Happy Father's day !!
Cave experiences
It was a in-promptu decision. We decided to meet a friend very last minute on Friday to catch up and it turned into cave adventure for Cassie. Of-course, when you're in Ipoh, it's hard to missed the mountains and caves. Since Cassie haven't been there before, we hope into the oppurtunity to visit.
Ipoh is AMAZINGLy HOT, the temperature reader in the car says 39C !! wow, no wonder, we sure super sweating, always thirsty and Cassie even requested to take a bath at our friend's house !
Cassie the waitress.
we've been eating out lately and Cassie has took part in the food ordering when we're in the restaurant. We usually will let Cassie decide what she want to have for her meal.
Lately, she decided to be our waitress at home. She will bring me a card and ask me what do i want, then she will go to her table, jolt it down in her paper, and then tell me that i've gotto wait a while for my food because she's going to bake it in the oven. (her toy closet) hahaha.
i usually will say i want some juice, and chicken. Then last weekend, she asked me : "hey mom, how about some fun ?" Yes dear, isn't it great if we can order 'fun' from the menu ? :)
New start for Cassie
Since her flu+fever+food poisoning and etc sickness episodes last month, we've decided to stop sending Cassie to her kindergarten. Well, at least temporary (i thought).
She has many flu episodes ever since she started school. Due to her sensitive nose condition, she gets flu more easily than others and the flu tends to stay with her longer than others too. Because of that, in certain months, she came back with flu, it went on for 2 weeks, then she goes back to school again and the next day, she came back with flu again. Another thing is of-course she lose a lot of weight and i think she is skinny even when i checked the development chart, she is in the 'normal' range.
Anyways, ever since she stop school, things has gone better for her. She sleep better and she doesn't have the flu condition at all (ZERO incident) ! That is of-course the ultimate result we want to achieve.
A lot of ppl has asked if i'm afraid she might lose out in her academic development, some even proposed she goes to 'special' school. Well, i'm too worry about that at all. in terms of continue kindergarten, i think we'll wait and see. most probably, i think we're going to wait till next academic year before we begin the school routine again. Right now, the main focus is trying to boast up her antibodies' strength.
Now that she doesn't have school routin, it's a totally new home-school routine for her. :)
i am belle
it started a couple of months back when she finished washing her hair, she will then have the tower on top of her hair.
when i asked her what she was doing, she will then broke into dance and tell me she's belle (from beauty and the beast).
It's hot out here.
The weather is getting hotter everyday. I caught Cassie 'chill-out' in front of the fan this morning.
she looked really in the chilled-out mood :)
Instant Photo
Whenever she saw me with my camera, Cassie will take a paper camera and pretend to take photos. Yesterday, i decided to ask her what she took and where are the phots.
She then went and cut out a square from a piece of paper and start drawing.
Then she told me : " here you go mom, this is you ! " and then she added : "Happy Mother's Day" !
aw .. so sweet of her.
A girl and a spider
I gave 
Cassie a book full of blank pages and a pencil to keep her occupied. She carried this booklet wherever she goes. Cassie will scribe whenever and wherever, including to the restaurant, waiting in line at a checkout counter, in grandparent's place and etc.
I run through her book the other day and found some interesting drawings. This is one of the drawing that has a 'story' in it. It's about a girl and a spider. See how the spider is on top of the girls head and the girl is actually in a sitting position ?! :)
The drawing has a familiar thingie to it and i think it's from one of the rhymes she recites :).
Buckle up and here we go !
What would u do if you gotto stay at home because of the rain and cannot ride the car to play outside ? imagine and pretend of-course :) here Cassie gott her doll to sit beside her while she drove around in her imagination car.
Her trip started with getting the baby to "buckle-up", then asking her doll "are you ready ?", and finally "here we go !".
During her imagination trip, she honked her imagination car and told her doll that "oh, that's dangerous", "stop", "watch-out", "be carefull! "
When she finally arrived at the destination (shopping mall), she then stop the car by slamming on the imagination brake and lock the car with the "bee-peep" car key's alarm tone.
haha, it's funny to watch imagination at work.
come out n play.
Our neighbours' kids rang our door bell yesterday evening and ask Cassie to come out and play. As soon as Cassie saw them, she jumped up and down in excitement.
Funny thing is this, Cassie was very excited to want to play outside of the house, while her friends were all excited to want to play inside the house ! she kept asking them to go out, but her friends just settled to do some chalk drawing and hop-scotch on our front-yard. haha
After she invited them a couple of times and her friends still wanted to stay inside our house, she decided to just jump on her bike and cycle away. Well, my dear neighbour watch over her while she bike outside and i stayed at home watching over my neighbours' kids !
Finally, near sunset time, they all had soccer time outside the house. It was simple fun and very wonderful nonetheless.
Reactions to the incident
Cassie was pretty concern over my bag and handphone. I did explain what happen to my bag and handphone and how the thief took the things. When i told her thief, she look at my with a lot of question marks because she doesn't understand the word thief.
Then i told her it's just like bad guys from the TV, she then said : "O !" and with a concern on her face. Then she asked me : "mom, who's going to help the bag ? " hahaha, she thinks the bag needed rescue.
Later the day, she told everyone about the incident and keep saying that the thief is really bad. Then she turn and ask me about the bag and phone again, i told her they are gone and i don't have any rite now. She then comfort me and said, 'Mom, it's OK. we'll go buy new one for you. What color do you want ?'
oh, sweet sweet Cassie. She knows how to soothe the pain away :)
R & R time.
It has been a year of many stress and challenges ever since the start of year 2009. Putting work aside, we had a blast fun family time in KL last weekend.
I LOVED IT !
i want to do it myself
I was so busy this week and didn't even have time to let Cassie out biking.
She then came out with the idea to wash her bike when i was out watering the plant.
Of course she got herself all wet, but it was still a satisfactory tasks for her. She then jump straight into her bath tub rite after that.
Mom, take photo please....
That's Cassie's request when i got home from work yesterday. So, here goes :)
Here comes the 'WHY'.
Started early March, more and more 'why' questions came from Cassandra. She asked me almost everything with the 'why' question nowadays.
There are common questions like why we stop here, why go to school, why buy this one and of-course, why cannot watch tv.
In addition, there are some funny question like why butterfly doesn't sleep, why the flower is yellow, why the fish is swimming and alike.
Then, there is this. While we were having lunch in a restaurant, Cassie accidentically dropped her fork and she immediately look at me with guilt on her face. Decided not to get angry with her because i know she didn't intended to drop the fork, i told her it's OK and just ask the waitress to change one for her.
She looked at me and ask "Mom, are you angry ?"
i said "No, i'm not angry. "
She then asked "why ar ? why you are not angry mom ?"
haha ... i must have got angry at too many occasions until she expect me to turn into angry monster majority of the time. Well well, not anymore Cassie, you mom is trying her best to change her 'stressfull' ways :) hope that you won't see me getting angry easily or fuss over small things nowadays.
Fun with cousin JiaYing
Another cousin came to visit during the weekend. Cassie and JiaYing has been like glueed together the whole time. And the most interesting thing is to find out they both love to sing and dance 'Mama Mia' :) . Even from different part of the world, seems like the Mama Mia is catching up with the youngest generations.
lil' chick's request
We were out for a dinner yesterday. Half way through the dinner, Cassie asked me to feed her. She wanted me to cool down her food by blowing into her bowl. Just caught the flu, i told her i cannot do that because i'm sick.
Then, she turned to her dad and she asked : "dad, are you sick ?"
her dad answer : 'nope'
Cassie then said : "dad, can you cool down my food and blow into my bowl ?"
of course, her dad obliged...
hahaha ..
What is this ?
Cassie woke up and started drawing this morning. I left her doing it on her own while i fuss over my morning routine (brushing teeth & etc).
When i check with her after that, i saw this. what do you think is this ?
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Well, according to Cassie, it's a crocodile playing ball :)
i'm not sure about you, but i am very glad to see things in a different view from her perspective.
i m mom.
Cassie is now a little girl, she's now a little girl, she's now ... i've been reminding myself over that again and again lately.
She has shown more movement capabilities like skipping, jumping backward, karate-moves, dance & etc, and also more mental capabilities, like imaginative play, deduction, discipline, self-awareness and stuff.
Just last nite, she sat down on her bed near her bed time and started her writing routine. She will scribble and then some story telling. This time she's writing about the powerpuff girls and the city of townsville :) She usually recite and write the story at the same time.
Then, she told me : 'i m mommy yeah ?!' (more like announcement than questions) and straight after she said that, she narrow her eyebrows.
I saw that whenever she said i m mommy in her imaginative play-time, her face turned very serious and she will lock her eyebrows.
I then realise this must be how i looked to her !
They said kid is a mirrow to ourselves and i can definitely see her actions, behaviour, speech as a direct reflection of me. I just cannot missed the seriousness, stress and locked eyebrows.
I should really get this stress thingie of mine controlled and reduced. Stress is a creepy clawler that jumps up at you when you don't expect it. This is a pretty good jump, a wake up jump i think. The thing is when ppl asked if i'm stress, my first reaction is to say 'no'. But now, i've learn to face the problems and acknowledge that there are just things that i cannot control nor change. It's still small steps, but hopefully i learned to control my stress level better in the long run.
If you are my mirror dear Cass, i would like to see a prettier me from an already marvelous you.
Eating out ; mizi bistro
Heard so much about the mizo bistro and passed by the place so many times already but didn't get to try out. Finally, we managed to stop by for it's set lunch last weekend.
Set lunch deal is RM21.50 for 1 drink, 1 soup, 1 main course and free flow ice-cream. One tip : other than the mushroom soup, don't try any other soup. because we tried the french onion, the oxtail and the chicken soup, all are pretty bland. I guess that's why i heard a lot of recommendation for mushroom soup :)
Of course Cassie loved the ice-cream but she loved to scoop and serve the ice-cream more than actually eating them. :)
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