My Girl, Oh! My Girl!

Oh! My Girl! Yes, my girl…

See, I've been having difficulty, sort of…

She's not easy,

Anything she won't understand and UNDERSTAND why, and why!

She JUST WON'T DO IT!

Since small, from crawling, to walking…

Therefore she's kinda "slower"…

Cos, we need to get her to understand first…

See, at this age, do you think she can understand our terms and words? If you ask me, quite a bit, but still quite a big chunk of others, she still don't understand…

That's why!!!!!!! It's so difficult to get her to sleep,

She just doesn't understand why she needs to sleep sleep sleep, yes, she knows what I say, "good for your growing up, for your brain and bla bla bla", but then, she doesn't really quite feel it,

That's why, she still refuse nap time,

If she naps, then, she'll refuse bedtime…

Cos, to her, she just wants to play, or just do nothing, but she refuses to close her eyes…

I've been struggling, ever since the brother joined us…

Cos, before brother joined? She followed my schedule, perfectly, ^_^V, ie. we could just spend whole day sleeping…

But then, there're 3 people schedule, and she starts school, so, the schedule, I'll say, is brand new…

So, for 2 weeks, she's been off nap,

She picked this schedule, which, in a way, is good for me, I get more things done, and I spent more time with her, while both are alert, else, I gotta kinda rush everything just to make her nap, then, rush dinner, rush this and that, rush to another bedtime, both of us were just plain upset, cos, the problem was,

I gotta nap with her, ie. with her, and with baby no.2…

But then, after 2 weeks,

Today, I told her this, cos, I believe she can do it,

Cos… I taught her that, once she's tired of watching TV on that day, or she feels her eyes were tired, just go take the remote and off it…

She's in a way, not a TV kid…

She's in a way, also not an ipad kid,

I let her watch TV, on "good" day, yes, she watched for 3 hours,

These few days? The TV was off…

Ipad? Most is half an hour time, she plays,

Well… not that she's that well behaved, it's just that, on her own,

She doesn't really find TV that interesting, or ipad that interesting…

She just find… mm… US, more interesting, or poking the brother, upsetting him, or me, more interesting…

You see…

Then…

Today, I told her,

Since she could "off" the TV on her own will,

I want her to "off" herself, for just 30 min, if she's really tired…

I asked her to try…

Yes, today, I left her aside, slept with the brother on the sofa, cos, I was too tired,

Later, I opened my eyes a little bit, she was asleep on the "boang"… cute!

To reward her for behaving as such, I bought her 2 macarons…

But I really pray hard that, she'll take such type of nap on a more frequent basis, her own will…

I told her,

I do not want her to just go to bed, sleep, nap, and whatever, when mama tell you so…

Another eg.

For her extra curricula,

I told her, there's drama, dance, art, and chinese,

I thought she'd pick dance, but then, surprisingly, she said, she wants to learn chinese…

For some reason, (maybe it's in her blood too!) she kinda likes chinese,

Though, we started off speaking english to her, and we read more english books than chinese books, to her…

Anyway,

That's MY Girl!!

A not so easy one!

But a sweet and lovely girl...