table manners 101

earlier, at the dinner table, gabie was eating using only his right hand ... he's not using the fork, as usual ...

since he is making a lot of mess, i reminded him, "gabie, use your 2 hands when eating."

and he did ... he used his two hands to hold the spoon!

i was hoping he'd use his left hand for the fork ... lol ...

lesson learned: when dealing with kids, be specific ... be very specific ...

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e-learning

mikee was holding a ministry of health booklet for kids ... the booklet is covered with a cartoon of a group of people ...

mikee said, "wow, many people here!" ...

then she started counting ... "one, two, three ... nine, ten, e-leven, e-twelve, e-thirteen, e-fourteen, e-fifteen, e-sixteen, ... "

and that's what i call e-learning ... lol ...


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pet society

i was playing with yoville in facebook earlier when mikee came to me and told me she also wants to play with the bunny ... it didn't take much for me to understand what she meant ... i knew right away that she meant pet society ... miggy's been playing with it a lot this past weekend ...

and since i don't have a pet society account, i asked miggy to lend mikee his pet for a while until i've created my own account that mikee can play with ... (and yes, miggy has his own facebook account, now stop raising that eyebrow) ... since mikee already started crying, miggy (unwillingly) opened pet society for her and left her playing with it for a while ...

and then ... the next thing we know, miggy's blue pet is already a pink "bunny" hahaha


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a fringe

this afternoon, i gave mikee another haircut ... i don't know what's wrong with her hair but she always have split-ends in her crown area ... i just gave her a haircut last week for exactly the same reason ... and when i checked yesterday, the split-ends are back again!

so, i gave her another haircut today ... since the split-ends are in her crown, i gave her a fringe ... and she didn't like it hahaha ... from the time i finished cutting her hair, she just kept repeating that she doesn't like her hair ... she thinks it makes her look like a boy ... (i think it makes her look more like a little chinese girl) ...

i guess it's because she's not used to having a fringe ... from the time she was born, this is only the second time that i gave her fringes ... the first time was when she was only one and she's too young to care ... and now ... well, i thought she's still too young to care what i do with her hair ... well, apparently, i'm wrong heehee ...

before ...



after ...



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jerry cho

last friday, i had a good bargain when i bought 3 books for the kids for only $10. i got miggy a special 50th year edition of the guinness book of world records, i got gabie a pokemon template book, and mikee a classic children's bible. and it was a really good bargain coz the kids simply love the books.

yesterday, miggy was reading the children's bible when suddenly, he asked me ... "mama, who is jerry cho?"

okay, now, i came from a catholic school where religion is a major major subject. and in the 12 years that i stayed there studying all the bible stories i'm quite sure i never heard of a chinese name from the bible.

and since we live in singapore and the book is a second hand book, the first thing that came to mind is that somebody might have written his name in the book. just as i was to tell miggy that jerry cho might be the previous owner of the book, he showed me where he read it ...

then i found out that he was actually asking about jericho ... you know, that great-walled city ... lol ...

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a rainbow

a digital art by mikee created using ms paint ...



i was cutting gabie's hair when mikee called me and said, "look, mama, i made a rainbow!" ...

reminds me of a song from grade school that goes something like this ...

a rainbow makes a promise
that life is here to stay ...
promise means there's more to life
than what we do today ...

i love it!

p.s.
as i was finishing this post, i had a strong feeling of deja vu ... i clearly remember dreaming about this post about a week ago ... i know i dreamt of posting about mikee's work of art and associating it with a rainbow and singing that rainbow song ...


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happy mother's day

yesterday, the kids and i woke up really late ... when they woke up, of course, i was waiting for everyone to greet me a happy mother's day ... they knew it was mother's day coz gabie gave me the card he made in school last friday ...

when i didn't get the greeting i was expecting, i asked the kids if there's something that they would like to tell me on that day ... mikee just looked at me ... gabie just smiled ... and miggy seemed like he was thinking real hard of what to say ...

i followed with a "so?"

and he answered "can we go eat at subway today?"

lol i can always count on miggy to drop the punchline ...

anyway, to all the mommies there, a belated happy mother's day!


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