All about Rachel…
I know I haven’t been updating…
I know I promised to do so…
I know I need to have some update about num2 soon, hope I can do a summary of the first trimester… Can you believe, I’m already in my 2nd trimester now…
But I also know I’ve been procrastinating, I’ve been hearing people asking me, WHAT is happening to your blog?
Even my mum is asking me if I have blogged about certain things Rachel been doing lately, and telling me, things like that, you MUST blog, so she know later on when she grow up…
OK OK… 
- Rachel taking photos…
She was using my brother’s new LX3, taking photos of everything and everyone… and LOVING it too…Yes, she been taking lots of pics…
From my brother’s LX3 to my old Sanyo, and getting better at it too…
So an early entry level dSLR for the little one? hahaha…
- She’s starting to recognise more alphabets…
She can tell me “that’s R for Rachel”, or “M for McDonalds”…
A little slow on recognising which alphabet is which, and a little slow with writing (she has a horrible grip on the pencil, I give up teaching and correcting her)… But well, I’ll let her set her own pace… - She LOVES counting and can do summation…
She has been summing how many lorries/buses she saw on the road successfully, but I thought it was more of counting rather than addition, so didn’t pay much attention to it, until last week…
When I casually asked her when we were having fruits, like how I would always try to make her sum up how many pieces she ate…
“Rachel, you ate 2 pieces of starfruit just now, and you take 3 more now… How many pieces do you have in total?”
She told me to repeat my question, and just casually showed 2 fingers on her left hand and then showed 3 fingers on her right hand while I was saying it… Then looked at me, and counted “one… two… three… whore four… FIVE… come be 5 pieces of starhootfruit”… (p/s: please excuse her pronunciation of FOUR and startfruit)…I was really surprised, and proud of her…
She obviously know she achieve something great, continuously told us to ask her more…
So for now, she’s been successfully doing summation of up to ELEVEN (but she’ll tell me, mummy, borrow your 2 fingers) and we are trying to expose her to doing deduction… - Keeping to her words and promises…
She did me proud, really really REALLY proud the other day…We were at Toys ‘R’ Us with the inlaws (Father in Law) wanted to get her some toy…
Despite her excitement going into the toy city, we reminded her as we enter that she can only have ONE toy that day… So she went on her hunt with FIL, first picking up a pinball toy, then replacing it with a keyboard, and finally, selecting a set of Legos over the keyboard…At the cashier, she turned back to me and asked, “I thought I want to buy the ball? I want TWO toys”… Which I firmly say “no, you promised, we said only one toy today”…
She instantly turned and ran to Tecky, covered her face in his neck, and cried a loud heartful cry… I could see that FIL was going to give in and buy the pinball set for her, I saw parents throwing sympathetic look towards us… I persisted that she can only have one toy, but we will buy her a children umbrella as we promised her since a few months back…
She calmed down from her cry, look at me and say “No mummy. I promised only 1 toy today”…
And well, we walked out the store that day with a set of Lego, 2 surprised (amazed) grandparents, and 2 very proud parents… I complimented her over and over again that she did great, and she made us all proud… So she was happy too… - Sent to her naughty corner
It was my first time, and it happened in June 2009…
Rachel was sent to a naughty corner…
She was ignoring our warnings, talked back to Tecky and even fought back, by pulling back whatever he confiscated from her… I got so pissed off, I shouted at her, and practically pulled her towards a corner and told her to sit there… Set my phone alarm and told her you can only move when my phone ring…
Needless to say, she tried to run away, which I prolong her punishment… After a few times of trying, and probably 5 minutes added to her punishment, she sat there and cried and cried and cried…When my phone finally rang, and I told her to bring me my phone, she did and obediently (or should I say stupidly) wanted to walk back to the corner to sit…
We did calm her down and explained to her what she did wrong…
But how do you make sure that the little one actually are listening (and not just nodding to everything you said for the sake of nodding) and actually understands what we want to send across? Any suggestions?So that’s the first time, and I sincerely hope that I don’t need to use the naughty corner method again to make her listen…
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