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Qianyi and I had a great afternoon. The weather’s beautiful today. We went down to the swimming pool to join the crowd around 5pm. Lots of kids were having fun there. It’s been quite a while after our last swim together. While I was changing into my swimsuit last Saturday night, she opened the wardrobe to look for her own swimsuit. She looked kind of upset when I went down for a swim on my own. I felt guilty but managed to enjoy a half-an-hour swim. I promised her I would bring her to swim very soon.
We were having loads of fun at the pool. It’s sunny and the water’s not cold at all. I was asked the same question by two women. One of them is a mother of two. They asked, “How many months?” I knew they were asking about Qianyi’s age. But it’s just weird to hear that. It sounded like Qianyi’s still a little baby. When I told them Qianyi’s already two years old, they looked surprised. Maybe they thought she’s much younger than that. :p
After enjoying ourselves for 45 mins, I decided to bring her home. I dried her body with a towel and then helped her put on her beautiful hooded towel. Some maids and aunties there said she looked so cute with the nice towel on. Back home, I quickly took some snapshots of hers before she started removing her hooded towel.
She’s not sleepy after the bath. I then decided to go jogging. I put her in her stroller and went jogging outside the condo. It’s been a long time since my last jog. When I finished jogging, I found my little darling asleep in the stroller! I didn’t sleep well last night but feel myself all charged up after the swim and the jog. It’s a wonderful afternoon! 
When Qianyi’s scared or doesn’t want to see certain things or people, she would shut her eyes tightly, like in the photo on the right. In this case, she didn’t want me to capture a shot of her looking at the camera.:p
Whenever we walk near our guard house, she would always shut her eyes tightly and open them only after we have passed it. She’s scared of all the security guards here. They love to tease her for this. One of them calls her “shy girl”.
While she was running happily on the grass downstairs the other day, she bumped into a male gardener. She just stood right there with her eyes tightly shut. The gardener laughed as he found her very funny.
Whenever I want to bring her to the bathroom while she’s watching her Barney VCDs, I would pause the video player. Guess what?? She would keep her eyes tightly shut until I let the video play again. She’s scared of the paused video screen! Haha..what a funny girl she is! 
She would also shut her eyes and be absolutely terrified whenever the Hyundai car commercial appears on TV. That’s definitely one brand we would not consider when buying a car!
Mealtime is always a boring time for Qianyi. She hates to stay in the high chair. When she gets bored, she would refuse to eat. I have to keep giving her different toys, including her umbrella to make her happy. When she gets bored with one particular toy, she would throw it away. I’m just like her maid, keep picking up the toys from the floor and searching for another toy for her. What else can I do? This is the only way to make her finish a bowl of porridge. 
I feed her porridge once a day. She wakes up late in the morning, it’s usually 10am these days. She would have a bottle of milk for breakfast. Then she’ll have her porridge around 2pm. And then, I would feed her another bottle of milk before her nap. I don’t cook anything for her in the evening. She would have some cheese sandwich, yoghurt, fruit when she’s hungry. There’s another bottle of milk for her at bedtime. She sits in the high chair only once a day, yet she would look so bored. Bored bored bored…it’s so000 difficult to please her!
We are moving away next month. Time flies, we have been living in this rented condo for two years! We moved here when Qianyi was still a little baby. She loves the swimming pool. I wonder if she’s going to miss it after the move. Will she remember all the happy moments here? I know she has a memory but I’m not sure how much she can remember about this swimming pool, the playground and the people here.
There will be no swimming pool downstairs at our new home. When we take a walk there, she won’t be able to see the familiar surroundings and people again. Will she enjoy the new environment and be happy to meet new people? How are we going to help her settle into our new home? Will there be some sleepless nights? Oh, I do hope she’ll love our new home!
Here’s a photo of Qianyi’s first dip in the pool. She was 4 months old. Look, she was so chubby then..but she’s getting slimmer and slimmer now..sigh…
I don’t think I would bring her to a public pool as it’s kind of inconvenient. Haha..what a lazy mummy I am! We’ll try to enjoy the swimming pool here as much as we could during our last month here. ;p
Qianyi loves to imitate what Barney and his friends do in the vcds. She likes a scene very much where the blindfolded kids are allowed to touch and bite the snacks given to them before making a guess.
When I came out of the kitchen this afternoon, she dashed into it and opened the fridge immediately before I managed to close the kitchen door. I then witnessed a funny act of hers.
First, she took a carrot out. It’s something she does very frequently. She loves to take out a carrot or an apple whenever she’s in the kitchen.
Second, she bit the carrot. She would try to bite every carrot or apple before I get there to stop her.
What happened next really amazed me… She imitated the first blindfolded boy who’s given a carrot in Barney vcd, “Hm…it’s a carrot!” Hahaha…
It’s not bad to be a little imitator. At least, she has learnt to form some simple sentences. She started adding “it’s a ” to some nouns quite a while ago but I didn’t realize what she was saying then. It sounded like “isa ball” when she was trying to say “it’s a ball”!
She’s been actively using “it’s a” lately. “It’s a cat”, “it’s a car”, “it’s an apple” have been repeated umpteen times. Hubby and I felt so happy when we first noticed this sudden improvement in her speech. But sometimes we can’t understand what she’s saying to us. Hubby used to tease me that I should be able to decipher her code since I’m her mummy. Well, I’ll try my best to figure out some of her mispronounced words.
Qianyi has been mistaken as a little boy many times when she’s not wearing a dress. My niece suggested me to let her wear hair clips. Unfortunately, she doesn’t like the feeling of having some hair clips resting on her head. She would remove them right away.
I managed to take some snapshots of hers with hair clips on yesterday. I showed them to Hubby later last night. We both found her weird… The hair clips did help create a girly look but this new look doesn’t quite suit her as her hair’s still so little and short. Well, we think she looks better without any hair clips. Our little girl is beautiful and smart looking without any hair accessories!:p
We met little Qianqian during our evening stroll two days ago. When Qianyi walked near her, she panicked and turned towards her mum immediately. Her mum embraced her and suggested Qianyi to give her a hug. Guess what?? She bit her mum’s arm! I didn’t expect her to be so scared of Qianyi. Her mum told me she still remembered the “bully” incident at the playground two months ago where Qianyi snatched a ball from her.
Well, Qianyi’s just like a little monster to Qianqian now…no longer friends… Now I understand why Qianqian shouted and ran away when Qianyi’s trying to hug her the other day.
I celebrated my first Mother’s Day as a mum when Qianyi was 3 months old. Hubby suprised me with a nice Mother’s Day card and a gift. He cooked us a wonderful dinner too! Qianyi was 15 months old when we celebrated my second Mother’s Day. While we were choosing a watch for myself, the aunty who served us asked, “It’s a Mother’s Day gift from Baby huh? Daddy will pay first and Baby will have to pay back when she’s a big girl!” Well, that’s right…haha..
It’s a long Mother’s Day weekend this year. We celebrated it for 3 days! To have a great start of the long weekend, I suggested Hubby to do something for me…;)
I told Hubby to toilet-train Qianyi! Hubby has no patience to train her but for the sake of Mother’s Day, he did it for the very first time. Look, isn’t it a good way to bond with his little princess?
We went to IMM on the first day. We had our lunch at Secret Recipe. Qianyi wasn’t very happy until we ordered her favourite ice-cream for her.
She was much happier when we went grocery shopping at Giant. She seemed to enjoy a lot more sitting in a shopping trolley instead of a restaurant high chair.
We had our dinner at a mamak stall on the second day. She’s happy sitting in the high chair this time. I ordered the roti prata ice-cream. It was something new to me. There are 3 scoops of ice-cream inside the roti. Qianyi shared the ice-cream with me happily. :p
After the dinner, we had our tennis session from 9 to 10pm. It’s the second time I played tennis. Hubby’s a beginner. He booked the court to practise his serve and let Qianyi have some fun running around. Well, she was very busy chasing after the tennis balls and she would throw them back to Hubby. She would sit on the bench to rest for a while when she felt tired. Apparently, she had a good time there.
Hubby handed me the beautiful Mother’s Day card while I was patting Qianyi to sleep. It’s 12am, a very sweet way to start my third Mother’s Day! Like the previous two Mother’s Day cards, Hubby signed on behalf of Qianyi…:)
What’s my third Mother’s Day gift from my two darlings? It’s a pair of gorgeous Nike jogging shoes that makes me feel gorgeous too! Thanks a lot to my two sweethearts!!!
It’s a wonderful Mother’s Day and it’s great we had loads of family fun during the long weekend!
Qianyi fell off the bed early this morning while she’s still asleep! It’s my fault… She sleeps in between me and Hubby. I usually sleep towards the wall. I would shift to Hubby’s place when he’s in the bathroom, getting ready to go to work. But I was too tired this morning. I managed to open my sleepy eyes only when Hubby was kissing me goodbye. I drifted off to sleep again almost immediately. Although Hubby has placed his pillow next to Qianyi to block her, she still fell off.
I was woken up by her cries and was shocked to find her on the floor. She was crying softly and pitifully, clearly in shock. I felt so guilty and hugged her tightly to comfort her. I kept saying “Sorry darling” to her. However, I couldn’t find any bruises on her head and body. She stopped crying after a while and was trying to sleep again. She gave up after tossing and turning for one hour. We were both wide awake then. Luckily, she’s been in good mood all day. She seems to have forgotten about the fall.
Well, it’s time to change our sleeping arrangement. Hubby and I don’t want this to happen again. She’s been napping for one hour now and I’m relieved that she didn’t wake up from any bad dreams.
We met a SAHM yesterday during our evening stroll. I said, “Your daughter doesn’t like to run!” Well, I’ve never seen her running around. It’s so easy to handle such a not-very-active toddler. She told me, “Ah, every kid is different… Your daughter is not running, she’s sprinting!”
She didn’t seem to care when her little girl was walking away. She said she would definitely come back after a while. I told her Qianyi would run straight into the swimming pool or fish pond if I didn’t follow her close enough to catch her in time. She then told me Qianyi’s very boyish.
There are some maids and mums who have been amazed by Qianyi’s endless energy.
“She’s so active…just like a boy!”
“She behaves like a boy.”
“Whenever I see her, she’s running around. She barely walks.”
“She’s always running around. I didn’t get to carry her.”
“She runs non-stop. Her mummy also runs non-stop. That keeps her mummy slim.”
Haha..I am really getting slimmer…It would usually tire me out after handling such a super active toddler for a day on my own. Poor me…
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