More time for Harvynna

Am really looking forward to the Chinese New Year Holidays next week. My company is closed for the whole week so that gives me some time to spend with Harvynna. Wish to spend as much time with her as possible before the little one arrives in April.

Have been really trying to talk to her about the new baby – telling her that the baby is her’s so she will feel important. But whenever, I ask her ‘Where’s Harvynna’s baby? she will tap her own stomach. Sometimes, she wakes up in the night, cyring, ‘ Don’t want baby! And just wants to be cuddled. How to put her in her own room like this?

Been reading and reading to her as that’s all she wants. It’s always, ‘Mummy, read a book’ or ‘Daddy, read a book’. I started reading to her from the time she was 3 months old and now she just loves books. I used to feel silly sometimes reading to such a young baby, but now I realize, she is really showing the output she ‘inputted’ when she was young. She can name animals like’ anteater, armadillo, gecko, hornbill, impala’ and some other weird animals!

She’s still trying to grasp the concept of counting. She can count from 1 – 20, but when you ask her to count certain things, she will count 1,2,3,4,5,….regardless how many things there are. Like when I ask her, ‘how many eyes does Harvynna have’, she will count, 1,2,3,4 - 4 eyes!! Same thing goes for colours – if I ask her what colour is something, she will name all the colours she knows, otherwise everything else is RED to her!! I guess they have a lot of concepts in their head but may not know how to apply them at this stage.

She loves playing the “mummy, whats this?’ game and can ask ‘what’s this?’ for the same thing 10 times!!! Then I realize, I thought her that, as I will point to all the pictures in her books and ask her ‘Whats this?’. Ooops!!

Have not been blogging lately as I have found a new hobby – surfing the web for toddler activities that can be printed out and am having a blast with it. It’s amazing what you can find on the web these days, the resources are unlimited. I have printed out books, flash cards, memory cards, domino cards, colouring pages for her and she enjoys it. The best part is even if she destroys the materials; it would not break my heart as it was free in the first place. The westerners are really creative in the things they come out with. Almost everyone there makes his or her own things – no wonder homeschooling is so popular there.