bangun pagi management for pre-schooler

Oh nooo... not this photo.

Would you like to see the real me in my school uniform?

 A sleepy toddler in her school uniform..
Well, as what Auntie Liza told mommy, "Warna-warna yang kurang memberangsangkan!"

But I do love my school uniform, I wore them proudly every morning, daddy make sure the yellow and blue gown is ironed nicely in the morning, and he did the ironing most of the time as mommy got another big task, to wake me up while inserting a little bit of drama; where sometimes I will run naked back to the bed! But after being poured with water for a few times, I will get back to the reality, and ready to gown up and yeah, welcoming a new day with the same weekdays routine.

My mommy advise for the first-time-mommies with pre-schooler toddlers:

1) Drama will happen. Mommies got to change strategy each morning. Lucky for mommies if your kids got up with a big smile to start their day. But trust my mommy, drama is interesting and play your roles!

2) Show the kids the nicely ironed school uniform haha! If that doesn't work, tell them that you will give the dress away to your pets. Sometimes I hate Onton for that reason, mommy wanted to dress her in my school uniform if I don't go to school.

3) For girls, put on some make up on them hahaha. It works! Even if just a talcum powder, rub it in between of your palm and then rub it on your kid's face, insert along this praise, "Wahhh!! Cantiknyaaaaaa anak mommy!" Kids liked it!! In my case, mommy put a nice colour on my nails...

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4) Sleep early. This is the biggest challenge for my mommy. Kids must have enough sleep between 8-10 hour for them to get up fresh in the morning. I slept late almost every night, getting a longer sleep at night for me is mommy's biggest target now. Meaning that, no late night TV programmes for my parents. When it comes to sleep, everyone must sleep, all lights on off mode, no laptop or ipod, even Onton also would squeeze herself comfortably at the corner of our bed! See, this is what we called COOPERATION!

Good luck mommies!

my first homework

Daddy was rushing to the office right after sending me home. He told mommy I got my homework from school that I need to do and had asked mommy to help me with it. What kind of homework for a 3 year old toddler? Easy peasy, mommy thought!

Since I enrolled for the class in early march and the rest of my mates enrolled in January, I have soooo many things on my plate that I need to catch up. Blamed it on mommy for refusing to send me to school earlier!!!! We usuallly did the homeworks in school but since I was late, I have to bring them home, as my teachers says, "Charmaine dah ketinggalan banyak!"

And there mommy had marked another history in her motherhood journey, the first homework with her only daughter.

Before we got started, mommy would like to advise all mommies out there:

1) Please make sure you have an additional stationary at home at all times (do not believe your kids to bring back their stationary as what you have provided earlier)

2) Please make sure you have done your house chores before you started. It will take you hours just to colour a bunny!

3) Be strong mommies, you have the tendency to help the kids with their homeworks with you left hand, but your kids will learn nothing.

4) Your kids going to be malas most of the time, will give you thousand of excuses! Tangan sakitlah, kaki gatal, nak minum air, pensil patah etc.. but then again, be firm and must pujuk us, insert praises in between just to cheer us up, never ever make a comment, "baby, donkeys were never born in pink!", silap haribulan you will get a tantrum from your kids!

This is an a. I have been practising to write a in school, but the teacher had given another A4 sheet with lots of a in dotted line. My task is just to write a according to the dotted line. It took mommy almost an hour just to make sure I finish the whole sheet. The teacher had asked me to write with pencil but mommy allowes me to use colour pencils (mommy psycho me with colours). Of course I scolded Onton in between, "Jangan tiliak (teriak) Onton, kakak nak belajar buku rabbit!". I wrote with both hands. I do strech my hands in between too.

And the outcomes

Mommy was happy with my effort! And the homework made me restless... I asked mommy for my pillows after that, and I skipped my youtube session that night.