Cassandra's Life Blog

Playhouse Disney

- Saturday, August 30, 2008

We walked pass the disney store and Cassie request me to take photo with ALL her playhouse Disney 'friends'.

I asked her to stand closer to 'mickey mouse' and she gladly did, by standing in-front of the poster. she looked so funny with the mickey ears :)

Cassie has been a curious little chick and wanted to participate in whatever we're doing rite now. That including eating the roti-canai with curry dips. I was getting ready her tumbler when she insist to try the curry, i've told her numerous times about the spicy food but she just want to have her own way.

OK, i decide to let her try. i thought to myself, she's gonna get it this time. She's gonna complaint the curry is hot and will not want to touch the curry next time.

Well, Cassie being Cassie, she never failed to amaze me ! Here she goes, taking pieces and pieces of roti-canai with those curry with it. She even licked her fingers and told me that they are very good.

Blimey, life is like a box of chocolate after all, and that's always true when it comes to Cassie.

Singing while you work

Labels: growing up, Play - Monday, August 25, 2008

I was preparing Cassie for bath and waiting for the water to fill the tub. While waiting, i then prepared the mob to clean the floor. Cassie saw what i was planning to do and insist that she wanted to clean the floor. That's why you see her in her 'untidy' attire in the video :)

While Cassie participating in the house chores, she didn't forget to entertain herself while she's doing the work :) turn up your volume to hear her sing :)

It's a great reminder : work hard, play hard. most importantly have fun and enjoy :)

Beijing Olympic (II) - My little gymnast

- Sunday, August 24, 2008

It was a bright sunday morning and we were browsing through the 11 Olympic channels and stopped at the Rhythmic Gymnastics event. Just 2 minutes into the event, Cassie has a request.

舒蔚 : "我要大家拍手, 我要美丽跳舞衣!"
Cassie : "I want everyone to clap and i want the beautiful dancing dress ! ".

Yes dear, it's every girl's dream to wear beautiful dress and have the crowd admiration ! I can understand what you want and why you want it ;)

And off she goes, doing her dancing and gymnastics routine :) She followed all the moves that she saw from the TV, including the way they walked to the floor and their facial expression when they sat down waiting for their score after the routine.

Aside from being the gymnast, she has the swimmer event last week. I do not know how good a athletic she is, but what i know for sure dear, you are always the winner to me and here's a gold medal for being the best in the "daughter sports" event :)

It's school holiday again !

- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

It's school holiday again and our neighbour friends came to play. Since she started school, Cass is now more capable to share her toys and interactive play with the other kids.

Here she's actually throwing the ball up high, trying to slam-dunk. She did try like 100 times (for about an hr) and finally managed to get ONE basket. Ar, the smile on her face is priceless :)

Beijing Olympic : My little swimmer

- Sunday, August 10, 2008

Cassie is very particular when it comes to washing her hair. She doesn't like to wash her hair everyday and will scream when the water splashed her eyes.

We were watching the Olympic 2008 events and we managed to catch 'Michael Phelps' broke the record. I then took the oppurtunity to try 'brain wash' her by saying that the swimmer was so brave and he doesn't scream when the water splashed his face.

Cassie watched very carefully and very quickly, she pointed out the 'flaw' in my logic. "他有眼镜, 水没有进去眼睛. 我没有眼镜哦 !"

"He has goggles and water cannot splashed into his eyes. I don't have goggles ..."

Grandma Visit

- Monday, August 04, 2008

All kids love visitors i guess, Cass is extremely 'hyper' when grandparents visit :)

It's actually very difficult to take photos for grandparents and children, i think Somehow both the grandma and grandchild seems to want to move in different direction and the photo usually came out 'not rite' :)

Luckily this time around, i managed to get 1 good photo :)

Flying pony tails

- Friday, August 01, 2008

It was Friday and Cassie feeling restless at home. We met up with the neighbours gals and went for a fun at the playground. All gals have their pony tails flying high that afternoon :)

After school routine.

- Wednesday, July 30, 2008

This is the newly introduced routine after Cassie starts school. Usually Cassie will complete all her work in school, but she missed 2 days of school last week and thus yesterday she came back with 'homework'. I checked her pervious work and found that she was able to follow through. Aside from the writing practice, she has the math and science session too, where they learn addition, comparison and nature. I guess that's a good sign.

You can see she's pretty serious when it comes to completing her work. She's a bit perfectionist like me, and sometimes i have to assure her that it's OK if her writing get out of the line a bit. It's like re-assure me that it's OK if things went off track a little bit :)

1st month @ school

- Sunday, July 27, 2008

It has been 1 month since Cass started school. If you think you can sense how hungry Cass is in the photo, then you're absolutely right ! School overall, is a different routine for her. A lot of physical and mental effort required.

Just last week, she came back with her neatly tied pony tails flying all round her head, her shoes all dusty and she was all sweaty. I was surprised to even see her so 'untidy', and i asked her what happen. (My thoughts was that she must have caught in some kind of sandstorm)

She was in high spirit when she told me that they had a game of 'ball', she kick the ball, run and throw and etc with teachers and friends.

That's when i snapped this photo. Yes, she came back tired, hungry and dusty. But, nothing to compare her high spirit, rosy cheeks and excitement that she had experienced :)

Go Cassie Go !

We can never have enough shoes !

- Thursday, July 24, 2008

yes dear, we can never have enough shoes.

Cass loved the red color ones because she thinks it's the cinderella slipper. I told her the slippers are too big for her and she was actually quite disappointed. However, she did get those shoes for me and asked me to try them on. Right after i tried it on, she will tell me the shoes are too big for me too :) OK Cass, we'll hunt for one that both of us can wear, deal ? :)

Cassie loves Sushi

- Tuesday, July 22, 2008

While we were at the sushi restaurant, the TV display on our table was actually turned off. Cass looked around and see that everyone else has the TV on, and she told me that '我没有TV, wor" (she don't have TV). kekeke

She just loves the sushi rolls. She can finish the whole plate by herself, 1/2 of the ramen, and end it with the mandarin orange Jelly. Sometimes, she even point out the customer on the next table and say she wanted to try the food they are having. :)

Mischievous Cassie

- Sunday, July 20, 2008

Cute picture of well-behaved Cass yeah ? well, it's actually difficult to have Cass sit down still like this, most of the time, Cass is actually very mischievous...

Monkey business one.
I left Cass her breakfast in the morning and walked downstairs to do the laundry. Before I walked downstairs, I told her to finish up her breakfast.
When I was doing the laundry, I heard the toilet flushed a couple of times. I went upstairs and saw Cass throw her chewed breakfast into the toilet. She even flushed the toilet to make sure there's no 'evidence' ! I caught her red-handed and she gave me her 'nothing happen' smile.

Monkey business two.
Before we brought her to her usual bike ride yesterday evening, I told her to finish up her mineral water before we go outside. She said ‘OK’ and start drinking from the cup.

G and I sat in front of the TV waiting for her to finish her drink. A couple of minutes later, when she thought we were not looking, she took another cup from the kitchen and pour ½ of her drink into the new cup. Then she walked over and showed me her half empty glass. *Gosh* !!

Needless to say, she got some serious lecture hours from me that day. Can't help but wondering where she got all these ideas. I guess kids will always be kids anyhow.

Peach-er

- Tuesday, July 15, 2008

This is Cass's 2nd week in school. Overall i think she's doing quite well, she has some friends in her own class and also some friend whom are 5 & 6 yrs old. They will shout her name and tell her to the door when we were there to pick her up after school.

There's a slight change to her schedule and she sleep a little bit late now. Other than that, she seems to grow a little bit more. Just the other day, she was doing some drawing and then she saw my walked by. She stopped me and said, 'mommy, let me show you, let me show you'. Then she start drawing away with mumbling description. I think she's imitating her teacher. Oh, speaking of teacher, she can't seems to pronounce the 'T' and thus she refer her as 'Peach-er' :)

Cass's First Science Project

- Monday, July 07, 2008

Yesterday when i went to pick up Cass, she gingerly walked out toward me and stop to pick up something. To my surprise, she hold up her own 'science project' a green plant in a white disposable cup with her name on it. It was from the seed she planted last week. The teacher let the seed grew during the weekend and the kids can bring it home the next week.

I smile at her and she eagerly told me that she wants to put water into the plant.

On the way home, she saw our neighbour's flower pot and told me that she wants to grow the plant first by putting more water, later there will be flower, it will grow and she can then transfer it into a bigger flower pot.

As soon as we arrived at home, she immediately asked me for water and she want to water the plant herself. Later in the evening, we took her to ride her bike and she again pour more water into the cup. That's when she asked me "mommy, no flower ?"

Everything needs love, attention and patience to grow, that's life dear.

Cass at 32 months

- Sunday, July 06, 2008

more cass's photos here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/z_vue

looking forward for a bright future ? you betcha ! :)

Mastering Scissor

- Friday, July 04, 2008

Out of the blue, Cass picked up her scissor again this morning and starts cutting away. She was able to snipe away the corners about 2 weeks ago and this morning, she managed to cut out shapes ! :)

After that, she will then glue those shapes that she cut out and paste them on the paper one by one. Check out her final 'masterpiece' :) she cut and glue those piece on her own.

Feeling happy about herself, she requested me to take her photo with her craft.
I asked her what are those, she told me they are shapes and colors and then she gave me a look as if like 'what ?! don't you know ?!' hehehe

After school activities

- Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Since Cass started school, i've been bz in the kitchen. Mainly to prepare her lunch and also snacks for her to bring to school.

Because of that Cass wanted to participate in the kitchen as well. (btw, she's only allowed in the dry kitchen area, away from the stove and all) She will bring her chair and stood up near the counter area that i usually be while i bake, she will wait there, and says "shu-weih wants to cook' :) Remember she complaint about the chocolate cookie ?

See how serious she is ?! to set her up, i gave her some sprinkles, some flour, some cocoa powder, a couple of spoons, plastic bowls n some tart tins, she will then 'cook' away. Her cooking involve stir up the flours together, add it into the tins, pour it out again and then repeat.

She will be so occupied (see her sweat in the photo) and when she's done, she will told me to put her 'product' into the oven :)

First day at school - update

- Tuesday, July 01, 2008

I asked the teacher how's cassandra and she said Cass didn't even shed a tear and she's a very independant girl. Good job Cass.

She came back and immediately asked for milk and told me she wanted to sleep. :) i insist she take her bath first and she finished up her lunch in double portion !! *must be really hungry ...

Here's what Cass has to say about her day at school :
[about reading] "yes, 有 reading, shu-weih 不会,有学"
[about singing] "有, dancing 一起"
[about eating] "吃 cookies, chocolate 的不好吃, 要 cooking different one, shu-weih 要 cook strawberry 的, 等一下."
[about friend] "没有, 舒蔚"
[about her uniform] "要买new one, 明天穿"
[about going to toilet] "有wee-wee, 要开门"

So i guess she did some reading but there are a lot that she didn't know, then there are dancing session that she joined in without failed, the cookie that i gave her is not good, she's asking me to make her strawberry one for tomorrow, no new friend yet, understand that she will still have to wear the same uniform tomorrow and if she needs to go toilet, someone (teacher perhaps) need to open the door for her :)

i checked her bag and found her exercise book. She proudly showed me she wrote her name (ar .. i bet the teacher hold her hand one) and keep flipping the pages as if she anticipates the learning and can't wait to have more !

First Day At School

Labels: growing up - Monday, June 30, 2008

Cass officially starts school today (July 1 2008). Cass has been very excited and keep asking for 'school pleeeease' since last week when we started preparing her for school. This morning, i told her that we're going to school later and she was so excited and finished up her breakfast without much hustle.

When we arrived at her kindy, she got quite nervous at first. Cass got her own set of process when she's at a new place. Usually she will wanted to walk around first (it's like she wanted to make sure it's safe), then she will say hello and shake hands with the ppl there, and after that she will warm up. We got her settled down and asked her to shake hands with her fellow 'school-mates', she turned and saw a little gal next to her and just shoke her hand.

very soon, they walked into the classroom i hope she's OK .... i wanted to join in the class and see how she is, but i know i should not, so i waved good bye.

ar ... It sure feels lonely and quiet around here when Cass is at school. ....