Missy C is now walking in full swing. She rather walk than be carried which is good AND bad. This is especially annoying when Missy A is running late for school, and Missy C INSISTS of walking to the car from the front door. She forgets anyway once strapped into the car.
GAAAH they are all growing too fast!
What will happen now after this…. should I be worried??
OK, so everyone has gone all quiet on me. FINE. You’ll just have to hear my banter.
I am Chinese, and my parents have brought me up to learn that education is the number 1 thing that will drive your success in life. How many As you get will prove how many Zero’s that follow on in your future income…( 7 As…7 Zeros – 10000000) How well you do depicts how you will do in life. Whether this is true or not, I wasn’t given much room to have an opinion. Anyway…
My parents migrated here so that I would have a better education. IT IS THE PRIMARY reason why we migrated, and I would assume so for many asian migrants. So I can understand when many asian parents expect the school to be EDUCATORs. That is, we are there to learn our ABCs, and 123s. But seriously, tell me that as a kid, all you learnt in school was your ABCs and 123s.
You learn more than your ABCs and 123s at school…heck I know I did anyway… like the birds and the bees…how to socialise (can’t learn that from parents! lol)… how to lead, how to be lead, how to deal with conflict… boys.. girls……etc… etc… and mainly, also How to be me…you. AND I think what newly migrated parents lack in understanding this… Or atleast, they have forgotten, or lost perspective. (Heck, don’t get me wrong on this. Not all ASIANs are like this. I think some Aussie parents think this too but more so a high degree of asian parents think this…Anyway, I speak for myself here so don’t bash me).
Anyway…I remember when Missy A was in Montesorri, and one of the parents kicked up a fuss when asked to be involved in the working bee and to help cut fruit. Her response was “What!? Isn’t that what we pay them for?”. I swear I wanted to bitch-slap her. (note: SHE WASN’T Asian! She was Aussie… just to prove my point above….) LALALA… anyway… Ok, maybe not a good comparison, but this is how I see it.
You send your kids to school and in that 12 hours that your kids are awake, 6 hours of that is at school….which kinda works as 1/2 of your kids life. Is it really SO hard to be involved for some part of it… or are you really more than happy for someone else to be responsible for 1/2 of your kids life???
ANYWAY, I think I digress from THE DISCUSSION. What am I talking about again? I don’t remember!
GAaaH! MY CONCLUSION… I understand why some parents only think that a school is where they are taught their ABCs and 123s, and I understand why they don’t get involved with the school….BUTÂ I just think that IT is a fantastic idea that the school is teaching MY kids the IB PYP Learner Profiles because afterall, the school grounds is an environment in which my kids are going to grow and learn to be who they are and would be in the future AND yes their ABCs and 123s as well.
SO… IF parents think that it is the schools responsibility to teach our kids everything without requiring our involvement because that is the service that they are providing as educators…they need to THINK AGAIN.
Get involved with your schooling community because afterall, it is what’s shaping who your child will be.
NOW, darn it… I think I might have just shot myself in the foot because now MY RESOLUTION to this is that I have to get involved my school’s community.
And here’s some pics for those who have just skipped all my banter just to look at pictures of my life and don’t really care what I think.
Just like my lunch orders, I will soon run out of things to do. SIGH. Well, can’t say that I’m not trying right? Darn kids… why do they have to get bored to quickly!
Today we spent half the day moping around the house… and then had a light bulb moment! It’s 6 degrees outside…. LETS GO SWIMMING!
YES. I booked Missy C in for Creche for the first time and Missy A and I went swimming.
It was a really great opportunity for me to spend one on one time with each other, and it was great because OFCOARSE always after a swim… everyone is HUNGRY. So lunch went down without a fuss. We dropped by to pick up a DVD and set for home.
We’ve started a bit of a vegie patch and herb garden so we also had planned to set up our mushroom box. AND speaking of our herb garden, I swear that there was one night that I thought our neighbours were stealing our herbs!…. or worse…ALIENS!
I went out to pick some parsley one night and discovered this!
ALL OF THEM WERE PICKED! Just their leaves!
I panicked! Called Dave and was totally freaked. I mean, one of or neighbours, not sure who and which one is kind enough to bring in our bin sometimes when I forget while rushing the kids off to school. So I thought, well, thats ok I guess that maybe then they thought that they could help themselves to the herbs as their reward/thank you. I don’t know… but it sure seems alittle invasive. Thats when I got scared. OMG, someone has the guts to go through out gates, walk into our garden and hep themselves. I ran into the house, locked up the doors….
Ok so maybe Dave is a little calmer with this and told me that neighbours wouldn’t do such thing and it COULD be something else. So I googled it. “MISSING PARSLEY” and found a few people with missing parsley due to a…. POSSUM!
Ok, not so scarey anymore. But still very angry.
ANYWAY… we borrowed Bandslam and…BANDSLAM IS AWESOME!! Hahaha… I love kids flicks, and I was a little hesitant because Vanessa from High School Musical is in it…( i find her annoyingly chirpy), but not so much in this movie, and I loved it. Oh and so did the girls 
. Highly recommend this flick.
Random. I know.
So I am the last minuter. Monday comes and I was searching the internet for things to do. In the end, with the weather crashing down on us… it was all about TIME AT HOME.
Scarey for some parents, but I sure prefer it. OK, we were not at home the whole time but for most of it… and it was fun. So far… so good.
1st Activity: Bunnings Warehouse, FREE Kids activity – Paint your own canvas.
2nd Activity: Grocery shopping for Gingerbread cookies!
3rd Activity: Bake Gingerbread cookies
4th Activity: Decorate cookies!
All smiles from here!
Missy C keeping herself occupied by going through my bag… sigh… She always seems to know how to whip out my credit card… hmmm the force is strong in this one…
Gingerbread man in budgie smuglers!
OOoh we were going to have Roti Canai for dinner and its quite ‘heaty’… so I made Chrysenthemum tea! HAHAHA MY grandmama would be so proud of me! I even added some gei ji (??) and some dates too…
OK so it doesn’t look appetising but IT WAS YUMMY! And Oh I’m so proud of myself for making it! lol…
Every morning, I wake up chuckling. I have my beautiful 5 year old sneak into the room and whisper in my ear…” Can I watch TV?”. SERIOUSLY… How sweet. Everytime now that she wants to watch TV, she actually asks ever since I told her …
“that TV was a privilege, a privilege to earn”…. and its just amazing how well she respects that rule. WEIRD.. and VERY cool. I wonder how long this will last.
ALSO, as I peer in to Missy C’s cot, not only does her smile make me H..H..HAPPY but this…
SERIOUSLY… I LOVE IT!
I’ve been reading a fair number of new blogs lately. Well, they’re not new but new to me la… ANYWAY… I love the way they use polaroid shots and also how they age their pics into vintage looking pics so here’s me trying to do the same…
lol… ok I fail but I tried…
ALSO… it’s always a good thing trying something for the first time right even if you fall on your ass… and that goes the same for Missy C! TODAY she took her first 3 steps ALL BY HER SELF! First it was one wobbly step… then TWO wobbly step… and then her third was more of a shuffle of her other legs so that she wouldn’t topple. BUT HOW EXCITING!! I picked her up and bounced around the house singing… ” YA YA YA!”
Dear Missy C,
When you came into this world, you were a complete surprise!
You surprised me with your poop. You surprised me with your vomitting. You surprised me with your smiles in your sleep.
You surprised me with your stubbornness.
You surprised me with your giant burps even at 1 week. You surprised me with your curiosity.
You have been such a blessing into all our lives and I love you dearly.
You are an incredible little girl…even though most of the world thought you were a boy.
You make the best faces! … and I love you for that.
Even in your sleep, you never fail to put a smile on my face and my heart sings.
You are a determined little baby… where many times you have won the fight to get that biscuit from inside the container.
And of coarse you always seem to win the fight to get your milk at 3:30 am in the morning… (yes even til NOW)
Missy C, you have brought such joy, love, and friendship into our family, and we thank God for every 525,600 minute He has so far given us with you.
I love you so so much, and you will definitely grow up to be an amazing little person. Just like me! hehehe. Ok Love LOVE and Happy beautiful birthday sweetheart!
School has started and I am still in HOLIDAY mode… gawwwwww……
So no pics as I have been rushing out the door, and quite frankly I’ve been lazy. *sorry*
Lunch Idea #13 – Monday: Pork Floss on Sour dough sandwich, dried mangoes, dried apples and Vitawheats
Lunch Idea #14 – Tuesday: Tuna, avocado and tomato dip with rice crackers, Vegemite vitawheat biscuits, dried apple and cranberries
Lunch Idea #15 – Wednesday : Avocado and cream cheese on sourdough sandwich, dried mango and dried apple.
So, slight variations there, and a good use of an avocado. Still sticking with the varied texture which still makes things interesting….. and gives their jaws an exercise not that Missy A needs it OMG she won’t SHUT UP these days!
Apart form lunches, I’ve been busy slowly decorating our little humble home. Here’s one of our walls.
I have been wanting to do this for ages in terms of ’summarising’ our year up where each month has a photo to represent that month and then putting it into a book so we have a collection of every year we have as a family and for the rest of our lives. So if you have a closer look, each frame has a month to it, and i’ve finally printed out up until March. Will wait for the end of April to decide on which pic we will use. I love it! Um… that big BROWN one is well.. June I think. hehehe I ran out of frames and also Js. BARh.. so its special for this year. This is super easy, and cheap too. I bought the frames from Ikea and these were the odd ones from the ‘As Is’ bins so they were even cheaper. Missy A and I painted them up with shiny black paint bought from Bunnings, and then hot glued gun the wood letters that were bought from Riot. I think it all costed up like… $12 for frames, $4 for letters and $4 for paint. *shrug* something like that anyway.
AND here’s a pic to melt your hearts…….
…she thinks its funny when we sneeze!
ARgh… so naughty but so CUTE!
Missy C is 9 months now… and I reckon this is just one of the CUTEST stages! I love it! Though she is exploring with her mouth ALL the time, her reactions to things now are so distinct. Whether she likes something or not, or even just not so sure about something. SO CUTE!
All that exploring… for a teeny tiny body like that… must be SUPER tiring! I’m so mean. I left her for 10 minutes while I answered an email, and she goes quiet. C’mon, everyone knows… when baby goes quiet… something must be up.