Friday, May 30, 2008

Her Progress at 34 Months



Giselle recently has been reminding the people around her that can we cannot say ‘Aye!’ and ‘Ya; must say ‘Yes’. This little cheeky girl, she is the one who has been using that 2 words and after we reminding her so many times, she now turns around to remind us.


Heard from Ms Angela that she and her classmates chit-chat a lot during meal times and took a long time to finish their meals. I really can’t imagine what the kids spoke about, must be very enjoyable to hear them interact.

Just last week, when I left her to sit with Vivian in school in the morning, I was very surprised that she said ‘’ Mummy, I want you to go office’’. Haha, I don’t know if I should be sad or happy that she’s getting very comfortable in school and don’t need me that much any more… Nevertheless, her Daddy and I are happy that she has very dedicated teachers who takes care of her really well and will frequently update me of her progress and send me mms pictures of her in school at times :)

For quite some time, Giselle has been complaining that her tummy is painful during walking. Her daddy and I were quite worried for some growth in her tummy or what… Finally made an appointment to see Dr Ngiam on 24 May. Fortuantely he told us that Giselle is definitely fine, she’s just having some behaviour problem. He said that it’s true she feels uncomfortable during the walk and that’s normal. To kids, whenever they are uncomfortable, they like to pin-point their usual spot that it is painful, normally they like to point to their stomach or somewhere near their chest ribs. At least this visit gave us some form of assurance.

Giselle can be driving me nuts when she refused to take my instructions and mess up the house, or refuse to open her mouth to take her meals. When I made her face the wall, she would cry and screamed and sometimes even struggle, and all top of these, she will get very angry and bang the door many times when I just ignore her. Guess she has gotten some of my genes that our temper is really bad.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Ye Shanghai...!!! 15 May - 19 May 08



We took a 1.10am SQ flight to Shanghai and it was quite an experience for us and Giselle. She didn't have a good sleep as most of the time were awaken by the lights and stewardess. It was too short a journey to have a night flight with her.


Weather was very nice in Shanghai on the 1st day of arrival. It was very cooling during the morning and night with Sun coming out during the day. We tried to catch up with our sleep in the afternoon after some venturing out to the shopping area for food. This trip, we stayed at our friend's vacant apartment at Tian Dong Road.. It was basically a condo with facilities. Everything clean and nice but just that no TV :(


I must say Giselle was quite tough during this trip as her meals, the climate, sleep time were all haywired, and the best thing was she was able to walk most of the time on the street... At times she was so tired, she could stand sleep... yes, dozed off white standing... really so funny! Nevertheless, hope she won't fall sick after she came back.

We wanted to bring her to Shanghai Ocean aquarium but were advised by our friends there that it wasn't worth it. Luckily, we found some good cafe and resturants (Din tai feng) that had a big nice aquarium of goldfishes while we were dining... :) She had also enjoy pointing out the skycrapers and big TV that were built on them... The best thing she got so excited while we are dining at Paul. Brauhaus, overlooking the big river where they had fancy lights, boats with BIG TV showing advertisements on them....

During the flight back to Singapore, she was enjoying herself with the food, krisflyer entertainment.... However, when time went late at 12 midnight, she began to get cranky....



Though the trip was very tiring, but we had all enjoyed ourselves overall... :)