The title says it. Most of my photos are now posted on facebook with captions which makes things easier so I think i'll give up on posting photos here until i feel like it.
Meanwhile...
There's not much going on just that we've been going out, doing our usual walks and play downstairs etc. I'm not planning to send her to any playgroup since she's still quite young and I've read more bad than good about early schooling. So while the very common question i get from friends and strangers are whether she's attending school, I do say that maybe when she's older. So home life is quite good enough, and we meet up another family for playtime on alternate weeks.
The other option is exploring homeschooling but with me working (even if it's 4 days a week), my home time with her is very limited. And while it's wonderful that my in-laws stay with us and help us take care of Eliza, sometimes i would like to experience a bit of hmm..challenge (?) like handling the home/cooking on my own. I'm not complaining and I really love that she enjoys the company of my mil, fil, sil + bf, cousins. My in-laws love her to bits...so it's nice to see her so showered with love. I'm quite pampered with the minimal amount of cooking & housework in need to do really.
Talking...
Eliza's talking a lot a lot more these days, and while not everything is that most accurate and understandable, it's loads easier to communicate with her, except when her calmness breaks down into a whiny tantrum. She speaks some Chinese too and 75% accurate cos some words sound quite English which is quite cute. We've been 'practicing' saying 晚安 for weeks at least and nowadays she can say it more accurately. Previously, it was wan1an3. She picks up some sentences too, like "阿妈戴眼镜".
Her hokkien can't be any better and the "ai" (yes) & "mai" (no) is so stuck she uses it for all her yeses and no-s. Many times we will overhear her talk to herself, " ai mai? ai" It's hard to undo it when it's still quite a common word heard around the house, esp when my in-laws talk. I've heard other words like "mai cha" (don't disturb) & "mai jia" (don't want to eat) from her before. Amazing!
Singing....
This is the age they LOVE to sing. At least Eliza does. She'll break into her No.1 hit song "ABC song" anytime. Her top 15 hits in no particular order (except for the abc song), cos it really depends on her moods.
1. ABC
2. Jingle bells (or sung "Jingle bars jingle bars" it has sounded much better closer to the word nowadays)
3. 恭喜 song
4. This little light of mine
5. Twinkle twinkle little star
6. Tinkle tinkle little pee
7. Round and round the garden
8. A-choo song
9. Ah-ma song (self composed...the words go "ahma ahma ahma ahma" in her own tune)
10. Ring-a-ring-a-roses
11. With Christ in the Vessel (i use it for going home..."driving driving home" or "walking walking home")
12. He's the Lord of the Sunshine (the part with "Pain" used to send her nuts giggling cos i'll sign it and look really pitiful)
13. Jesus Loves me (amazing how she caught it so fast cos i've been singing it to her since day1)
14. Colours of the Rainbow (baby signing time song...and the only one i can remember)
15. Row row row your boat
Other than these and those i can't remember, she'll generally hum some tune and follow the last words of the song. She remembers some of the words of the lullaby music that i always play for bedtime. Repetition is key, huh? But interesting how for some things, i need only to do it once and she gets it or remembers it.
She doesn't really sign nowadays but when i do sign some things like "sleep" cos i don't want to talk when it's time for her to zzz, she definately understands. She also knows that the animal skunk / owl / fox / badger / eagle etc are animals that she learnt from her BSL.
Guess you really can't measure how much your child knows isn't it? It's all hidden treasures, only known to them & God. It's up to us to open the doors of enjoying and knowing these things that they learn.
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