A few days ago there was a wedding down by the pool. Grace immediately wanted to go "to see what happens at a wedding." She just couldn't seem to accept/understand that we couldn't go if we weren't invited, and why we weren't invited! We watched the bride's entrance from our windows, but that wasn't good enough. Grace was a heap of tearful bitter disappointment on the bed: "I want to go to see what a wedding is like. I'll never know what happens at a wedding..." Daddy and YouTube to the rescue! He found someone's full wedding video and sat patiently answering Grace - and Jasmin's! - ever-flowing questions. That worked. She didn't mention the wedding at the pool all afternoon, though the music was loud in our apartment even with the windows shut.
It really sobered me to think that Grace wanted/needed to learn so much that denial meant bitter tears! A delightful challenge, to be sure, to keep input flowing for this one.
Monday, October 11, 2010
A wonderful Thanksgiving present - we finally have our pool back!
It was closed for renovation in June, and was stated to be finished August 31... As October started with no sign of completion, we were beginning to despair we wouldn't be swimming until Christmas.
Jasmin was so excited she could hardly wait to get there. Singing and dancing the whole way down and dashing in without any hesitation. I had to fish her right out again as they have filled it deeper than before and it is just about to her eyes. But it didn't phase her at all and back in she went. Grace surprized me with her boldness : ducking underwater and floating on her back - two things we've been encouraging and she's been resisting for a long time. So the girls spent 2+ hours in the pool this afternoon with a friend... I had to haul them out for supper!
It was closed for renovation in June, and was stated to be finished August 31... As October started with no sign of completion, we were beginning to despair we wouldn't be swimming until Christmas.
Jasmin was so excited she could hardly wait to get there. Singing and dancing the whole way down and dashing in without any hesitation. I had to fish her right out again as they have filled it deeper than before and it is just about to her eyes. But it didn't phase her at all and back in she went. Grace surprized me with her boldness : ducking underwater and floating on her back - two things we've been encouraging and she's been resisting for a long time. So the girls spent 2+ hours in the pool this afternoon with a friend... I had to haul them out for supper!
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Michael was in Singapore Sunday through Wednesday this last week for meetings. The Wednesday return was earlier than expected so we were all very happy. The girls particularly so as he spent the rest of the day playing with them...
The day finished with a gloriously long play in the sand.
A circular area of "waste land" was recently dug over and replaced with dark sand-like soil (or is it soil-like sand?). All the kids love it, of course - at least, the ones who are allowed to dig in it, which is not that many really. (We are such "horrible parents" for letting them get down and dirty regularly!) I often feel bad for the little ones passing by or hanging around watching longingly. 
Grace and Jasmin didn't finish their monster satisfactorily until after dark (about 6:30, and another reason to place us in the "horrible parents" camp!). A good end to a great day.
The day finished with a gloriously long play in the sand.
A circular area of "waste land" was recently dug over and replaced with dark sand-like soil (or is it soil-like sand?). All the kids love it, of course - at least, the ones who are allowed to dig in it, which is not that many really. (We are such "horrible parents" for letting them get down and dirty regularly!) I often feel bad for the little ones passing by or hanging around watching longingly. 
Grace and Jasmin didn't finish their monster satisfactorily until after dark (about 6:30, and another reason to place us in the "horrible parents" camp!). A good end to a great day.
A week or so ago, we were given a meal out as a family as a thank you for an extra busy hard week. We go waylaid in the mall before finding our restaurant by this huge post...
The girls were first fascinated by the huge mirror it was, then the distortions they found around so dents. But when they discovered there could be two of them at the join... Mommy thought we'd be there all night!
But in the end, they did get hungry enough to leave it :0) We went to Burgoo, a very American style restaurant here. The girls are still talking about the milkshakes and burgers with flags on top! Every time we go near that mall, they manage to find some reason or another that we should eat there. Not that we can - Jasmin can avoid soy there, but not gluten or dairy.
The girls were first fascinated by the huge mirror it was, then the distortions they found around so dents. But when they discovered there could be two of them at the join... Mommy thought we'd be there all night!But in the end, they did get hungry enough to leave it :0) We went to Burgoo, a very American style restaurant here. The girls are still talking about the milkshakes and burgers with flags on top! Every time we go near that mall, they manage to find some reason or another that we should eat there. Not that we can - Jasmin can avoid soy there, but not gluten or dairy.
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