When my brother was a young child, my grandmother had a routine of plonking him in front of the TV at meal times. He’d stare at the flickering screen, mouth agape into which my grandma will quickly scoop spoonfuls of rice.
Years later, I remember thinking that this is such parenting faux pas. No way [...]
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TV dinner
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Falling
Posted in Parenting, Xinyue on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Xy fell down today on a concrete pavement.
It happened during her daily evening walk with her grandaunt and cousin. She ran, tripped and fell.
The good news is, other than a bit of an abrasion on her chin and a very tiny scratch on her knee, she is thankfully okay. It certainly hasn’t stopped her [...]
Recently..
Posted in Daily musings, Parenting, Xinyue on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Xy has this habit of grabbing my arm and using it as her bolster. She’d stir in our bed in the middle of the night, sometimes calling me in her sleep (mah-mee… mah-mee..!). She’d grope around for my arm and once she found it, she snuggles in the nook of my elbow and eventually goes [...]
Our weekend routine
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Parenting, Shopping, Xinyue on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our weekends usually start with breakfast with the gramps at a nearby coffee shop.
Here is Xy playing with our food money.
Then we return home, cook the little ones’ meals, catch a brief breather. After Xy wakes up from her nap, we feed and change her and head out.
Ms Poh likes to have some [...]
Mirror mirror on the wall
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bedtime routine
Posted in Daily musings, Parenting, Xinyue on September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
KJ and I have a system. We take turns putting Xy to bed on alternate nights. If it was his night, I’d babysit while he showers, and vice versa. Then we read with her or play silly games until it’s about 5 hours since her last nap. Then we wind down and start our ‘sleeping [...]
Fidgets
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After hearing various good reviews of Fidgets, we finally made our visit yesterday.
It is perhaps the first time Xy has seen so many young children at one place and she was a little apprehensive at first. There was a birthday party when we went and the place was spilling over with kids. The ground was [...]
Xy’s new discovery
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On one uneventful Sunday, our little girl discovered the amusement of an ill-fitted storm drain cover.
You know how some storm drain/man-hole covers rock from side to side when they don’t fit properly and they make a ‘kuk-kuk-kuk’ sound? Some of us don’t even notice such a mundane thing but for a 16 month old, it [...]
Teething pains
Posted in Daily musings, Parenting, Xinyue on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After a few months’ hiatus, our teething woes are back. Not only do we get hourly waking at night, feeding and handling Xy have become an even bigger test of patience with the added crankiness.
Because she is cutting molars this time, I suppose the pain from her sore gums are more unbearable. While she usually [...]
Xinyue : 16 months
Posted in Parenting, Xinyue on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where do I begin? To tell a story of a girl who’s suddenly 16 months old?
Xy had quite a tough month, starting with a bout of very high fever late last month. It reached almost 40 deg at one point and she broke out in rashes afterwards. Thankfully it was just a viral fever. We [...]
