Another Busy Day

Had slept late again last night but Renee had woken up early(she told me 'to play' when asked why so early, hahaha), so I dragged myself up and took Renee out for brunch again(we were supposed to join Sharmaine and WS at Downtown East but I've to help daddy in the evening, so...).

After a good >2hours at the R/Mall, we headed home with a few bags-ful of stuffs and Renee fell asleep in the car even though the journey was super short. This showed how tired she was from waking up early. Luckily, she didn't fuss when I woke her up and after another fix of honey baked ham sandwich, she began her violin practice whilst I went about repacking her toys into the new boxes and some stuffs in the store. She still hasn't got used to sight-reading play yet, or rather, I felt, hasn't put her heart into it yet(how could she play well if she kept telling herself she can't do it? as her mom, I know what she's thinking...), so I took a moment to speak to her. I reminded her on how well she had been playing those songs which she had earlier said that she couldn't. Then, noticing that she had some pauses, I told her to simply stop playing to do sight-reading again before she resumes. Indeed, I could hear her from the kitchen, not only repeating the song automatically(I used to have to 'shout' to her : "Ok, one more time") and I could also 'hear' her pausing - to read the notes, :).

To further encourage her, I told her that I'd love to give her the lollies but she would need to get the 'star' from the teacher before I could do that and I don't wish to wait too long to let her have them. She even replied "mommy, are you waiting to let me have the lollipop?", hahaha. Well, what can I say to that? YES, of cos! lolz. But that seems to do the trick 'cos she did improve after that, *phew* but I don't think it'd be good enough to warrant a star from the teacher since she's only began playing on the 'loud/soft, etc'(what u name this?) during the last 2 times... Anyway, it's been only less than a week and she's began on a new training, so I don't want to push her too much.

After her shower, she began packing her toys into her backpack whilst I get her dinner ready. Tonight's the first time she's asked me to stay with her at Eileen's and I wonder why...(I guess I know why later though) but when we finally went to pick her up, she was still enjoying herself there, :).

The new toys corner, :D