Artwork Display

Finally let her try doodling with this pop-up castle artwork which I've ordered long time ago but she seem to prefer the other...

Labelling

Now that she is spelling some words(I really wish the school would start teaching them how to spell/form words soon. I can't believe that they're still not doing that, haiz...), she showed this to me and said :

"mommy, this is a cup of hot coffee,

I don't want my 'cinderella' to touch, so I put this", hahaha :

A Good Talk

Renee has been 'giving me faces' whenever I chided her for... many matters, not keeping her toy/stuff before taking another set/thing out to play with, not drinking enough water, etc...

Over the few months, I'm tired from the strain and I finally had a talk again with her yesterday :

Mommy : "darling, come here, I want to speak to you"

Renee : (still standing there, not looking at me) "....."

Mommy : "Renee, can you please come over here. Look at me when I'm talking to you?"

Renee : (finally sat herself down on the stool but still kept quiet even though she glanced up at me)

Mommy :"darling why are you so naughty lately? Why don't you listen to me?"

Renee : "....."(still not speaking)

Mommy : "baby, it's ok, just tell me what is it, why are you behaving like that? why are you treating mommy like that when mommy loves you so much?"

Renee : "but why you always scold me"

Mommy : "I don't want to scold you too, but u've been very naughty. Like those times u didn't respond to my beckoning when we're out, not keeping your toys, throwing tanthrums when I wake you up from naps...". "I would like to shiork shiork you too, but if you always throw tanthrums like that, you made it very hard for me to do that 'cos I get very angry. So darling, can you please, be a good girl so I can sayang you more?"

Renee : "Ok"

And she did, well, at least for these 2 days, :) - I hope it'll be like this for a looonnng looonnng time... For the good behaviour, we've also been doing quite abit of 'artwork' and here're some(more to come over the next few days, lolz) :

The wind, after the rain yesterday, seemed to have became stronger and this is what happened when we were doing the artworks :

paper scattered around

And then it's Renee @ work, with her artwork produce, hahaha :

Last Day of Term I

Finally, after sooo many days, it's raining today! Errm, but this is not what this post is about, heee.

The last day of the term is supposed to be tomorrow but this year, instead of the usual PTMs, the school is holding Parents and Teachers gathering(with provision of light refreshments) for term I and III instead, and since I'm not taking part in this event, today shall be it, :).

Some children seemed to be celebrating their birthdays at school today and I've just witnessed a girl crying for not bringing a gift to her friend when my girl appeared, telling me that she's got a goodie bag from her classmate, :).

It's been quite a while since we've last been to Compass Point and as hubby needed us to go to the office tomorrow, I took Renee there to run some errands today. First, we headed to the OCBC bank, where I finally get to have my replacement ATM card which is sooo troublesome, given that the other banks had already posted the new cards(incl. ATM's) to me ages ago. After banking in some of Renee's coins, I casually asked how does a child get the badges and upon checking her bank book, they said, oh it's her 3rd deposit, so she's entitled to a bronze one. Hmmm, if I hadn't asked, will she even get it? Actually, basing on the number of deposits we've made, not even taking into consideration that we've always deposited more than the required S$20(we usually accumulate and deposit in hundreds) each time, she should be getting her Gold one long time ago. I guess we were 'penalised' for changing the type of account! Geez, sooo calculative and how more customer unfriendly can this bank get huh?.

There're more unpleasant stuffs about them but I shall save this post from them. However, not sure if they were trying to appease my displeassure or was it a norm, they gave Renee a pack of mighty savers' pencil + ruler and a pack of mighty savers' storybook that came with some origami artwork(they cld hv came together, not sure. No pic, 'cos ne has already took them out of the pack juz now, lolz).

Then, remembering the cake that we've forgotten to buy to try the last time when we chanced upon this new cafe(or was it a restaurant?) taking over the old Delifrance rest., we bought it today. We also met 1 of Renee's classmates there, choosing a cake for his mommy and he, thinking that the badge is given free over the counter(Renee's wearing it on her T-shirt uniform with its light blinking), he asked where he could get one, :).

This is just a normal plain one, the rest of the 'celebrative' cakes are lovelier

Again, Renee asked her Papa if she could join the school camp...

No Lessons Again?

Not only there had been missed lessons, we've also been very slack in her practice since her exam, heee.

However, we'd still try to keep up with it occasionally and yesterday being 1 of those 'good days', she even tried to play a new piece although there're 'things' that she's not taught yet('cos it's from grade II). The tune sounded alright but I guess she needed the 'technical' teachings to get the piece sounding even better but nevertheless, it's good enough that she's even willing to try playing it. Good job! Heee, :D.

'My' Basket

I've been getting Renee to fold up her clothes and keep since she's 3 but hadn't been keeping it up on a regular basis as it had seemed easier and faster to do it myself, :).

However, I think it's really time to keep her in the habit and thus, I've re-started the routine again last month and then an idea came to me one day - I should get her her very own laundry basket!

So today after school, we popped over to the 'general store' and bought this. Not of her choice colour of cos but it's similar to mine, so she chose it, hahaha:

(the butterflies are added on by moi of cos, hee)

"I Want to go to the Camp!"

"Mommy, I want to go to the school camp" was what Renee told me today when I picked her up from school. I've read the brochure last week and for the 1st time, I've found the programme layout to be rather interesting and I've actually considered signing her up if not for the fact that I'd miss her badly during the 3 days(it's only from 9-4pm by the way, heee).

I've not discussed this camp with her but apparently, she's been talking to her friend, Melinda(she's been mentioning about this friend quite abit lately) in school and told me that she'd like to join the holiday camp with her friend.

Although I could do my stuffs whislt she's with the camp, the idea of her not being around for most of that 3 days during such a short holiday break still doesn't quite entice me, plus there's the meals issue that I'm concerned about. But she asked me again at shower :

Renee : "Mommy, why can't I go to the school camp?"

Mommy : "because I'll miss you"

Renee : "it's ok(she meant it's ok, thr's no need to miss her, hahaha), I want to go"

Mommy : "cannot, papa will also miss you"

Renee : "but I'll still come back". "why I cannot go but my friend can?"

Mommy : "hmmm, maybe yr friend has didi, meimei at home and they can't look after so many children?"

Renee : "oh ya, Melinda has 2 didis"

Mommy: "ah, there u see"

(Heeeee)

(Renee's) Cousin's 21st

Saturday

As we're only required to be at my niece, Pearlyn's 21st birthday celebration from 6:30pm, I told hubby to send/fetch Renee to/from her art class. He was abit unwilling at first but elated later at the thought of being able to go to the golf range whilst waiting for her lesson to end(see, it's hard to please this man. Who wld have tot he'd be 'unhappy' when I've already resumed the sending & fetching from her morning sch!).

Although already used to the early hours, she had 'tong' til 10:30pm last night, but hving woke up at/before 9am and without a afternoon nap, she had been rubbing her eyes like a little toddler at the bbq, lolz.

Despite he being finally entertained by rounds of card games, hubby announced home going at 10pm and after giving Renee a rinse, she knocked out almost instantly on our bed with papa, :D.

Sunday

Weather has been 'stuffy' lately and unable to fall asleep(seemed like our air-conditioner conked out on us lastmin - probably due to long time non-usage), hubby had to cancel his golf game last minute.

How can it get soooo warm(mayb 'cos he's sleeping on the inner side of the room? heee) when the wind is stronger than 'this' at night, most of the time?

Some of Pe's friends had not turned up last night and thus, alot of food were left over and we were invited again today, to Eileen's for a 2nd round of feast, lolz, well, not before I've grabbed my night-dresses from the Rob's members' preview sales(last day).

Actually, I had been waiting in vain for the past 1 year on Rob's sales notifications! I've questioned them on the lack of these notifications but all I've got from them is that they distribute them in batches, but funny how my name had been missed out for a good whole year when I've always been notified on each and every of such sales/events? I reckoned that they actually picked who to notify, based on the usage of card within/outside the store('cos when I was 'enjoying' the updated notifications, 1 of my sis who also holds their card did not. Why? She hadn't been using their card actively as well) which I find is a very silly marketing strategy - each and every member should be notified of the store's events, otherwise, how is one going to patronise/make use of the card, without being notified of its events? Silly, very silly... :D. Anyway, it's not our loss, ain't it? :).

Short Hairdo Again

Although she's been so unwilling to part with her long tress last year(so much so that I've to make a pact with her that I'd allow her to keep long hair til max - end of K2), Renee's been bugging me to cut her hair short since mid January.

Reason? - the weather's getting too hot for her and it's troublesome to have her hair tie up during the morning rush.

Her last cut, done by my h/stylist had look good and this time round, it's me who's unwilling to chop it off, hahaha. However, seeing that she's sooo sensible to choose practicality over vanity, hahaha, I told her that I'll oblige her after her violin grading exam(thinking that she might forget the whole idea by then) and on that fateful day, she immediately reminded me when we got home, lolz.

Actually, I had planned to let her continue spotting long hair til at least the end of this year so that there would be a chance for us to see her with reaaallly long hair. However, that didn't seem possible 'cos she kept repeating her request and made it again today, when she came back from school. Her Papa's agree-ing with her left me with no choice but to fulfil the act. :D.

And so, it is from this :

Anyone wanna buy real hair - for extensinons? lolz

Although she's less babyish-looking now with the haircut, it is a breeze(again, :D) to wash her hair and I need not have to enure that I've to give her a afternoon shower or to blow-dry her hair if it's done in the evening, :D. And now, with the weather forecast that this dry and record setting hot weather(think our weather's just going to get hotter and hotter) is going to continue for the next few months, I'm really tempted to have mine chop off as well - I've done this the same time of the year last year and I've told my h/stylist that I'll try my best to maintain it for this year, shall see how things go...(the most probably I'll just have to do something which I dreaded seeing - tie up the hair! hahaha), :D.