Wassh wassh wassh....

Hubby is a hygenic fanatic. He doesnt like his house, his car, his study table etc.....to be untidy. He likes it neat and clean at all times....so that's why when I am a little busy with other things and left my things lying around on the study table or elsewhere, he will start nagging me like an old woman :p



Last weekend, he proposed car washing to Trenyce and she enjoyed it. Well, kids being kids, they simply love all water activities!

"DO RE MI" Guess which is Trenyce's pail? I think you must have the answer already!

Trenyce ready to wash the car...

Happy meal, happy kid

I always wonder what's so fascinating about Macdonalds that drives kids so nuts about it? They just adore it so much...and the rate they adore it simply amazed the parents. Hmmm...must be their superb marketing team and their powerful campaigns that everytime their advertisements appear on the TV, no kids cant recognise them.

We hardly brought our gal to fast food outlets as we dont like the idea of introducing these "sort of food" so soon to her. I mean, all parents in some way, do not feel that fast food are healthy food, right? Well, my little gal gave us a surprise recently by requesting us to bring her to Macdonalds, she said "bring me to Macdonalds tomorow ok?". With her innocent tone and her innocent look, how can mummy and daddy refuse her? So,Macdonalds, here we go. We brought her to Mac last Saturday for breakfast. We bought her a happy meal set and really, it made her a very happy gal.....sitting nicely at the table, eating diligently and enjoying her food. Totally different from eating her meals at home. When the food arrived, we purposely placed a packet of apple juice (comes together with the set meal) in front of her, put the straw thru and told her that the drink belonged to her. Surprise surprise, she didnt protest! What came next is even more surprising. She actually picked up the packet of apple juice without much hesitation!!!! My gal, who refused fruits and home-made fruit juices, actually drank the packet of fruit juice! Wow, see the power of mac? It's really has a way with kids wor! Salute salute...

This is the amazing Mac's apple juice.

Fun with Playdoh

We bought playdoh for Trenyce recently from the Giraffe Shop (aka ToysRUs). Trenyce called it the Giraffee Shop eversince she saw this big giraffee signboard displaying at the entrance of the store. And sometimes she will ask me "Mummy, later you bring me to Giraffe Shop ok?", nodding her head as she spoke.



Trenyce enjoyed the playdoh and insisted on making some "Bao" (aka chinese bun) for me. Those "baos" were her creations.

Meaning of your kid’s name? (Tagged)

Sorry Angeleyes, I know I am a little slow in responding...just came back from short holiday. I am hardly tagged by anyone, so thanks for engaging this slow tortise in the fun! ;p

So, whats the meaning of my girl's name?

****************

Little girl's name: TRENYCE WONG JIA YEE

Hubby and I have long decided that our children will take the first 2 initials of our english name, so if the child is a boy, he will take after "KE" and gal will be "TR". In fact, we had come up with 4 names as we would very much like to have 4 kids if we can afford to. Getting a boy's name is much easier than the girl's name as there isnt many "TR"s around.......

I know this sounds a little funny. I chanced upon Trenyce's name while watching American Idol:p Saw this black gal by the name Trenyce who can sing really well. Cant remember exactly whether its the 1st or 2nd season. All I can remember was that I was about 3 mths+ preggy then and we were still busy searching for names for our BB. So when I saw her name with "TR" which fitted our bill, I quickly jotted it down and did a google the very next day for the meaning of the name. It was not easy as google was not very helpful...in the end, I had to pop into the bookstores and dig those baby naming 'dictionaries' for the meaning. Thank goodness I found it eventually and I was very pleased to find out that "Trenyce" means "Smiling". I thought to myself "hey, wouldnt it nice to have a happy girl?" Afterall, we parents all want our children to be happy and cheerful isnt it? And that's how we decided to use Trenyce for my smiley Trenyce :) Indeed, she loves to smile and laugh....she's really our happy girl!

Trenyce's chinese name was given by her paternal grandfather. We got FIL to give the name as he is the only one, besides myself, who knows the chinese characters and most importantly, Trenyce is the first grandchild of the WONG famiy. It is Trenyce's privilege to have the grandfather to give her her name.

Surname: WONG
The chinese character is same meaning as the colour - yellow.
[PS:I am sorry I dont have chinese wordstar so there's no way I can type out the chinese name :'( ]

Middle name: JIAFIL chose the word "Jia" which means "good" but the reason FIL chose this word is because the sound is close to the chinese character "house", meaning he wanted her to be close to her family, always think of the family wherever she is and whatever she is doing.

Last name: YEEThe final word "Yee" came from the newspaper. FIL came up with a few names but we dont really like it (actually its me cos hubby doesnt know chinese as his 2nd language is Bahasa Melayu), so he resorted to using the chinese newspapers for ideas. Coincidently, there was a big writeup on this china woman (quite a big shot in China political world) with the name "Yee". The word "Yee" in chinese refers to proper etiquette. To FIL, this symbolises a successful and proper woman and he wanted Trenyce to be like this woman so he gave the word "Yee".

**********

For the links....ermmm, pls refer to Angeleyes' blog :p ~lazy mdm~

Children's Haircut

I liked this pic I took for Trenyce. I specially took this pic for her after trimming her fringe :p Not too bad huh...looked more like Dora now...everyone commented..hehehe..never mind lah...otherwise will cost mummy S$5 just to trim the fringe...exp huh!

Talking about hair cutting....how come its so exp to cut a child's hair huh...hmmm...I always brought Trenyce for haircut when we go back to Labis....there it costs me 5bucks too but its RM$5! And if only trimming the fringe, its just RM$1! Cheap like mad huh...where am I going to get less than S$1 haircut in Spore!?!?!

Arguing again....

It was one of the days again I had a quarrel with hubby over Trenyce.

We brought Trenyce to Centerpoint today and she accidentally hurt herself at the escalator. I wasnt with her at that time as I was browsing around at the concourse on the offered items. Hubby was not interested and had brought her to 2nd floor to look for PILs. As I was movng near the escalators, I could hear some child crying. When I realised that it was my girl, I quickly catch up with them. It was some light but unsightly bruises caused by the sharp end of the escalator steps.... Little girl was still crying when I managed to catch up with them. There was small little blood markings on her leg, so I quickly apply some aloe vera on her leg to soothe her crying.

********************

I totally forgotten about the incident until the time when I was dresing Trenyce, preparing her for bed and saw the bruises again. I was quite upset that she got 'disfigured' again and grumbled a little at hubby. But instead of apologising, hubby blew his top and scolded me, saying that I left him with the girl and he had to hold his drink with the other hand...blabblabblab and couldnt manage properly that caused the incident. I was really mad that he shifted his responsibility away. Does that mean anyone with one hand full of things, will not be held responsible for the child's safety? Luckily it was just some light bruises this time round, what if it wasnt? The argument got really heated and worst of all, we quarrelled in front of Trenyce. We only stopped the argument when Trenyce started crying and telling hubby at the same time "dont scold my mummy"......

Then I just held her hand and brought her to the room to sleep quietly....

Normally, for situations like this, we dont apologise to each other instantly....we just let the anger goes off by itself. I wonder if its good but if we continue to argue over it, it doesnt prove to be any healthier to the relationship either.....Thank goodness, the anger usually doesnt last for more than a day and we will apologise the next day when we cool down.

Carrot Artwork

Eversince the day I made some star carrots for my udon dish...Trenyce has fallen in love with the shapey carrots. One of the nights, over dinner, she made a request to me: "Mummy, can you make some more star carrot for me?". Of course, I couldnt reject my little sweetheart and made her some straight away after the dinner. I have not ony made the star carrots, I have heart and flower carrots as well...with the remaining spare pieces chopped finely...all for MIL to put into her porridge. These are enough to last her for 4 days' cooking.



Before I start working on the carrots, I have promised Trenyce painting session. Hence I decided to keep the 'tail' of the carrot to make into a star, using the vege cutter (the one in the middle), for Trenyce's painting session. Picture at the far bottom shows the final artwork done by Trenyce!






Mood: Creative

Trenyce uses Skype!

These are images of Trenyce deep in conversation with hubby using Skype. I used the video camera, which we used to "video conferencing" with huddy, to snap these expressions. Trenyce was very engrossed in the conversation with hubby, didnt know the mummy is up to some mischief again...hehehe

Going diaperless

Trenyce has been showing signs recently...not sign language lah :p I mean she is better able at controlling her bladder. Thats really a piece of good news huh.....

Several other signs:

1. She refuses to pee in her disposable diapers when we go out either shopping or dinning at some food places.

2. She wakes up from her afternoon nap and comes to us, telling us she wants to pee.

3. Her disposable diaper is all dry from her afternoon naps for the past week.

4. She enjoys peepee and poopoo in the toilet.

5. She hardly wets herself at home nowadays. She can control till we bring her to the potty or toilet.

Initially I wanted to train her go diaperless by constantly forcing her to pee in the potty, pressurizing her and myself. In the end, my bed duno got wet how many times, changed how many bedsheets, got super upset with the little girl for "misbehaving", got super stress worrying that she may not be able to ditch the diapers......in a way, kind of strain our relationship with each other as I would start scolding her whenever I get upset over it. It was hubby, on seeing us trying so hard, who suggested to abort the diaperless training so that we all can sleep in peace (he can as well so that he doesnt have to change the bedsheets that frequently :p). In the end, I gave up. Well, you can imagine how delighted I am when I heard from MIL today when I returned from work that Trenyce is able to control her bladder thru the night! And 1st thing 1st in the morning when she woke up, she marched straight to PILs telling them she wanted to pee. According to MIL, the potty was quite full :p

Hmmm...which means the kids will actually know when they are ready to be diaperless eh. So Mummies, we dont really have to hurry them and add stress to ourselves! Oh boy! I am so relieved now!

Conversation

Had a conversation with Trenyce earlier on, on the bed. Its just a habit of ours, chatting about whats happening during the day on the bed before we sleep. Then we will say bedtime prayer and go to bed. Most of the times, the conversations we had do not have any conclusions and the string of events also do not seem to have any connection at all.

The dialogue goes:
Me: Did you go out with Gong2 and Ah Ma today?
: Yes.
Me: Where did you go?
: Go there (hand pointing to the window)....far far away...
Me: Oh. So, did you walk there or go by bus?
: Walk there.
Me: And what did you do over there?
: Saw the popo downstairs. All my favourite popo (as in neighbour granny).
Me: What are they doing there?
: Going India.
Me: Huh? Who is going India?
: Papa is going India.
Me: Huh? Papa going India? I have never heard Papa mentioning going India. Are you sure?
: Yesss....


The end.

Mind-Boggling Jigsaw Puzzle

Trenyce loves puzzles! Daddy bought her a few puzzles earlier last mth and that kind of cultivates her love for jigsaw puzzles. She started with a 12-piece puzzle, then 20-piece, then 30-piece and now she can even fix a 40-pieces puzzle! Above is a comical snapshot of Trenyce trying to fix up a 12-piece puzzle by herself. Not that we dont want to help her, but she doesnt allow anyone to touch the puzzles...hahaha