Funny Rhymes - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (10th February 2012)

Zo Ee is full of FUNNY make up rhymes which I couldn't remember at this moment, these are the latest two:

"If you have some scramble egg, please feed it to your leg."

"Your rumbling tummy is so smelly."

New Book - The Elements -3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (9th February 2012)

Went to the biggest bookstore in Singapore and found Zo Ee a new book after an hour of searching, The Elements, The building blocks of the universe by Dan Green Nowadays, it's really hard to find new books to add to Zo Ee's huge encyclopedia collection. Zo Ee and I went through this book and she fell in love immediately and resists to sleep.

Bean Art & craft - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (4th February 2012)

To Zo Ee to the Singapore Esplanade to participate in the free Bean Art event. We arrived at 12.30noon and there's one on going session which started at 11.30am. We registered for the next available session. Zo Ee impatiently waited till 1.30pm. After a brief introduction of Bean Art with a few artist examples, children were allowed to start their own masterpiece. 6 beans , recycle box, papers and glues(one for paper & another for beans) were supplied to each child. Zo Ee decided to make a ship. It was a 90minutes session but Zo Ee was done in less than an hour; 40minutes after deducting the introduction etc. The above was all her work, I only helped her to squeezed out the glue initially but eventually Zo Ee even refused my help at all.

Comment:

The freeland artist whom I got to know, actually works at many school for art projects around Singapore. Schools actually invite and pay her and her friends to teach art and carried out art projects. This person told me that Zo Ee was actually very good at it and her fine motor skills are extremely good for her age. She even asked me whether Zo Ee likes crafts and did Zo Ee has lots of craft experience. Well actually, Zo Ee is good at cutting and collage skill is very limited to her own exploring at home with junk papers. Since we just came back to Singapore, I took this opportunity to ask her about art classes available for kids. And I ended up showing her Zo Ee's lastest creation of Moby with her recycle toy box which happened to be in my hp. Her immediate reaction was really shocking; "That' s very good. Wow! It's very good." She wanted to know whether it was all her work and where did her get the idea from. I explained to her that it all started with her new toy box. She was cutting it and sometime later, she showed me her finished Moby on the table. Frankly speaking, I was impressed too that's why I gave her the idea to glue it onto a paper so that we could file them. Her remark really strike me that her work is very good.

Prime Numbers - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (25th January 2012)

For the past 2 weeks, Zo Ee is obsessed with math again; she's been asking loads of math questions and is interested in negative numbers; doing negative subtraction and simple division and money. Today, she showed me 5 and 6 coloured pencils in each hands while telling me, 5 + 6 = 11. Then she handed me those 5 pencils while telling me 5 is a primary number and then handed me 6 pencils while telling me 6 is a secondary number. Ok...I don't think there is any primary number or secondary number. What sheis really trying to tell me is primary = prime numbers and secondary numbers = composite numbers. She is linking from the colour concept ; primary and secondary colours. You mixed two primary colours to get a secondary colour. So the same concept applies to numbers.

Moby - 3years 9months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (24th January 2012)

As usual, Zo Ee' is keen on cutting and she had wanted to cut her new toy box. I allowed it since she wouldn't need it anymore. An hour later, she showed me the above Moby (from her memory) which she had cut and arranged on the writing table. Although I know that she is obsessed with Moby ( a robot from brainpop website) but her details work really surprised me. I gave her the idea to glue it onto a paper so that we could file it up.

More conversation-3years 8months old

Zo Ee at 3years 8months old. (31st January 2011)

Zo Ee: Dad, how was your visit to the dentist yesterday? What did the dentist say?

When I tried to explain to her as DH was driving....immediately Zo Ee chimed in.

Zo Ee: Mum. Please say nothing. I'm asking Daddy. I want to hear from Daddy. Daddy please tell me about it. So, What did the dentist say? Are you alright now?

Dh:....explained.........

Zo Ee: Dad you should take good care of your tooth.

Grrr.... I wondered do other 3 years old talk like this too.

Conversation - 3years 8months old

Zo Ee at 3years 8months old (31st December 2011)

Capturing Zo Ee's amusing conversation for the past 1 week.

If I remembered correctly, Zo Ee first mentioned or talked about dead about a year ago but I'm finding that she understood this topic much in-depth now than then. Recently,

Zo Ee: Mum...I don't want you to get old or get very sick. Neither I want Daddy to get old. I don't want you or Daddy to die. I don't want to be left alone in this world.

Zo Ee: I don't want to grow big. I want to be a kid forever so that I can stay with you and Daddy forever! I don't want to be an adult. I just want to be me like now. I just want to be a kid forever. I want to remain short and small.


Zo Ee: Mum...How was it when the doctor operated on you?
Me: What do you mean? When?
Zo Ee: When I was ready to be born and the doctor wanted to remove me from your tummy. When the doctor operated on you, was it very painful? (looking very concern and serious) How did you feel?

I didn't have any Ceasarean but was not in the mood to talk about birth to a 3years 8months old. I know she read from my pregnancy book and knew about normal delivery and ceasarean. But it's just doesn't feel right to talk about it at this moment.

Due to our coming relocation, we told and explained to her what will happen to us and our friends and that it will be very unlikely that we will meet them again.

Zo Ee: Mum...R and I will get marry. (R has been her best friend and practically they meet each other in school since last year and R is Zo Ee's best friend. Both R and Zo Ee told us that they are best friends. )

Me: Children don't marry. First, You will have to wait till you finish school. Get a job and then decide whether you really want to marry R.
Zo Ee: I know most children don't marry but some do!
Me: Children are not supposed to get marry and it's against the law.
Zo Ee: I know most children don't marry but some do! And I want to marry R. R will go to work while I will stay at home.
Me: Even so, you will have to ask R whether he wants to marry you and both of you will have to wait until you are old enough to decide. It's not possible now.
Zo Ee: R likes me and we like each other very much. R will marry me, I'm very sure of that. ***Faint!****