The Little Artist...
Today, I learnt about the colours purple and red at the Gymboree Art class. The teacher in class also taught me how to mix yellow and blue to get the colour green. Check out my master pieces...
Watch What I Can Do with My Building Blocks...
Since I returned to Shanghai, I have been exploring all my toys. I have kind of forgotten all about them, given that I was back in Singapore for 3 months now.
Now I can identify all the 9 shapes: Moon, star, circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond and semi-circle.
Watch me as I stack and build a high and colourful tower... Identifying and separating my building blocks by colours...
My New Favourite China Characters...
Since I came back, I have been crazy about two China characters...
One of them is the mascot for the 2010 Expo, "HaiBao". This is supposed to mean "a sea of treasures". I have been seeing HaiBao everywhere on the streets of Shanghai, either on posters, figurines or even plant figurines...
Check out the news on 2010 Expo here. It's officially 185 days count down to 2010 Expo... http://en.expo2010.cn/expo/expoenglish/mascot/index.html
The other character I am crazy about is 猪猪侠 (AKA GG Bond). This is a new cartoon introduced in China in the last few months while we returned to Singapore. Now every day, I am always waiting for the cartoon to be screened on TV at 8pm... 
For more information on 猪猪侠, check out this website...
http://www.zhuzhuxia.com/
One of them is the mascot for the 2010 Expo, "HaiBao". This is supposed to mean "a sea of treasures". I have been seeing HaiBao everywhere on the streets of Shanghai, either on posters, figurines or even plant figurines...Check out the news on 2010 Expo here. It's officially 185 days count down to 2010 Expo... http://en.expo2010.cn/expo/expoenglish/mascot/index.html
The other character I am crazy about is 猪猪侠 (AKA GG Bond). This is a new cartoon introduced in China in the last few months while we returned to Singapore. Now every day, I am always waiting for the cartoon to be screened on TV at 8pm...
For more information on 猪猪侠, check out this website...
http://www.zhuzhuxia.com/
Searching for a School in Shanghai...
Until very recently, Mummy didn't believe that schooling was a big headache that any mummies can ever imagine. Since we returned to Shanghai two weeks ago, Mummy has been either spending her time, bringing me to the doctor's (I have been to the doctor's three times as I was down with a stomach virus...) or visiting potential schools in search of an "ideal" one for me to attend. All the schools are either full with long waiting lists or too far away or too expensive. Mummy finally knew how other mummies felt about schooling in Shanghai.
Mummy brought me to visit Elite Happy Kids and Happy Marian today. Both were located about 10 minutes walk from Mummy's office in the XuHui area, which was a good thing as Mummy can drop me off at school in the morning on her way to work and then get the school bus to send me back home in the afternoon. Of course, that is not going to last, as Mummy's company is going to be shifting offices to Pudong next summer. But I guess till then, we will have to find a school for me in Puxi.
Both Elite Happy Kids and Happy Marian are housed in old houses in the French Concession and Huai Hai area respectively, with large play areas in the garden and nicely decorated indoor facilities. I have blended myself in when I saw the toys and the motor cars I can play with. Some boys at Elite Happy Kids even helped themselves to the toy cars I brought along with me. Elite Happy Kids is a place that more westerners send their kids to, so true enough, Mummy saw that for the Strawberry class that I am going to attend, a large majority are western kids. In comparison, Happy Marian is a school with a more balanced co-hort of asian versus western kids. Mummy has kind of decided since Daddy and 婆婆 speaks a lot to me in Mandarin, a more westernised environment would be a good balance for me to pick up more English at this age. So we have decided to take that last space in Elite Happy Kids. Yippeee, I will be starting school in a few days time...
Mummy brought me to visit Elite Happy Kids and Happy Marian today. Both were located about 10 minutes walk from Mummy's office in the XuHui area, which was a good thing as Mummy can drop me off at school in the morning on her way to work and then get the school bus to send me back home in the afternoon. Of course, that is not going to last, as Mummy's company is going to be shifting offices to Pudong next summer. But I guess till then, we will have to find a school for me in Puxi.
Both Elite Happy Kids and Happy Marian are housed in old houses in the French Concession and Huai Hai area respectively, with large play areas in the garden and nicely decorated indoor facilities. I have blended myself in when I saw the toys and the motor cars I can play with. Some boys at Elite Happy Kids even helped themselves to the toy cars I brought along with me. Elite Happy Kids is a place that more westerners send their kids to, so true enough, Mummy saw that for the Strawberry class that I am going to attend, a large majority are western kids. In comparison, Happy Marian is a school with a more balanced co-hort of asian versus western kids. Mummy has kind of decided since Daddy and 婆婆 speaks a lot to me in Mandarin, a more westernised environment would be a good balance for me to pick up more English at this age. So we have decided to take that last space in Elite Happy Kids. Yippeee, I will be starting school in a few days time...
A New Look...
Mummy brought me to the hairdresser today near our place. My hair's getting long and super unruly and of course, Daddy and 奶奶 kept insisting that I get my "tail" cut away, since I will be going to school soon. Anyways, I finally did today, after keeping it for two full years since my birth. Mummy kept it as a remembrance and when she showed it to me, I smiled... When Mummy asked me about my tail, I touched the back of my head and say " NO MORE HAIR!!!" It was really funny...
Well, our dear PRC has banned both Blogspot and Facebook again, after the Xinjiang riots. Mummy can only upload the photos via Daddy's company's VPN...
I Hate Stomach Flu...
We have been back in Shanghai since Tuesday morning. But both Mummy and 婆婆 have been kept really busy. You guessed it wrong... Not with the unpacking. In fact, two of our luggages are still lying in the living room, not unpacked.
Daddy and Mummy attended a wedding the Sunday before we departed back to Shanghai and had a buffet high tea. That very night, both Daddy and Mummy were down with vomitting and diarrhoea that very night. At one stage, Mummy couldn't even stomach water that she took. She was puking water out. Then both had fever the very next morning. We almost couldn't make the flight back to Shanghai. Luckily, by the time Monday evening came, both Daddy and Mummy felt quite well enough and we returned to Shanghai as planned. But alas, the virus was spread to me on Wednesday and I started having exactly the same symptoms as Daddy and Mummy. I visited the doctor yesterday morning, who commented that at least I still appeared to be rather active given that I am down with a stomach virus. Mummy was glad to hear that. Dr Grace gave me some medicines to stop the vomitting and the diarrhoea. Mummy was to bring me back to her if the vomitting has not stopped in 2 days' time. I am still not well today. Hopefully with the ample rest and medicine, I will get well very soon. But for now, I think I have developed the phobia of going into the bathroom and getting cleaned from puke and poo... Poor me...
Mummy also checked out the following with her:
1) Mummy was worried that it might be her breast milk that has caused the virus to be spread to me, even though she has discarded all the breast milk since she got sick. But Dr Grace confirmed that the chance of my infection through consumption of breast milk is very low. The spread could have been caused by touch and saliva etc. Dr Grace also assured Mummy that it is unlikely that Mei Mei will be down since infants below three months will usually be protected by the immunity they have built up.
2) Daddy has also asked Mummy to replace my feeds of breast milk with formula milk so as to solidify my stools. However, the doctor mentioned that this is worse since the dairy content in the formula milk will cause more upset in my stomach. Breast milk is definitely good and beneficial for me.
2) My cradle cap that has appeared very unusually at this age is probably due to the hot weather in Singapore with the oil glands clogging up the pores on my scalp. But thankfully, the weather's getting cold in Shanghai now, so this should go away soon.
Daddy and Mummy attended a wedding the Sunday before we departed back to Shanghai and had a buffet high tea. That very night, both Daddy and Mummy were down with vomitting and diarrhoea that very night. At one stage, Mummy couldn't even stomach water that she took. She was puking water out. Then both had fever the very next morning. We almost couldn't make the flight back to Shanghai. Luckily, by the time Monday evening came, both Daddy and Mummy felt quite well enough and we returned to Shanghai as planned. But alas, the virus was spread to me on Wednesday and I started having exactly the same symptoms as Daddy and Mummy. I visited the doctor yesterday morning, who commented that at least I still appeared to be rather active given that I am down with a stomach virus. Mummy was glad to hear that. Dr Grace gave me some medicines to stop the vomitting and the diarrhoea. Mummy was to bring me back to her if the vomitting has not stopped in 2 days' time. I am still not well today. Hopefully with the ample rest and medicine, I will get well very soon. But for now, I think I have developed the phobia of going into the bathroom and getting cleaned from puke and poo... Poor me...
Mummy also checked out the following with her:
1) Mummy was worried that it might be her breast milk that has caused the virus to be spread to me, even though she has discarded all the breast milk since she got sick. But Dr Grace confirmed that the chance of my infection through consumption of breast milk is very low. The spread could have been caused by touch and saliva etc. Dr Grace also assured Mummy that it is unlikely that Mei Mei will be down since infants below three months will usually be protected by the immunity they have built up.
2) Daddy has also asked Mummy to replace my feeds of breast milk with formula milk so as to solidify my stools. However, the doctor mentioned that this is worse since the dairy content in the formula milk will cause more upset in my stomach. Breast milk is definitely good and beneficial for me.
2) My cradle cap that has appeared very unusually at this age is probably due to the hot weather in Singapore with the oil glands clogging up the pores on my scalp. But thankfully, the weather's getting cold in Shanghai now, so this should go away soon.
The Little Princess, Shannon...
Mummy bought this very nice purple princessy dress for Shannon and finally got a chance to wear it for her during Aunty Li Fern's wedding.... Check out how our little Shannon looks...
