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29 Apr 2009 “TALL-NICE”
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Chloe on Daddy's Shoulders

Chloe on Daddy's Shoulders

Chloe started to say “tall-nice”  when she came back to Hong Kong from Texas, we have no idea what that was.  Until one day when Nick put Hailey on his shoulders, Chloe said “what about me?”  And then, she said “Tall-nice.”  Which means Tall man is nice.

While Hailey likes to eliminating sounds in the words when she was young, Chloe like to eliminating words in her sentence.  She likes to have her own Chloe’s abbreviation.

Also, another example of it will be:

Eddy-up:  Everybody tidy up

29 Apr 2009 Hailey in the Dentist
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I took Hailey to the dentist two days ago.  Thinking that it will only be a normal check up, never thought that she has two cavities and need fillings.  I was more upset than her as I thought it was my responsibility to look after her teeth.  Hailey was very ok in the dentist, she did not complain and she just sat there and let her do her job.  I guess that there was a TV on the ceiling and the child friendly helps.  Hope she and everyboby likes to give her candy learnt the lesson now.

22 Apr 2009 Hailey loves Texas, so do we!
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Shopping in San Antonio

Shopping in San Antonio

After one day in Texas, Hailey told me that she would like to live in US and moved all her friends to there. I would say that it was probably because everyone loves bigger space and being on holiday meant mommy and daddy were in a good mood and so she could pretty much get away with everything.

The way from HK to SF was painful, it was an afternoon flight and so both Chloe and Hailey did not sleep and when they finally fell asleep, we were nearly in SF. However, Hailey really liked the entertainment on the plane and so she was ok. Chloe was a nightmare on the plane, did not eat much and liked to walk around, not felt like buckle up. In general, she was ok, may be we prepare for the worse. When we fly from SF to TX, it was an 4 hours flight and she slept through the whole flight as she was too tired. Which was good to me as I have to sat with her, I could get a little nap as well. more…

22 Apr 2009 Trip to Texas–is Chloe too young to Travel?
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Yes, and no.  Yes, she probably will not remember it later.  But seeing her very happy with all the things that happened in the trip, it worth every trouble.  She may not remember this trip when she grows up, but me and Nick will always remember how happy she was in the trip, she was so happy when she saw the dog in my Aunt place.  She had no fear to touch and feed him.  Hailey on the other hand, much older, was very nervous about it.  There are things that you can only see that when they were young.  And once they are older, they grew up and before you knew it, they were gone and never come back.  Although I have to said that taking Chloe double my luggage and she is really “pain in the A**”  in terms of looking after.  There will be one day, when Chloe tells me that she does not want to travel with us and prefer to go with her friends, then I will think about this trip, and how glad I was to be able to spent time with her when she was also happy to be with me as well.

Hailey used to travel to so many places when she was young.  The first time she was on a plane, she was less than a month old.  Actually, it is more like that we do not have any help and have to take her around with no choice.  At that time, we were so sorry for Hailey that she had to travel with us because we could not provide  a very stable environment for her.  So, we have said that if we ever have another child, she will not be travel as such an early age.  So, Chloe did not travel until she was one.  But I think that now is the good age for her to travel.  She now understood so many things and when she was happy, we were happy!

03 Apr 2009 Sorry Hailey–One thing that I did really bad today
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With all the stress of going away tomorrow. Nick came home tonight and we tried to go and check in first and then we can be more relaxed tomorrow. Hailey climbed on a chair and turned all the light on and off. I told her off and with no TV, she was probably bored, she kept doing it and ignored me so I slapped her. Nick saw that and I told you that he was angry but he could not really show it in front of Hailey, so he said. “that was really hard.” I started to regret my behaviour and Hailey was crying and asked me ,” Why you hit me all the time?” Without thinking that she just did the same thing this afternoon to me when she was hungry. Chloe was an indirect cause for that. Sorry Hailey! Mommy is really sorry.

Ok, I know physical punishment was bad and it never worked, we should not do that to kids. It is going to damage them dadada… I promised I will not do it and I will really try. May be more sleep will prevent this happen.

Talking about sleeping, I have a one hour nap with Hailey this morning. She did not need to go to school, she was not well, and Ika told Chloe to playgroup. I really want to sleep a bit more, but Hailey already awake. So, I told her that if she slept with me in my bed for a little bit, will take her to Macdonald and she can have the pancake for breakfast. She slept with me in my bed for nearly 1.5 hours, first time in my life, and it was really nice. I can start to see why some parents enjoy sleeping with their kids. It is lovely to hear her breathing and although she kicked me several times, it was nice and I hope that we can do this again!

03 Apr 2009 OK, there is still something cute about Chloe
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She liked to look for daddy now, she would come to my room and said daddy and look underneath the blanket, then she will say, “Daddy ‘fan kun’ (go to work).” and then 5 second later, she will do the same thing again and this can last for the whole day.

Everything that did not work at home was “flat battery” — “mo din”. We had to take the Bose stereo for repaired today and the TV has no sound output. Chloe kept saying that mo din for the whole afternoon.

Last week when I was in the Rugby 7, I saw the woman Rugby game, cannot help to wonder if one of my daughter will be a good player?

03 Apr 2009 Leaving tomorrow, really nervous
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Hailey told her drama teacher that she was going to “America” for 1 day ^_^. I am looking forward for this trip because last time when I was there, the trip has to cut short because my Grandmother passed away. But this time, I will have to stuck with Chloe monster and I just do not know how she would behave on the plane. I already took some sedation medicine from the doctor to dose her off on the plane. I will let you know if it works? We did try it one time at home, she still cried when we put her down, but only last for one minute. However, she still woke up in the middle of the night. So, let see…

I have taken a whole world with me this time and still was thinking that I did not take enough. I really hope that I can travel less one day. That day seems to be very far away…

03 Apr 2009 Chloe up for adoption!
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Sorry again for not updating the blog for so long. Ever since come back from the “perfect Singapore” (according to Hailey), Chloe never slept over the night, she would wake up in the middle of the night and started to cry, not because she had a wet nappy, not because she was hungry, she just wanted me to hold her –not until she fell asleep, but FOREVER. If I put her down, she will start to cry and then throw up. I did try to let her cry, and this stubborn monster could really really cry until she threw up. One night, I told everyone to ignore her and since she was going to be sick anyway, I would wait until she “finished” and cleaned up once and for all. Hailey came out from her room and told me to take a look at her, she said, “Mommy, you know, I think we should take a look at Chloe, she has been crying for a long time, she was probably cover with all the “yukkie”.” So, even my 4 year old daughter was more sensible as me, I was just too upset to deal with her. Moreover, me and Hailey were ill for a week and it was just a nice excuse not to take Chloe to playgroup. And since we are going to the States for 2 weeks now, it was nice to just do not have to deal with her tantrum from time to time. more…