Dot Painting DIY

I wanted to put a little twist to Mika's art activities instead of using the typical marker, crayon and water color painting, why not try dot painting! I've seen a lot of mommies sharing dot painting activities in their blog and it always seem like a fun less messy art activity for the children.

Happy 2nd Birthday Seiff Mikhael

 

 

Happy birthday my baby boy. Thank you so much for bringing such great joy into my life for the past two years. I'm looking forward to creating many more wonderful memories together with you.

With luv,
Mummy

Bye bye pacifier

They say it takes 21 days to change a habit...and it has been 26 days since Mika had his last pacifier or more fondly known as 'Cucut'. And I'm proud to say that Mika is now Cucut free hooray!

And how did I do it?

 

I simply use ...

 

23 months Update

I received an email from Baby Center this morning reminding me that Mika is officially 23 months and 1 week old. Which also reminded me that it'll be his second birthday soon and I haven't made any birthday plans yikes! Better get cracking soon!

So at 23 months and 1 week old what's Mika development like?

MusikGarten KK - A review

Mika have been attending music classes at MusikGarten Kota Kinabalu for a little over a month now. It's not really your typical music classes teaching instruments (like piano) per se, it's more of a singing and dancing class for toddler aged 16 months to 4 years old accompanied by parent. Musikgarten have several music classes catering to children in different age group, even as young as a newborn.

Weekend getaway @ Langkah Syabas

*Plenty of pics ahead, just to warn you ;p

 

 

We were supposed to visit the Zoo during the last weekend of January in line with our animal week, but there was a changed in plan and instead we went to Langkah Syabas, a resort by the beach. Apparently my husband misses the beach. So beach bum zoo plan! Get it? Okay so lame haha!

 

And I have decided to extend animal week since we haven't done much activities on animal related except for animal puzzle, flashcard and old McDonald had a farm sing a long! So zoo plan will be postponed and animal week is still on. Mika love animals anyway and we have plenty of materials yet to be explored.

 

Renewed motivation

Since I started doing TOT school with Mika there's been some up moments and down moments in our 'playtime'. Of late there's more down moments than up and it has not even been a month!

Lately it seems like Mika is more interested in destroying his lesson materials. He will rip, fold or throw the flashcards or puzzles inthe air and laugh happily. He also prefers stacking up his books and used it as a stool to reach for stuffs on the high shelves! He enjoys screaming, jumping,climbing tables and shelves and making a mess out of everything.

Free & easy week

What was suppose to be My Body week turned out to be a rojak (mix) lesson week. It was easier to prepare for colours & shapes week because we already have most if the items at home . But for learning human body I have like 1 set of flashcards and 1 tiny book with pictures of kid's body parts and that's it! I wanted to do My Body because lately he like to say 'nose' and 'bumbum' (he says this everytime I bathe him). For your info bumbum means But or Behind or Ass :)

TOT School

I wanted Mika to have an early start in playschool because I believe the structured learning environment would helped him better in his early learning phase. And of course exposure to other children will be good for his social development. Unfortunately I've discovered that most playschool in Kota Kinabalu only accepts toddler age 2.5 and above. My Mika is about 1.9 year, so I guess playschool have to wait for now.

An introduction

I used to think that nothing or no one else is more important than me. Yes I'm very self-absorbed...was... well actually just a little less now that I'm a mother. And that's only because my self-absorbedness is being overshadowed by my precious baby who seem to think that the world revolved around him. Ok Mika's not really a baby per se coz he has mastered walking, running, slapping, hitting, screaming and whatever tantrum baby at his age is supposed to do. My baby son is fast approaching the 'terrible-two' age and mummy is worried of what to come haha!