Disciplining

So far, Eunice is quite an obedient girl. I really thank God for that. Since she's young, EG and I have been discussing on ways to discipline her, not to just show our "power" but mainly we want her to be a girl with a good behavior, also to let her know when she needs to listen to us as parents. We don't want to discipline her just for the sake of disciplining, no point doing that. Truthfully speaking, she really didn't do much thing that allows us to really punish her, until last Friday.

11-May-2012, 7.30pm @ Home.

Eunice asked for milk even it's not milk time yet. I told her I'll put the fresh milk in the cup for her. She started screaming and said no no no. As usual, we ignored her and just put the milk in the cup. EG brought the cup to her table and told her to drink. She got angry and she PUSHED the cup and the milk spilled.

EG got really angry and shouted at her. She started crying, but EG still took out her palm and hit her on her palm. Well, I know it sounded loud but it wasn't painful. He told me later he put her hand on top of his palm before beating her (2 times some more :P), so that it's sort of like protected. :P

Eunice was wailing. This is the first time she was punished seriously by her beloved father. She always bullies her father, but this time I agreed with EG and I didn't help her. She stood there and cried and wailed. Deep inside me, I felt very sad and very heartache to see her crying like that. I really felt like going over and give her a hug but I know I shouldn't because she really shouldn't push the cup and spill the milk, no matter how much she didn't want the milk in the cup. I went to her, and I put her at the corner and told her to stand at the corner to cry. She stood there and cried for a good 5 minutes. I was actually quite surprise that she would actually stand there. :P....

11-May: Standing at corner

Later on, she starting moving. She went to the sofa and wanted to take her favorite blanket & soft toys (her comfort objects), but EG, I think he was really angry, told her NO, CANNOT TAKE. I was really shocked that he's THAT angry! But I know I shouldn't say anything. And again, to my surprise, my girl didn't dare to take the blanket at all, and just cried and cried. But after a while, EG passed her the blanket and hugged her, told her repeatedly that "It's OK, you shouldn't push the cup.." etc etc... Eunice wailed and shouted and screamed. After a while, she finally cooled down and was all ok again.

Manja time, Daddy explaining why she's punished

We then left house to go CG. In the car, I asked her, "Just now, daddy beat you is it?"
She nodded her head, said, "Mmm.."
I asked, "Pain or not?"
She said, "Mmm..."
I asked again, "Why daddy beat you?"
She said, "Gerger pushed the milk..."
Then I told her, "Next time don't want to push the milk ok? Drink from cup ok?"
She nodded and said, "Mmm..."

When we reached Lavinia apartment, EG told me to bring everything down and leave Eunice with him. he'll go park the car and will bring Eunice in together with him as he wanted to talk to her again on why she's being punished. :)...

After that, Eunice is a happy girl again, bullies her daddy as usual. Everytime she sees her standing-at-the-corner pic that I took, she'll laugh and tell me, "Gerger stand at corn-der"... If I asked the same questions above, she'll give me the same answers. And now, when she asked for milk, and if she knows it's not milk time, she'll say, "Gerger want milk in cup, okay?"... :)

Looks like she understands why she's being punished. :).. But I don't wish this to happen again because my heart really really aches when I see her crying so helplessly. No wonder EG always said I have a soft spot for her, and I'm giving in a lot for her. Sometimes I surprised myself that I had so much patience for her, but I guess I have to agree with him. :)

Youth Park Outing

We brought Eunice to youth park on labor day holiday, together with her other friends... Just to let the kids have a break. :)... I have moved to Penang for 6 years now and I still never been to youth park before. Hehe... EG been there before but he forgotten the entry to the car park of the park, and hence, we took about 20 minutes to find out how to go to the car park! :P

It was a good outing. And it was also the first time Eunice went on a swing. I can see that she was very scared when she first went into it, but probably her friends were enjoying so much so she didn't ask to come down. After a while, she could do free style by leaning backward and look at the sky while she's on the swing. :).. And tell me, "Mummy, got water on the tree..." :)

Thank God that the weather was good. It was raining while we're on the way there, but it stopped half way. The slides were wet though, so when Eunice said she wanted to play the slide, EG told her it's wet and dirty, and she just obediently said, OK. :)

My little girl's first experience on the swing

Swinging with Chloe :)

See Saw time with Cheryl

Daddy asked her to open her eyes big big :)

See Saw time with little Audrey

I never really post our pics in this blog because this blog is for my children. Anyway, I think the pic taken below was really nice. :)... Our friend, Daniel, asked us to look at him to take a family photo, and Eunice posed for him. So cute. :).. And yea, that's me @ my 25th week.

Family photo @ Youth Park @ 1st May 2012

It was a nice outing. After that we went to Chilis for lunch with friends and their child. Had a good talk over lunch when Eunice dozed off. And had a short window shopping too. It was a good break for the holiday. :)

Btw, all pictures are taken by Daniel Yap. :)

2YO Eunice's Speech Development

Eunice is growing up very fast. So fast that sometimes I cannot believe that she's a big girl already. There are so many things that I want to write about her but I cannot catch up with her development. :).. It's going too fast. :)

Her speech development has been improving tremendously, and her vocabulary expansion amazes me. She picks up from our normal speech very fast. :). I remember when she's approaching 2 years old, around her 22 mths, I was just telling EG that her vocabulary has improved from 2 letters to 3 letters, for eg: from eat rice to want eat rice. She can start to put words together better.

Now, she can even form sentences. We noticed that since she is 2 years old 2 months ago. Once EG asked her, "Where is the sticker?", and she answered, pointing at the rubbish bin, "Gerger throw away already.." We were kinda amazed. That's her first sentence that we remember. After this, she started to say more and more and her sentences get longer and longer.
Recently EG told me, once when she woke up in the morning (I was downstair preparing for the day start), she told EG, "Daddy, I want the milk on the table...". EG was again amazed. :)

We bought puzzles for her to play (will update that separately - hopefully :P). Once she was playing it with EG and one piece was missing. EG asked her, "Where is the other piece?".. She looked at EG, then started to look for it and found it and completed the puzzle. Next, everytime when she plays her puzzle and she couldn't find certain piece, she'll say, "Where is the other piece?"... Again, amazed! :)

Next she uses preposition. I read in books that using preposition is a milestone. Her first sentence with preposition was "Elmo sleeps with mummy". She puts her Elmo to sleep beside me everynight. Few weeks ago, while on the way to babysitter, she suddenly said, "Mickey mouse behind the trees".. It took us a while to understand what she's saying, then we realized, the mickey mouse on the billboard was blocked by the trees and hence she said it's behind the trees. EG was again amazed, asked me, who taught her the word behind, we didn't. :)... And I was playing puzzles with her again the other day and she was trying to be cheeky and hide one piece under her leg. I asked her, "So, where's the other piece?".. She told me, "Under gerger's leg". *Grin*... but her pronunciation probably wasn't so clear but I am still amazed. :). We encouraged her to say proper sentence by asking her a lot of questions, like when we turn on the TV, we asked her, "Where is the remote?" She'll tell us "On the sofa".. I'm quite proud of her learning ability. :)

Now, everyday I'll talk to her when she comes back from babysitter place. I want her to learn to tell me what's going on in her day so she knows how to express herself especially when she starts going to school. My worst nightmare is my timid daughter being bullied in the school and she doesn't know how to tell me. So far she's progressing well. She can tell me what did she eat (rice/porridge/carrot/soup), who fed her (kakak/feed herself), what did she do (play slide/dancing) and with who. By the rate that she's going, I believe she'll be ready to go school next year, or I'll be ready to send her to school next year. :)

She's also very good in scolding her father. :).. Well, the father taught her to scold himself actually. She'll tell him, "Don't disturb!" if she knows you're trying to disturb her. Or she'll also point her little finger at EG and tell him softly but sternly, "stop!"... It makes us laugh everytime. I think she learns from the babysitter. But she doesn't do it to me, only to EG. I used the same "warning" to her when she's not behaving well and normally she'll cry badly. So I guess she knows that means something serious.

But overall, everyday, she just never stop amazes us on her speech development. But with this, it also makes our lives so much easier because she could express herself very well now and we can satisfy her demand since we can understand her. And the fact that she knows what we're telling her also helps a lot esp. after we discipline/scold her.

Recently we went to youth park with a few friends and their children just to let the kids to have something to play. And a friend took Eunice's pic. EG asked her to open her eyes big big and this is what she did. :)... Will blog about the outing separately as well.