Funny lines from Emma

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*2.5 years*

Yesterday, on our way to the skin test, Emma was doing some non-stop talking as she does…

Then we heard this…

Emma: “daddy 脫衣服 (strip off), 阿嬤 (grandma) says, oh my goodness”

We both cracked up so badly… then

Emma: “why you laughing me, you are on the naughty list!”

Daddy: no no, we are not laughing at you, we are laughing with you!

Mummy: still cracking up!!

We wonder, how does this happen? We didn’t teach her that! Surely!!

Skin Test

* Monday, 18th Jan 2009; 2.5 years*

We took Emma for a skin test on Monday afternoon. We only start to get a little anxious once we got there, wondering what her reaction would be. Prior to the visit, I’ve been telling her that we are going to take her for a test, to check if she can eat chocolates and fluffy even when she’s been scratching. She was okay with that, hoping she can eat more chocolates! And fluffy!

She also seemed a little tense and didn’t want to go through the hall way to get to the lab test place.

Once we got into the test room, she sat on daddy’s laps and still not sure what’s happening.

The lady explained that she’s going to write numbers on her arms, we counted from 1 to 16 and she was okay too. She was carefully looking at the lady’s every move, checking out what’s going on.

Then 18 drops went onto her arm (1 for a positive reaction, 1 for negative + 16 common allergents). We also counted with the lady. She stayed still and seemed okay.

Then it comes the most scary part, as there is a metal thing which will scratch the skin a bit to soak the drops in, I suppose. So the lady asked us to hold her a bit more to make sure she doesn’t move. So mummy got one arm and daddy got another one. Surprisingly, the little prick didn’t bother her at all. At the end of all of them, we joked… “more?” she actually nodded.

So I don’t think she was scared, probably more curious on what’s happening.

Then there was the wait to see if she has any reactions to any of the allergents.

15 mins later, only 1 showed a big reaction – dust mites!!

1 other very tiny, which I think on the results card, it was reported as negative…. cat hair!

Well, at least now it explains why sometimes eating cheese makes her itchy and other times is okay!!

She’s not allergic to cow’s milk, probably means she’s okay with dairy as well!

Well, that was a relief! I think!

At least now I’m very sure that when we replace the carpet in the house, our rooms would be wooden floors instead!

Although I do wonder, if this means we can start giving her cheese sandwishes for daycare! :D

The Frog & the Princess…..and more

*2.5 years*

We learn the hard way of what not to say in front of your 2 and a half year old kid… as they learn REALLY fast now!

One day as we were out at Botany Shopping Centre, there was the poster of the new Disney movie, “The Princess and the frog”. Daddy looked at the poster and said… Emma, look, a frog. And a princess with big boobs. (without giving it too much thought).

That night, Emma saw her princess pillow case on the big bed (which she still refuses to move to yet), she said, princess with big boobs. (or princess has big boobs).

A few days later, we heard this…yeah, princess has big boobies!

Well… :P

Toilet Training

2.5 years

Tuesday, 29th Dec 2009 we started toilet training day 1.

How little we knew the amount of ‘learning’ that the parents have to go through for the whole toilet training process!

So day one, the poor little one had been asked if she needs to go pee about every 10 mins from 3 different people! Eventually, she stopped responding and just pees as she normally would. Every time she did that, she looked a little confused, as if she’s wondering why there’s a wet puddle under her and her underwear is wet!

It took a while and I had to explain the difference between the pull-up nappies vs underwear!

Towards the end of the day, with some convincing, we had a few success towards the evening. At night time, she also insisted on wearing underwear instead of nappy. So we let her make the decision and went with it, knowing that we had to get up to sort out a wet bed later.

The other big change for her that night was, we took the side of the cot off. So she can get off to go pee when she needs to.

Around 3am, she called for us and it turned out, she couldn’t get to the potty in time, peed on the couch next to the bed.

Day 2, it went very very well, as she only had 1 accident for the entire day. She knew she has to go to the potty to pee and she was doing it all by herself. She also was happy with getting rewarded with chocolates and stickers! So, all was good. I think she’s got it! Only 2 days!!

Day 3, given Day 2’s great performance, mummy was expecting, this will be it, she would be totally toilet trained by now and all will go well today!

Because day 3 is also 31st Dec, we have a New Year Party to go to! Well, it was more 4-7pm but still… a New Year Party and her success in toilet training will affect the plan!!

Sadly, it was the day for mummy to learn to let go and let nature take its course. Emma seemed to have gone back to Day 1, with more accidents than successes. The more this happens, the more we keep asking her if she needs to go pee; the more we do that, the less willing she was to respond.

So we called to cancel our attendance for the party. Luckily, our friends didn’t mind and were willing to take the risk of her peeing on their carpet. She did very well and went to the toilet 3 times and pee/poo there instead! She quite like the positive comments from those successes.

Day 4, we decided, well, if she’s going to pee, might as well not worry about it and go out. So we went off for a picnic in the morning. I think there were a lot less accidents on day 4. By then, mummy was told that kids do regress on day 3 for some reason; also been told that, toilet training, pretty much they just have to keep peeing in their pants until they learn to read the signs from their own body and stop doing so.

Just like that, day 5, she seemd to have just got it and would tell us when she needs to pee or poo!! Very surprised!

I forgot to mention, Day 2 and 3 in the evening, she was dry overnight. She did that for 4 nights in a row! That wasn’t easy, as it means controlling the amount of liquid consumption for her, from about 4pm onwards.It was tough at times as she still enjoys her night time bottle! Also the first 2  nights were tough for mummy, as she kept waking up every 2 hours to go check if the bed is still dry… until she gave up and decided, she will hear it if it is wet! So relax and sleep!

Until the 7th night, we thought, she’s been doing so well, so we thought, let her drink a little more between 5-6 is okay. But, she woke up with a wet bed! All panicking! We comforted her and put her back to sleep.

The next night, she really wanted her bottle. We gave her the choice of wearing the underwear still, or pull-up nappy. With both, she can still get up to go pee when she needs to, just with the underwear, if she doesn’t, she will wet the bed. She took the underwear until she heard the bit about wetting the bed. She then decided on the pull-ups.

So for the next week, it was fine and she seems to do her norma thing, not drinking enough water for the day and only asking for it at the evening time! But now, it is fine! She can drink as much as she likes! It’s so much easier for everyone!!

Another week has gone by, she only used 1 pull-up nappy over the course of 8 nights! On the last night, the nappy got a little wet when she ran for the toilet but realised it was too dark, came back to get daddy before she goes back to the toilet… probably couldn’t hold some of it. Still, had a good wee on the toilet.

So, nappy costs is now a lot lower. I’d say, 1 or 2 a week (even 3) is pretty good! :D

Looking back, it wasn’t all that bad. Pretty much when you realise, the accidents are part of the learning. They need to know how to recognise their own body to know when they need to go pee; how long they can hold and when they must go now or they will wet the pants.

Since day 5 (2nd Jan), I think she only had 2 accidents, both at daycare. Too busy playing and couldn’t quite make it to the toilet in time. Surprisingly, when we went out with her, she’s been fine so far.

The only downside of the toilet trained kid is, you have to locate all the toilets wherever you go very quickly!

For Emma, she also had the case of eczema spreading onto the bum, now that they are accessible for scratching!! ^^;;

Otherwise, it is a big milestone for her and she’s done really well!

I think toilet training for parents are really learn about helping them to go through this experience and learning; rather than actually “training them” in a way.

So, we are nappy free! (well mostly! :P )

Little helpful Emma

* 2 year 4 months *

Emma is 2 years and 5 months today, I thought the blog posting had been a bit lacking. Mainly because she’s just been talking more and more, bit hard to remember all the funny things she said.

Then I remember something else she’s been doing lately…

Our very helpful little Emma. She’s very keen to help and will tell you, “Emma help mummy” or Emma 幫忙 mummy” (same thing in Chinese)

If she wants you to make a bottle for her, she will go get the tin of formula out of the cupboard. (You should watch her when it was a full tin and how she very carefully put it onto the kitchen counter) Then she gets a small bottle out from the same cupboard. Ask you to make the bottle and goes off to lie on the couch waiting.

If you have any nice food she likes, such as ice cream, cake or anything else she wants to eat; she’d say, we share. Then runs off and get her own bowl and spoon.

She also quite likes helping with watering the plants, will bring her own small watering can now. Used to try and tackle the big one and she was carrying it fine as long as it’s not a full one. But we do need a bit of directions for where to water, or the same plant will get A LOT of water!!

She can help with laundry as well, but usually get bored quite soon! :P

So hopefully, we will be a very helpful girl…. just need to give her another few years to be really useful. :D

More funny sayings from Emma

* 2 year, 4 months*

11th Nov:

Mummy (to daddy): Did you just fart?

Daddy: No

Emma (thought mummy was talking to her): Yeah! I am sorry!

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12th Nov:

During our evening walk…

Mummy: Emma like orange bike? (slightly bigger one)

Emma: Emma like orange bike, red bike too small, Emma big girl, ride big bike.

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Emma: Emma 放屁臭臭 (fart stinky), Daddy big one, Emma small 臭臭 (stinky)

Mummy: hahahahahaha this is too funny! Must go on to the blog

Funny sayings from Emma

* 2 years, 2-3 months *

These are some funny sayings or some impressive sentences from Emma that I can remember lately…

“Oh… only small one”, after we pooed on the potty and only a small-ish one came out.

“Better wash it”, after we drew on our pink cloth.

“Don’t worry daddy, Emma is here”, patting daddy.

For a while, Emma gets so excited about telling us something, so quickly, her sentences can’t quite follow what she wanted to say so quickly, so it usually starts as: “Emma Emma Emma Emma…. ” eventually something will follow after the strings of Emma. Because most of her sentences start with Emma.

“Swiper no swipe Emma cookie”

“Emma big girl, go toilet”

“Emma little monster, daddy big monster”

“Emma little monkey, Adam big monkey, Bella big monkey”

“Where daddy’s cow, Emma can’t find it, Daddy come help!”

Daddy: “Bath time!”
Emma: “Not yet, Emma still busy”

“Emma close this door”

“Emma needs fluffy now” – 9th Oct

“Kitty come on, follow me!”

Daddy has a cheese cake, Emma wants to have a few bites, so daddy said, eat carrot first. So Emma did. Daddy said eat one more… so she did. 6 small pieces of carrots later, daddy said, eat one potatoe, too. Emma said: “Oh, man!” – 10th Oct

“Emma go sleep (with) mummy now, so mummy come get down Emma now” says Emma, sitting on the bar stools and letting mummy know that she wants to come sleep with me. So I better get her off the chair now.

Mummy: “花生醬放在冰箱都硬掉了, 好像大便” (peanut butter has been left in the fridge, gone all hard, looks like poo)
Emma: “Daddy come eat 大便” (poo)
Mummy: hahahahahaha – 11th Oct

“Oh my goodness!” – 11th Oct

“太陽刺刺 (sun shining in the eyes), must close curtain” – 12th Oct

“Looks like nice seat” – 12th Oct

“Emma run away… Oh no! Uphill, Emma can’t run” – 19th Oct

Toilet “Training”

* 2 years, 2-3 months *

Emma is slowly getting to the age where you can check if she’s ready for toilet training. So mummy bought some cloth nappies and tried them on whenever she can. Although that was hard, as she’s in daycare 3 days and with grandparents 1 day. So only Friday to Sunday is toilet-”training”-able time. Also it has to be the times we are not going out, which is also rare.

One Friday morning, within 3 hours, we had 5 wet nappies and 4 wet pants later… mummy gave up. I thought, she’s probably not there yet, as she was wet through and couldn’t tell she was wet.

But cloth nappy still comes in handy in those odd times when she needed a change 1-2 hours before bed time. Saves another nappy! :D

Toilet-”training” is an activity that is done by mummy. No one else in the house seemed to want to play with the cloth nappies; nor too bothered about toilet-training.

It wasn’t really any “training”, I thought now, we will just wait till she’s more ready and see what to do.

Then…

Friday, 18th September, (2 years, 2 months and 2 weeks), Emma came to me and said Emma 大便臭臭 (poo, stinky). So I checked and found no poo in her nappy. Then I quickly took her to the toilet and sat her in the potty; I had to sit on the big toilet with her. We sang and we mucked around for a while; then I pretend to make the grunting noise. Emma did the same too. We were having fun. Then she started doing some serious ones…. then she was quite excited, got up and said: “ohh, 臭臭 (stinky), look mummy”.

Yes, we’ve pooed in the potty for the first time! I took a photo but I won’t share it here. :P

After that, the following Thursday, we did the same again, except this time, it was a lot faster, she knew exactly what she has to do and did it.

The following week, when she was with me at home, including evening time, she pooed in her potty. 3 times. A few times she woke up with a poo nappy, or pooed while we were out. But the funny thing is, she would only go to the potty with me so far.

This week, on Sunday, 4th Oct (just turned 2years 3 months), she peed in the potty for the first time, too. She pooed in the potty earlier that day. In the evening before bath time, I found her nappy to be dry after 1-2 hours, so I sat her on the potty and asked if she wants to pee. And she did, she was most amazed. Kept asking me to look. The next day, she also asked to go pee, but only had 2 drops. I think she’s not quite there yet to control her pee, so she knows it is happening but then it’s too late to get to the toilet.

Friday, when we went out, she told daddy she has a poo nappy, and it was about 10-15 mins later before we got into the toilet in the shopping mall. I checked, no poo. So I rushed her into the cubicle and sat her on the toilet + holding onto her. We peed in the toilet and then took a while before a few solid poo came out. I think she’s a little constipated.

But this is a big change, pee and poo in the public toilet! Still with mummy only but hey, this is really amazing as it is!! Because, I really didn’t do anything in terms of “training” her.

Now, I used “training” with quptation marks, because, to be honest, it really was all her own work. She just started asking to go to the toilet and did it. Once she’s done it, slowly she gets used to the idea and more happens.

So I guess it won’t be too long now, she would be nappy-free, at least during the day. Maybe a few more months. We will see.

:-)

Okay!

* 2 years 1 months / 25 months*

Lately, Emma has a new word that she likes to use a lot: “Okay”.

She either makes a statement and says okay, or she asks a question and answers okay as if then it is agreed by all.

So here are some sentences I can remember she said lately…

She saw my laptop and said… Emma push E, E Emma, okay. Then we pushed E on the keyboard.

Trying to get her changed and she said: Emma run away, okay. Then we tried to run away.

Dinner time, Emma sit mummy, okay. Then shuffles her bums and sat on me.

Bath time, she tried to shut the door on us and keep us in or out, so we’ve been running around in and out of the bathroom closing doors, opening doors. Eventually, we shut her out of the bathroom and she said: Emma come in, too. Okay!

Meal time, she often says: Emma eat xxxx okay.

Changing time, or some other time, she’d say: Emma go hide, okay.

I’m sure there’s a lot more and will come back to add more later!

:-)

Woof woof

* 2 year, 1 month / 25 months *

Emma has a little brown soft toy dog that she got given by the grandparents for her birthday. It was sent from Christchurch.

On Friday (21/08) when I was at home with her, trying to get her changed to go out… she was playing with her little “woof woof”. It doesn’t have a name, well… “woof woof” is its name.

Then out of the blue, Emma said.. “woof woof name Andrew”.

(I should also note that we’ve lately learnt: “Mummy, Sally, daddy Andrew”.

So, looks like we decided the woof woof’s name will be Andrew.

Of course, mummy couldn’t stop smiling and called daddy to tell him… guess what?! :P

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