My Parenting Life

Here’s the list of food that Jo2 doesn’t eat…….he used to run away when asked to try, but recently he become so polite by replying “No, thanks!”

Mommy: Josh, u want to eat durian?
Jo2: No, thanks.

Mommy: Josh, u want to eat vege?
Jo2: No, thanks.

Jo2 is a picky eater, there are some food that he doesn’t take, for example : ice-cream, chocolate which is most kid’s favorite, and also there are foods that he can’t take due to his sensetive skin.
As for fruits, he only take apple, banana, papaya & plums. And his favorite food is mee-mee, koay teow, macaroni, spaghetti, and recently SUSHI!!!

Other than food, I also asked him….
Mommy: Do u want to go to school?
Jo2: No, thanks…….(ME???? Almost “pengsan” since it’s juz 4 days away from his first day to nursery)

Recently, I found that Jo1 & Jo2 are no longer under my control. Whether it’s meal time or play time will end up with tears (fighting w/ each other). Spanking or yelling at kids are not my style. I believe that kids that are beaten up tends to be even “wild” so I always tried to control myself not to throw temper on kids. But no guarantee how long this will lasts since I am short of a helper(maid) now………

The notty stuff of Jo2:

1. Bitting Jo1 for no reason, even though doc told me that it’s a way Jo2 protect himself from being harm. But now it seems like Jo1 is the victim instead of him.
2. Being the echo of Jo1 and mommy. Whataever u say, he will repeat the last few words of the sentence that he is able to catch. Except when u say: Jo2 is a notty boy or something bad about him.
3. Everything belongs to me. My thing is my thing and your things are mine too. Very possesive boy. Nobody can take away toy that he is playing, but he will simply grabs away whatever Jo1 is playing and think that it’s lot of fun……Once, he took away jiejie’s book and said he wanted to read book, but holding the book up side down!!!
4. Lock the door. He likes to lock himself inside the room so that he can watch his so called “Mickey mouse club house” (cartoon channel) peacefully. By doing so, nobody can come in and switch to other channel. Jo1 told me that the magic word to open the door is “good manners, good manners.” I can’t figure out why, but it really works. Worst experience we had when he locked the main door while everyone was outside the house doing gardening, washing car, and Jo1 playing in the garden.
5. Pick who and who to bathe for him. Mommy is the first choice, followed by papa, then my mother’s maid. If no choice, then only he allowed my mother to bathe for him. He will run away with his towel whenever my mother called him to bathe.
6. Simply throw anything from upstairs to downstairs. No matters how many times I asked him not to do so, or I have him go downstairs to pick up whatever he threw. 100% guaranteed that he never throw his own stuff.

Why I have this never ending “terrible 2″…..b’cos Jo2 likes the no. 2. When asked him how old are u…..his answer is “2.”

When asked how many jelly/sweet-sweet he wants……his answer is “2″ only.

Afterall, he is Jo2-what!!!……he is a spoilt brat of me!!!

No matter how notty he is, a kiss from him will wiped away all the anger….

Papa2joj has to leave home for office b4 8am so that he can reach office b4 9AM.. So, when lil Jo2 wakes up in the morning, the first Q he asked is :

Jo2: “Where is papa?”
Mommy: Go to office.
Jo2: Orrrr…..buy sweet-sweet, lilipop (Lollipop), and d-ing gum (chewing gum)
mommy: No.
Jo1: didi, papa must go to office working, then got money, then only take u to buy sweet-sweet @ Tesco. Office there don’t have sweet-sweet one.
Jo2: okeey…….hmmm…….

Today, I decided to stay at home. No shopping, no swimming, no playground and no visit to park too. Papa2jojo and I went to “ta-pao” food for lunch juz now and the kids are now in their wonderland (afternoon nap). ME?? Reading & writing blogs at home.
The reason:

1. Jo2 need more rest since he juz undergo a minor operation which he shouldn’t walk too much.
2. I overspent last week-liao. What did I buy??? I bought 2 dress from secret garden for Jo1, a set of pyjamas from Strawberry for Jo2, SK-II products for over RM500, , 4pcs of blouse from Islee for myself, 4 nail polisher @ RM5.90 each (it’s a good deal & nice dolor too)and a sleeping mask @ RM79.90 from The Face shop, all for ME.
3. Juz too lazy to go out, that’s actually explained all…..

Recently, the “why” and “b’coz” has become his favorite word.
Jo2 popped out his first why on Sat when I fed him in the kitchen. While sitting on his high chair he saw ants on the floor, and he asked me to look at it but I juz ignored it so that he can finish his meal faster. Later, I noticed that he actually took out some rice from his mouth and “purposely” drop it on the floor. Guess what, he wanted to feed his so called “pet.”

Scene 1
mommy: Hey, what are u doing?
Jo2: Ants hungry.
mommy: No, u cannot give yr food to the ants.
Jo2: Whhhyyy……?
mommy: ummmm, b’cos if u feed them now…..they wouldn’t go away and will stay here waiting for yr food.
Jo2: Whhhyyy……?
mommy: b’cos they think it’s nice to stay here……got something to eat-ma!
Still, he dropped the food to his “pet” even though I expained to him……

Scene 2
mommy: Jo2, time to change pyjamas…..come, come.
Jo2: Whhhyyy……?
Didn’t wait for me to answer…..
Jo2: (d)coz it’s time to nen-nen and slip(sleep).
mommy: yes, good boy.

The school term holidays started from 26 May until 10 June which is about 2 weeks. Jo1 has 9 pages of Chinese writing, 6 pages of Malay writing and 2 pages from her mental arithmetic class. On top of that, she asked me for more???!!! This happened on Saturday afternoon, right after her ballet class. She told me that she wanted to borrow my camera, and wonder if I can be her model. My answer is “Doe want-la, mommy’s hair so messy, face…..t-shirt……” So, I told her why not u switch the function to “scenery” and take picture of all the flowers & plants in the garden (I taught her about “potrait” function last time). Ting……..that’s really something new to her and it sound interesting to her. She returned the camera to me 1/2 hour later, and I didn’t turn on to see what she took until this morning……..Suprised!!!! I have 136 new photos in my SD card. All taken by Jo1 within 1/2 hour time. From here actually can tell how adults influence kids on what we did. Mommy likes to take photos, now kids follow-la…..

These are some of the photos to “show off”. I think the result is not bad for a 6 yrs old girl using the simple point & shoot technique.

Reached home @ around 6pm, kids happily greet me with a warm welcome hugs. Jo2 looked different than usual, so I looked again and only realized that his eyes is darker around. I asked Jo1 what happened to him, did he felt down or knock on something juz now? She replied “no.”, then I checked on him again only realized that it’s actually Jo1 applied blue & green color’s eye shadow on him. I laughed & laughed (w/ relief)……And then, Jo1 asked me:”mommy, why u laugh? As a mommy, u should get angry…..ok! Next time, if u see this again, u should angry and not laugh,ok!!!