Hello from Adelaide

We are back to Adelaide again for a month break. Actually break for Claudia & myself but Mr. Wallace got work to do. It’s winter here and it is very nice for me (cause I’m pregnant, I don’t feel very cool this time). Temperature is around 17-19°C in the day and night is about 7-9°C. There won’t be much traveling around this time cause Mr. Wallace is quite tight with his business trip around Australia except we will be in Tasmanian for 3 days at the end of the trip.

Above photograph was taken in Bunnings Warehouse. It is the mop head on top of Claudia head. The minute she saw it, she put it on and said she is a clown.

 

Claudia Singing

Claudia is singing “Baa Baa Black Sheep”.

It’s her favourite song for the time being.

 

My Queen

My queen NOT my princess.

 

Questions??

Lately Claudia is full of questions in whatever she is doing/hearing/seeing. Sometimes it makes me laugh and sometimes makes me lost my patience. Especially watching television time, just like my bro when he is young. Full of questions and the worst part is she keep repeating the same questions like a broken record. Example: -

Claudia: Who is that?

Me: Oh! That’s the hero.

Claudia: Hero.

(2 minutes later)

Claudia: Who is that?

Me: He is the same guy. The hero.

Claudia: Hero.

This will continue on and on. In some way it good that she is asking question but repeating them is irritating. But I always try to be patient and ask each questions nicely and calm. Her favourite questions nowadays is: -

1. Who is that?
2. Where are we going?
3. What are you doing?
4. What is that?
5. Like who?
6. What happen to my hand/leg/head? (when she hurt herself or have funny things on them).

Above all, “NO” still her ultimate favourite word. Almost everything you asked her, she will answer you ‘NO’. The most frustrating part is, she will asked

Claudia: What is that?

Me: That is a dolphin. (Correct answer)

Claudia: No.

Of course she also have some nice things to say like: -

1. Have a nicer day. (Should be nice day)
2. Please come in. (When we back from work or anybody come to visit)
3. How are you?
4. Nice? (When comes to food)
5. Good Morning/Night

 

She called it “Dong Dong Chiang”

Claudia is addicted to this DVD that my mother bought for her on Monday.

She just asked for it again. Two minutes into the DVD, she asked me to put on her dancing dress and hair ribbon.

o.O

But she don’t have dancing dress and hair ribbon.

Then the girls were dancing with fake gold mandarin/pear, of course my girl asked for the orange/pear so that she can be the same with them.

The funny part is she don’t understand mandarin/cantonese.

She will imitate the dance and hand movement as well as trying to sing those words.

LOL

 

Toilet Trained

Well, Claudia is almost 100% toilet trained. She had her diaper on only at night and sometimes going out. I’m still not very confident with her when we go out. You know when children in shopping mall, they will run here and there, playing with toys and eventually they will forget to inform you that they need to go to the toilet.

We started to train her by encouraging her to pee on the toilet floor (big and small). Then we will clean the mess and wash her in the toilet. She also can do it on the potty in her own room if she likes (but rarely). That lasted for a month. But as of yesterday, my mum informed that she is willing to do her business (big and small) at the WC with the toddler toilet seat.

About half a year ago, I tell myself this is going to be difficult. Now that Claudia is toilet trained, I told myself, to help my little girl to grow up, I cannot be lazy and thinking for my own convenience. It is my duties to teach and mould her so that she can be a better person when she grows up.

 

Own Room

I did mentioned before that we are in the middle of moving Claudia to her own room. Finally, we did it three weeks ago. She seem to like the idea of “own room”. Every time she asked me “Where is who & who?”, I will take the opportunity to answer her who & who is sleeping in their “own room”.

Now every night at 8:30 - 9:00 pm, we will go to her room and start winding down. I will read & sing to her, and I will stay until she falls asleep. Before I will get out of the room, I will turn on the baby monitor and leave her room door slightly open. When I go to sleep, I also leave my room door slight open so that she can just push it open when she wakes up in the middle of the night looking for me.

Now, she only sleep in her own room. Afternoon nap and night sleep. I did not buy her a new bed. I just moved her queen size mattress to her room. Painted the feature wall green, put up two wall lights, mirror and bought her a new mini wardrobe (all from Ikea). Actually, I like her room myself.

 

My next goal is to teach her to go to sleep without me. Just like an adult. When she is tired, she will go to her own room and fall asleep. Wish me luck.

 

Clumsy Girl

 

Clumsy girl fall down in the bathroom. As usual I place her on the dressing table so she can entertain herself with the mirror. So I turn around to test the temperature of the bath water. Just for less than a minute. When I turn around again, she actually falling down right in front of my eyes. Managed to grab her in time. So it is not a hard fall. Some scratches on the chest thats it cause she is naked at the time.

 

Back to 99%

Well, after a week of sickness, Claudia is back on her feet. Therefore, we did not do much accept chilling out in the house to avoid any accident (vomiting & diarrhoea) happen in the public area. Bbelow are some photos taken during our house confinement. LOL.

The tree is up before we got in from KL. No presents under the tree yet because of Claudia. You know why.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures. Clockwise: Top 2 is showing bush fire. Pictures taken from our house. Bottom 2 is showing the sunset at 9:00pm.

Miss Pink for the day.

Chilling out at home yesterday. She is in pretty good mood. Don’t know why.

 

 

Dancing Queen

Claudia loves music and loves dancing too. I happened to video her dancing to the fridge magnet music box that her grandma got for her. It is not one of the best dance she performed but not too bad with the head shaking.