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

 

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.

 

Shivering, Vomited & Fever

It is 11:47pm now and I’m waiting for the laundry to finish.

Claudia had fever, shivering & vomited on the bed. Mr.Wallace & I just finished changing the linens, changed Claudia into a new clothes & washed her hair as well. It’s stink. Poor little girl. She must have caught the cold this morning. I think she went outside (the garden) without a jumper & shoes. Where am I? I decided to sleep in this morning. Bad mummy. Let’s see is she better tomorrow morning.

 

Upgraded

After the Hot Sunny Day post, I realised that I had to upgrade the pool soon cause after few more months, the pool will only fit for one toddler. Well Toy’R'Us happen to have a pool promotion for the member. It is only cost RM39.95 for this size. Not bad, huh until I start filing it with water. Now I’m waiting for my next month water bill. Also, storage is another problem. Don’t ask me to fill it up with air every time the kids want to play. That’s hard work. Anyway, look at them. They can play for hours and hours in that pool. Now I can join them in the pool (if i don’t afraid my neighbours see me).

 

Creative Sandwich

Remember that I post before about Claudia lost her appetite recently. This is what I do with the food that I’m going to serve her. I got the idea from Blur Mummy. Do Claudia like it? Yes for the first one only. She is very hard to please girl. Now I’m scratch head again. By the way, I use the Play-Doh mould to make the sandwich shape.

 

 

 

 

Mandarin Class

Yup, I decided to send Claudia to a Mandarin class when she reach 2½ years old (minimum age) which will be next February 2008. I found this school on today (18 Sep 2007) Star newspaper. It called Skylace Language Centre Sdn Bhd, located in TTDI & Desa Sri Hastamas. I’m going to enroll her to “Morning Kiddie Class (Age: 2½ - 4 Years Old)”. Lessons: 30 min/term Duration: 1 1/2 hrs.

So what do they do there: -

1. Simple conversation, verbal sentence making.
2. Introduction of Chinese characters.
3. Story telling, story appreciation.
4. Recitation of nursery rhymes.
5. Introduce strokes of Chinese characters.
6. Arts & crafts.
7. Songs, games, cartoon shows and educational tapes.
8. Refreshments.

I hope they have trial class before I pay any deposit & enrollment fee. I think this is a good idea cause we definitely wouldn’t send her to a Chinese school and I do not want her to have absolutely no idea about her chinese root. Still 5 months to go. We shall see!

P.S: Just called up the centre. Managed to get more information. Classes schedule on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday from 10:00am to 11:30am. Registration fee is RM50.00 and 1 term (3 months) is RM1,200.00. Trial class can be arranged. For the first few classes, mother have to stand by at the centre. When your child get herself/himself adjusted to the environment, they will be with the teacher and friends only.

 

The Twin

No, I’m not pregnant with twin. It just that Claudia and Nicholas (my nephew) are like twin. My sister visited us last weekend and we spent the all day together. They do almost everything together and the same way even though Nick is 5 months older than Claudia. Both of them take care of each other well. My sis mentioned that if there is anything go wrong with her, Nick will be under my care another word, my son.

 

 

 

Daddy is Away

Daddy is in Milan right now but will fly to Tunisia tomorrow. Only coming back next Saturday. Claudia has started asking for him since this morning.

We still have not move Claudia to her own bedroom due to couple of reasons.

1. Have to custom made the safety barrier for stair opening. The ready of shelf is not wide enough.
2. Mr.Wallace wanted to get Claudia a single bed but my mum said queen is better since she is sleeping on a queen mattress now. Just move the mattress over to her room. She also added that when Claudia is sick, one of us can sleep with her plus the way Claudia sleep, she need a lot of space. But Mr.Wallace do not like the idea that she sleep on the floor. Sometimes is hard to be in the middle.

 

Spider

I found a spider crawling around the lounge room so I called out for Claudia to take a look. When she get close and trying to touch the spider, it start crawling away. So I put the spider into a clear plastic container and she can have a closer look without it running away or bite Claudia. She still haven’t grasp the concept about being gentle and careful with others living creatures. She just bang the container on the table, window, door and even throw it on the floor. Poor spider. Mr. Wallace came back from work and commented that I being cruel to animals because poor spider would not get any oxygens being inside that container. So I suggested he bring Claudia to let the spider go in the garden. Happy ending for everyone.

Picture no: 3 (clockwise) Claudia saying “Huge! Huge!” to her one day pet.