Ice Cream Time

 

Loved the mini cones. They are just the right amount of happiness for dessert before dinner.

New Dog in the House

There’s a new dog in my father’s house in Ipoh. I forgot it’s name.

Nice friendly mutt he is though. Gin and Kiki hates him. I think they still do but I haven’t been back home since CNY. However the children were quite afraid of him. He’s a bit taller than Zhixin standing on all four.

See the protective stance? It has been happening since earlier from way way in December too. We were by the jetty wanting to to Granma’s.

Huirou’s Classes

General

She’s adapting quite well to school. She may still cry when it’s time to leave us and head to school but her teachers all report that she is happy active and learning well there.

Every few days Huirou will bring back something from school. The one you see above is a completed artwork on the first day of school. (Teacher spelt her name wrongly )

Sometimes she will bring back treats from the teachers.

There were even some books from the school library.

Themes

Last month the theme in her school is “Toys and storybooks”

This month is “I Am Special”

Learning Achievements in School

After about 2 months of schooling, her principal reports that she can understand simple instructions in English very well now. When I first heard that I was doing a mental victory dance, because I struggled a little sending her to an English Kindergarten but did so in order for her to pick up a second language.

She is also able to hold a pencil very well now. As far as writing skills go, she doesn’t scribble anymore, much preferring to trace letters and numbers. Her colouring is improving significantly as well. Her attention span is also longer now.

I suspect her favourite part of school are the songs. She’s good at picking up the music and the lyrics and also sometimes improvising them.

For Chinese New Year they were taught:

(sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping)
Chinese Dragon x2
Breathing Fire x2
Happy Happy New Year x2
Gong Xi Fa Cai x2

and some others ……

I hope that she continues to enjoy learning. 

We Were Sick.

 

We really were. The rounds of sickness started with Hubs getting conjunctivitis; we were marginally infected; then I had a severe cold that was passed to the children and then back to Hubs and then back again to me. The children were also coughing badly. Huirou also caught some bug at the school during the first weeks.

BUT we are all good and healthy again now.

As a result we all lost some weight and this was how the children look at that time (16 Jan 2011):-

That’s gonna be my official reason for neglecting to update.

Conversations with Huirou

Picture: @ Black Canyon

I like to ask her about her day. Usually she quite accurate.
Me: What did you have for dinner tonight(while at the sitter’s)?
HR: W(M)ueh (ch: Porridge )
Me: How come everyday you eat wueh?
HR: Everyday eat rice very sien! (Trans: I get bored if I eat rice everyday)

She has also picked up a lot of my mannerisms. I caught her getiing to Zhixin’s eye level and telling her brother off and sticking up a finger to warn him