By the end of first week of school, we had confirmed that we want Jade to stay with this school.. or rather, Jade showed that she enjoyed school. She was always excited to go to school and wakes up early for school. But when we reached the school to check her temperature, she will start crying for me or daddy.

One little progress was that she wanted to sit on the chair provided to check her temperature and hands and feet! She usually finishes the food given to her in school. She tried to join in the music and dance. She follows her mate to go to the next session. She responses to her teachers instructions. She is begining to enjoy story telling session. She can say A - I. She is more confident...

We finally bought her uniform and she looks very smart in her uniform. See below for her photos!

I was first worried that Jade would not want to wake up to go to school since she always wake up around 830-10am... but a week before school

starts, I had been telling her and counting down with her. I did tell her that we are going to school!

Finally the day came, 1st June 2010, Tuesday. She was excited as I brought her a pink dress which my aunt bought for her. She loves to wear dress! She was very happy and wanted to wear her shoes and go to school. Then she saw her bag. A black cat bag. She wanted to carry the bag herself too!

Anyway, we reached the school just nice for her to eat breakfast. Breakfast time is 8.30am. They were having pandan cake. Jade likes to eat cake... she finished it very quickly and we proceed to the Assembly area. There were already some teachers and schoolmates dancing, doing morning excercise. But Jade did not want to join in. Instead she walked around the school compound and asking me to open the gate to the indoor playground.

I had to carry her a few times to make her stay in the assembly area. The kids waited for everyone to assemble and they will say the pledge then. Nice...

Shortly it was playground time for Jade's playgroup. See below for the indoor playground photo. After that seesion, I 'disappeared' and left Jade with her teachers and classmates. Therefore no more photos...

1. After really trying super hard... We managed to wean Jade off bedtime latch on. We hung on for a week! n it really pays off. Now when Jade seems sleeply at around8-9pm, we will bring her to bed, give her a little breast milk, play with her a while, cuddle n carry awhile, sing a bit, and then we can put her onto bed to pat her to sleep.

Last time, we always have to struggle to get her to bed and she always demand to be latch on. Now I only let her taste a bit, sometimes dun need to drink... I will cuddle, carry and sing... I think this is so much better. I hope she can sleep in childcare easily too.. (this is another story.. haha)

2. Jade is trying to feed herself.. and is doing quite well.. I always gave her a spoon and bowl and she always make a mess.. until recently, she can aim really well. and she is eating happier too.. maybe because she finds it easier too? She usually says "Jade jade eat!" she will open mouth and say, "Ah UM" and start to chew her food... still she keep changing the spoon to her left hand. but she cant scoop well, so sometimes she uses her left hand to put the food into the spoon and take the spoon using right hand to her mouth...

3. Jade really detest her stroller... She will scream and yell, "help!! help!" as if someone trying to kill her and jump on her stroller... anyway i ordered a piglet stroller and is coming in 2weeks time, I hope she likes it.. else it is difficult to bring her anywhere... she is now 10kg.. n 82cm.. no change since 3wks ago...

4. Jade's teeth. four front teeth are out and the others are halfway through, now only the molars still no news... I guess it will be a horrific experience because she just gone through a round of teething of 4-5 teeth. they cut out of her gums at the same time causing her to have low fever, complete loss of appetite and super crazy bad mood. I spanked her a few times only thinking she is throwing tantrums.. mum ask me to feel her gums, then i realised her crankiness is due to teething and i felt so guilty...

5. Now her appetite is better... ate a lot in fact. so i try not to let her eat too much suddenly.. but good to know that she is OKAY!!!!!

6. today is her first day of childcare!!! at first Jade quite enjoy her breakfast, because i am with her. n she dun wan to join her school assembly, she walked about the cc, and keep pointing to their indoor playground. I am with her until they left the playroom abt 10plus. Teacher took them into their classroom and starts to play a bit and then change diaper. then they eat lunch. slightly before they eat lunch, jade starts to cry. too many kids crying... n that most of them are new. after lunch, the teachers bath them... n jade cried thro i think. n after that they went to the classroom to play n wait to drink milk... n i went on to pick up Jade. She didnt cry when she sees me. n say bye n threw flying kisses to the teachers. but she seems so glad to see me.. hiaz.. my baby.. i m very proud of her!!! jia you!! Jade napping since 2pm.. i think she is super tired

7. just last week, then we realised Jade knows chinese of her body parts. she knows eyes, nose, mouth, hair, head, chin, cheeks, teeth, eye brow, armpit, leg, toes, fingers... but i never teach them in chinese. n my mum usually talk to her in baby language, if any... one night i say to her, "close your eyes" in chinese n I thought, "opps she dun understand" but she really close her eyes, so we try the rest in chinese. She knows where is eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, head, hair, leg, hand... wow.. hehe

Make friso for Jade. I told her is chocolate milk. So I put a bit of coco powder to 'change' the original color. Ta-da~! chocolate milk! Jade drank 100ml!!!!! This is a record! She never drank past 90ml.

But sequently she would only drink 40-50ml. I wonder is it because the first time I offered to her in cup n straw n the other times are in milk bottle.

Tonight I will try to offer her in cup and straw again! Wish me gd luck.

Jade is currently 18mths going to 19mths on 23 May. :) She weighs 10.2kg and is 82cm tall. She loves to watch her KTV children song more than Disney playhouse programmes. She can hummed and some songs she can sing the first few words.

For example, "Three Blind Mice", her version is mice mice mice. "Rain Rain Go Away", she will sing rain rain. Sometimes, she sings Rain Rain GO.... Sometimes, she will say walk walk... and expect me to say, " No, rain rain, we cannot go walk walk." Other songs like "Hokey Pokey" and "When You Are Happy.." she will dance and sometimes she can follow the actions, say, she'll do "clap your hands", she will sing clap clap as she claps. The same for "nod your head", "stamp your feet", "Pull your ears". But she can only either say "clap clap" or "head", "nod nod" or "head" etc.

She also likes the "incy wincy spider", she thinks that the spider is playing peek aboo with her.

Jade cannot form sentence yet. She can say quite a handful of words but the most she is good at is "Please help". Everything and anything, she will "Please help". Daddy goes out of room, she also say "please help", she wants me to open the door and let her follow daddy. Sometimes she will say "open" or "open door" instead. When her things drop, she also say "please help", sometimes she will say "OH OH, drop!" depends!

But i think her favourite is "drink drink neh neh". She can say "drink drink", when she wants water or "milk" for milk. She also like to say "baobao", she wants to be carried and she will clap her hands and then open them to be carried. Sometimes she say "tangtang" when she wants to lay her head on our shoulder, sometimes means she wants to sleep. I am trying to teach her to say "sleep" instead. But she always frowned. Maybe she dont like to sleep..

She can greet almost everyone. mummy or mama, daddy or papa, ah ma, ah gong or gong gong, jek jek, jiu jiu,ah yi, yi po, ah chor...

She loves animals like dog, cat, mouse(yikes!!!), lion, rabbit, monkey, bear, pigs, turtle, fish etc... she also like dragons!!!! i'm not sure she likes fish because she eats fish or because her paternal grandma rears fishes. but whenever she sees fish, she will say "fish", paused a while and then "eat". she will do the eating expression.

she loves ice cream too! sometimes she will say "good good good".

she has her sense of fashion too. some days she cannot decide whether she wants to wear elmo or piglet suit, barney or hello kitty pants, rabbit or doggie blouse, whichever dress. she will take two in her hands and ask me to wear them. some times she will think, and i will ask her, " you want red or pink dress?" Being a very busy SAHM, i have no time to iron her dresses, as much as I really want to. Jade always chooses especially those that need a great ironing job ones.

she chooses her shoes too. sometimes she wont let me put her in stroller but when i let her choose her shoes, she will allow me to put her in the stroller and wear them. *phew*

One thing I really not too glad about my little princess is that she really cannot sit still during eating time. As long as she is outside or whenever there is another person in the house, she just wont sit still for her meal. She finishes her meal easily when there is only both of us alone. *sigh*We brought her outside for meals and always has to eat in a haste and it is really tedious. Jade, I hope you know how much we love you... Mummy is not complaining about you, Mummy is telling you how you behaved when you were a baby... and you will still be a baby when you grow up, whether you like it or not... ;P

I didnt update on a regular basis so everytime I update, it will be this long... haha.. and I m a bit hungry now.. so I must take some sweet stuff to replenish before I turn in...

cheers..

mummy pauline

yesterday, Jade bit me and so caused daddy n me to be extremely angry. Hence, we decided that we have to stop latching on her to sleep at night and subsequent night waking feeds too. I have been to 'nice' or ....(cant find a suitable word) to her n daddy that in order to not wake daddy up, i just let her latch on in the middle of nights. and so i think resulted in her asking for 'neh neh' everynight till now.. (she is 18mths going to 19mths old) that means I have not been sleeping properly too...

last night was an ultimate battle. she screamed, cried and begged for neh neh, I gave in and guess what she bit me again. So that's it. Even daddy claimed that she asked for it. I even thought of letting her latch on at night till she is two.. Tears streaming down to her cheeks, she demanded for nehneh desperately. I knew she was sleepy but she refused to close her eyes and lay on bed cooperatively. She jumped on the bed angrily. Finally too angry with us, she insisted me to carry her. Ok, so I carried and sing her current favourite song, "three blind mice". Tried to put her on bed a few times but she woke up angrily, crying, asking for neh neh. so I have to carry her and swing her a few times. She totally rejected daddy so he had not choice but to sit on the bed and watch. (NOT FAIR!!! haha... maybe she knew daddy has to work the next day)

I didnt know how many times I saw her closed eyes and put her down on bed and resulted her in waking up... yes the vicious cycle nearly drove me crazy. But, one last time, she glared at me reluctantly and turned over with her back facing me, she finally fall asleep! Yeah~

It was crazy! I think we struggled for nearly one hour or more... It was mad. tiring~ to think that we are supposed to do this for the coming days... latching to sleep is definitely a breeze, minus the bites and taking my nipples for granted.

tonight, we tried the same thing while we were watching Shrek on channel 5, Jade started to get restless. Daddy suggested giving her some cereal for putting her to bed which she totally rejected it. Keep asking for nehneh, and i suggested giving her some warm formula milk. I made her some enfalac which in the end she drank 30ml of the 250ml... Great! She held the bottle herself as Daddy carried her, rocking her and even singing her "three blind mice". Thought she gave in, then she suddenly sat up from her cradle position. Baffled, I took over from daddy and swinging gently, singing to her again...

As usual, she ask for nehneh, cannot be put down. Tried a few times. But tonight seemed easier. She was not as angry as yesterday. She was in fact more cooperative. She insisted that I carried her. Even I sat on the bed, carrying her, she was fine. I cannot ask for more. I think this was in fact very much better than i thought. She fell asleep in my arms a little before 10pm.

the new problem now is if she wants to be carried to sleep. this is also very tiring... she is now 10.2kg... carry a 10kg a few mins is okay... but not too long.. mummy will be very tired.

I hope tomorrow will be easier... and please dont wake up tonight darling, Mummy love you~!

Jade had two jabs ytd. A booster n a flu jab. Didnt cry, very brave. Doc Zainal suggested to us to start potty training. He says no sweet n no Milo for now. Need to let the grandmas know as they r very keen to give sweets to Jade.�

Now she is down with fever. :(�

Ytd she was alright.... Hope she get well soon.�