The Eberhard Family

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原本妹妹是看附近一個外國女醫師; 雖然小朋友看病也要錢, 但是因為醫生不錯, 又很近很方便, 所以想說, 反正一年就去幾次… 算了. 上次去也是去年12月的事情了. 那時候發現醫生走了… 新的醫生爸媽都不喜歡. .

週一 (Mon, 28th June) 晚上妹妹咳到吐, 又發燒, 這其實也不是甚麼很大的問題; 不過他跟我說耳朵痛.. 已經是第二天這樣跟我說了, 所以週二就安排去看醫生. 想說順變換了吧. 其他認識的醫生也就一個在 Ponsonby, 我表弟的乾哥哥. 也是台灣人. 他的外國太太也是醫生, 想說要是看這個妹妹不喜歡, 也可以看他老婆吧.

其實去, 原本想說妹妹會吵鬧哭到很恐怖, 因為 1) 本來就不舒服; 2) 爸爸沒有一起去; 3) 換新的醫生; 4) 是一個男生的醫生!!

結果還好… 哭就是很委屈 你怎麼欺負我的哭法… 窩在我懷裡…

還好檢查都 ok, 就只說去驗驗尿吧… 因為小朋友要是尿道發炎就比較不會說. 保守一點的檢查看看吧.

回家他還跟爸爸說那個醫生 nice. (在那邊連 byebye 都不太想跟人家說呢 ^^;;)

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Emma has been seeing a lady doctor in a practice nearby; even though they charge to see kids but because the doctor was very good and the practice is close and convenient, we stayed with the same doctor. After all, really only see the doctor a few times in a year. The last time was last Dec.

That’s when we found out that the nice doctor left , both parents don’t really like the new doctor.

Monday (28/06) night, Emma was coughing so badly, she threw up all over. Fever, too. These aren’t too big of a problem for kids this age with a cold. But she also told me her ear hurts and that was the 2nd night she told me that. So I thought I better take her to the doctor the next day.

We might as well use this opportunity to change her to a new doctor. The only other family docotor that I know of, is my cousin’s family friend. The practice is in Ponsonby and he’s also from Taiwan.  And yes, it’s a he. Although his wife is also a doctor, so I thought if she doesn’t like the male doctor, can always ask to see his wife.

Orginially I was fully prepared for screaming, crying as 1) she’s not feeling well; 2) daddy wasn’t there; 3) a new doctor; 4) a male doctor!

Luckily, there were only a few tears, more like a quiet suffering kind of tears, “don’t touch me” kind of sobbing in mummy’s arms.

Luckily, everything was okay. Just had to get urine samples just in case, as kids this age can’t tell us if there’s anything wrong down there.

After we got home and when daddy was back; she even told daddy the doctor was nice! (Even though she didn’t want to talk to the dcotor at all, not evey saying bye bye!)

Monday, 21st June

Daddy: “You should say, excuse me my beautiful daddy”.

Emma: “No! You are not beautiful, you are a boy!”

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*2 year, 10 months*

Not too sure why or how. Emma has been enjoying this game of putting a little soft toy in her tummy (clothes) and said: “Mummy, I’m having a baby”

One day, she was doing this again and decided it was my turn. So she stuffed the little Purex “Rolly” dog in my tummy. Daddy happened to call home at the time and was on speaker phone.

Emma: Daddy, mummy is having a baby.

Daddy: (silence for a while) Oh really?

Mummy: Hahaha yeah, a brown hairy little dog!

Daddy: (phew!!)

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話說, 我家妹妹最近就很愛把布娃娃藏在肚子(衣服)裡, 跟我說… mummy, I’m having a baby.

那天 自己玩好, 說要換我了, 把娃娃塞到我這; 剛好他爸打電話回來… 他就跟爸爸說… Daddy, mummy is having a baby.

爸爸: …….. 沉默了一陣子不知道該說甚麼. 真的嗎?

媽媽: 哈哈哈哈…. 是啊, 我要生一隻咖啡色的小狗

爸爸: (鬆了一口氣)

* 2 year, 9-10 months*

Daddy has an ipod touch and had been putting different games on there for Emma. While she can recognise her name months before; although admittably, it isn’t a particularly complex name, still nice to be able to recognise your own name. Writing it however is a different story.

One of the games daddy has on his ipod for Emma is a writing game.

With that, Emma has learnt how to write her own name and is quite happy about it.

Today, the teacher told me she’s found all the letters of her name on the paper; circled them and cut them off to put them together to spell her name – Emma!

The teacher thinks she’s a smart little girl!

I thought that was quite cute in liking to write and spell her name!

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Emma 常常在爸爸的 ipod 上玩遊戲; 雖然說 Emma 之前就會認自己的名字了, (雖然不是很難的名字, 不過會認還是很好的), 但是要寫就還是要訓練. 爸爸 ipod 上有ㄧ個寫字的遊戲. 就這樣玩著玩著, Emma 學會寫自己的名字, 還蠻愛寫的, 也很開心.

今天學校老師跟我們說, 他在紙上找到他名字的字母, ㄧ個ㄧ個把他圈起來, 然後剪下來拼成自己的名字.

老師說, 這樣很聰明喔. 我倒是覺得很可愛啦… 不過不知道我們妹妹是不是有一點點小小自戀啊?

* 2 years 10 months*

On Monday, 31st May 2010, Emma graduated from the Alten Road ECE (caters children from 3months to 3 years old) officially starts at the new ECE over at Symonds St (caters children from 2.5 years to 5).

This marks a big milestone for Emma and it also means our little girl is slowly growing up!

On Monday, daddy and mummy are fully prepared to be ‘late’ to work as it’d be the first day at the new school. Emma was a bit shy but quickly found the new kitchen set and associated toys interesting. Then Amy, her best friend arrived. So we had a rather civilised goodbye while she’s still happily playing and thanking our lucky stars.

When I went to pick her up that afternoon, first thing she said was: “My mother is here!” I thought.. interesting.

Tuesday, it was a little different as the teachers were different from the ones we saw the day before. We had another round of introduction. Everything went peacefully, no screaming and no crying. There was a bit of reluctance for us to leave but the teachers were so patient with her, pulling out different toys and things to distract her. We waved goodbye.

Even after 2 days at the new centre, we’ve noticed differences. She already talks a lot at home now she talks even more, with new sentences and vocabs, too!

Above all, the manner was improved! She’d say: “May I….” and also she’d say “sorry” straight away if she knocks you by accident. Or when you ask her to do something and she’s still busy with something else… she’d say: “Sorry mummy, I’m just busy with this” (or I’m still busy playing).

I thought… :-O Wow! Who are you?

Wednesday morning, she asked me: “where are we going?”
I said: ‘to school and daddy and mummy are going to work’.
She asked: “Are we going to Symonds St?”
I said: ‘Yes’ (waiting for protests and complaints…)
But surprisingly, she seemed happy with the answer.

By Thursday, we got her little chair set up by the goodbye window; while the teachers were still busy, we left and saw her standing there waving goodbye by herself. No tears.

Wow! How lucky was that for first week at the new school!!

She’s settled in very nicely and slowly warming up to the teachers. I think she’s mentally ready for the new learning environment and activities; especially new activities and new toys!

These 2 weeks, we get a bit of tears every now and then, but she’s happy for the teachers to cuddle her and wave goodbye to us; wiping her tears with her little cuddly cloth. Apparently that’s all fine as soon as we are gone. So I think she’s doing so well with the transition and growing up to be a big girl! Very proud of her!