Mommy, I am going to make you a birthday card

with lots and lots and lots of hearts! 

4Y Kodi talks

"Mommy, why did they call a school of fish? does fish go to school?"


"媽咪 你喜歡butternut squash 嗎?"
"是啊"
"但我更~更~更~ 喜歡!" (語氣很誇張 每個"更"都有拉長 強調程度不同)

A rare nap

 

很久不睡午覺的嘉  今天睡了將近三個小時

現在她的作息是每天傍晚七點鐘上床睡覺 早上七點起床

這午覺睡得舒服 媽媽我也樂的清閒

但代價是 晚上摸到九點還睡不著

4Y chopsticks

Yeah! look how well Kodi can eat noodles with a pair of chopsticks! 

4Y2M Kodi talks

Kodi 去上的體操課裡 從去年開始有個金髮小男生Jasper 跟他很要好 兩個人經常在上課的時候自己玩 玩到老師會插手干預 停止他們的互動 今年春天小男生滿四歲後就升級到另一班 Kodi 有一陣子沒見到他 偶爾還會問起 Jasper 還有沒有來上課?

現在他也滿四歲了 也跟Jasper 升到同一個班 兩人許久不見 感情依舊很好 一見面就表現友好  互相擁抱 搔癢 Jasper 拉拉他的小辮子 Kodi 開心的笑 兩個人進了gym 在同一塊墊子上玩翻滾 拉單槓 活動的時候兩個人也形影不離

下課後我問她
"Jasper 好像很喜歡你耶"
Kodi " 對阿"
"那你喜歡Jasper 嗎?"
"我喜歡阿 但我沒有很喜歡他 我很喜歡他 但我沒有非常非常喜歡他"

"那你有非常非常喜歡的人嗎?"
"沒有 我喜歡我自己"
我想了一想 回答她"我有很喜歡的人耶 像是你跟爸爸"
"可是 我比較喜歡你 (媽咪), 因為爸爸很臭"
我幾乎忍不住噗哧笑了一聲 "但爸爸臭臭的我還是很喜歡他呀"


莫名其妙
星期天下午 一家人坐在old town cafe 喝茶吃點心 聊到了某件事情"莫名其妙" 嘉原本在畫畫 塗然抬起頭很開心地說 "我也莫名其妙耶"
我們問她 "你為什麼莫名其妙?"
"因為我很好奇阿!"

"媽咪  我要驚訝你！“

4Y Hair cut

Kodi has been begging for a haircut lately. Somehow she thinks getting a haricut is a cool and fun thing to do even though she would like to grow super long hairs, just like the way princess Rapunzel wears her long and thick braids of hair.

July 4th

美國國慶節
爸爸特地休假一天

中午來Tanglin mall  吃美國連鎖店的油膩食物 chili's!


順便犒賞小孩坐搖搖樂

我跟嘉一起做了一個巧克力的國旗蛋糕
裝飾果醬條紋時不小心噗哧跑出來很多

 

下午去了一趟新加坡的郵政博物館
小小的地方 但很有趣

有不少地方讓小朋友互動

看到了各個國家的迷你型郵筒

3Y11M Kodi talks

嘉問 "媽媽 花和麵粉我經常分不清楚耶 "
flour vs. flower.

這個月初從普吉島玩回來後
游泳大有進步 在水高及胸的游泳池裡不用浮具
下樓游泳時仍然會提醒她帶著floaties
她說" 我已經會游泳了 再用floatie 就會變成小 baby"

3Y11M swimming!

On this lovely Saturday, May 11th, Kodi (and us too) discovered the excitement of swimming without the help of arm bands! She was able to put her head down in the water, hold the breadth for about 10 seconds, and stay afloat and push herself forward. Fun!

The next day she swam with Shermaine and the neighbors, she was very proud to show off her new skills. I'm just glad that the four private swimming lessons we shared with Momo, although made both of us very sick for a month, helped!

3Y10M one leg stand

Getting really good at standing on one foot. She calls "flamingo pose"!

Friends sleeping

3Y10M Kodi speaks

"天上五顏六色"

”我的技術越來越好 打結都可以拆開"

聊到弟弟妹妹的事情

嘉恍然大悟般說 “只能生一個啦 （邊用食指點阿點） 因為我們只有一個car seat!”“ 

"Snow in Singapore. "  

3Y10M first eye check up

 

All passed!

And it turns out that Kodi knows her alphabets too!

3Y10M Kodi speaks

The latest jotting down of conversations with Kodi

"這個可以擦手 不能擦嘴巴" 然後指著洗臉毛巾說 "這個可以擦嘴不能擦手" 
 最近他習慣拿掛在牆上的擦手毛巾抹嘴 (譬如說 吃完飯後洗手洗嘴 然後就用同一條毛巾擦嘴) 我覺得這樣不衛生 畢竟擦手毛巾一星期才清洗一次 所以我教他要用洗臉的小毛巾擦嘴 但洗臉毛巾掛在身後的牆上 對他來說比較不方便 所以他還是經常拿擦手毛巾擦嘴 講過幾次後我的聲音也有點大 總怕他臉上擦到髒東西 這天刷牙 刷完牙後嘴邊有些泡沫 他指著擦手毛巾說 "這個可以擦手 不能擦嘴巴" 然後指著洗臉毛巾說 "這個可以擦嘴不能擦手" 


"媽媽 灰色是最淺的黑色 對嗎?"
回台灣過中國新年的時候給嘉嘉添了一件深灰色的圓領衫 穿在毛衣裡當作底層保暖 回來新加坡後因為貼身直料軟穿起來很舒服 就當作睡衣來穿 嘉嘉一向喜歡粉紅色 但破例對這件灰色跟"爸爸的衣服一樣顏色"  (爸爸有很多件深灰色的內衣 穿在襯衫裡面) 很有興趣 經常說要這件配上另外一條灰底白色小星星的長褲睡覺

"Mommy, I saw you was walking"
 Mommy was doing workout at the gym while Kodi and daddy played by the lawn. She saw me "was walking" on the elliptical machine.


"There are bad peoples and you need to hold mommy and daddy's hands" - March 26th, 2013
最近跟他聊起關於"壞人"的事情  他很難理解壞人到處都有但看不出來是誰 這樣抽象的概念 所以具體化的方式就是告訴他出門時一定要牽緊爸爸或媽媽的手 跟Joy出去時也要牽好她的手 這樣才安全 經過她自己的理解後 有一天用英文講了這句


"媽媽 蛋黃咬下去要怎麼說 入口消化嗎?"
我忘了最初是因為吃什麼食物講起"入口即化" 我說一放進嘴巴就融化了很好吃的意思 她很喜歡這四個字的成語 這天吃白煮蛋 她覺得很好吃 想到"入口消化"

3Y9M Visit to the dentist

Kodi's second trip to the dentist.

We had our first trip to the dentist about one year ago. The lady dentist was fine but she wasn't in particular toddler friendly, I thought. She suggested that we should quite her thumb sucking habit as soon as possible, otherwise it may interfere with her teeth alignment. We are very thankful we did, a journey in and of it self that took 3 months to complete the process.

We decided to try Dr. Rashid, a Singaporean dentist seemingly specialized in taking care of the little teeth!

First impression, colorful waiting area with lot of toys and books. Thumbs up!

Dr. Rashid came to greet us. He is very friendly and seems to get along with kids well. Kodi likes him and giggled from time to time. She got on the dentist chair willingly and put on a cute sunglasses for Dr. Rashid to check all her teeth carefully. She watched Barney from a TV hung above the ceiling.

There was a small beginning sign of decay in the back of her upper front teeth. He said not to worry now because it may not go bad enough to take any action before she gets rid of her baby teeth. 

There were also white rim/line found around the bottom of her two lower first molars. He said this is the beginning of tooth decay when the teeth become more porous and stuff get trapped in that gap. However it is reversible if we make sure that we clean well and stay away from sugar. 

A huge thing I learned today is that, taking care of your teeth has more to do with limiting the exposure to sugar rather than how frequent you bruth your teeth. Wait... that doesn't sound entirely right. We still need to bruth and floss but having a chocolate bar and brush soon immediately afterward is not going to negate the effect because the exposure is already there. Am I making sense? 

A friendly lady hygienist came after Dr. Rashid finished his examination. She gave me a detaild walk through using a big fake teeth to demonstrate the proper brushing technique. She also instructed me that sugar is always bad for teeth, although they say natural sugar found in fruits (not fruit juice) is fine. Therefore, a wie parent would try to limit giving kids sweet snacks in between meals. Sounds simple and doable, doesn't it?

Here are a quick jot downs of the take home message.

Instead of a sweet biscuits, give her butter toast, pretzel, cheese, crackers or other savory stuff. 

No fruit juice no matter how 100% or healthy it seems like.  

Fruits are always ok (even grapes!) but dried fruits are not.

Yogurt is good but try the original, non-sweetened kind (a good thing that we make our own yogurt!)

If we "must" give her sweets (which happens very often in our house because we all love desserts in this house), serve it soon after a meal to limit the frequency of exposure of sugar to the teeth. 

Yeah we passed the check up! I am always worried about her teeth because I had bad teeth growing up. Now that I reflect upon what the lady said, I probably ate many sweet stuff even though I did bruth my teeth twice a day and rinse my mouth in between snacks. However, I probably had too much "exposure" to sugary stuff because of my sweet tooth! 

Some changes in the snack box and get disciplined in when we eat that piece of cookie and chocolate cake!