Almost Diaper Free

For the past one week, I have been working with Sofia on taking naps in the afternoon without wearing diapers. We started off with going to the toilet before settling down for a nap and I give her reminders about not wearing any diapers, which means she has to hold if she needs to pee.

The first day went well, followed by accidents over the next two days. She woke up crying when the accidents happened, guess she just needed getting used to it. After that, we had one or two accidents and from then on, Sofia got the idea and we are now officiallyy diaper free for naps, hurray!!

The next big step will be working on being diaper free for night time as well. I am not ready to work on this yet ... maybe another few months? We shall see.

Complete Set of Teeth

Sofia's last two molars are on the way out.

Now she is ready to tackle ALL sorts of food ... satay, cuttlefish, etc., BRING THEM OVER!

When the sun comes out ...

One of the things that I dread at night is either Sofia having a bad dream and start talking out loud or she waking up in the middle of the night and not wanting to sleep again. Usually the later happens when she is on flu medication, not sure why but the medicine seems to put her in deep sleep for the few 5-6 hours then she will wake up.

Either way, once she is up, it is difficult to ask her not to talk or make noise. Then Jeremiah gets disturbed and gets awakened as well. This sort of situation makes me very irritable and I am like a half-asleep frowning clown juggling them in the middle of the night.

Recently, Sofia has started asking for milk in the middle of the night again. I gave in the night before just to shut her up and fortunately she went back to sleep after finishing her milk. She woke up AGAIN last night at 3 am ...

Sofia : Mummy, may I have some milk pls?
Me : ... wait a while ... (I was hoping she would fall back to sleep)

After 5 mins of thumb sucking ...

Sofia : Mummy, may I have some milk pls? (this time louder)

I was trying to wake my brain cells at this wee hour to find a good excuse, suddenly I blurted out,"Yes, but we must wait for the sun to come out first."

Sofia who was already on my bed, turned to look at the windows and stared hard. It worked?! I could not believe it.

After 10 seconds or so, I whispered to her again,"Yes, girl, we can only drink milk when the sun comes out, ok? Now go back to your bed and sleep." She obediently went down to her bed and fell back to sleep after sucking her thumb. Of course I was so happy to be able to kick this bad habit of hers and went back to to sleep.

I was later awakened at 7am by someone BOOMING at my ears ...

"MUMMY! MUMMY! SUN COME OUT ALREADY!! CAN DRINK MILK ALREADY!!!"

My Favourite Shopping Place

Ikea is now officially Sofia's favourite shopping mall. Why?

Simple, because they have a kid's size trolley and she ENJOYS pushing it, just like an adult.

Ssswwwwwwoooooshhhhhhh .... ssssswwwiiisssssshhhhhhhhh ...

Sometimes, she strays off the course, so I thought I would just give her some assistance using the handle on the top. Immediately I heard,"NO MUM! NNNOOOOooo!!!!!" and she will peel my hand off the handle and look at me, annoyed. Okay, help not needed.

For the rest of the evening, Sofia was happily pushing "her" shopping cart enjoying her shopping at Ikea.

It makes me wish that ALL shopping malls have such trolleys so that I can shop with peace.

Almost Ready

Our new place is ALMOST ready. We have contractors coming in everyday for different things - windows, glass, mirrors. Carpentry work has also started and we can finally see the house falling in place.

I spend most of my mornings on site to monitor work being done. It takes up lots of energy and patience to deal with these MEN. They only have one aim, that is, to come and get their job done, finished! They do not consider how their part should match with the rest of the items. For example, the grille guy actually came with grilles that block the window handle. How am I suppose to open the window then? Arrghhh ... So the grilles got to be sent back and redone. That is the sort of funny happenings in my life nowadays.

I try to avoid bringing Sofia on site cos she will start playing with the bits and pieces lying around. One of my eyes will be on her and the other on the ongoing work, soon, I am going to end up with crossed eyes. Today was an exception, we were there after school to tend to one guy who did not turn up in the morning.

I asked her to give me a "dirty" look since the place was so filthy and we end up with this photo.