Maid

my maid is going back on april, and we have yet to get a new one. i think i m going to hire a philipino maid this time.

my current maid is our very first maid. she is 28 yo, muslim, divorced and has 1 son. initially i thought she was quite lazy, not very honest and has a bit of attitude. after having her for 1 year plus, now i think she is quite ok. i think she adores chloe and she's rather reliable. when i mention reliable, meaning when i instructed her to get certain things done, it would be done. of course there are times that we need to close one eye when come to certain things, and she has other characters that i really dislike (eg. find lots of excuses when she does things wrong, never admit own fault, sometimes do things according to her own liking, tend to "forgot" my instructions, so on and so on.), but overall, she's ok ... and if i would have to leave her and chloe at home for few hours, i m not that worried. one thing i like about her is her personal hygiene is pretty good, she bathes and washes hair twice a day, and she's not smelly.

at first she told us she's going to renew, but after she spoke to her mother on phone, she said she needs 2 months break cuz her grandma has just passed away. not that i dont want to wait for her ... but i think she doesnt have the heart to work anymore. well, she's human being afterall. just like myself, i m now thinking of the new year break and my germany trip, so i simply just dont feel like working at all. same thing for her i guess. therefore, we have decided to get a new maid. at the moment, we are quite worried ... cuz we r not sure if the new maid is going to be ok. really have to pray hard on this.

My Little Growing Up Darling

Little Chloe turns 20 months old today. It will be her 2nd birthday in 4 months time. OMG, i cant believe that!!

Updates on my little darling:

• She has learnt loads of vocabs that I cant really count them anymore, for eg. 美美, 宝贝, 按哪里, morning, gai gai (going out), nice, tv, eat, potty, moon, star, sky, bird, milk, happy … so on and so on. She understands most of the things we say now and will try to convey things she wants to express too.
  
• She says some funny funny sentences now which I totally don’t know what she means. Hehe.


• She has very good memory and she’s mimicing quite a lot too. That day, I asked her if the fruit juice was “NICE”? she answered me “nai”. I corrected her and say, not “nai”, it is “nice”, then she quickly said “nai’-‘ssssssss”. Haha. So cute. Then now she knows how to say “nice”.


• Everytime when she sees others kids, she will sure asks me, “baby ah?” Faint. Big kids also she calls them babies.


• She loves watching herself in the mirror and in photos. I have no idea how she picked it up but she ran to the big mirror the other day when I put a clip on her hair. When she looked into the mirror, I said “美美” (pretty), then she said “美美 ah?” Sometimes she even said “宝贝美美.” Hahahaha.
• She will pick her own shoes while I take her out for stroll now. She will push away the shoes that she doesn’t like and point to the shoes that she likes. She has 4 pair of shoes. All PINK!! i should have bought some other colors.

• She will point to the TV and asks us to play DVD for her. If I say, “Wanna watch TV? Sit on the couch!” she will say, “sit” and quickly runs to the couch and sits down. CUTE!

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• Now she’s down to one nap a day.
• Long distance relationship with daddy for the past 1 month. She always point to the phone and say “dady ah?” There was once when she was in such a happy mood when her daddy called, she said, “daddy … morning … sky … gai gai (going out) …” hahaha … then hubby interpret those as, “daddy, good morning, see how beautiful the sky is. I m going to “gai gai” now.”

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• Started crying for no reason. Oh my! Terrible two i guess!


• She will say bye and give flying kisses to everyone when leaving a place.
  
• I love playing pretend with her. I always pretend to sleep, then she will run to me and wake me up by kissing me. I think she imagine herself as frog prince and I am the sleeping beauty. SUPER CUTE!!

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It is amazing to look at these pictures compared to 20 months ago. She makes all of us so very happy and she’s such a gift. Thank you god … for blessing me with my loving family ...

Updates

The last couple of weeks have been crazy to say the least and I haven’t really had the time to write ... for that I do apologize. Well ... I supposed to blog about my sister-in-law’s wedding, x’mas, my year-end-accounting, my new year resolution, and of course my little growing up darling, but but but ... I was so physically, mentally and emotionally drained ... 2009 is certainly a tougher year for our industry and I doubt I will hit 50 cases this round. Sigh.

Anyway, let me share some of chloe’s recent pics here. Her daddy is desperately waiting for the updates.

these pics taken while sock kiang and daughters came to our place for x'mas caroling ... can u see how much little chloe enjoyed playing with the other 2 "babies"? (according to chloe, they are "BABIES" =_=)