Hair Cut - No more crying

31-Aug-2008 Sunday - It was a sunny weekend after breakfast we plan to bring Vernon for hair cut. When we arrive at the barber shop, the Indian guy just went out for brunch and his partner dare to cut baby's hair. We had to leave home since no one able to cut Vernon's hair. In the afternoon James want to stay at home to complete his jobs. As a result, I decided to bring Vernon back to the Barber nearby batu lanchang together with Kakak wati again.
Here we go, Vernon was so good boy. Let the Indian guy cut his hair till finish, no tear drops and crying at all. He even able to follow what he instruct him, bend down his head a bit...........
I & kaka wati.........very surprised and this is the 1st time ever he never cry since his few hair cut.

I hope he already get use to and will never cry again. :)

Playing during Potty Time

These 2 weeks When Vernon sitting on his potty chair to do his big business, he starting asking for his animals. and what he did is, he will pull 2 animals together and play along till his finish his big business. I found it very cute and this is what a kids will do during their childhood. so I quickly took my handphone to snapshot.

As I remembered Nai nai told me that James also have the same habit where he will singing and playing with toys while having big business during his childhood.

Vernon is just like inherit from his Daddy........people said "Like father Like son."

Writing skills

We bought a few writing exercise books from popular for Vernon to start learning his writing skills. And I found 123 or numbers is easier for them to pick up compare to alphabets. As I see Vernon use to join the alphabet by linking few lines instead of follow the normal writing sequence.

I decided to start from here, but I do face a problem where Vernon do not want me to hold his hand while writing. He always told me, no mommy.............Vernon write.....................

mommy only can watching and no holding. He very too Independence till we cannot disturb his capability or writing skills.

Moon cake from Kong Kong

1-Sept-2008 Monday- Today is the Malaysia independence day replacement holidays. So we went to Jusco in seberand jaya together with Ah mah, E-e, Joshua & Jolene. When we back in the evening, kong kong also back from Ipoh and Vernon insist want to go into Ah mah house instead of direct headed home. The 1st thing Kong Kong think of Vernon is giving him the 2 piggy moon cake that he brought back from Ipoh.
what a special and cute gift prior to the moon cake festive.
Vernon happily holding the 2 piggy moon cake and ran to the door, asking me to bring him home.

Dibo the gift dragon

Last 2 weeks, Vernon keep telling me about Dibo bunny...how...and how................
so I just listen to him very patiently till last Friday when we were at nai nai place after work.
I & James sat down and watch this Dibo the gift dragon cartoon together with Vernon. This cartoon really cute and our boy love it so much.

This is Mine

lately Vernon love to use the words --> "THIS IS MINE."
Whatever he have in his hand......fruits,food or books or the TV cartoon he is watching is all belong to him. and he will response to u.......this is mine.

I am not sure where he pick up all this words and we just worried that he had the mind-set of not sharing. why i said this is, i saw an incident...........just a week ago.
-->last week when we were at the Popular book fair in One-Stop. Vernon was standing & watching in front of a TV that promote the story books with the reading pen for kids. Initially he was alone watching and later on there's 2 kids joining in. And Vernon aware that they are watching the TV, he is pushing them away and told them......."this is Mine".
I immediately told him..........no......the TV is share share one.......is not belong to Vernon.
however he still keep telling the other kids, the TV is his one.
Alamak........................I really have no idea how to pull this boy out. this only way is I told him there's more books at the back room, let's go together with Mommy.

Leg Marking

Today We start giving Vernon to write & draw with the erasable marker pen.

Early early morning, Vernon woke up and told me that he wanted to bring along his marker pen and ABC/123 exercise book to Nai nai house today. I just follow his request and bring it along for him. So I left for work for the day.

When we back to Nai nai house in the evening, we found he use the marker pen to draw poker dot on his leg. He told us....................

**Vernon : Mommy mosquito bite Vernon's leg.

the lucky thing is he only mark the dot on his leg, not the other part of his body.

Sustagen 100% Nutritionland

9-Aug-2008 - Saturday we were shopping @ Queensbay Mall in the evening, when we came across the centre of the mall. MeadJohson was having promotion of the Sustagen 100% nutrition land activity for kids. We went to the main entrance of the activity land and the lady from Meadjohnson seeing Vernon is too small to qualify for the activities. as a result, she did not recommend us, except allow us to watch & tasting of the products.

However, when we walked closer to the 1st look & match game which Vernon already trained and expert now. We tried to avoid him from disturbing the rest to play the game, but he keep walking towards the stairs to walk up to participate. what we did is bring him away, he finally cried as loud as he can till the lady came over and asked why???

I told the lady that he want to participate in the games, end up the lady gave us the activity point cumulative score card. without this score card, the kids are not allow to participate.

When Vernon saw me holding the card, he knew he can participate and very happy queuing up to wait for his turn for the games.

Here his turn, and he really able to take over the items and stick to the right place.

exp...bread, rice bowl and mee mee.................he stick to the right position till some of the parents waiting there also praise his capabilities.

: - 2nd game - picking the vege from the tunnels. Vernon happily craw thru the tunnels, picking the vege pretty fast and put into his basket.

3rd game - Picking fished from the pin balls pool

4th game - look and found the right body parts

5th game - spin & guess where u spin what is the game that u will need to play.

Vernon got the sound game. Vernon able to differentiate the sound of Drum and cymbals. and within a minutes time he said to the guy that the sound is come from drum.

Upon complete all the 5 games, Vernon will entitle to get the free gift of swimming floating set.

It's pretty fun and Vernon also enjoy very much during the games.

Fully Self Potty

9-Aug-2008 Saturday - Starting this week 32, Vernon able to take off his pants and go to toilet by his own. according to Kakak Wati, he actually started this about a week already especially in Nai Nai house.
Nowadays,he always stand outside the shower box & wee wee or he will pull the small stools that we put next to the sink to stand up to reach the toilet bowl.

**Remembered on this Tuesday night 5-Aug, b4 bed Vernon told me that he want "put-put". So I accompanied him out from our bed- room. and he kept pushing me away and told me :

Vernon : Mommy go watching TV together with Papa.
Mommy : Are u sure u able to potty by your own?
Vernon : Mommy ......"no"..................Vernon go potty.

As a result, James & I hiding behind the cupboard next to the toilet & watching what he did?
Vernon went to pull out his potty chair and sit down by his own. as usual, he love to singing while potty. after finished, he called me in to wash his backside.

His is .........independence on potty and pretty much on learning things as well.
He make me feel like his is mommy's big boy now. and no longer a baby.............
however, in my heart......he is still a baby to me......haa.aaaaa

Kiddy Ride

3-Aug-2008 - Last Sunday when we were at Tesco for grocery, Vernon saw the house kids ride outside the Mc'D and he insisted want to have a ride. This time I change a token for him to ride and he was so happy that he never tried before. As all the while we do not want to pampered him and pay any ride for him though it's only a RM1. and it's really works, he never asked or yelling for any request whenever he saw all this. What he want is just sitting on and ride on it without the things moving.
With this exceptions given by me.........this is his 1st time Vernon ride with the thing moving up & down, he was very excited and happy and keep smiling at us.

Instruments Set

1-Aug-2008 - I & James took a day off yesterday to celebrate my birthday, dining out, having movie with popcorn and while we went for shopping at the Gurney plaza Toys R' Us. We saw an instrument set which Vernon will for sure love it. He now already recognized most of the instruments name, so we would think that he should own a set of those instruments.

Among the instruments : Drum, Drum stick, Trumpet, shakers, Tambourine, Cymbols & castanets. He love the Drum & drum stick the most, and he found very challenge to blow the trumpet. So everytime he will come to me and ask me to blow while he press the trumpet's key.

Another instrument he love is the cymbols....................................

He was so happy with big Eye open last night while I took out the set & put infront of him after he finished his milk milk.

Mini Bicycle

26-Jul-2008 - Chor Chor rewards Vernon with a mini battery operate bicycle last week. Chor chor is a miniture collector, she love to collect cute & mini items. She have thousands of minitures collection from all over the world.

At first,we really worried that Vernon will destroy this mini bicycle within a few days time as this mini bicycle is really mini and fragile. well, after looking at how Vernon took care/play with his mini bicycle. we told Vernon that how precious is this special gift given by chor chor. He has to take good care of it and play it carefully. He knew how to fix the battery and on/off button. and as u can see from the picture above, he even take up his leg high enough to let the bicycle run underneath his leg.

Evening Outing

One Evening we went for an evening walk along the IJM new project near the Sungai pinang.
Many people love to have a rest and playing kite there. while along the roadside there're a pasar evening selling foods and clothing's. One thing I don't like is those motorcyclist was riding their motorbike on the walking pavements which real dangerous to the children.

The All American Boys Chorus

** The American Boys
Local : Little Angels singing group.

22-Jul-2008 - MIL bought 3 tickets to "The American Boy Chorus", she knew Vernon will love it. On that night we left work on time and go to pick up Nai Nai & Vernon. We reached Dewan Sri pinang just in time and we had hard time to find a right place as most of the seats left are 2 or seat.

Very lucky, MIL met her friend whom had VIP seats reserved for them. As a result, we able to sit at the VIP place in the 3 front rows. How nice.......................

Vernon enjoy the song very much, he even clapping hands after every song performed till almost 1 1/2 hours. He suddenly saw the Auntie sitting beside me have black mod on his forehead. and this is what he said :

Vernon : Mommy, what is that black black & big big one???

Mommy : I asked, keep quite and ssshhhhh......try to a void answering him.

After that he keep talking to me very loud. I & James do not know how to keep him quite, luckily i did bring some animal shape biscuits which he love. and he munch it till almost the end of the concert.

I believe it's too long for a kids to continue sitting & watching the concert.

Dry Pampers

Vernon already used to wee wee first b4 sleep and calling me for wee wee during the night for about 2 weeks ago. But Yet papa still worried that his little boy still forgot or lazy to woke up in the middle of the night for wee week. as a result, alternate day if I saw him had lots of water during the night time or rainy day I still put pampers on him.

How I did it at the 1st place on the night potty train : I actually use a techniques to train him......................

I told him the story of Pinocchio where he watched together with us some time ago.
He remembered if the Pinocchio tell a lie, his noise will become longer and longer. and I told him if he wee wee on the bed and did not tell us during the night. His Noise will also like Pinocchio, become longer and longer. On 2nd day, he remembered what I told him, and keep holding his nose to ensure his nose still look normal. from that day on.....every night b4 bedtime,he always remember telling us that he need wee wee b4 bed. and he want me to count ....1.2.3 then he will jump out from the bed to toilet.

This is what our conversation :

Vernon : No Wee wee on bed, else will like Pinocchio..............nose long long. then he will hold his nose and see whether his nose got become long long or not.

Mommy : I will then count 1..2..3.

What is this?

19-Jul-2008 - We bought a picture dictionary and start to train Vernon as much words as posisble. However, those words that he already knew...........he will ask the question back to us.
Vernon : What is this?
then I purposely gave him the wrong words of the picture that he pointed to.
for exp :
If he pointed to the clock....
Mommy : this is a watch.
Vernon : No.....mommy this is a clock................
then I laugh....laugh......this prove that he is testing us.

**Per Dr. Sim......if a kids know > 300 words by 2 1/2 years old. He can be consider as above average.
I remembered last Saturday, when we make a visit to Dr. Sim for Hepatitis B jab. Vernon saw Dr. Sim wearing the stethoscope, he told Dr. Sim......"stethoscope."
then Dr. Sim asked, can u spell the words : "stethoscope"..............if you (Vernon) can spell out the words.
He will sponsor him scholarship on his eduction. becoz he told us that his son can spell words at Vernon age. and we should start at the most difficult and long words for them instead of those easy one.

Cannot see Mommy

Lately Vernon use to say cannot see mommy, Vernon Cry.
especially when he stay at MIL house while James & I away to work.
I can feel the bonding is even closer, sometime Vernon cannot even let me walk away a minutes.
especially I went to washroom for a bath.

Happy walking the Dog

13-Jul-2008 Sunday evening after went to penang bird park, we decided to go to sunway canival mall for dinner then only back to penang. We very lucky get a parking lot in front of the mall, all of us were hungry by the time we reach the mall. We went to a small restaurant where it serve rice & herbal mee suah. This is the only place where I don't worry that my picky eater Vernon won't like the food.

After dinner, we went for window shopping. A minutes later we came across a young little girl running a cat balloon on the central of the mall.

I saw it and found that pretty fun looks like the little girl really walking the real cat.

Vernon also love it so much and he follow the little girl go to a stall where the little girl parents are selling the balloons.

Vernon immediate hold on one of the Dog. after all, he look at me................and I pay for it though James don't agree to buy as it's consider expensive as he knew it won't last long.

very soon, Vernon happy walking the Dog and ran round & round the central space of the mall.

Passby parents & kids seeing that and most of them also buy the same balloon to their kids.

Indirectly Vernon is promoting the balloons for them and he really helps them sold most of the balloons.

Happy day out for Little Vernon boy by bringing home a balloon dog.

A day trip to Penang Bird Park

13-Jul-2008 Sunday - It was a long weekend holidays, and Vernon just started learning and recognize the name of all the birds. I told James why not we bring Vernon to Penang Bird park at seberang prai since we had long weekend. We then took this opportunity to help Vernon to be more familiar with all the bird species that he had learnt.

When we reached the bird park entrance in the afternoon, the thing surprise me is the entrance ticket price. I didn't know that the price gone up to Rm15 per person (adult) since the last time i went there a few years back. really inflation....haa...aa

We went into the bird park though it have lots of birds but the environment is not per what I expected per the price paid. however this is really worth to pay a visit together with our kids.

They can learn and see the real birds (toucan, eagle,ostrich, stork owl....etc) that they see in the books.

Well, Vernon love it after seeing the birds that he learnt & come across in his book now he can see in real and he able to name most of the birds.

Till today, He still remember the color of the parrot that make the loud noise when we go near the cage.

He always mention the green color parrot make the loud noise one loh.

and saying the owl is the one that sleeping.

Mommy : Owl is sleeping......

He name the bird on the right photo as Monster bird as he saw the hand of the bird very long and this is rare species.

After an hour visit to the park, this little Vernon tire and told us very hot and want us to hold him. Just on our way walk towards the exit entrance, Vernon saw an Arab lady with her face covered with a black cloth and wearing black suites. He said............

Vernon : Mommy see......

and he said Eeee.eee...............Monster. See 2 eyes only.

At that time I was holding him and luckily the Arab lady already walk by us and a distance away from us.

else I will felt embarrassed loh.

Kids always talk from their heart, and never say a lie.

Fall down from Bed

12-Jul-2008 Saturday morning - I was sleep together with Vernon on the bed, and unawared that he already roll over and slept on the pillow that I used to block him from fell down.

a minutes later, I heard a big drop sound and Vernon's crying. immediately I woke up and found him facing down on the floor. Pitty little Vernon where must be still in his sweet dream till when he hit his face down on the floor. He usually doesn't cry non stop after fell down. however, this time he cried non stop, and we tried very hard ask and apply "Zam-Buk" on him. he still point his finger on his little cheeks and said "pain pain" mommy...........................................


after a while, his cheeks become black blue and if we ask about it. It remind him again, he will cry again. very manja.....