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 happen 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 object 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 :)