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Hannah at 34 months

January 24, 2012 in Hannah, Milestones | No comments

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Scrap Credits
May Morn kit from Carjazi Designs
Stamp Cluster 7 from Lindsay Jane Designs
Romance elements from Valentina’s Creations

Weight

14 kilos (it was 14.3 kilos at the doc’s on Feb 1st)

Height

About 91 cm

Teeth

19 teeth, or almost there… Right now, she has 4 incisors on the upper jaw, 3 incisors bottom jaw; 2 canines upper jaw, 2 canines bottom jaw; 4 pramolars and 4 more back pramolars are making their appearance slowly but surely.

Developmental Milestones

Can go to sleep on her own at times, but still wakes up at night crying sometimes. She’ll only want Mommy then. These few nights she has also been screaming a lot at night. Hopefully it’s just a phase and will end soon.
Her favorite position to fall asleep in is with my hand under her body and the other hugging her. She won’t hesitate to ask “I want someone to hug me”, or she’ll even instruct me to “Sleep straight, Mommy” and then she will position my hands 😛
Loves going to school and will proudly tell us all her friends’ names and also that she knows her brothers’ friends’ names. She’ll also tell us what she did in school, and what she ate in school. And she’ll boast that she’s a “big girl”.

Toilet Training

Toilet training has seen a vast improvement in the recent weeks. She wears pull-ups when she is in school, which makes her feel like a “big girl”. And now she will tell us when she needs to go pee pee. When we are out, she’ll tell me, “Mommy, I need to go pee pee. I’m wearing pull-ups so I can go. I can hold, Mommy.”

I’ve told her that if she can keep her pull-ups dry, I’ll let her wear panties 🙂

Food and Feeding

Very adventurous in her food, and will try almost anything, as long as it’s not *spicy* 😛

All Dressed Up for Chinese New Year in School!

January 22, 2012 in Celebrations, Ethan, Hannah | 1 comment

Ethan and Hannah had a Chinese New Year school celebration last Friday, where the kids were requested to dress up in their traditional attire or something red. Managed to snap this cute picture before we left for school.

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Adorable, ain’t it?

She specifically requested me to plait her hair that way for her. 🙂

No, I didn’t forget the Christmas 2011 post…

January 19, 2012 in Celebrations, Ethan, Hannah, Vacation | No comments

Before it goes way past Chinese New Year and I have another to-do post to publish, allow me to take you back to the not too distant past and share how we celebrated our Christmas last year.

Our Christmas Eve was spent in Taiping, and although most adults looked forward to the steamboat dinner, the kids’ highlight of the day would be the paddle pool session, courtesy of Ethan & Hannah’s Patrick Ah Chek. It was an impromptu session, so I did not pack the kids’ swimsuits, but we made do with shorts and tank tops anyways.

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It was certainly a welcome activity in the hot scorching weather (if only the pool was bigger, I would have hopped in myself!). The kids really enjoyed themselves, save for cousin Jonathan, who was taking his afternoon nap.

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Definitely a great prequel to the yummy steamboat dinner we had at home that night. No fancy restaurant could beat a cozy gathering at home with family, and warm food for the tummy…

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…and that’s how it came to be…all the screaming and noise died down when the four cousins fell to the temptation of ice cream…

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All the bowls had equal amounts of ice cream, but Hannah, no surprise at all, finished her bowl first and asked for seconds…look at her eyeing Phoebe’s bowl…

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After-dinner activity for the kids: Uncle Tee Bin busy *hiding* candy canes on the Christmas tree, and then getting the kids to look for them.

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Next: gift time! Because of logistic reasons and because “some people” were too eager to open their presents, we had a first round of gifts that Christmas eve.

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We went to church after that, and only came back home after midnight. The kids were really tired and fell asleep soundly.

And so did I.

On Christmas Day we took a drive to Ipoh, and the kids were very excited to see Ah Ma and Ah Kong again. It was very apparent that they’d missed my Dad because they kept sticking close to him, especially Hannah.

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We had a scrumptious dinner at a restaurant which frankly serves the best chicken chop ever 🙂

It was back home to Penang the next day where we had a few more presents to open. Ethan had handpicked a present especially for Hannah, from himself:

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…and he was visibly touched when he found out that Hannah also had a gift for him. He was eagerly looking forward to opening it.

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Oh How My Babies Have Grown!

January 4, 2012 in Ethan, Growing Up, Hannah, Milestones, Parenting | No comments

They won’t let me call them “Baby” anymore, but I still do..sometimes.

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Today both Ethan and Hannah got ready to go to school. Ethan is in Kindergarten 2 this year and Hannah is starting off in Playgroup level. They had both been looking forward to this day for months, and Ethan had been planning with his sister on how she should wait for him after dismissal, how he would hold her hand and take her to her class, etc. The night before, Ethan was too excited to fall asleep, and I believe he only slept at around midnight.

It was a miracle we managed to get ready and left the house at about 8:15a.m. this morning.

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Then again, miracles happen when kids cooperate, wouldn’t you agree?

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So anyway, we arrived in school and we found out the kids’ new class names. Ethan very independently walked up the stairs to his new K2 class and started playing with his friends again.

As for Hannah, since it is her first time in school, there is an orientation program that lasts till the end of next week, where the parent is allowed to accompany the child in class to sort of ease the process of being in school, away from the parent. This is a very important step to alleviate separation anxiety where possible, and during this period, Hannah’s class will only run for 2 hours a day.

Well, she seemed okay today, and was willing to sit on her own listening to stories and doing her art and crafts. She was also very happy and enjoyed herself while playing in the playground. Of course, it certainly helped that she had already been going to this same school for her once-a-week parent-toddler class the previous year and her teacher was the same one she had.

Lunch, consisting of meesuah soup, was served at about 11:30a.m., and Hannah readily finished the entire bowl. Afterward she even had a few slices of apples.

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