Home trip 7Feb to 17Feb

Had a good home trip and its the 1st time we ever gone back for CNY. Few yrs ago each time there's something on...1st we got married and used up all the leave so could not go back on 2005 for CNY, then on 2006-Jared was only 2-3mth old too young to travel, 2007 we went back in Jan for Kun's wedding instead...2008, we booked but didnt go back as dear daddy went overseas, 2009 Kaylen borned and young..so didnt go back..finally we all go back for CNY 2010..when both kids are decently big hehe.

We went Kapit the next day after arrived. Kapit is not assessible by road, so we had to take the express boat for 3hr..Jared been there when he was 13mth old ..so he could not recall anything related to the boat ride or Kapit. There, we visited da yi and family, 2 yi & 4 yi and 2 beh and family. Kapit was jared's fav place as ying rui has so many toys.

After we came down from Kapit, we spent another night at Sibu and dinner with TingTing who just got back from Australia. Only on the 10th we finally managed to come back to Sarikei..the feeling is definitely home sweet home..I love my bridal bedroom back in Sarikei..everything belongs to us and look brand new lor hehe..

But sarikei house don't have aircon in the living room..so it get pretty warm in the day..even at night. We ate suan chai noodle, s'wak laksa, ko lo mee, kam pua mee, chao pek kue and all the local food..it has been 2 yrs since I ate these food..miss the suan chai noodle most! The food there are basically w lots of ajinomoto...for eg, to make kam pua, they used 1 teaspoon of ajinomoto lor. Managed to do some shopping, got Kaylen a pair of new shoe, Jared a white shoe for next yr at Rm24, a belt for myself and few home shorts for Jared..

For CNY reunion dinner, MIL cooked 10 dishes..we started eating at about 4pm..after finish we went to hv a car ride around in town..and I'm always hv to rush with time on the eve, to get the kids bath, and ourselves bath ...take out all the CNY goodies and arranged on table..then Kaylen would come and disturb..i don' t remember we had so much prob be4 w Jared!..Then made them sleep...and finally woke Jared up at 12am again to watch the fireworks.

The fireworks were simply beautiful..and they got so close to my head, till i find the ashes drop on my hair! Its not sold openly in the market nowadays..but still so many put fire cracker & fireworks... The next few days were spent visiting all the relatives.


Express boat to Kapit..its a 3hr journey!


Leaving Kapit..

Reunion dinner

a family pic before we start!

a matching pyjama on new yr eve

Happy CNY 2010

The siblings pics together..

Chu 2..at Da gu's place

Chu 3 woke up looking like zhu tau peng! got bitten by just a mosquito..can spread till like this! The night before while bath him, daddy realised he got a super big baluku...after we got back from 3 yi po's place...and yet we don't know how it came...super sueh of Jared

But of cos we no fret, cos with their previous experience, I knew he only needed the magic hydrocorte..hah

At aunty theresa's house for lunch at the hospital quarter..and after application of hydrocorte!

Back in Sarikei, this is how Kaylen bath everytime..she enjoyed so much!

Chu 4 at airport ..coming back to SG

Trip pics

Police

I get headache everytime Jared mentioned the word police
He yearned to be a police..so much so that when we go visiting during CNY, and go for gathering..he would go up to anybody to say, hey, I'm a police.

or I'm a fake police..

and if you asked why he wanna be police? He say cos he would have gone to shoot bad ppl..and if you say something he don't like, he would start to bang bang..
real headache.

and I tried to change his mind to be aspired to be a doctor instead..
so ocassionally he will say..Sometimes i be a police, sometimes I be a doctor ok.

Jared @ 4yr 3mth

Flash card reading
- We are now at 50words already..Yooohooo
Hmmm i bought the cards when he was only a few mths old, together with the words cards there still dots card. The dots card are completely wasteful cos I don't even know how to use them.
He is very slow when it come to reading..he got phobia himself. Good thing is now after some training, he has finally able to overcome the fears for flash cards..and its not that hard to get him to start reading the cards..or intro new cards.
But when it comes to reading books..he still say he cant all the time..

Maths
I like to do maths work book with him as it is easier to explain..and since he had some basics on abacus simple adding is not much a problem.

Writing
Nos are in general quite good, but sometimes still he might writie it slanted or the opposite way
For alphabets he is quite good with capital..but when it come to small letter there seemed so much trouble.
He could only write his name in capital letter.
We also realised he had problem writing in the 3 lines worksheet. So we had to go back to train all the alphabets again...faint!

Violin
much more a headache..*haiz*
the 1st 3 mth, he said he dunt want to practise at hm..so we let him be and do it during lesson only
after a while, I read that kids need to practise everyday..so since this Jan10..we started him on daily practise..
Still he is slower compared to other kids, and couldnt really concentrate in class..haiz.
But he can now picicato twinkle star, play The train and I'm a little monkey...Though not much consistensy..and Prof Thanh, always said not good..I can still see he is still improving just slow lor...
We just have to make him able to learn seriously during lesson and concentrate..then he will be able to progress faster. He played at hm much better than in school.

Study schedule
7.30-8pm: Violin
8.00-8.30pm- Writing alphabets
8.30-9.00pm- Worksheets (english, maths)
9.00-9.30pm-Cards (his favourites)

In the noon time, he will learn bi3 hua4 chinese from waipo..and write / read a few chinese words lor.

Happy Birthday-by Kaylen

22 Feb 2010- Kaylen 17mth 2 wks
-While trying to struggle with her growing molar pain..she still managed to sing new song
Happy to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to Jared

For her mah mah's bday over the phone!
wow this is definitely faster than Jared..Jared could only sing happy birthday close to 20mth bah.

Kaylen is 17mth

Blurr me thought she is still 16mth and told everyone during CNY that..
She's actually 17mth already..What a petite gal!

Spoken Language: She can say quite a no. of words but some can be not that clear as compared to Jared at the same time. I read that at 18mth she should be able to say 50 words, that's why I bother to record down what she could actually says now.

no
I
Bear
Cat
Mao1(cat)
nai3(milk)
gao1 (high or cat)
dog
horse
boy
star
car
ball
house
frog
duck
bird
clock
bao4(carry)
nana (banana)
cousin
mummy
daddy
ah yi
gong
mah mah
koko
meimei
egg
yu2
fish
lai2 (come)
bye
go
out (there’s 10 little one on the bed, and 1 roll of bed and say "Out")
all (the wheel on the bus go round and round, "all" through the town)
bus
moon
cow
pig
pee
kai kai (go out)
shoe, shie2
butterfly (learnt fr Jared's book during cny since no other book available)
violin
rabbit
i-cream
mum-mum (anything related to food)
o-len (for orange)

She sings a lot now..though the lyric is still not clear, but she can follow the songs pretty well. The best songs ever:
Twinkle star
shi4 shang4 zi3 you3 ma1ma1 hao3
Teeth
4 front teeth at upper deck + 1 side molar (new!)
2 front teeth at lower deck + 2 side molar just cut through (new!)

Interesting conversation with Jared @ 4yr 3 mth

(4yr 3mth Jan 2010)
Jared: mummy, why you send me to drama class? You think I will like it but I don't like!
daddy* burst into laughter*

(4yr 4mth Feb 7 2010)- I didn't know I have to face this situation so soon!
Jared: Yixuan love me you know, mummy. She told me when we at the swing
Mummy: How about you ? do you love yixuan?
Jared: I love her, but she run away.
Mummy: How about anabel, do you love anabel?
Jared: I never talk to anabel.

p/s during our dec09 jap trip, Jared mentioned yixuan quite frequently especially after Kaylen took bath, he always burst into laughter saying Kaylen's hair look like Yixuan.
Then he also asked me, Mummy, how come Yixuan never come to our house?