It Is Snowing!!

It’s quite unusual to get snow during winter time in areas such as here in Shanghai but this year, it did!!! It happened on the 27th December (Sunday) around 1.30pm and those snowflakes are quite visible and lasted for a few hours too ^_^

It’s Snowing!! Woo~~ Whooo ~~~!!!

When our friend SMS us that it snow, we saw raindrops outside our window and thought it was a joke but with a blow of the wind, suddenly all the raindrops slowly changing into snowflakes! So we quickly grab whatever jacket we can reach for and ran outside like mad. It’s such an amazing view as if we were in a fairyland! Angel was absolutely thrilled and she jumped and squealed with delights “Snow~~! Look …. SNOW~~!!! Wah~~!”. Only then I found out it’s actually very difficult to capture a good decent picture of snowing with a normal digital camera and also a kid running like mad from east to west ‘chasing’ the snow ^_^


Manage to force Angel to stand still for a picture with some tiny snowflakes on her hair before they melts :P

Not that Angel is trying to chase the snowflakes and catch them with both hands, but she was trying to catch them with her mouth and laugh happily if she felt ice in her mouth too :P The wind was blowing strongly and I could see Angel’s face were all wet and she could hardly opened her eyes as winds keeps bringing snowflakes into her eyes :P Oh dear ….. although I could see that she is having soooooo much fun but to avoid catching a cold during winter time, too bad we have to cut her fun time short this round.


She was trying to catch the snow with her mouth wide opened LoL

It was simply amazing to experience all these in a city that rarely snow and hopefully, the cold weather will bring in more snow in the coming days :) We began to enjoy winter time a little more now ^_^

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2010

Christmas! Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!! ^_^

Wishing Everybody a very

Merry Christmas and

a very Prosperous New Year 2010

P/S: I am still having problems leaving comments in some of your blogs with the current blocking of blogspot & facebook in China hence I shall sent out my greetings to all my lovely friends here instead :)

Daddy's Haircut Of Love ^_^

Hubby decided to give Angel a haircut himself (ahem!!!) while I think that’s really sweet. I prepared Angel before hand showing her videos of kids having their haircut and she was so excited and shouted, “Cut Hair!! Cut Angel hair!!” for the past few days.

So when the day came, hubby brought Angel into the bathroom and then start doing his first cut with the 1 and only equipment he brought along – a scissor, while I worriedly grab a comb along and said …….

M: Errrrmmm ….. you don’t need a comb to straighten her hair before cutting????
H: No need la!! I can use my hand. *touch touch Angel’s hair*

H: See, they are straightened!
M: *gulp* …..

M: Aren’t you want to wet Angel’s hair a bit so that they were easier to cut???
H: What for? I think I can handle dry hair …..

M: But you need to wet them and then comb them properly first so that you could ……..
H: *angry* Aiyaaaa!!! You stopped bothering me lah!! I know what I am doing!!!!! Can you go out, close the door and let me do my job????

*praying while I closed the toilet door leaving a gap keeping an eye on him and Angel*

Snap! Snap! Snap! with Angel starts crying because she was terrified with those black looking hair falling onto her shoulder and body. Hubby trying hard to console our poor little girl and occasionally raising his voice to keep her standing still.

Finally, everything was done in less then 10 minutes (that was quick) and after Angel got her shower, hubby carried Angel out with a smile on his face ……

H: Not too bad!!! Not too bad!! I am good at this *wink at me*
M: Really?? *what a relief* That’s great!!! Come ….. let me blow dry Angel’s soaking wet hair after she got dressed.

Once I blow dry Angel’s hair, that’s the ‘not too bad’ outcome according to the si-fu (master) ………..

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Gulp~~!!! Is that a hair cut or a terrible ‘dog bite’???? O-M-G!!!! *fainted*

M: *call hubby* Come see yourself!!!! Is that a straight line ???
H: Impossible!!! I cut her hair straight I am sure!!!! *embarrassed*

M: And why you cut her hair that short?? That’s a boy cut!!!
H: How to cut them middle length while her ears are both side blocking the way??? I won’t want to cut into her ears you see ……

M: That’s like a ‘coconut hair’!! And a ‘crooked’ coconut hair too!!! *you know …..*
H: I think they look stylish and ok mah ~~

M: ……………….. *totally speechless so I hold Angel before him to let him have a closer look himself*
H: It is not that bad what ~~ *O.o*

Then I show Angel to the mirror while she take a long looked at herself without showing or saying anything and then suddenly, she frown in the mirror and said: “BOY~~~” *>”<*

Luckily it’s another 1 month + before Chinese New Year and I am trying to be optimistic hoping that her hair will grow a bit longer by then. Since this is daddy’s first hair cut for Angel so I know that he has tried his best but restricted by his ‘very limited talents’ (which he is trying very hard to deny until now) :P. Anyhow, apart from the ‘outcome’, that is indeed a very memorable moments for our little girl as well as for daddy I think :)

And later that day while hubby was carrying Angel alone in the other room, I overheard hubby secretly whispers gently to Angel “Angel~~, Sorry oh ~~…….” *Smile* I guess that must be referring to the hair cut …………

So Smelly!!!

Now that my little girl understand what’s the meaning of “smelly”, she would cover up her nose tightly and act the way just like how it is in the pictures when we help to clean up her soiled diapers. She wouldn’t want to take a closer look at her own ‘creation’ if we show her her “creation” and even cried asking us to take that away from her. If we shower her soiled bump and she saw some ‘dark brown’ stuff sliding down her legs, she would scream on top of her lungs trying to shake the ‘thing’ off her legs and there was once she even climbed on top of our bath tub (hands on one end and feet on the other end making a bridge style) trying to avoid getting in touched of her own poo poo ^_^ She would always says “Yucks~~!! 臭~~!! Bau-Bau~~!!! Yucks~~!!!” covering her nose tight refused to look at her own diapers :P

I have phobia of a baby’s poo poo too but now, I just tried hard not to think of anything or not to watched directly into her poo poo and also disregard that she is constantly complaining that her poo poo was “soooooo smelly” while I was doing the job ^_^ I wonder did all toddlers would afraid of their own poo poo like my Angel too?

Angel the Photographer [2Y6M]

Angel has been very enthusiastic in taking pictures for the past couple of months. She would told us that she wants to “Ying-San~~!!” (ying-xiang/ take pictures) whenever she saw our camera / handphone. I would say that she does has a steady hand compare to Daddy :P :P and also manages to aimed for the object pretty well too (Daddy, please learn from Angel!! :P). So in normal days when she is fussing to play with the camera again, we would let her used our handphone and she will help to take pictures of us and also all the object that interested her and then show it to us with a pride on her face :) That could entertained her for quite a while while we were busy or when we were out shopping and when we returned home, sometimes we would not be so surprised to find that there were actually pictures of some “leng-lui” (pretty girls) posing for her in the mall in our handphones (sales promoters, etc).

Angel’s grandma has become Angel’s favorites model for her photo sessions and Angel would teach her how to pose too. It’s quite funny to see us adults actually making all sort of pose instructed by a 2 year old in front of the camera just to please our little photographer in the making ^_^ The positive side is, now that mommy and daddy won’t have to worry we do not have a couple photos anymore, as we can totally leave the job for our little photographer with just a few more clicks :) :)

Kids nowadays are so electronically savvy compare to our time. Now I am trying hard not to introduce her to my notebook which I know she would definitely get hooked on the computer games because she has been eyeing on what I do with my notebookok for quite some time already. LoL

Chinese Opera Fans Not?

I was not so surprised that Angel actually loves to watch Chinese Opera in the TV because sometimes, she loves watching oldies / Japanese Opera on and off while we have to wait patiently until the entire show was over. She normally would refused to switch channel and glued her eyes to the TV screen until the opera singer finished her performance then she would take a deep breathe as if the show is really that breathe taking. ^_^

I really thought that she purely enjoy opera singing until one day, she saw a Beijing Opera show was showing on the TV again

A: This one!! This one!!! (making a whine pointing at the Chinese opera channel)
Me: This show is not nice ……

A: 你(I) want!! 你(I) want see!!! Wuaaaaahhhh ~~~ *crying*
Me: Ok ok … Don’t cry …… Angel see TV!

(She watched the show without making a move)

Me: ……… Angel, you like to watch opera? Is it really that nice???
A: Oh yes~~~!! It’s Nice …… It’s “MONSTERS”!!! >”<

Me: Huh?? Monsters??? It’s not Monsters, it’s Chinese Opera!! *slap forehead*
A: No!! NO~~~!!! It’s not “Oh-Pe-La”!!! It’s monsters!! It’s Monsters!! *aiyooooo ~~~ *

No wonder …… that explains why she always take a deep breathe after each show.

Her First ‘Few’ Snowflakes

* but sadly no picture was taken coz the snowflakes are really too ‘few’ to be capture by the camera :( :( *

While I was gazing outside the window, suddenly I saw that the raindrops today seem a little larger then usual and I look closer ……. OMG, it’s some snowflakes mixing with the rain! So I started to shouted uncontrollably with all I might for Angel who is doing her caterpillar crawl *again* outside our bedroom corridor

“ANGELLLLL~~~~!! COME QUICK~~~~~!!!!! IT’S SNOWING~~~~!!!!!!!!!!”

Then suddenly I saw her running like a lightning, shaking and look a little frighten while whining a little, rushing towards me hugging me tide ….. oh dear, I must have frighten this poor little girl with my sudden loud shout, poor girl!! *sorry dear*

After she has calm down, I show her the ‘very few’ snowflakes falling from the sky outside our house and tell her that they were snow. Although it just lasted for 1-2 minutes and melted before even touching the land, I think no one can really noticed that it’s snowing if they didn’t look closer but at least Angel did see ‘some’ of her first few snowflakes today :P It has been years since my last snow and I kind of missing it at this moment though ……..


However, I do hope that we could hang on till the day we really see some snow here coz at the mean time, all I could think about and longing for was the warm and nice hot weather back in Malaysia/ Bangkok. Although the people here keep telling me that it won’t snow in Shanghai during winter time but I am just keeping my wish. It did snow once and only once here few years back so I am keeping my finger crossed! :)

Right now, the first thing I really need to do is to ask hubby to get me and Angel both a raincoat so if ‘miracle’ does happen again, we will be the first one to zoom out of the house and feel it for real ^_^

Our Freezing Weekend

It’s our very special weekend as it’s freezing cold!!! The winter has just arrived here in Shanghai and the temperature has dropped tremendously to around 2 – 4 degree C with strong wind and constant rain. When walking outside, it’s like walking inside a gigantic freezer with strong icy wind forcing its way strong into every inch of your body *shivering* Smokes begins to form once we starts talk (Angel loves that) and the wet weather has also made such cold weather slightly hard to bare at times ….

My Cheeky little girl likes to pose for mommy lately :)

Despite the cold weather, I drag hubby out of the house and we went to get some extra winter clothing and extra thick pajamas for Angel. I didn’t expect that the winter over here can be as cold as the UK!! Once we step out of the house, Angel start showing an excited face once cold winds blew onto her face and told me “COLD ~~~” showing me a huge grin on her face plus doing some extra shivery movements, kekekeke. I think she enjoys the cold weather here a lot so I would try my best to bring her out of the house once a week normally during the weekends just to get some fresh air and sunshine. Maybe due to the cold weather, she is having a great appetite that day and managed to polish off 2/3 of an adult full portion of meal!!


She is so hungry!! She finish 2/3 of that extra large bowl of rice + 1 plate of steam chicken with mushroom (an adult full portion) all by herself.

After a 6 hours of shopping marathon, I am glad that we finally managed to find some decent winter pajamas for Angel to fight the cold weather and few nice jackets for her outings. Clothing and stuffs can be super duper expensive here in Shanghai (which is something unexpected) but we really have no energy to look further as such cold weather is making all of us super lazy and best just to hibernating inside the warm cozy home :P


Some extra thick pajamas and some outing jackets for Angel. Not cheap and not as nice as I would like them to be but still ok lah :) Also a new stroller for Angel too :)

As we have left Angel’s old stroller behind while we left Bangkok, hence we got Angel a new stroller too because we do find that it’s very convenient for us to have that with an active kid who constantly want us to ‘carry’ while we were out shopping. I am so happy with the stroller as it’s extremely light weight and so easy to maneuver ^_^ It can carry to the maximum of 18kg so I guess Angel can still be able to used that for another year or so. Surprisingly, Angel seems to love this new stroller of hers compare to her old stroller (coz the shade can be fully covered) and wanted me to pushed her around the house with the shade down while she lies comfortably inside enjoying herself so much. Finally, I need to coax her to come down from her stroller and told her that the stroller need to ‘take a rest now’ and there is when she demand me to take a picture of her posing with the folded stroller *laugh* I certainly hope that once we were out, she will behave, cooperate and willing to sit on her new stroller as she would at home.


She love her new Combi very much keep saying that it’s “Angel 的” (Angel’s). Hopefully her love for it will last much longer then I have anticipated :)

Sharing Please ....

^ ^ She is happily munching her cakes while saying “Hhhmmm~~, Yum Yum Yum~~!!!” unwilling to share with mommy :(

Suddenly Angel is not only getting possessive over her belongings but also, she seems to be reluctant to share her food as well lately especially those food that she absolutely loves. Some parenting books did point out that this behaviour and being possessive is what a 2 year old would go through and would evolved through practice and maturity and hence at this stage, I will not be too worried about her actions but instead, hoping to constantly stressing the word “sharing” and finding way to help her understand the wonderfulness of ‘sharing’ part and not all of what she has hoping that one day, it will mean something to her.

^ ^ After much persuasion, she finally did just that by sharing a very very tiny piece bit of her cake with me ………. How generous! (>”<)
Here are something that I would love to do with Angel and would like to share with all mommies who is in my shoe :)

Quoted:

“Tussles over a toy happn often when 2 preschoolers are at play. They can be fiercely protective of their possessions, and sharing is a skill that won’t come naturally to your child for another year or two. In the meantime, help him/her learn:

• Model sharing and use the word “Share”. “Would you like to share my cookie?”
  
  
• Break up fights by removing the obhect of debate and moving the kids onto something else: “The car needs to take a rest now. Want to blow some bubbles?”
  
  
• Casually point out big kids you see sharing.
  
  
• Hide favourite toys when other kids come to play. Twos shouldn’t be expected to let others use things they’re strongly attached to.
  
  
• Provide activities for playdates that involved a shared activity that each child can do on her own, like playing with clay or drawing pictures.
  
  
• Praise your child when sharing does happen. Positive reinforcement is a terrific teacher.”

At this point, Angel still thought that Sharing = Giving up what she loves ……. Maybe that’s one of the reason why she is so afraid to share whatever she truly loves ^_^

Getting Mischievous At 2Y6M

The first update after such a long time …… so let’s see how mischief she has become lately *wipe sweat*

After spending a couple of months of jolly good time with her grandparents, Angel finally came back to us for good. I surely missed her so much although I do get to see her quite often. However, I still remember vividly few weeks back how she cried her lungs out when she saw me living for the airport living her with her grandparents with tears rolling down her cheek for the very first time she saw me living (previously she would wave bye bye to me happily even though she knows that I am living). Although Angel’s grandma constantly update us that Angel is getting older and became well behave now, but after coming back to us for more then a week now, we do find that she not only getting more mischievous. Later after talking over with her grandma, I think that her well manner back then with her grandparents is mostly because she is afraid of her grandpa and hence do not dare to ‘fuss’ or misbehave or else, she would surely get a good spank or good scolding sessions!!

Now that she is back with us and her grandpa is not here anymore, suddenly she is like a loose horse, doing everything that would drive the adult up the wall. Whenever she went over the boundaries and saw that we put on an angry face ignoring her, she would start feeling sorry and came to us saying
“Ah-ma (grandma) Sorry~~~!! Ah-ma (grandma) Sayang~~~!!”
“Mommy Sorry~~~~!! Mommy Sayang!!”

Phrases like these would now came from her for more then 10 times per day but as soon as we put a smile back to our face, give her a hug and forgive her, she would be back to her mischievous self again doing whatever she was asked NOT to do previously putting a deaf ears on our advices and regard us like an invisible man!

When she wants something, she won’t asked for our permission no matter how many time we corrected her and instead, she would do like the way she liked it, snatched whatever we are holding / reading away from our hands out of a sudden, and run away as quickly as possible refused to give us back whatever she has taken and claimed that it belongs to her. Bringing her out to shopping is like constantly dragging a wild horse struggling to break loose every chance that she could, bend-walking 45 degree with us still dragging onto her hand! Whenever we are not looking, she would zoom off hiding from us taking that as an interesting game to play. She couldn’t stand still for even 1 minute lately and constantly moving, kicking, pulling, struggling and shaking her hands off ours, trying to do all sort of dangerous act and stunt while walking down the street. Crying and screaming in the mall or at home has become a norm to us and it can last for the entire day. Getting her to change her nappy or taking bath will eventually turning into ‘playing a catch’! Also, no matter how we try to please her or trying hard to fulfill her needs, there is always something that she wanted and her wants is always ever changing – want this, want that, what us to sit here and not there, want us to stand there and not here, want grandma to push the shopping cart and not daddy, she want to hold this and not that and when we give her this - she wants that instead, want us to eat that and not this then that again, wants A to feed her and not B and when A feed her, she wants B again, give her 1 she wants 2 then give her 2 she wants 3 …………. and always fuss fuss fuss for which seems like we will never ever pleased her or make her satisfied.

Previously, reasoning with her would work most of the time but not anymore! She would put on a cheeky look on her face knowing very well whenever she is doing something that she shouldn’t be doing but still, she would do that and repeated that again and again totally ignore what we said. Yesterday was her worst where she was actually acting like a hyperactive kid out of controlled, crying, screaming and throwing tantrums as if a Queen’s wishes were not granted after trying to please her for several attempts. Whenever she doesn’t feels happy, she would throw whatever she is holding and pushed everything including her bowl of rice onto the floor once. Stopping her from doing the dangerous stuns or making her to move away from dangerous stunt seems like too much to asked for. She has start using her crying as a way to get what she wants and throw tantrums like no body’s business disregard our sweet talk / tactic that used to worked on her. Instead, yesterday she even starts putting up a fight after coaxing her for an good hour until I finally cannot tolerant her behaviour anymore and give her a stern scolding and let her stand at her little naughty corner again feeling totally despair, exhausted and heart breaking watching her scream-crying on top of her voice showing no sign of compromising at all!!

That night after putting her to bed, I looked at her serene little face, feeling a little despair and drained. Suddenly I felt that not only that I am lost but I guess somewhere inside, she might be feeling the same too and I need to start handling her behaviour with a totally new approach. Things need to start from the scratched again just like before. I do noticed that she has become more hot tempered and demanding for some reason which I think I need to find a way to work it out on her. I do not know whether my new approach will work but I do hope that by showing her more Patience, Consistency in our actions, Understanding, and on the other hand, setting up a clearer boundaries and limits as well as explaining to her more on ones actions and consequences just like before as well as showering her with more Love and hugs ……. hopefully with all these, she would soon learn how to manage her own feelings and actions better and then move on from the terrible 2 stages marching into the next milestone in her development.

Despite all her mischievous, when she is in her better self, she still was the sweetest and cutest girl in the whole world which never fail to light up our life and put a smile on our face ^_^ She really needs a lot more of attention and dedication compare to other kids of her age that I have came a crossed but that’s my little girl! I just wished her to know that no matter how difficult these parenting path would be, Mommy will always by her side to guide her and lead her the way and love her no lesser.

Be good my dear little Angel, be good ya ……

Greetings from Shang*hai!

Hello there .... I know I know, we have been missing in action for way too long! Everything are fine here and thanks for all the "hello"s and comments posted in our blog ^_^

The reason for our MIA being that we have just moved to SHANG*HAI, CHI*NA (yes, we are moving again :P) and too bad the government here didn't permit (i.e. BLOCK) the access of blogspot, multiply, facebook, youtube, personal blogs etc and lots & lots more websites including constantly banned other websites which 'helps' others in China to get access to those banned websites mention above, SIGH!!! Which means I am having a tough time accessing all your blogs and sites including mine too ever since ..... double SIGH!!!!! Anyway, I do hope that I will fine 'other' way to get access to my precious blogs like this round (but with very limited function) and at the same time visiting your blog too to do some catching up if possible! Really missed all your blogs to death and missing to be able to blog-hop freely so much!!!!

At the mean time, just a short note from Mommy and Angel saying that we are fine here and hopefully we will be settling down and well in no time and also, let's hope that I will be able to blog hopping as previously soon too (hopefully I manage to find a way la) ^_^

Take care ya :)

She Loves Mango!!

Angel absolutely loves mangoes! Her favourite fruit used to be bananas and apparently not anymore. Nowadays, she would walk pass those bananas display on the table, instead, she would be pointing at the mango tree at our backyard telling us that she wants “mango” ^_^


So whenever Angel’s grandpa is preparing the mangoes for her, she would have all the patience in the world, standing at the back of her grandpa in the hot kitchen, watching his every move peeling and slicing the mangoes. If she gets bored after the long wait, she would swinging her hands back and forth, sometimes swing her hands hard left and right as if doing a spin, or putting her hands at her back while tapping her feet, sometimes she will even raised her feet a little looking whether her mangoes is ready on the kitchen table or not, etc. And no matter what she did, one thing for sure is she will never ever moved away from that spot until she gets hold of her bowl of freshly peeled mangoes.


Normally Angel’s grandpa would separated them into individual bowl and if Angel was requested to pass her grandma’s portion to her grandma first, she would be very anxious and become very ‘kan-cheong’ then she would asked “Angel de?? Angel de??” until she was shown that her portion is in another bowl on the table. Then after she has done all the distributing and finally gets her potion, she would hold her bowl extra carefully with eyes glued to the mangoes at all times while having a big grin happily face marching out from the kitchen.

I didn’t expect that she would love mangoes so much and I guess, that must be in the gene, mommy’s gene :P :P