The official birthday songbird

Its Amanda great grandma's birthday. (Amanda still has three great grandmas and one great grandpa) We went over to great grandma house on Saturday to celebrate her birthday and Amanda was most excited about the cake. She brought the cake out from the fridge with my help and helped to put all the candles on the cake.

After that she went on to sing 3 versions of Happy Birthday songs much to everyone's amusement. The first version is the English version and the second is the Chinese version and the third version goes like this :-

How old are you now?

How old are you now?

How old are you nowwwwwwww?

How old are you now?

And she was the first to blow out the candle too.

Maybe 2 years later, she can pass the baton to her meimei if she decided she has had enough of singing birthday songs haha.

Peer pressure

One weekend, Daddy brought us to City Square Mall together with my mum and sister as we wanted to try the *GONG TEA*. While we were waiting for the tea, Amanda and her wai por went into a shop called mini princess. When I went in subsequently, I met May there and her sweetie Erlene. Her girl is really very girly and was choosing a necklace for herself. Amanda was never interested in getting her hair clipped etc but upon seeing Erlene's nicely tied up hair and being so girly, she decided she wanted to have her hair clipped too! So the doting wai por purchased a pair of cherries hair clip for her and Amanda specifically told her that both sides of her hair must be clipped! Thereafter, she followed Erlene, looking at herself into the little vanity table mirror in the shop. She even showed off her nicely clipped hair to her daddy who came and find us with the teas.......

Even toddlers are easily influenced by their peers. However, the clips did not stay on her hair for long and they are now kept into a little bag along with the other abandoned clips haha.

Here is Amanda with her hair clipped that day

Mid Autumn Festival 2010

Whats that light?

Look again

Its Amanda with her old lantern

Initally, I wanted to bring Amanda to the garden downstairs for a walk with those traditional lanterns given to her by her GuGu but I reached home late and one of the lantern was already damaged. So mummy digged into her treasure box and found last year's latern given by Amanda's great grandma and she has a walk around in the darkness with the lantern.

Maybe next year Amanda will have more fun carrying lantern with her mei mei.

Things that we do and things that she said

Eversince I was pregnant, I have not been doing as much things as before with Amanda. Was guilty that she has been watching more TVs, using iphone etc. I am still trying to read everyday

to her but there were days that I was simply too tired at the end of the day or she simply does not want to do so and I will not force her to do it. However, I am glad that she goes to CC where she spends her day more meaningfully and that we are still attending lapbook class which gives me some guideline on what to do on some weekdays since I usually only have 1 hour or so with her before she goes to bed.

Actually, I have tons of materials at home and I really need to organise and bring them out for us to *play and learn* ---- reminder reminder

A suggested craft from lapbook class :We were asked to make a mouse at home using any materials.

One of the evening, when we are not in mood to read anything, we did the craft.

I took two pieces of useless cardboard paper and ask Amanda to colour them. She chose the colour brown. Then I rolled the paper into a cone and cylinder and stick them together for the mouse's body and head. Amanda pasted two pink circle sticker as the eyes. I helped to cut the semicircle and strips of papers while she pasted them herself with the glue. Lastly, a longer strip of paper for the tail. Our mouse is done! After that, we had fun singing all the ryhmes and songs relating to mouse!

Amanda has been talking lots more and sings everyday. Sometimes she surprises you with the words she uses and also *scares* you by adding "lehs and lahs" in her not really proper sentence. Well, we cannot really blame her since we ourselves also cannot help and blurt out the "lehs and lahs" in our conversation. So another reminder to minimise those singlish in our conversation with her.

There are days she cracks you up with things that she said :

Incident one:

Amanda: I want to share the sweet with daddy, mummy and Amanda.

Daddy: Can you share the sweet with baby next time?

Amanda: No!!

Daddy: Why?

Amanda: Baby has no teeth!!

Incident two:

We were crossing the overhead bridge.

Mummy: Don't hold the railings. Its dirty. Hold my hands.

Amanda: Later I fall down how?

Mummy: ..........................

Barney space adventure

This is a long overdue post. I have been rather tied down or too tired with this pregnancy and handling Amanda and work that all I wanted to do everyday is to sleep. Sleep is a luxury and I mean uninterrupted sleep.

Anyway, we went for our first live musical last mth with 4 other mummies and their families. As hubby was working, I brought Amanda there by myself. It was quite an adventure to take the bus to Changi airport and then the train to expo that morning! Amanda was generally cooperative except she wanted me to carry on and off.

At the entrance (thanks to May for taking the pic)

The show!

The girls sharing a packet of pocky from Auntie Ade

I think she is singing the ABC song here again

Finally, group photo at the end of the show

The show was a little boring for me ahah and I think Amanda was not that *high* either as most of the songs were unfamiliar to her. Only when it came to songs that she knew then she would happily sing with them. She looked a little grumpy and sat quietly throughout in her seat that day. However, its nice meeting up with everyone for the show though we did not have a chance to chit chat.