Chinese New Year Eve

I am feeling very apprehensive right now. My maids requested that on Chinese New Year Eve night, I take over both babies so that they can cheong and clean up the entire house before midnight. I readily agreed and even said that I'd look after both babies through the night.

Now I'm sick with worry whether I can survive the experience. Rei Qi has the bad habit of waking up in the middle of the night to ask for story books and songs. It can sometimes last as long as 2-3 hours before she would fall asleep again. Sometimes she gets upset if she doesn't get what she wants and cries till she throws up. If she does it on 28 Jan night.....and wakes up Yi Han who will also be sleeping in the same room.... I think I'm gonna just die...

Rei Qi's first lesson

Today, mummy brought Rei Qi for her first official lesson. It's a simple music and fun class at a neighbour's house. The neighbour is Elena and she is a music teacher. For this class, mummy actually bought a violin for Rei Qi.

We had guided drawing, singing, rhythm and violin activities. Rei Qi would engage for 5 seconds at the start of each activity, then she'd walk around and mess with Alexander's (Elena's toddler son) toys. She also chattered all through her 'messing around' In other words, Rei Qi totally disrupted the class. I guess it's understandable that Lucas's (her 2.5 yr old classmate) mother was not happy at all.

In fact, she made it a point to say that Lucas focused much better the previous lesson when there were no other kids around. So she requested to have individual lessons with Elena henceforth. Sigh...

For mummy it's totally ok cos all she wanted was for Rei Qi to interact with other kids without stress of performance. So for now, Rei Qi will have some slight structure to some of her play at home and when she can sit and draw when she's asked to, we'll bring her back to the class.

Nov & Dec Vids

Cheekyvids has just been updated! We are finally getting up to speed. The Nov and Dec videoclips of the little Cheekies have been edited and uploaded. Enjoy!

Baby Shower

For the past 3 days, Rei Qi insisted that Cheeky Daddy showered her. It really was quite an experience.

RQ would take that opportunity to "splash" me. The funniest part was when Daddy was washing her hair. She would grab Daddy's legs and pressed her face against his thighs so as to prevent water from entering her eyes. To wash off all the foam from the shampoo, daddy invariably would get himself all wet.

Both of us, however, enjoyed it tremendously. It will be something that Daddy would miss terribly when he goes back to work.