So I had to change to my right hand.
This was us on the way back. We switched kid.
13th August, that weekend, she was particularly whinny! We couldn't stand the whining, we had to raise our voice to scold. One night Joshua was putting them to bed, he said she tried to play with Jasper but too rough and made Jasper cry. She understood that didi doesn't want to play with her, she took her pillows and said "I go outside". We were like WHAT?? She said to Joshua "I hit you with spoon" Joshua asked "why?" she said "because you not listening to me." And then she said "daddy u not listening to me, I go away". @.@ Don't tell me she's going to be emo teen. -_-
In the masterbedroom, we had the white back of the chest drawer in middle of the room, she put some smiley stickers on it and looks like white board where she played teacher game, asking us to repeat after her. She will say 1 to 10 but often miss out 6, and then she can also jumble up the numbers without sequence. Sometimes she even come up with random words where I must repeat. @.@ The random names continues when she gives to each train in the thomas book. It's weird, sounds like another language altogether and I don't know how she can think of them, like "tamenum". This one is quite popular that's why I can remember, others... no.. only Jasmine will know.
She is beginning to love to do things on her own, like open water bottle, wear & remove pants, button up her pyjamas top, whether the press type or the hole type. Of course the success % is small as a start, but she will be really proud of her little achievements! We celebrate together! :) I give her big hugs to tell her I am proud of her. Another major thing she likes to do is coming down the toilet bowl herself after wee wee. That time she did it, came to tell us "you know? I come down myself?" :) Usually she waits for us to come help her come down, but she is learning to come down herself now and was super proud. And she even helped herself with the water tap.. and close the door in between poo poo. One night, she was so eager to show Joshua how she come down herself that she lose balance and fell back on the toilet bowl.. and cried. :( Other things she figured out herself is open and close the toyogo box lock all by myself. None of us taught her to do it. She is also able to drink water from my big grey bottle, while in the car. I was driving. So afraid she might pour it all over her clothes but it didn't happen. She's good at balancing.
She's speaking faster & more - "you know?" "Remember?" "hmm?" "I can open..." "I come down myself..." She's becoming little chatterbox! She suddenly recall last family day (somewhere in May) where there's a teacher who drew a red with white polka dot ribbon on her arm. She described it and asked us whether we remember this & that, with really cute facial expression.
During Acts Kids, one of the teachers asked where are her toes. She said "wait I show you" and took out her sandals to show off her toes.
17th August, she fell down in the living room and also at upstairs landing area. Other than falling down herself, she also pushed Japser to fall down in our room. Of course Jasper cry, she said sorry. Sometimes she prefers Jasper to behave like a baby, just lie down and not move about, so she tend to push him to fall down on his back, by force.
I saw Lian tied 2 pony tails for her one evening when I went to pick her up... she looks different, in a good way. :) Hello there, cuteness multiplied. :)
So that Sunday, it was 2 high pony tails with the brown overalls that we bought from Bless Shop for RM15. She liked the idea of having pockets in the overalls, so I told her she can keep tissues in there, for when she sneezes.
I was impressed that the pony tails stayed through Acts Kids! Usually she will pull out within minutes but surprisingly this time she let the rubber bands on. :) But because they were a little messy after few hours, I decided to remove the bands and then did a top bun kinda pony tail for her. I do think she looks extra cute in it. :D
After service, we went to Vintage Cafe for lunch, with the Kongs. Asher was eating a pack of muruku, and Jasmine said she wants some, just before Joshua take her to the toilet for poo poo. So I said to her, she can eat it after she's done with poo poo.
Before she comes back, I saw that Asher was already finishing up the murukus! So I politely asked, Asher, can you leave some for Jasmine? Just one piece will do. He was reluctant!! Daniel told him to give but he refused, so Daniel asked Jess to take it from him. Jessica said something that open up that tear tap, she said "but you're taking away something so precious" and almost immediately the loud cry with lots of saliva, oh I really hate this boy! Grrrr!!! Anyway by force, we took one small piece of muruku out from the packet, just in time to show Jasmine when she is back. She was puzzled why Asher was crying, I told her that Asher wants the muruku, would she likes to give it back to him? She said ok and gave to Asher. HE WAS STILL CRYING!!! I didn't do anything wrong, I promised my kid she will have muruku when she comes back, I must make sure there is a muruku right?
She is starting to snap pictures on our phone, but instead of taking our faces, she takes our legs. Anne did guided her to take her full body after this failed attempt.
That Sunday, Joshua played catching game with her. He caught her under his armpit and came to me saying "I caught a chicken. We can cook this chicken" She stressed few times that "I am a girl. Jasmine not chicken." Haha...
Some mornings, when I have to leave Lian's house for work, she said "no! mummy no need go to work" I told her I have to work to bring back money, to buy food for her" she said "I am not hungry"..... Some morning, if Kayden comes early and start crying for mummy or daddy who drops him off, she will follow suit, to cry when I leave too.
Bedtime, one day I was sleep next to her as usual, she said to me "mummy I want drink didi nen nen" while touching my breasts. I told her.. tomorrow. Haha. and thanks to her for forgetting about it.
Lian had gotten rid of all her soft toys and then there's this monkey piggy bank that Jasmine had claimed as her baby. Lian said Jasmine did role played breastfeeding this monkey. Hahahaha..
One night, bedtime with Joshua, after brush teeth, she look at him and said "tell stories lah". She sometimes tell me she wants stories about the fan and air con, so there's a story I always tell her is that Mr Fan working hard, and there will be a little conversation with Mr. Air Con. One night, she tell me "Mr Fan working hard". Hehe.
We have been reading lesser books with her due to coming to bed late after watching MKR, and also the time taken for stories telling. I feel bad.. and have been waiting to up the game on books again.
Finally at end of August, our MKR has ended!! I felt free!! We stop watching tv at night and we fill in the time with some art & craft.
Like this wooden rat project. It was a present from HP colleague that I kept since 2009.... finally opened it. Other than that, I did with her playing my name chop, on paper.. cut papers (I needed to get ready for her party decor) and even folded paper boats for her to let the boat sail on a pail of water. Much more fruitful and interactive.
We come to the room to start the bedtime routine much earlier. Use to be 10.30pm but now we are up here as early as 9pm.
We do more books and I realised she now likes to match things. Like she will say her hands is the same as the one in the book. Or whenever given a sticker, she will find another matching picture to place the sticker on.
There's an old story book I took from Muar that she loves. It's about kids walking to school and got into an accident, that required a bandage on the knee. The pages were coming off, so I taped it back nicely and gave it a good wrap. One night during dinner, she was reading / flipping the pages while feeding herself. I would love to see this more! I don't mind a book worm girl. :)
Speaking of meal times, she is eating slower than Jasper. We tried to say hey didi is eating faster than you, doesn't work. She will declare didi as winner before he really finishes his porridge.
And she often request for didi's high chair to be near her so she can feed him water occassionally.
Here she was eating a chocolate ice cream I bought from F&N staff shop. Regret buying, it was too big for her. Sometimes I wonder if I've given her too much chocolates.
She cries when Jasper's saliva was on her things, she dislike mess that's obvious.
Very commonly, she refuse to share her toys with him. She put her toys as far away as possible and will scream NO when Jasper comes near.
Remember the last time she sat in such swing was in San Francisco, almost 2 years ago... and she didn't know what was happening, just looking left & right. Now, she knows how to laugh and look up to the blue blue sky.. and soak it all in. :)
We went to Morgansfield for dinner one weekday night... she eats the rice Aunty Lian cooked. Being her bubbly self and was extremely willing to pose for the camera.
Look at that long tongue. I wish someone had helped us take a family photo. We are teaching her about tongue tricks, like how long is your tongue? can you roll your tongue? can you fold your tongue?
This month, we took her to visit 3 newborn babies. First, Kara's new brother, Sonya's new brother and Zach Zach's new brother. The trip to Kara's house was the most impactful. I never thought visiting newborns are so significant to a 3 year old. She had the chance to play with Kara's toys in her room and created memories that caused her to recognise Kara as her friend. That Sunday, before going to Acts Kids, she was so thrilled to see Kara and immediately felt comfortable.
She also played with Sonya and her toys during our visit there but Sonya is younger so the impact wasn't that great.
2 blur girls.
Zach zach was sleeping when we visited baby Zephan, so that one was just her playing with his toys. She remembered she played with a horse and then pointed out in a storybook, that it's the same. There, she's trying to match again.
We went back to Muar. She played a lot with Evelyn this time. Partially due to her feeling unwell, heavy running nose that made her drowsy and grumphy. So a lot of doctor games.
Here's a grumphy girl helping us to guard over clean laundry. We always bring back our adult & kids laundry.
Whenever didi wears this t-shirt she will say it's her t-shirt. She remembers the time I bought this for her at Bless Shop. I don't like that she kept claiming it as hers so I donated this away for DVCC's bazaar sale in September.
Dance party again! Yeay! Now we have 2 chairs there for guests to sit on.
Lots of snacks from Ah Ma, as usual.
So this is a no brainer, hair too long but doesn't like to tie hair = CUT SHORTER.
First time trimming hair in Muar. It was very hot... everybody was waiting for me to finish to get inside.
She was not feeling well at beginning of September, the whole Muar trip she was grumphy because of her frequent sneezing. Evelyn even went to pharmacy to get her Aerius to help control her running nose. She coughed and vomitted on me twice, on Thursday night and Sunday noon at a restaurant. Monday morning, she sneezed till her mucus has blood. I was really shocked but later on was assured this is normal... phew. We were very worried that she may not get well in time for her upcoming birthday party on 10th September... so we prayed together for her recovery.
She vomited during sleep, twice in a row i.e. 30th and 31st August. Of course she cries because of the mess. First time was better, she didn't stain much of her bed, only her clothes. Second time I had to change out her bed clothes and sun 2 of her pillows. That night, she sleeps on our bed.
When I put her to bed, I told her story of Larry the Lion. The blanket I lay on her bed has a lion. I told her that's Larry the Lion, in my story the lion prayed for Jasmine. So I told her "the end" and she turned around to sleep. After a while, she turn back to me and said "Larry lion sleeping." "Lion prayed for me" with a very contented smile. :) :) Few hours later, she vomited on the Lion. Hahahaha.
Jasmine tend to recognise wrong person. She calls Josiah Jerome. This was quite some time ago. This month, she calls Sonya as Lisa. -_- We were at Melur, and she suddenly calls a random aunty at Melur "Ah MA!!!" She called so loud!!! We were all puzzled, who? Ah Ma? Then she quickly realise it was wrong person, she kept quiet. Haha!! She also mixed up the names of Moses & Noah. One night when they were playing, I took out the Noah red hairband and put it on Jasper, she said "Moses". -_-
In Skyroom, one night I was clearing the cabinets, took out old boxes that came with the musical mobile which broke. She saw it and immediately wanted to use it as her bear bear's stroller. We helped to keep it in place with the help of tape.
She would get impatient when bear bear cannot stay in position in the big box, and when didi came to destroy it. Good that she could be creative in seeing a normal box as stroller, but she was too possessive over it. @.@
She played with the box for few days until I kept it on top of cabinet. Once she don't see it, she won't ask for it. Once she don't play with it, she won't get frustrated over it.
She took a mint colour clothes peck from Muar and has been using it as her nail clipper. When she "cut" my nail, the peck will close and make a little "tik" sound, exactly like a nail clipper. Smart girl.
When she plays the yellow swing outside, she prefers to stand. And Joshua told her, to stand she must ensure she hold the sides with both hands. So when she needed to scratch her forehead, she will ask for us to stop the swing, she come down, scratch her head and then come back up to continue swinging.
One weekend, she complained to me that her bum bum is painful, when she sits on toilet bowl to poo poo. We fed her some lactul. She drank it very willingly and asked for more after that. See how she sits there just waiting to drink?
She's the best patient seriously. Asked for more medicine, got rejected and felt sad. -_-
Within half hour she managed to poop without pain. Joshua helped her with the poo poo and she told me about it.
We took them for combined salt, and she did not nap at all throughout salt service, no matter how much I tried putting her down on the double stroller! It was only 5pm when we were all in the car, she slept... till 6pm. So at 11pm she was widely awake, she asked for so many thingsssss.... water, niao niao, poo poo (bluff), and rock... -_-
She said "I take one, you take two" to Joshua, when they were debating about how much Vicks to take. It's hilarious to hear this from her. I take 1, you take 2. Classic Jasmine.
We went for bakuteh at Sunway with Ah Yi, and when we're done, we saw a little kitten just outside the shop.
Jasmine followed it and admired it, and talked to it for a while before we made our way home. At home, we coincidentally saw another bigger kitten at back of our house. Joshua took her out to feed the kitten some water and old rice. She was really up close with it, like just one palm distance away. @.@ Getting so brave! Then Joshua closed the door because the cat seems to want to enter our house. We could hear the kitten miao-ing at our back door, Jasmine said to Joshua "u hear kitten? Kitten say I want come in". So now, my girl is also cat language translator.
Sunday, we had the chance to eat lunch with Ken &Joy at Vintage Cafe. That meant the girls had the chance to bond. They played chasing each other after lunch.
Glad to see Jasmine made new friends... especially after seeing Dora pushed her away from playing together the same morning. As a mum, it breaks your heart seeing that your kid got rejected.
Thanks to Ken for taking a family photo for us. :)
5th September, on actual birthday! I played birthday songs on youtube in the car throughout whole journey back from Lian's. Both Jasmine & Jasper enjoyed it. Then we took family photos together again. Jasmine still don't really know that it was a special day, that it was her birthday...
Then Anne bought a slice of pink cake from office, it was already past 10pm... we came down light a little candle, sang a song, let her blow out the candle and cut the cake.
Look at that SMILE!
She had practised the blowing candle and cut cake countless times with her toys.. so being able to put into real practice was a big thing to her!
She was very happy she asked "daddy are you happy?" I wish this family picture wasn't blurrr... -_-
Before sleep, again she refused to share her pink box with Jasper. So I started a bedtime story, trying to address the concept of sharing toys with her sibling. Hopefully this will help correct her behaviour. :) Oh my 3 year-old, may you grow to be a wonderful loving smart adventurous god fearing little girl. :) Mummy loves you so much! (I tell her this multiple times a day!)
Now that she's 3, we plan to stop sending her to Lian. Which means me fetching both to & fro Lian will stop wef 2017. :( I will miss this phase.
Early in the month, we took her out for play dates with Yee See & Jessica Kong. Just to have her interact with other kids. So there were playground plays with Lisa, Asher & Zach. She had a lot of fun, although now Asher & Zach is her favourite imaginary friends, and the 2 boys probably don't think of her as much. Oh well!
It was a playground date that turned out to be more than just playground.
That night after playground date with Zach & Asher, Jessica asked whether we can help babysit for 2 hours. Both Joshua and myself will be home so we said yes. The 2 boys came to play and although they did destroy a bit of the car roller toy... I think Jasmine did have fun. She managed to convince them to push her in the trike. ;)
Zach took the stackable cups and demo-ed to us how to play, in the end Jasmine used it to play drink water.
We took her to the one in SS17 too, it is near Lisa's house and much much bigger.
After the swim with Lisa, we passed by durian stalls and bought some home. The stall owner can't open it up on the spot due to the long queue so Joshua did it in our kitchen. So it was durian education for Jasmine.
In attempt to make our weekend evening tea time more interesting, I told her we can have it on her picnic mat. And that's what we did, we lay out her little picnic blanket on the floor next to dining table and have whatever tea or snacks, including durians. Haha. It's simple yet fun. And now, in her room, she likes to open up the 2 green chairs and pretend cooking food.
We finally bought the inflatable pool for RM180 and tried to inflate it when it arrived. Needless to say, she & Jasper loves it. She particularly was drawn to the basketball hoop.
This was the half deflated pool after 24 hours.
4th August, when I was feeding her dinner, I gave her tomato, she made a sad face and said "this one not nice". I am thankful that she still eat, she didn't vomit out. This little girl is starting to express quite a lot of opinions.
5th August, we had homes, while Joshua was leading praise & worship, she stood next to him, holding her bible outwards, throughout the whole session, like she is co-leading worship! She had observed praise & worship so much she knows how to say "praise the God".
After homes, she often asked to play with the piano. We are definitely planning to buy a piano and get Joshua to start coaching her... maybe after her 4 years old birthday.
She heard us tell Jasper many times, do not eat the door stopper. One day she tried to tell us Jasper got the door stopper again, she said "stopper door" instead. And she knows how to tell Jasper to eat porridge.
8th August, morning drama. She woke up in the morning, came to tell us "must close door". She went back to her room, closed the door and continued sleeping. I believe she had a dream that made her confused with awake or dream... she got up grumpy that morning, cried a lot. At Lian's house, she didn't want to let me go off to work.
9th August, 4am drama. She woke up at 4am, came to our room and said that she had peed in her diaper. The way she walk about in the dark telling us she had peed is just priceless. So I changed her into panty and then she goes back to her own room to sleep. After a little while she came back over and asked for milk. Joshua made the milk for her and she slept off on our bed.
With the bag of clothes from Rose, first was the pink pom pom dress that she wore everyday for about a week or more.
And a dress that is now too big... we will keep it until she's older. We picked out the ones suitable and the rest were donated to DVCC when they had a bazaar sale in September.
I did once for her and didn't want to do it again, it's a lot of strain on our knees, ouch! My knees are all bones compared to Joshua's & Anne's.
So I found a second hand car seat of the brand Evenflo selling for RM300. I like the colour and it fits Jasmine's weight, plus it comes with a built in seat belt. It is for kids 9kg and above. So Joshua took Jasmine along for the COD transaction. On the way back, they drop by Mcd's drive through for ice cream. Joshua said along the way home, she kept telling Joshua to drive slow, otherwise her ice cream drop.
She loves it at first sight. So Jasper took over the Britax one.
That sunday itself, on the way back from church, the first time she was to fall asleep in it... she realised there are no headrest like the Britax car seat. She told me she wants to change car seat. I feel so sorry for her... so I tried to put Joshua's jacket on the side for her to rest her read.... and she fell asleep on it despite it being uncomfortable. The next time she was to sleep again, I tried to give her a small pillow, didn't work, I even offered her my red head pillow, she laughed and said "no mummy, this is too big, this one your one".
Meanwhile I'm thankful when she stop asking to change back to the old car seat and just live with it. I did try to give her the little car seat cushions on the strap, but I know they can't do much... this was us on our way back to Muar.. yes a Muar trip, Jasmine is quite adaptive. :)
Lian told me she's been saying "dream come true" and we were all clueless where she learn this from. One morning I told her to do writing at Lian's house. She replied "I scribble". Wow. Bedtime reading, she will point at Peter & Jane book and said "this one not good". But after she changed into her pyjamas came back, she saw the merry go round book cover on Peter & Jane book, she said "so fun so funny".
Her pink box, I gave her a pack of tissue to put into those tiny drawer. She made me pretend sneezing so that she could help me wipe off my nose with it.
We took her to take the BRT bus. We took train last month and thought will be nice to take bus so she knows the difference.
This was us on the way back. We switched kid.
13th August, that weekend, she was particularly whinny! We couldn't stand the whining, we had to raise our voice to scold. One night Joshua was putting them to bed, he said she tried to play with Jasper but too rough and made Jasper cry. She understood that didi doesn't want to play with her, she took her pillows and said "I go outside". We were like WHAT?? She said to Joshua "I hit you with spoon" Joshua asked "why?" she said "because you not listening to me." And then she said "daddy u not listening to me, I go away". @.@ Don't tell me she's going to be emo teen. -_-
In the masterbedroom, we had the white back of the chest drawer in middle of the room, she put some smiley stickers on it and looks like white board where she played teacher game, asking us to repeat after her. She will say 1 to 10 but often miss out 6, and then she can also jumble up the numbers without sequence. Sometimes she even come up with random words where I must repeat. @.@ The random names continues when she gives to each train in the thomas book. It's weird, sounds like another language altogether and I don't know how she can think of them, like "tamenum". This one is quite popular that's why I can remember, others... no.. only Jasmine will know.
She is beginning to love to do things on her own, like open water bottle, wear & remove pants, button up her pyjamas top, whether the press type or the hole type. Of course the success % is small as a start, but she will be really proud of her little achievements! We celebrate together! :) I give her big hugs to tell her I am proud of her. Another major thing she likes to do is coming down the toilet bowl herself after wee wee. That time she did it, came to tell us "you know? I come down myself?" :) Usually she waits for us to come help her come down, but she is learning to come down herself now and was super proud. And she even helped herself with the water tap.. and close the door in between poo poo. One night, she was so eager to show Joshua how she come down herself that she lose balance and fell back on the toilet bowl.. and cried. :( Other things she figured out herself is open and close the toyogo box lock all by myself. None of us taught her to do it. She is also able to drink water from my big grey bottle, while in the car. I was driving. So afraid she might pour it all over her clothes but it didn't happen. She's good at balancing.
She's speaking faster & more - "you know?" "Remember?" "hmm?" "I can open..." "I come down myself..." She's becoming little chatterbox! She suddenly recall last family day (somewhere in May) where there's a teacher who drew a red with white polka dot ribbon on her arm. She described it and asked us whether we remember this & that, with really cute facial expression.
During Acts Kids, one of the teachers asked where are her toes. She said "wait I show you" and took out her sandals to show off her toes.
17th August, she fell down in the living room and also at upstairs landing area. Other than falling down herself, she also pushed Japser to fall down in our room. Of course Jasper cry, she said sorry. Sometimes she prefers Jasper to behave like a baby, just lie down and not move about, so she tend to push him to fall down on his back, by force.
I saw Lian tied 2 pony tails for her one evening when I went to pick her up... she looks different, in a good way. :) Hello there, cuteness multiplied. :)
That gave me motivation to tie 2 pony tails for her acts kids outfit. I tested it once before bed.
After service, we went to Vintage Cafe for lunch, with the Kongs. Asher was eating a pack of muruku, and Jasmine said she wants some, just before Joshua take her to the toilet for poo poo. So I said to her, she can eat it after she's done with poo poo.
Her finger is almost all the time blocking half the lense.
Some mornings, when I have to leave Lian's house for work, she said "no! mummy no need go to work" I told her I have to work to bring back money, to buy food for her" she said "I am not hungry"..... Some morning, if Kayden comes early and start crying for mummy or daddy who drops him off, she will follow suit, to cry when I leave too.
Bedtime, one day I was sleep next to her as usual, she said to me "mummy I want drink didi nen nen" while touching my breasts. I told her.. tomorrow. Haha. and thanks to her for forgetting about it.
Lian had gotten rid of all her soft toys and then there's this monkey piggy bank that Jasmine had claimed as her baby. Lian said Jasmine did role played breastfeeding this monkey. Hahahaha..
We have been reading lesser books with her due to coming to bed late after watching MKR, and also the time taken for stories telling. I feel bad.. and have been waiting to up the game on books again.
Finally at end of August, our MKR has ended!! I felt free!! We stop watching tv at night and we fill in the time with some art & craft.
We come to the room to start the bedtime routine much earlier. Use to be 10.30pm but now we are up here as early as 9pm.
There's an old story book I took from Muar that she loves. It's about kids walking to school and got into an accident, that required a bandage on the knee. The pages were coming off, so I taped it back nicely and gave it a good wrap. One night during dinner, she was reading / flipping the pages while feeding herself. I would love to see this more! I don't mind a book worm girl. :)
Her favourite snacks are generally biscuits, pine nuts or anything related to chocolate.
Occasionally she will ask us to put her into didi's playpen.
The way she play with Jasper, sometimes she is ok, sometimes she bullies, sometimes she reacts as if she was bullied.
I did slowly create a system, where the toys are a little segregated. The ones that are safe for Jasper to chew on and the ones that are not. So whenever she plays, I told her to give to Jasper his toys as well, to avoid him coming to her toys. It works for a while, it's called the art of distraction. Haha.
One evening she woke up from nap grumphy and crying... Jasper leaned over to kiss her. :)
First time having both of them on swing together, made possible by this awesome baby swing in Setia Alam. Why can't we have these in SS15 playground right.
We went to Morgansfield for dinner one weekday night... she eats the rice Aunty Lian cooked. Being her bubbly self and was extremely willing to pose for the camera.
This month we took family wefie in front of our house. Really have to take moreeeeee... note to self.
She is requesting for lesser midnight milk even though she wakes up and come over to our room. Few times she doesn't even wake any of us up, just put her pillows up and climb up herself.
We went back to Muar. She played a lot with Evelyn this time. Partially due to her feeling unwell, heavy running nose that made her drowsy and grumphy. So a lot of doctor games.
She did some outdoor play with Evelyn. At first she was supposed to be shooting the ball, but she rather not.. they somehow ended up using the broom stick to hit the ball like hockey.
Then, Evelyn even did a little high jump with her, where she hold the stick slightly above ground and Jasmine jumped over it. Jasmine was so natural at it I was surprised. I took a few videos of it. :D She really jumped over the stick with both feet in the air and then landed safety like a pro.
Her hair is quite long so I tried to tie it up for her to keep them away from her face. But she kept pulling it off. After I got angry at her, she told me "pain". Oops, ok. That means she has same problem as me. I often felt the hair pulling too hard whenever I tried to tie my hair as well, since young!
I experimented new hairstyle on her. She was only excited about it for a while before she pulls them off.
She vomited during sleep, twice in a row i.e. 30th and 31st August. Of course she cries because of the mess. First time was better, she didn't stain much of her bed, only her clothes. Second time I had to change out her bed clothes and sun 2 of her pillows. That night, she sleeps on our bed.
When I put her to bed, I told her story of Larry the Lion. The blanket I lay on her bed has a lion. I told her that's Larry the Lion, in my story the lion prayed for Jasmine. So I told her "the end" and she turned around to sleep. After a while, she turn back to me and said "Larry lion sleeping." "Lion prayed for me" with a very contented smile. :) :) Few hours later, she vomited on the Lion. Hahahaha.
Jasmine tend to recognise wrong person. She calls Josiah Jerome. This was quite some time ago. This month, she calls Sonya as Lisa. -_- We were at Melur, and she suddenly calls a random aunty at Melur "Ah MA!!!" She called so loud!!! We were all puzzled, who? Ah Ma? Then she quickly realise it was wrong person, she kept quiet. Haha!! She also mixed up the names of Moses & Noah. One night when they were playing, I took out the Noah red hairband and put it on Jasper, she said "Moses". -_-
In Skyroom, one night I was clearing the cabinets, took out old boxes that came with the musical mobile which broke. She saw it and immediately wanted to use it as her bear bear's stroller. We helped to keep it in place with the help of tape.
When she plays the yellow swing outside, she prefers to stand. And Joshua told her, to stand she must ensure she hold the sides with both hands. So when she needed to scratch her forehead, she will ask for us to stop the swing, she come down, scratch her head and then come back up to continue swinging.
One weekend, she complained to me that her bum bum is painful, when she sits on toilet bowl to poo poo. We fed her some lactul. She drank it very willingly and asked for more after that. See how she sits there just waiting to drink?
We took them for combined salt, and she did not nap at all throughout salt service, no matter how much I tried putting her down on the double stroller! It was only 5pm when we were all in the car, she slept... till 6pm. So at 11pm she was widely awake, she asked for so many thingsssss.... water, niao niao, poo poo (bluff), and rock... -_-
She said "I take one, you take two" to Joshua, when they were debating about how much Vicks to take. It's hilarious to hear this from her. I take 1, you take 2. Classic Jasmine.
We went for bakuteh at Sunway with Ah Yi, and when we're done, we saw a little kitten just outside the shop.
Sunday, we had the chance to eat lunch with Ken &Joy at Vintage Cafe. That meant the girls had the chance to bond. They played chasing each other after lunch.
Thanks to Ken for taking a family photo for us. :)
We played hide & seek with her after that. So much laughinggggg! She hides behind curtains and stuffs. She enjoyed searching for us behind curtains and sofas. I hide behind the short curtain, and she tried to do the same but she's too short so it didn't cover her up at all! It's so funny. We always find her laughing at where she hides. :D
So birthday means birthday presents... I am big on "doing things for people I love". So actually had an idea to transform this vintage furniture into a doll house for Jasmine. What I need to do is just paint the inside white and put in her toys. Gotta find time to do it!
Now that she's 3, we plan to stop sending her to Lian. Which means me fetching both to & fro Lian will stop wef 2017. :( I will miss this phase.
That said, we will soon need to take a day off to visit few kindy near our house to select one that we will send her to. Below 2 are the ones I found in SS17 during an intentional drive after a playground date with Lisa in mid August. Q-dees and Eden.
So, now I know, 3 year old is a huge milestone. My Jasmine understood birthday celebration at 3 year old... and our plan to send her to school... will start to feel urgent at this stage too. It's not just my kids are growing up, I too have to grow up as a parent... :) You won't know it until you become one. :)
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