2-year old Cutie? (Part 3)

The other day, I tried to use my teeth to tear the tea satchet (arrgh, bet you have experienced opening a satchet and the tear failed, that's where our teeth comes handy hee...). This Cutie saw and told me "Mummy, don't eat the plastic" (referring to the satchet). Haha... had told her earlier that mummy is going to make a cup of tea, could she have thought that mummy is too hungry?

Went to VivoCity today and pointed to her the tram and the Sentosa island across. She recalled our visit there last month and started to talk as if she's the adult and I'm the baby, "We went there uh the other time, remember uh, Dora, Patrick was there, remember uh."[must read with a tint of cuteness especially the "uhhhh" ]. (During that time then, she had taken pictures with Dora and Patrick mascots at the Nickelodean's Day of Play.) When she said this, standing near her was a tourist (I think so) and he was in fact also quite amused by this little girl's speech.

Now, this Cutie is an expert at completing her jigsaw puzzle. See her complete them within 8 minutes. Uploaded into 2 parts in youtube. Click here.

She's also a master at counting now, hee... watch her here.

2-year old Cutie? (Part 2)

This Cutie is now an expert like mummy, hee... in peeling beansprouts and buying things.

Nowadays, I delicate the job of peeling the roots of the beansprout to my Cutie. All I need to do was just to take out the packet of beansprouts, a bowl and a paper box (for rubbish) and give them to my Cutie. I don't even need to monitor her cos' I know this Cutie will be busy at work.

Here's a video which I took on 22 June 2008. You can see she really did a good job, so you can imagine what an great expert she is now (after more than a month), gee...



In the video, I'm actually quite surprised when she told me to pat pat Meimei and let her be in charge of peeling the beansprouts herself [guess she wants to be in-charged of the task].

Whenever we buy things, this Cutie will take charge to hand the things and cash to the cashiers and give me back the change, without requiring me to accompany her to the counter. Mummy is really glad to see this Cutie gaining confidence and brave to handle the deal on her own (for those who do not know, my Cutie used to be quite shy with strangers).

Is this Cutie 2 years old?

Yes, mummy's been asking herself this.

Today as mummy took out the baby clothes out of the washer, my Cutie who has been sticking to wherever I go, went out of the room. I was surprised, but I was not bothered and continued hand-rinse the clothes [dunno why the person design the Scense Washing Machine did not forsee the need to have a Rinse function??]. Then I carried the pail to the laundry room and guess what I saw... my Cutie was there already, removing the dried baby clothes on the clothes rack. I just felt so touched (she had gone off earlier in order to help me clear the clothes rack, so sweet). After that, she helped me to take the clothes out of the pail one by one. She will give the clothes a shake before handing to me (haha... imitating me).

Mummy really enjoys communicating with her cos' I don't feel as if I'm talking to a 2-year old kid. First, she can understand what I say and secondly, her reply is so adult-like, yet with a tint of cuteness.

Yesterday, mummy told her "Diego is a good boy, must be a good boy like Diego" (Diego is Dora's cousin and now her favourite character). Guess what she told me. Ahem, to be exact what she corrected me.

She said, "Mummy, I'm a girl, not a boy." Mummy has to "apologise" that she must be a good girl.

Till date, we are still in "debate" that the Corelle soup plate which she uses for her meal, is called a plate or a bowl. Every time, I told her "plate", she will correct me that "it's a bowl". Well, based on what I've taught her, she's not wrong in differentiating a plate and a bowl. Actually, I do agree with her [but the box stated it's a soup PLATE", arrgh...].

Finally after checking the definitions for both bowl and plate, I'm more convinced it should be called a BOWL Haha... can't believe that my Cutie is right.

This triggers a thought in me - what's the difference between an adult and a child? An adult is one that has been moulded by the society, past experiences and is rigid in our thinking, whereas a child is one who is brave to stand up for his/her belief against the odds.

So never underestimate what a 2-year old child, we have a lot more to learn from them.

Another milestone for Sweetie

Hooray, my Sweetie has mastered the art of walking. This is the moment to clebrate, that she has learned to overcome her fears of falling, that she is confident that she could do it and she has done it.

Mummy's having a hard time to capture this precious moment on video cos' the moment this Sweetie sees the camera, she will either shake her head signifying "no, no" or do all sorts of things other than walking.

Actually since last week, she has taken her first step to walk without support. Slowly, it increases from the first step to a few steps and today she is able to walk at least 5 steps on her own (without support).

Guess this is also the start of another happy problem - she will want to wander around the shopping centres on her own since she can now move around by herself (haha... this is what happen to my Cutie last year).

I believe this time round will not be that tiring for me as I've now gained a new helper (aka my Cutie) to "chase after" my Sweetie and be my "eye" to tell me where my Sweetie has wandered off to. Hee...