Last Sunday, at my grandpa’s place, Chloe did something that makes everyone laugh so hard.
She was running about in the living room and she tripped herself, ended up kneeling on the floor near the dining table.
Without crying (she usually doesn’t cry when she falls), she gets up and went to “complain” to hubby that she fell. Since she can’t really talk yet, she acted out the whole drama to hubby.
From where she starts to run, to the exact spot she fell, how she fell…all in full details.
Hubby assures her that it’s ok and soothes her knees. She doesn’t seem to be pacified. She continued to point to the floor to hubby, as if wanting hubby to acknowledge the seriousness of the fall.
My mum, who was in the kitchen when it happens, heard us laughing and came out to ask what happen. After hearing the story, she asked Chloe to show her where she fell. Chloe immediately jumps at the opportunity and acted out the drama for the 2nd time.
We can’t stop laughing as most of the us saw how she fell the first time round, it was just a small fall but she made it a big deal out of it.
We will have to get used to having a queen at home. A drama queen that is…. -_-
Chloe can now say 1 – 10 in Chinese; she will say it after us. She pronounced all clearly except for 6, she is barely audible when it comes to 6.
Guess she’s finding it tough to pronounce. It’s no hurry; I’m already a proud mummy that she can do the other nine numbers.
Quite surprised that she know her numbers in Chinese first as hubby and I converse to her more in English & Cantonese.
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She recently likes to point and say loudly to “A” & “B” on top of the lifts whenever she reaches the lift landing. She can also say some other letters like “m, o, t”.
Just yesterday we were at NTUC, she was checking out a kid’s toothpaste. She points to letters while reading out loud “T…..O….O…..T” in the word toothpaste, then she proceed to read “O….O….M….O”. She went thru it a couple of time…that’s all she can manage so far.
Orchard Road’s Christmas lightings started yesterday so we kiasu-ly brought the kids to see after an early dinner at home.
Drove from Tanglin Road to Paragon. We just spent our time at Paragon, took photos, shopped abit then headed home, the kids were all tired as it’s way past their bedtime.
We plan to go there early for our next trip, probably spend half a day there so we can see the decorations in the various shopping malls. 
Paragon as usual, puts on an elegant look
Photo is abit blur, it’s tough to ask 2 young kids to stand still and pose.
Bro & family
My dad joined us after he finished work.
Dad with Kate & Chloe
Our family
Walked past this store selling camouflage-print hooded jacket and it only cost $8! Cheap buys like makes me happy (the auntie in me is talking). I believe that you don’t need very expensive clothes to dress your kid well. I always wait for sales, especially warehouse sales than I buy, this way, I don’t need to compromise on style due to budget. 
As usual, Kate ask me what I buy the moment she saw the bag. we let them try on for size, it must be my lucky day cos both of them were very co-operative when I ask them to pose for pictures.
Words of the moment
Queen, circle (ci-ker), square (quare), mei mei, water (ter), sticker (ticker), bao bao (when she want you to carry her), yi chang (when you lift her up), car.
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No, no, no, no
Cannot understand why toddlers like to say ‘no” so much. Nowadays, Chloe says no to EVERYTHING!
Give her something? No! (shaking her head vigorously while blabber some baby language)
Take something from her? No! (repeat above action)
Ask to her bath? No! (again, as above)
Ask to her finish all her milk? No! (you know the head shaking pattern by now)
At times, I wonder if she will feel giddy from all her head shaking.
Whenever we guess wrongly what she exactly want after the head shaking routine, she will get frustrated and start throwing tantrums.
As much as I understand the tantrums comes from the frustrations she’s facing due to having difficulties expressing her thoughts blah blah blah………..BUT I have frustrations from not understanding what’s she frustrated about too!!!
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Reading
Chloe loves to read by herself now. She will let me read the book once with her on my lap then she will take the book from me, sit away and read it by herself. No matter how I try to convince her to read together, she will refuse. She will starts to get irritated when I ask her a few more times.
Not only does she wants to read by herself, she also refuse to stop when I ask her to. Almost everyday I will let her read before bedtime. When I tell to read for the last time then go to bed, she will put up her fore-finger to show me “Ok, I read one last time” but it always doesn’t turn out that way.
I tried all ways to convince her, exchange the book with her beloved blankie, ask from her nicely, ask her to keep it herself……all won’t work, she will throw tantrums by kicking her legs and screaming. I even try giving her a firm tone and tell her it’s bedtime and she needs to keep the book but she still won’t give in.
Oh “Mr Cane” doesn’t work for this case, the moment I mentioned that I will invite “Mr Cane” to come, she will scream and cry even louder. Love reading so much meh??…..sigh.
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催眠曲
I played classical music for Chloe during bedtime, the initial plan was hoping to lure her to sleep but I wasn’t expecting it to really work.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one piece of music that never fails to make her sleep fast, 99% of the time she will be asleep before the music ends.
When I was pregnant with Chloe, I used to listen to this CD that is for pregnant mums when I sleep, with Pachelbel’s Canon in D as first piece in the CD. I used to fall asleep before it ends as well. Hmmm, wonder if there’s any link…….well, no way to verify it.
Yesterday my mum called me to check on something then she asked if I want to talk to Chloe. It’s the first time Chloe react when you ask her to talk to the person on the phone, usually she will just listen by holding the phone. Although she only managed to say “mummy” twice, it’s already good enough for me.
She’s also amused that she can hear my voice from the phone. Today I “talked” to her again.
We brought Chloe to buy a new water bottle as her current one is too small. She drinks a lot of water, the normal size kind she’s using now can’t last me for half a day’s outing.
Went to Kiddy Palace at Marina Square, they have kiddy rides and a new playground just outside Kiddy Palace now. Halfway thru the kiddy ride, Chloe wanted hubby to carry her instead. Just when we thought she didn’t want the ride anymore, she wanted to sit down and “drive” herself again.
While we were having dinner, she was in her cheeky mood. So cheeky that she started to make funny faces at us when we feed her.
It’s been raining the whole of Saturday and we were worried that if the rain lasted till Sunday morning, it will ruin our usual breakfast trip. So…..we bought sausages and eggs to make breakfast at home instead.
Chloe doesn’t have a lot of chance to eat by herself. She can handle the food much better compare to last time, at least she will do so when I ask her to hold the plate. Think I should create more chance for her to practice.
In the afternoon, we went over to my grandpa’s place. Chloe is always happy to be there cos all the grand-uncles & grand-aunt will not say no to her tidbits request.
Every time she’s there, she go to my uncles’ room, bring the tidbits and ask them to open it for her. When I tell her to stop, she will go to another uncle’s room and do the same thing. When you scold her, she will give you the “but it’s from different person” pity look.
Today I got bothered by a tiny white spider that appers on my windscreen while driving. I kept telling Jan that I’m very bothered by it even after she ensure me that the spider is outside the car, not inside.
On second look, we both realized that the spider is inside the car. I think for fear that that I will put her life at risk when I freak out (yah, I’m afraid of small bugs/ insects/ whatever you call them), she bravely grab a tissue and proceeds to kill the spider.
Then……instead of killing it on the spot, she swept the little fellow onto my steering wheel. I screamed on the spot!!! Thank god that we were stopped at red light.
After killing the spider, she gave me a very duhz look and says she doesn’t understand why I’m afraid of something so small. She says the spider looks cute cos you hardly see a spider that is all white. Well, I don’t understand why she finds it cute too. ^o)
She told me that she just killed one bug for Fynn (her elder daughter) over the last weekend and now she have to do it for me. We both think that Fynn should be my daughter since we have the same likes and fears…heehee.
Then we giggled and talked about our phobias thoughout the journey home.
To repay her bravery for killing the spider, I made a pact to kill cockroaches for her, that’s her worst phobia.
