SAHM for a Day

I was on leave, taking care of my 3yo at home few days ago (17th Dec). This was the 1st time I was left at home with her alone since I got preggie. Little girl is very sensible nowadays. When she wants to pee or poo, she will tell and she will go to the potty by herself. When she finishes her milk or food, she will bring the utensils to the kitchen. When I am doing housework in the kitchen, she will play by herself in the hall.

Overall, she is considered a well behaved girl except that she will sometimes get lazy and refuse to keep her toys and put the utensils back to the kitchen. Then she gets nagging from her very-strict mummy. I don’t generally help her do all the keeping as I believe that by doing so will encourage her to be "lazy" more often. What I normally do is I will get her to keep the toys together with me or I will impose rules like if she refuses to keep her toys then I wont bring her downstairs to go kaikai or something. So far it works for me. Anyway, little girl knows no tactics work for mummy so she will obediently do what is being told. She will only "tey" daddy or the grandparents (if they are around) to do things for her.

Anyway, we didn’t go anywhere yesterday except going downstairs to buy some grocery to cook the lunch and dinner. We had plans to go library initially but had to call it off as it was raining the whole afternoon.

Decorating the Kids' Room

Hubby has finally decided to do something about the baby room. We bought some paint last weekend to repaint our study room (originally is our master bedroom), which will be the future baby's room....actually the kids' room because eventually Trenyce and Kaden will be sleeping in that room until we decide to move out of this house.

We got the paint from ICI (aka Dulux). The paint we chose was specially meant for use in baby or children's room. Perhaps it uses less chemical? Anyway, hubby decided to use apple green as he felt that green is soothing for the children's eyes and not too loud for the kids....though father-in-law thinks otherwise. He felt the colour was a little bland and we should use more vibrant colours but didnt exactly spelt out the colours :p

Hubby took one whole afternoon to paint half the room so the other half of the room is still in the "old" colour. We also went to Ikea the same weekend to get some ideas to decorate the kids' room. We chose a few furniture and decided to go back home to do the measurements before we confirmed on the items. In fact, to 'overhaul' the study room means we have to shift the furniture in our bedroom too otherwise there is no way we can put in the baby cot. We are likely to get a chest of drawers (6 drawers) and a bookshelf, perhaps a CD tower too. The chest of drawers to put the kids' clothing and the bookshelf is to shift all the books from the study room to our bedroom. We are still heistating whether to get a kid's wardrobe......hmmm....

Anyway, shall wait till hubby completes the painting this weekend then the real decor can begin......