10.10 - Lievell

Saturday, October 30, 2010

10:56 PM

Toddler : 19th months

Toddler : 19th months
ABC's : Coloring Gg
He starts boring again with this coloring pages. He wanted to do it just for few minutes then he was busy to play with the color pencils instead.

Shape : Rectangle


Actually, this activity has done for a long time that I also forgot when it was. ^^

When he did it, he got stuck with the glue stick and didn't want to continue pasting the rectangle shape. So I just postponed it till he wanted to do it again.

Today, I showed him the sheet and he seemed like he wanted to do. I gave him the shape and asked him to paste it. He did it just for one time and he refused after that. He insisted to play with the glue stick like he did last time. He cried enough to get the glue stick from me. Ugh!



Color : Brown


Actually, we had finished the painting on last week. Then, I didn't continue it till this week. I combined 3 colours to make brown. I mixed red, blue and yellow altogether to get brown color. And look! He loves to paint it on his drawing book. It's totally nice!

After the painting was dried already, I gave him some brown pictures. There are Koko Crunch cereals, Brown Bear, Brown Horse, Brown Monkey, Brown Guitar, Brown Cake and Brown Bread.

Practical Life
*A screwdriver & Mr Repair-boy*
He found my small screwdrivers collections in my bag. He got one and he opened the drawer pretending as a repair-boy. He pretended to repair by putting the screwdrivers into the nuts. Oouuugh.....what a boy!!

*Stamping*
I have a box of bear stamps. Unluckily, I don't have the ink and stamp pad for playing with. I always forget to buy it.

So today, I changed the ink into the paints. Though it's not as fun as the ink, it's a little bit nice when we stamped with it. And the result wasn't as nice as the ink actually. Nice try at last!

*Cleaning up using clothes*
He discovered his trousers in the bed after taking a morning bath. He took and enjoyed playing with it. He put his hands into it as he wanted to use a shirt. He thought that was a shirt, misunderstood concept.

Then after a while, I found he cleaned up everything with it. He cleaned up the cupboard, the washing machine, his uncle motorcycle, Opa's chair and the last I asked him to clean up his horse riding toy. What an industrious boy!

*Sorting the buttons based on its color*
Actually the first activity was playing with the numbers flash card I made. Then I grabbed some buttons to count the quantities with those. In the end, he was busy playing with the buttons. When I asked him to sort, he just took few minutes to do it and he decided to play freely.

Learning Toys
*Thomas Train*
Hooray! Now he starts to put the things correctly based on its shape, though he still needs guidance when doing it. I'm so glad he wanted to learn how to put the right things by himself. Great job, Fritzee boy!

*New Toy in a tub*
Phiiiuuuffff....

Finally, he wanted to take a bath again in his tub after I got his new toy from his presents during his birthday. It's a floating boat contains of sorting animals and a blue sea lion squeezer. It's nice toy. He likes it!

Recently, he was so difficult when taking a bath. He has to cry aloud when we ask him to go bath. I guess it's because of some trauma and I can't figure it out what's wrong with him. Hopefully, with his new toys, he wants bathing again....^^

*Magic Board*
Playing with the magic board...Holding the pen correctly...writing # 1 on it....

Book : Barney, Going to Dentist
This noon, he asked me to open the books drawer. He got the books out. Then he chosen to read Barney, going to dentist.

It's about Ashley who wanted to go to dentist. She met Barney there. Then Barney accompanied Ashley going inside the room.

When Ashley opened the mouth widely, I asked Fritz to do the same thing. He wanted to. Then I gave him a mirror as Ashley did.

He knew this story lots!

Miscellaneous

*Drinking by himself*
This was the new style of him, drinking the water by himself. He wanted to drink without any help from me. My boy is big now!

*Imaginary*
He imagined an umbrella by using a single pencil and a knob of the drawer while he was watching a movie.

*His pictures*
In his free time, he didn't know what he wanted to do. Mostly, I gave him a piece of paper and a pencil or a pen to let him scribbling on it. He LOVES it much!

Sometimes, he asked me to hold his hands for drawing some things like these
We don't need to make as well as the real one. Just make it similar.

Mickey Mouse, it's the one which always have been there and always be the first one to be drawn. Just make a big circle, add 2 small circles as the ears then put the eyes, nose and a smile.

Next is elephant. Make a big circle as a head. Then make the 2 big ears and a long trunk as its nose.

Piggy, draw a big circle, make 2 ears of pig, add 1 small oval inside the head as its nose and draw 2 small circles again inside as the nostril.

and so on....we can make it as our imaginary pictures. After that, I usually ask him to point at the pictures I mentioned.

*Eating by himself*
In the Saturday noon, I let him to eat by himself and he was really into it. He added for 3 times, of course just small portions each. I was so happy to see him wanted to eat my cook. Look his expression!

*Playing with tongue*
He has new abilities, playing with his tongue out. Before, he never successfully did it. He couldn't make it. Since he can make it, he always shows off to us. What a boy!

*Watching the pouring rain*
Heavy rain recently...what a bad weather!

It's so cold when the wind breezed..and Fritzee boy was watching the pouring rain. What was he thought in his mind?

*New water bottle*
Breakfast time...having a peanut butter with a half slice of cheese bread and eating by himself using a small fork.

Let me introducing!
A new drink bottle from Lock n Lock. He likes it much when I gave him for the first time. It's easier for me to give him drink, coz there is a straw inside it. I like this bottle too but I don't absolutely like the price! It's so expensive for a bottle like that, cost 45,500 rupiah...-__-"

When I offered 2 bottles in front of him, a 22,500rupiah bottle and the Lock n Lock, he straightly chose Lock n Lock!

Fun : Going to Grand Indonesia

We had some fun in the Sunday noon by going to the malls in the central Jakarta, Grand Indonesia. I and Fritz, excluding his Pop, went with Oma, Opa and Uncle K there.

It's a nice mall with extraordinary view inside. And of course it's so big enough for us to walk.

We took some pictures there. And the most interesting one was when we saw the baby doll. It looks as like as Fritz when he was baby. So cute! He saw his twins! ^^

Friday, October 29, 2010

11:50 PM

Hunting at Asemka....yay!

Hunting at Asemka....yay!
Finally today was coming! I really couldn't wait for today....

Why?
It's time for me hunting many things with lower price.

Yay
I was going to ASEMKA (Pasar Pagi)!

Though we had to face the heavy traffic jam in front of Kosambi to Semanan...
Though I had to have a little bit debate with Ali coz of the traffic jam...
Though we almost postponed the trip, again, coz of the damn traffic jam...it's totally stuck!

Finally, we arrived there...yipppiiiy....time for hunting...in the middle of the day....hot...damp...crowded...pollution....it's not breaking my spirit....^0^

In the end, we've got...
* a car toy cost 100 rupiah
* 5 wooden puzzles (wild animal, transportation, shape, handy tools and flags), a wooden cutting vegetables set, a set of lacing box contains 6 boards, a sorting shape toy and a threading large wooden beads cost 265 rupiah
sooooo happy to get that!! \(^0^) \/(^0^)/\(^0^)\ /(^0^)/

What I've got is really cheaper than we have to buy at mall.....

Sunday, October 24, 2010

9:59 PM

This feeling...

This feeling...
These what I face for the last few years.
I'm so sad...I'm so angry...I'm so shy...

My big decision as a full time mom after delivered Fritz brings me to face this reality.

As a mom, I want to take care my beloved child by my own hands. I want to be the first one who know his development. I want to be with him in every single path he faces. I want to be the first person that he's looking for. I want to everything for him. Am I sounding protective one??

As the consequences of these, I have to release what I did before. First, of course, my job. Then, my career as teacher. And, absolutely, it's influence a lot on our financial.

I dare to take this risk cause I don't want my boy to be with others, especially nannies or maids. I'm the one who carried him for 9 months in my womb. I'm the one who delivered him fighting with my fear. Why should I give him to others to take care of him???

Since he was born, so many lucky things happen in my life. The most of all, I don't have to buy tin milk for him, I depend on my breast milk till now as it's so expensive for each tin. And thanks to God, HE is so kind to let my breast gives milk for him. For me breast milk is the best one, for him and also for our financial.

I really can't believe on nannies and maids as many bad records of their works. Hitting, pinching, slapping, kidnapping, not taking care neatly, carefully, nicely, patiently, and so on...how can I believe on them?

For me a child is the most special one that God gives to parents that they HAVE to take care, educate and responsible of him. Am I wrong??

The one that I'm so sad, angry and shy is money. Honestly, we really can't afford much money for ours. This one is the result of my decision. We lack of money. We can't afford to buy things we need.

I'm so sad when I see my boy wants to have something as others have but I don't have any in my hands. I'm so sad when I see toys, clothes, books, food that actually I can buy for him if I produce money but I can't make it for him.

Like today, when I saw him bring Cars Lego in one store in one high class mall here and there, I was so sad. Why do it cost so high?? I can't afford to buy it!! The discount that the store gave also didn't make me could buy it for him. I really wanna cry when I saw him hold the toys and said with loud voice "Cars...cars...cars..." and asked me to see what he hold!

I'm so angry to my destiny. Why....why...why???

Without money means we couldn't buy the gadgets, have fun with fellas or do something fun for ourselves. Believe it or not, most of our friends are going away...really away from us. We can't catch up the information between us and them.It's just like living in the jungle where there's no link to the outside.

The booming gadget is smart phones. Most of our friends are using it and they can do chit chat or send message between them through it. They have their own group in it. We as the one who don't have it, we don't know any info from them. When we see each other, we are such a latest person who know that the world is round.

One time, they arranged an occasion. They wanted to gather in one mall. They made an appointment through smart phones and they didn't tell us the info. We just knew when it had done already from one of our friends when I had chatted with her.

So many things that we didn't know bout our friends' things. And it made me so angry and upset too. Isn't it bad? Isn't the technology killing the people who can't afford for those??

And why do I so embarrassing?
Who's not?
When we go to the high class mall, mostly they wore the cool things on them. Gadgets, bags, cars, clothes...very expensive!
How bout we?
Just wear that we can wear..just eat that we can eat...not buy anything, just walk to get the atmosphere...

Those are the reality I have to face when I go out from my den. When I saw the big world, I felt so small. I felt I don't have anything. And yes, I don't have it!

We're talking bout the material, the things, the city that people are so consumptive.

They try to have the great gadgets on them. {Mostly they do the 0% for 12 months debt}

They wear the expensive tag price. {Some of them paid it with the credit cards and they just paid the minimum taxes}

They drive the luxurious cars. {Maybe it's just their officially car from their companies}

They eat in the savory restaurant. {facilitates from credit card promo ones}

They go the high class mall. {most the rich people do as they don't have to do at home}

All the things are just for show off to show that they are able to have it. Or they have to work so hard to get all of those, 5 days in a week from dawn {if they're not getting late because of traffic jam} to lately night {to avoid from traffic jam}. So no wonder if they do all those things...

This city is making its people to work hard for lifestyle. The price is so competitive. The mall is so many. And the people are busy to catch up those.

It's really sounding so pessimistic of me. Yes, I felt like that when I have to face the worldly things. It seems like I'm the one who out from the systems in this city. I'm not cool anymore. I don't have the newest gadgets. I can't afford those. I'm not so chic anymore. I don't know the new trend in fashion. I couldn't eat in the tasty restaurant cause I prefer not to waste the money on it. I'm not so interactive anymore cause I'd never socialized with others. I'm not "me" anymore for the last 2 years...

That's thought when I felt so down.

I'm trying to change my mindset of life. I'm happy for the gifts I have. I don't need to shy or embarrass when I go to the mall, cause everyone has their own right to wear what they like. If I can't buy the things for Fritz, I believe I don't need to buy the expensive ones. I can make it or maybe I can get in the market with lower price from the mall. I don't need to waste my money on restaurant as it has lots of fats. I can make my own food which is cheaper, clean and healthy for our future investment. If we die, we're not bringing all the things we have in this world.

Without those things, we're not dying. We're just trying to live as HE wants to. Just surrender to HIM and lets HIM do the rest. Always keep in faith that the life is like a wheel. One day, I believe, the wheel of us is going up. Praying and doing the best things.

Man is coming from dust and he becomes dust when he's dying....so why should we wear the expensive dress????

Saturday, October 23, 2010

10:02 PM

Toddler : 18 month 3 week

Toddler : 18 month 3 week
Math: Coloring #5
We started the week by coloring the #5 worksheet that he had refused last week. Today, I asked him to choose the color pencil by his own. He preferred the brown one.

Practical Life

*Matching the lid*
We continued the day by matching the lid of few assorted boxes. I prepared 3 kinds of different shape of boxes and I showed him how to match the lid into the right ones. As this was the first time for him, he still couldn't do it well. He still needs help in doing this.

*Spread the peanut butter*
Thursday's breakfast was bread with peanut butter. It's time to spread the butter by himself. And he really likes it so much when I ask him. He wanted to do it by himself {but I was still help him} ^^

Learning Toys
*Piggy Bank*
Piggy Bank is still a big HIT for Fritz. He loves to put the coins inside there. And he still modifies it. He turned it upside down to open the lock on the bottom. Though he unsuccessfully opened by himself {I helped him ^^}, he was still curious to do it by him. Then he put in and took out the coins from there.

*Horse Toys*
Recently, he likes the boyish games. Riding a horse was one of them. Actually, he pretends that he is riding a motor like his Pop and Uncle do. Love him very much! He grows very fast.....^^

*Matching Mickey's cards*
Believe it or not! I have these cards since I was still in lower Primary school. Unbelievable!

As Fritz is fever with Mickey, I give it as a heritage....^^

I have an idea. I ask Fritz to match the same pictures in the cards. He still couldn't do it. We have to guide him which pictures have the same.

Miscellaneous
*Sunday morning style*
One Sunday morning, a few minutes after he woke up, he did some stylish style. He posed as he was an adult already. Really look so cute!

*Hitting the ant*
Recently, he is so excited when seeing ant passed him by. He always tries to hit it with his little pointer. Unluckily, the ant is too fast..His little finger can't catch the ant's movement. So, I'm the one who hit the ant at last.....-_-"

*Playing with shadow*

When he saw his shadow in the wall, suddenly he stopped playing and looked at his in the wall. And this was holding his ear to see what his shadow did...^^

*Phoning at bathroom*
For the last two days, he always brings the phone toy to the bath room. Like usual, he always refuses when I ask him for bathing, in the morning as well as afternoon.

He plays pretending, calling someone in the bath room. Such a creative kid! *0*

*Mirroring*
He loves seeing himself at the mirror.

He ever brought his chair and sat down in front of the mirror. He did the mirroring and miming. Like he did last few days! When I passed the kitchen (where the mirror is), I saw him standing in front of the mirror and made some style.

Sometimes he looks like talking at himself or just posed or sometimes he just passed and looked at himself without doing anything...What a growing up boy! ^^

*Eating nuts in da morning*
Thursday morning, after he woke up for a moment, he saw a topless of nuts. Then he asked me to get it for him. And tadaaaaa...he ate the nuts in the morning!

Fun : Visiting Great grandma

Friday morning, Opa asked us to join with him visiting his Mom at Kemayoran. And we've not been there for few couples months.

When we arrived, I asked Fritz to shake the great grandma first. Thankfully, he showed his politeness. {FYI, he's moody one when we went to someone place!}

He didn't show any cranky there. He enjoyed the home's atmosphere. He walked here and there. He played with his cars along. He also followed the Grams when someone ringing the bell to buy something. {They managed their home as grocery shop too}

Unluckily, he didn't show his appetite there. He just ate a little bit.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

12:31 AM

Toddler : 18 months 2 week

Toddler : 18 months 2 week

ABC's : Coloring Ff
I gave Fritz Ff's worksheet to be colored and also a flashcard of Ff. He can see him on his flashcard coz I put his picture there. Though he didn't really into in coloring, he was still enthusiast in looking the flashcard.

Flash Card: ABC
We sat in the floor and played with the flash cards. As I know he loves the pictures, so I gave him the Alphabet one.

I mentioned the pictures to him and asked him to point the right pictures after that. He could do for several pictures as usual. It just took not more than 10 minutes then he bored already...

I have to make some more flash cards again after this, contains matching pictures. Next project!

Practical Life
*Sorting the Buttons*
We continued the day by sorting the buttons. I gave him 2 boxes of buttons contains black and purple buttons and an ice cube tray. I asked him to put the buttons on it. Firstly, he wanted to do it then he refused it few minutes later.

After a while, I put a purple and a black button in each box and let him to sort it according to the colors. I gave him a button and let him putting into the right box. He knew that he was wrong, but sometimes he did it purposely with a smile on his lips and naughty eyes looking at me.

*Pouring water using funnel*
Since Thursday, I taught him how to pour the water using funnel. He did it well today! Though some time he missed it...^^

Learning Toys
*ABC's Flash Cards*
When I finished cutting the alphabet cards, I showed those to Fritz. He LOVES it, especially the pictures. I let him exploring the cards by himself and helped him with my simple explanation. Mostly, he knows the pictures.

He showed this style when he saw rabbit picture in R. Look so funny!
*Pushing into the holes*
I've got this idea from someone's blog that I totally couldn't remember. I found a used box of biscuit and I punched some holes using screwdriver through it on Sunday morning.

Firstly, I put some pasta in the holes and let Fritz to push those inside. Yup! It's a big hit for him coz it's the newest things for him.

I gave Fritz some chopsticks and straws too and let him put those into the holes. The fact was, he just loved to get it out the sticks from the holes. So I was quite busy to put the sticks through the holes. ^^

*O Puzzle*
Fritz asked me to open the drawer. He wanted to play with O Puzzle. Unbelievable, he can match the pictures correctly. I gave him 3 puzzles each row and he made it by himself. He really made it all, 15 cards...Great job, boy!

*Play Dough*
Since beginning I had introduce dough to Fritz, he wasn't really into it. He wants to play but he's not really so enthusiast. I try to give him again this toy to him. Like usual, I gave a tray and plastic knife. He likes the knife than the dough instead ^^

*Musical Piano*
After he bored with the flash cards, I put him in his chair for eating breakfast. I put this toy on his table. This toy has been with him since he was still under 1 year old. I couldn't remember well how months he was at that time. And it's his first toy that we bought with our own money...*so sad*

However, he really LOVES this one. Before he couldn't press it with his fingers, now, he can do it!!

*Pushing into the holes (again!!)*
Again in this week, he plays with the box and the sticks. He likes playing with this!

Gross Motor Skills : Going up the ladderIt's been few months I didn't maintain his Gross Motor, so today we went up the ladder. He was really so enthusiast. He did it more than once. He climbed up without any help but he needed help when he went down. He can went up very fast from one ladder to others till the second floor. He was really happy doing this.

Books : Spot's First Walk
Two days in a row, we read this book together before sleeping time. It's about Spot who has his first walk. It's a flap book and he loves it though some of them had taken away by his little idle hands.

When I read this for him, he really listened the story. So when I gave the book to him, he can open the flap by himself and did some gesture related to the pictures he has seen.

Movies: Barney - In the School

Barney again in the afternoon!

We watched The School one. It's really nice. It's about what we do in the school. Baby Bop wants to go to school but she is still young. So Barney makes an imagination school for Baby Bop. They sing song, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Where is Thumbkin? Fritz loves this song, he giggled when hearing this song. Then, they learn Alphabet, do color experiment by mixing the primary color and so on. But Fritz really can't sit down still till the end of the story. He was quite busy seeing his Cars Magazine. ^^

Miscellaneous
*Crossing Feet*
Saturday noon, when I was busy cutting the flash card in the bed, suddenly Fritz crossed his feet into this. This was the first time he did it and he looked like the first learner. He tried to cross one of his foot to another slowly and carefully. Look so adorable!

*Riding Motor*
Recently, he LOVES the boy's things. Riding a motor is one of it. He loves to sit on his uncle's motor one day in the afternoon. He refused to get down. It really took almost half an hour staying there.

I explained some parts of the motor to him. Such as the starter button, the horn button, the sign button, the lamp button, the speedometer, the fuel indicator and the rearview mirror.

I had to make a promise to let him down by saying we would go with Pop using his motor after he went home later. And he was getting down when Pop has just arrived home.
After Pop had his lunch and the time was 2.30 PM, Fritz hold his Pop's hand and asked to go out with motor. *gosh!!!*

Cause it was too hot, we decided to let Pop had his nap first. Then we went around at 4.30 PM. What a boy!! He looked so cute with a hat jacket on his face...xixixixixixi.....*With Poppa*
Sticking with Poppa in the bed after taking a bath...and reading a magazine together...^^

*With Opa*
Sitting side by side together with Opa in Uncle's room...^^