She was dress in her Standard Chartered Kids Dash tee shirt that day and wanted to go jogging. Although on the way back i was carrying her most of the way.

For those who are interested. This was taken using a "Texas Leica" a Fuji GW690 Camera that produces absolutely fabulous negatives. (Yes NEGATIVES not digital files :) )

Chloe just celebrated her 3rd birthday in Oct, instead of showing some birthday pictures, these are some of daily life pictures that I took while bringing her down to the playground every morning during the weekends.

Every morning during the weekends i try to bring her down to the playground to run around abit, becuase the moment she wakes up she walks outside to the living room sofa and lies down and want to watch tv. So I let her lie down while I wipe her face, let her warm up for half hour before brushing her teeth and bringing her down to play then buy breakfast.

Quite interesting to bring her down and interact with the rest of the kids at the playground. She always calls them "her friends" even though she is meeting them for the first time.

Leica M2 (Copyright Camerapedia)

 

Taking a break

I've bought a Harinezumi, one of those small digital lomo cameras for Chloe, intending to let her just run around and snap and see what comes out from it. Last weekend was my cousin's marriage registration (Congrat's Shumin and Micheal!) and these are what's seen through her eyes.

Some funny incidents when Chloe is undergoing toilet training.

1
Chloe: I am going to wash backside liaoz
Me: Huh ? (Check backside, at first see nothing, then some thing long came out)
Me: Next time must give daddy more notice ah

2
Chloe: (While coloring at the dinner table) Daddy I wan to pee.
Me: ok
Chloe pees all over even before i got time to go get one

3
Chloe and Me seating on the sofa. Suddenly i felt something hot on my legs.
Me: Aiya pee on the sofa liaoz
Me: Next time must give daddy notice ah

4
Chloe sleeping with diapers on with my mum-in-law
Chloe tugs my mum-in-law, "Want shee shee"
MIL: It's ok you are wearing diapers
Chloe can't get back to sleep, flips around and turn and tries to sleep on the front.
Chloe tugs MIL again, "Want shee shee"
MIL: ok ok (takes potty and opens diapers, sees that Chloe pooed), Whao poo poo ah
Chloe nods sits on potty and pees

Apparently she don't like to pee in a dirty diaper

Casey Jingshun's Daughter

Casey and Chloe

Chloe and Wifey staring incident

Sing Kai's son, Kenneth

Pomelo time!

Fishing together



Chloe not happy at going to playgroup



After class when we picked her up, don't know if she is hungry or what, she see other kids got food from their care takers, she buay paiseh will run up to them and try to eat their stuff. One lady was quite kind gave her a packet of those small little white biscuits, then she happily munch on them.



Cute picture of Chloe in her uniform



Chloe is starting her play group today. Wonder how it would be like,although i didn't attend a playgroup. I sort of remember my first day at kindergarden, haha think i cried on the way to class cause i need to take a school bus. I lived at West Coast at that time and my kindergarden was at the Blessed Scarement church's Damien Centre Kindergarten.

Ah although I was not there but wifey told me that she couldn't sit still, cause it's a new place so she keep wandering around touch here and there, but the teacher was nice, say nevermind cause it's a new place so let her explore lah.

The second day she was quite well behaved, the she rubbed her hands when the teacher squirted the sanitizer, put her bag where the teacher told her. All in all good, but about 1 hour later, one of the new student's cried think she scared she also cried, wifey said she cried quite badly so gotta take her back.
My mum commented so cham, send her to school during weekdays and send her to play gym on weekends. My view is she can't learn much  staying at home, cause all she do is play by herself. I want her to learn how to interact with other kids because so far she is the only child so she tends to have a view that she needs to share and hopefully find that learning can be fun.

Wonder how would she be today?

Casey in my good friend Jingshun's daughter, she is about half a year younger than Chloe and just learnt how to walk. It was quite interesting watching them interact, or the lack of interaction. I guess it's because they are both the only child (for now at least).

But i guess they do warm up abit, cause Casey was just learning how to walk so she not so good at getting up yet. So Chloe being the helpful jie jie decided to help her.... by pulling her hair, of course Casey started to cry, then Chloe started to cry too cause i think she knows she did something wrong. Haha to be frank it was quite funny.


Below are some photo's that i took.

Father's Love

You wan Bear Bear?

When the father is not looking

I want to read also

Chloe loves Barney, so much that she even gave him a nick name. Ah Meng (Not Ah Meng as in the orang utan, more like Meng as in 猛).

She has to have a Ah Meng show at least once a day. If she is upset just the sight of Ah Meng on tv would calm her down.

When she bathes Ah Meng goes with her and she would clean Ah Meng with soap and ask me to wipe Ah Meng dry before going out of the bathe room.

She can watch the same Ah Meng show over and over again... until we can't take it and gotta buy other Ah Meng DVDs so that we wont have to watch the same thing over again. Until we realized, the songs are pretty much the same.

We went to watch Ah Meng at Marina Square one weekend after her class at Gymboree. The moment Ah Meng came out she looked blankly at him and started waving her hands to say "Hi". Think she was abit shocked to see Ah Meng so big and live.

When the show ended (after 15 mins) she cried, she didn't want it to end. We bought a Ah Meng water bottle to make her happy.

What amazes me was after the show. The show ended at about 4:15pm, the next show was at 7pm and parents were already queuing up for the next show, the first 50 get a change to take pictures with Ah Meng but unfortunately for Chloe her parents were not crazy enough to do that.

Chloe started having an interest in books, she will ask you to take a book and point to different pictures and ask you to read out to her. You must be very attentive when you are doing that (that means no peeking at what's on the tv ah), or she will get cranky and make lots of noise until you give your attention back to her.

Sometimes looking at how Chloe seems to learn things from around her, I worry sometimes that I am not letting her learn enough.