Happy Chinese New Year!!!! Welcoming the year of Water Dragon.....

It's a good year for Chinese and many people are rushing to have a baby this year, excluding me....:(

So...it's the day to meet some relatives and harvest hong pao......hehehhehhee

The day was begun by gong xi to my dearest parents. Fritz had been taught before how to gong xi to everyone. So, he started his first gong xi to Opa & Oma. Then, he got his hong pao.






Then we had to pick up my MIL & BIL. After that, we went to Pramuka to meet Ali's paternal family.
However, Fritz didn't so comfy here as he couldn't manage himself playing with his cousins. He cried and became so emotionally there. I believe all the members agree that my kid is a cranky one and couldn't behave well there.


Next place was Kemayoran, where all my paternal family members were there. Fritz was totally great here. No tears or cry at all. He enjoyed himself with his aunties, uncles and grams as he knows this place very well.

And the last one was Ali's maternal family. Ali's eldest aunty was coming to Jakarta with her hubby and son. All the members were coming and so excited welcoming her.

Her son couldn't speak Bahasa at all and I was quite happy speaking with him in English in the last minute. He loved Fritz so much since beginning but he didn't have any opportunity to speak and play with him.

Badly, there's an issue about Fritz as he's quite cranky in new environment. He's being judge as a selfish and stingy boy who loves to cry if he doesn't get what he wants. You're totally wrong, ladies. You don't ever know who he is. You seldom meet him but how can you judge him in the first impression???? It's really pissed me off!!

Hopefully this year many lucks are coming to us and to my family too. Hush..hush the bad luck!!

Letter W
Day 1

We started with tracing the letter W in the dough mat before he started to make the letter with dough.


Then, he asked to color the objects with marker. He did it very well and eager to do it better than with crayons

And the last one was tracing. I prepared 2 worksheets of tracing the letter W. He was so excited tracing it with marker. He's getting great tracing with marker.

Day 2

In the second day, he started with pasting the objects. When he saw a watch, he pretended using the watch on his wrist. Then, I gave him the real watch but he refused to use it for few minutes ahead. So I couldn't get the pic at all.


Tracing....he loves it so much and he's getting great using the marker!!


He put the pictures in order from the smallest to the biggest one.


Matching the shadow! Though he made it not in interest way, he finally made it nice. He could find the shadow with the real pictures.

Craft


What a big WATERMELON he had!!! He just pasted the seeds and I helped to apply the red paper. He's being distracted by some people who fixing the stairs.



He pasted the big blue WHALE.....he's totally excited to paste it.



I didn't get a great idea for the lowercase of letter W. So I decided to make windows to be paste around it. However, the windows were too big. hihiihihi......

Science


We had a little experiment about Warm Water. I provided a glass of HOT water and a glass of COLD water. Then we pour the hot and cold water inside a glass. It became WARM water. He did it again and again. At that time, he had sore throat and it's very great that he drank it.

Activity


Wohoooooo.....he's finally enjoying himself inside the water. Though he felt cold when he's getting inside the tub, he enjoyed it so much then. He played and played with the water and refused to get off from there.

Workbook


We did the activity books that I found in my box. He was so excited making it. When we did it, I gave him English instructions and he was really understand. He made it nicely though some was not really nice as he didn't wanna hear the instruction.

Art


On Sunday, we didn't do much thing. Fritz was looking so bored. Then, he asked me to have a free fingers painting. I prepared all the material and he enjoyed his free time exploring for more than half an hour. I just sat close to him and he was busy with himself. ^^

Practical Life


He said he wanna play soccer then he asked me to put new shoes on him. He kicked and threw the ball. Can u imagine he played it inside our little apartment?? And it's in the evening, almost 8 o'clock, when he asked me to play.

Miscellaneous


That morning, I really pissed off with his doing. He's poop on Papa's bed!!! I was totally angry to him. I always remind him to tell me if he wants to poop and he always forgets it as well. Then, I had to punish him in the corner. Then, I asked him to take off the sheets.



He loves cars so much and he has lots of cars toys. I keep these toys inside a cloth bag and I always bring these wherever we go. It's to make us easy if he looks up for his cars.



Taking picture is his hobby! He knows how to operate my camera. However, he still learns how to take pictures properly as mostly his pics were unclear. LOL It's a picture of his little cute legs. He captured it by himself.



I found lots of treasure in my box!! There's lots of activities books that I've ever bought before. I was totally excited to give him all of these books to him. There are 3 flash cards too; Fruits, Numbers and Shape-Colors.

Fun
What a tired Saturday! We went to 9 places in that day.....

Papa's car needed to be repaired that day as the door was broken. So, we used Opa's car to go that Saturday.

First place was going to Mama's private tutor at Graha Raya. She's Fritz' aunty but she's still in Primary 4. While Mama was teaching, Fritz and Papa preferred to go to Imperial Lamien in Alam Sutera. Papa needed to give Tante Inpuz & Om Dicky's oranges order. Fritz had his breakfast together with them. Thanks to Tante Inpuz & Om Dicky for the breakfast!! ^^

Next, Mama needed to give another private tutor class again in Alam Sutera. While Mama was teaching, Fritz & Papa were going to Living World Mall. He was happily playing slide. He had a great quality time with Papa.

Then, together with Mama, we went to Viella's house in Cluster Sutera Onyx, her house. Fritz was so happy playing with Viella and Viella too. Both of them were so happy playing in the backyard. Playing balls, running and laying on the grass!! What a great fun...^^

After that, we continued our journey to Popo's house in Pulo Mas. We had to pray for Khung2 as the Chinese tradition before the New Year. The weather wasn't good enough. We faced a heavy rain for a while after a hot day.

Papa wanted to have a reunion with his classmate from Canisius College in Plaza Indonesia. Mama and Fritz were having window shopping. We walked and walked around the mall and we're getting tired. We asked for going home as the place was full of smoke.

During on our way home, Mama asked to stop by at Carrefour in Puri Indah. We wanted to check the laptop they sell. The fact was the lappy wasn't good enough and quite expensive.

So, we went to Puri Indah mall. It's placed very near with Carrefour. We didn't need to use car, we're just passing the zebra cross. We checked the lappy on Electronic Solution. We need to think about it before we buy it.

And...we went home already....What a tired day!!

Letter V
Day 1
Started by tracing the letter in the dough mat as he's tracing lover. Poking the dough after he's done with tracing. He's getting great in recognizing the letter now.

Continue the activity by tracing. He learns how to trace with marker (that he called 'pisdol').

He colored the V object next. Still doesn't love to color and still prefer black and red when coloring.

Matching the shadow is another his fave activity. Totally great with it.

He learn how the volcano comes out as he watched in Alvin & the Chipmunks movie.

Day 2
We continued by pasting the V objects. He learnt new vocabularies: Van, Vacuum, Vest, Vegetable and Violin. He loves Van the most. Everything about car!! Hehehheee....

Then, I gave him the vocabulary cards. He learnt to know more about lands and water. He even wanna repeat after me. He recognized the canyon as the thing he saw in Cars scene.

Craft


Pasting vegetables stickers...

Finally I found the stickers. I forgot that I've ever bought this kind of sticker last time in the traditional market near Oma's house. I've already printed and cut the pictures of vegetables to be pasted few minutes before the activity. Then, when I was looking for the V-printed out, the sticker was suddenly appeared. I was so happy as I was looking for it. Of course Fritz was so excited too.....^^



From among the three creativity we made that day, he loves this one. He's very eager pasting the flowers. It's a VASE.



It's a Volcano but it didn't look alike a Volcano. Hihihhiihi...... I think the letter V should be upside down to be looked like a mountain. I'm afraid he's gonna miss the concept of letter V so I make the letter still in line. And....tadaaaa....not look a like....=__='

Books

As we learn about letter V, I think it's very related with Vegetables. So, I gave him a book contains of many kinds of vegetables. He still loves this book and he can mention some of them. He wanted to repeat after me when he didn't know the name, but somehow he mentioned the name depend on his own thought with his very naughty eyes........hihihihihihi.......

Techno

Game online is a big hit for him. Almost everyday he plays with it. He choose to play the game in Fisher Price. A nice site for toddler like him. He loves the racing, puzzle, and coloring.

He learns how to use a mouse as he's getting use to with Ipad. Many times he frustrated that he couldn't able to move the cursor. And many times he stood up and touch the screen trying to move the cursor. Hahahaha......

After few days, he successfully makes it though I still hear the grumpy voice from him.
"Mamaa...help please..uuuugggghhhh" LOL

Practical Life


He's getting great in scissoring. He asked me to cut a paper and he started to do it nicely. Yeaaaayyyy!!! So happy to see his progress....

Fun


On Saturday, after Mom's done with the private tutor class, we went to Lippo Karawaci. We wanted to buy some stuffs before Chinese New Year day.

Few hours after that, Mom was so tired and decided to sit for a while near the fitting room. There's a big mirror and some people who wanted to fit their own choices clothes. Fritz was so excited seeing him to become 4 onwards. It looked so funny seeing 4 of him!!



Fritz learnt how to be thanked with his life....more story here.....

In the end of December, I saw some pictures of an activity. As I knew some people in the pics, I asked one of them. She is Sinthia Dewi or Baby usually we call. I asked what occasion it was and why there's lots of friends I knew. What were they doing exactly? I was totally curios....

Then....she told me that it was an activity of "Komunitas Sahabat". It's a place to share and care for others. I was so excited to join this community. I asked and asked about it. Then, I asked her to let me join with them.

It's been long time I left my passion in serving others, do social things. I thought God had lead me to this community.

Last Sunday was my first social activity. I brought all my family to join with it; my man & boy, my Dad, Mom and bro. We went to KKIT,. It's a place for some oldies who didn't treat well by their family could join together in this place. I've ever been here but I forgot how to go here....

It's so touchy when the first time I saw them. They looked powerless in the wheelchair. I hold my tears down just not to show them I was sad. We came there for fun, to share them a little love.

Together with 29 person from Komunitas Sahabat, we sang and stand beside them. When the lunch time ready, we tried to sit beside them and feed them with our love. We made lots of conversation with them. Some of them cried when we asked about their past. I thought it was not proper topic. :(

It just took not more than an hour we stayed there with them as they need nap. So, we had our lunch together outside and had chit chat before we ended our day.

We just share a little fun and care a little love, but it meant a lot for them and for us. Maybe we can't give lots for them, at least we saw some smiles they showed. It meant lots for us. Seeing them smile, happy and enjoy....really meant lots....

For now on....if we complain about our life, just let we know there are lots of people outside more suffering from us. Be grateful with what we have.

So glad I join this community.........^^