Weekend Reflections: Happy Birthday Tiger Girl

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Tiger girl and Me

Dear Baby Girl,

I can hardly believe that you are three years old. It seems like it was only yesterday that I was carrying you home from the hospital as a 3.2kg newborn. Fast forward three years and you are now weighing approximately 14 kg and more then 90cm tall.

You can independently dress and feed yourself now and readily let others know about your preferences. It is really challenging dealing with your constant outbursts and need for instant gratification. I need to constantly teach you that you need to wait a while before you will get what you desired. I guess delayed gratification is something which you will have to learn in time to come. Patience too is a virtue which I hope that you will develop together with a resilient character.

You have brought a lot of joy and laughter to our family with your smiles and happy disposition. You always have a smile on your face when you see me each morning.

I hope that you have a great childhood with your siblings and enjoy the new adventures that you go through from three to four years old.

Love,

Mummy

September 12, 2013

Writer’s Workshop: Quite a lot Learnt this Week

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Tiger girl’s Hello Kitty Cake

This week has really been a hectic week. The kids are having their mid term holidays and have the whole week off from school. In fact their holidays started from last week Thursday afternoon as they celebrated Teacher’s Day in school that day.

Even though school is out for the week there has been quite a lot of learning done.

I’ve learned

1. Turning Three is certainly more fun then Turning Two

Tiger girl turns Three today and we have been celebrating her birthday the whole week with the kids going out almost every day to have fun.

Turning from two to three has seen a lot of difference in the dynamics that the kids have with each other. Tiger girl is able to communicate much better now with her brothers and they too have learned to how to be more accommodating towards their younger sister.

This week I have seen both brothers take turn in looking after their sister while playing at the play gym. They patiently help her climb from one platform to another and carry her through the obstacles that were a bit difficult for her to maneuver through.

Even though they are 6 and 9 years old they are mature enough to take care of her. She too looks out for her brothers and cares for them too in her own little ways.

2. Cutting the cake is certainly more fun then eating it

I didn’t have time to bake a cake for Tiger girl this year so we bought 2 cakes from the store and custom made our own design for her. She loves Hello kitty so we got a mini Hello Kitty cake and placed it on top of the Green Tea cake which we bought.

She only took 2 spoons from the slice of cake I cut out for her and promptly pushed the plate over to me and demanded that I finished it up for her. Next time I will be choosing the flavour which I enjoy eating instead of what she fancies.