Only a few pictures this month. I've been in the office for a whole week as we have guest. It's been difficult to get pictures of 萱萱 since she is very conscious of photos being taken of her. I may soon have to put my blog on total private setting so as not to trigger her strong opposition to having any of her pics online.
Bought myself a new phone today. I've always been receiving the hand-me-downs from Meimei and am perfectly fine with it. But Meimei needed spare phones for the kids so makes sense for me to buy a new one and pass on my old one. I was initially thinking of the pro max but it seems excessive for what I need the phone for. Which is primarily to play simple games, take photos, whatsapp, net surfing. So we landed with the 16 plus which is $300 cheaper and that went to the Apple care. Still an expensive buy but I think it's worth it. Smartphones have become an essential part of everyone's life in this day and age.
I try to cultivate their reading interest. Many talented kids get their skills from their parents, but I don't have any specialities to share. So the best I can do is give them a fighting chance with reading.
They seem to have found that reading can be an entertaining activity. But it takes constant reinforcement of this to make sure it sticks. Plus lots of $$ to buy them books to sustain the interest. I'm all in on it so we may need more bookshelves in the future haha.
This is probably something silly that is a 真传 of Meimei.
萱萱 had noticed some flying creepy-crawlies in the bathroom when she was showering and decided to spray water all over the place. Meimei mentioned that the water was all over, even outside the shower cubicle. 萱萱 described to Meimei that since the water didn't work she decided to throw toilet paper soaked with water at them. Unfortunately, one of the tissue bomb got stuck on the ceiling and hence she had to confess to her silly deeds.
When Meimei was sharing the story during dinner today, YeeYee couldn't stop giggling. She must have been having flashbacks of silliness from Meimei in her younger days :-) Well it's not lost ... our daughter has obviously taken on the mantle to keep the tradition going hahaha.
My parents had a rule when we were growing up. We have a blanket approval to buy any story books we like. So every time my parents brought us to a bookstore we would each grab one. They were very generous with books since they are not very educated and don't have the time to guide us through our homework. It's their way of "helping" their children. Years later I understood the intent and goodness of this. And I hope to give our kids the same experience of the joys of reading ... especially in this day and age of digital gadgets.
I'm not expecting this to pay off but just wanted to really give the kids the goodness that my parents did for me. And if we are lucky, it will become a good experience for them too.
Meimei was at the polyclinic today so decided to drop by the swimming pool to spy on 萱萱's swimsafer classes. It seems Nyama was there too so they got to gush at our little girlgirl's swimming classes.
