Kimmi saw me keeping away some CNY outfits I’d just bought for Jeanne. She wanted to try them, but I told her they were too big for her, so in the end she tried on the outfit she is going to wear this CNY, a red cheongsam that Jeanne used to wear (bought by Por Por). It fits quite well.
She seems pleased with it too.
After that Jeanne must also try on her CNY dress and strike the same pose.
Posing together.
They make a pair.
Kimmi dressed in Jeanne’s old school uniform and going to school for the first time. 
She was happy to be going to school. When we reached there, she kicked her shoes off and ran inside and forgot about her Daddy and Mommy outside. Later the principal called and said there was no problem at all.
Kimmi turns around to show off her cute schoolbag. Jeanne shows off her “present” (actually a box stuffed with some of her toys which she wanted wrapped). 
Here are the girls all dressed up for Christmas lunch in dresses their Por Por bought for them. 
With Mommy.
Kimmi teases Jeanne. 
Note Barbie doll and toy bus, their Christmas presents.
Making monkey faces. 
Little Pink Riding Hoods at the airport.
Jeanne’s room is always a mess so we bought her a new unit with drawers and shelves (to be shared with Kimmi). Here they are helping KK assemble it.
They seem fascinated by it.
Here it is all set up in Jeanne’s room.
Girls with Por Por.
Playing with balloons at Chatsworth.
Jeanne and Por Por on couch.
My friend Susan came to visit last week and gave us some biscuits. Jeanne took quite a liking to them (chocolate wafers). As usual, Kimmi wants whatever Jeanne is having, so here they are side by side eating the biscuits. Quite cute to watch both of them together.
We also decided we’d better start potty training Kimmi. I told Jennylyn to let her sit on the potty randomly a few times every morning, and to praise her lavishly if she happened to pee. On the first day, she actually did pee twice.
Unfortunately she has since come down with mild running nose and occasional cough, so we’ve shelved the potty training for the moment because it adds to our (and her) stress.
Jennylyn bought rambutans from the market today and showed them to Jeanne, who was quite taken by them. KK washed one and gave it to her to play with. She dried it with a tissue, and was wandering around with it, so I took a photo.
After that she tried feeding it to her duckie. She called it “Butan”.
We had parents-teacher’s meeting at her school today as well, and Teacher Sumathy says she has progressed quite a lot this term. She’s much better behaved and she likes arts and craft a lot (on Friday she did a Father’s Day card and coloured a Father’s Day picture, so it was apt that KK picked her up that day and was given the card straight away. For Mother’s Day she came out of school waving a card at me too, but when Teacher Catherine asked, “What must you say?” she promptly replied, “Happy birthday.”).
Her Chinese teacher said the main thing now is to encourage her to speak Chinese, since she understands and can recognise words and read, but replies in English if spoken to. So I have started her on that at home, ie if she asks me for biscuits, I make her ask me in Chinese.
I feel she has progressed a lot in her Chinese. She can read all the flash cards I’ve bought, and she seems happy learning Chinese from me. eg she asked me what cable car was in Chinese, and then asked if I was going to make a flashcard of it for her (I have been making my own flash cards). Ditto for firefly. Then she likes reading her Chinese books aloud to me, and she has her favourite stories (“I want to read Lao Tai Tai”, or “I want to read toilet” etc).
We attended Ann’s baby’s baptism last Sunday. I managed to get Kimmi to wear Jeanne’s old birthday dress for once. She usually doesn’t like the dress … cries till we change her into something else … but this time she didn’t object, perhaps she was sleepy because I changed her when she had just woken up.
She certainly seems happy in it here. It’s good, because it’s a very pretty dress (and cost me a bomb too).
Jeanne wore her pink dress with no trouble.
We spent most of the baptism letting the kids run around outside. The babies had total immersion and Leo Riki seemed to have the most powerful lungs. Ann looked rather harassed. Uncle Alex’s mother (mama) saw Jeannie and said she looks like me, while his sister thought Kimmi was getting baptised too because of her white dress.
Aside from that, the girls have been playing with stickers as usual. These particular stickers (called crystal stickers, from Cold Storage) are quite pretty.
Both girls are quite selective about shapes ie they will usually choose all the squares together, and so on.
Stickers are quite useful because it keeps them occupied for quite a while. Until they run out of space on their arms and legs, that is, and then they want to stick them to someone else like me or KK as well. I don’t know if other children like sticking stuff on themselves, but the doctor gave Kimmi a sticker during her last jab and seemed very amused when she promptly stuck it onto her thigh!
Since I like these stickers I usually see that most of them are stuck back on the plastic so they can be used another day. Here Jeanne has been playing with them after coming home from school.
She wants to show that she has them on both the front and back of her hands.
Some shots from Jeanne’s birthday last month :
Her birthday walk in school
Giving out her Dora the Explorer goodie bags.
In her fairy wings.
Kimmi mopping the floor with her wand.
She stops mopping long enough to “magick” the food onto the table.
Kimmi kept blowing her candles out the second they were lit. We had to keep restraining her.
Quite hilarious. In the end we had to leave her candles unlit. All in all, it was quite a nice little party.
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