There's a problem again appear in my family. It's very complicated.

I really don't know whether we can pass it or not.

Again....I have to choose in 2 choices....job or Fritz....

Sadly....At this time, I think I have to choose job and I wanna cry....really wanna cry....I don't wanna leave him at home and I go to work....I wanna stay at home...but I can't.....

Please GOD, help me...

*staring at Fritz now and crying*

This week, actually we had some activities related with Valentine. For some reasons, we couldn't fulfill it.

ABC's : H for Heart

We played with dough and we made a letter H and heart related of the theme this week, Valentine's Day. He now gets into playing with the dough.

Craft : Hand print Heart
We made a handprint heart for the Valentine's craft. He likes to mix the color though we did some "fight" before doing it. He didn't want to eat anything for few days. He gets flu and cough and refused to eat everything. He just depends on my breast milk. I really get pissed off with him. So when we wanted doing it, he just stopped his crying.

Mixing the color
We mixed the red-white into pink and red-blue-white into purple. He insisted to mix the paints by him as he is expert in beating the eggs. He LOVES beating...and mixing...^^

Making the heart
We made the heart by using two different color in every single hand. As usual, after he did it, he asked me to get the tissue to wipe the paint from his hands. So chatty!! ^^

Tracing : Straight Lines

I was so amazed when he could trace the straight line straightly. My bro was the witness of the successful his straight lines. My bro was so shocked seeing it. I'm totally proud mom!! ^^

Practical Life
*Stacking Pringles*
This is a big hit for him in entire this week. After he successfully stacked those, he intentionally destroyed it and laughed loudly. I believe all the pringles got into pieces! Ha ha ha ha....

*Sweeping floor*

One day when my Bro was using a car, the carport was empty. I asked Fritz to play outside. He choose to sweep the floor as my maid does every afternoon. Using a long broom, he's trying to sweep the floor. Whatta boy!!


He did it again the next day. He even asked me to get some pics of him when he did it. He also gets into the padlock. He asked me to get the keys and he insisted to open it. *gosh*


Learning Toys
*Shape Puzzle*
He LOVES to play with puzzle. He asked me to put it down and let him doing it by himself. He could stand with it for few minutes.

*Dough*
This week, we played a lot with dough. We used the pink and purple dough related with the Valentine's colors. We made the uppercase and lowercase of letter Hh. We also made some fun with it by making some stuffs:
*Mickeys' face
*Elephant with two ears and long trunk, complete with the eyes
*Rabbit with two long ears, two eyes and a nose
*A car with two wheels
*Feeding utensil: two plates, two spoons, two fork and a cup.

It's just kinda fun playing with dough. Fritz also LOVES it now!! ^^ He asked me to play with it again and again...sitting in front of the house is his fave's spot...

Miscellaneous
Look at his style. He insisted to sit like this. He's just find another new style in sitting the chair.

Fun Time : Playing with Rafael (Ace)
I forgot to bring my camera when we went there. So I didn't have any pics at all.

Both of them are getting flu....*sroooot...srooot...srooot...get the tissue to wipe it out*

Rafael has tons of toys. Car park with 20 cars from ELC was a big hit for Fritz as he LOVES cars so much. He could play alone for a long time. He was so interest in cars and vehicles.

Sometimes, the owner wanted to play with what Fritz has played at that time. When Fritz has riden the cars toys, the one that the kid can sit on it and push by using his feet, Rafael came to Fritz and insisted to ride it too. Of course, Fritz lose and cried aloud.

Fritz is a peace boy who always can't fight for what he wanted. So when he lose, he cried. HAHAHAHAHA...*need to learn karate later*

Fritz is currently 22,5 months



Hongbao is a red packet, a tradition in Chinese New Year. The elder put some of money inside it and they give it to their children and all children categories; the relatives, cousins, nephew or niece or even someone who will not get married yet.

Coloring
*Dragon*

Though I really didn't have enough time to support the theme, he did the coloring for this week. He colored the dragon as the symbol of Barongsai.

*The Chinese children, Rabbit and Ox*

In the last day of Chinese New Year week, Fritz had much fun on coloring. He did 3 pictures; the Chinese children saying "Happy New Year", rabbit as now is the rabbit year and ox as his Chinese zodiac.

Learning Toys
*Lego Duplo*Yipppppppy..... n_n

Fritz has a new toy again. Opa has bought a Lego Duplo for him through Oma's hands. Means, yesterday when I, Fritz and Oma have gone to Puri mall, we've been to Toys City.

Oma has seen it a day before and yesterday she wanted to show it to me as I was so curios with what she's been said to me. She said there was a Lego getting 50% discount there but she didn't know whether it is proper for Fritz's age.

Sooo, yesterday when she showed to me, I was soooo thrilled. I took it in hurry and didn't wanna to let it go as it was the last one standing there. I insisted asking her to buy it. ^^

In the end, she told me just let Opa pays it later. XOXOXOXOXOXO

Miscellaneous
*Drinking Orange Juice*

Almost a week he LOVES to drink an orange juice by himself. He sits nicely in the chair and drinks carefully from his cup. And successfully he finishes it and gives the cup to the maid. Mature boy, huh?! n_n

Movie : The Karate Kid


We watched The Karate Kid. Surprisingly, Fritz like this movie!! ^^

The Day

Read the complete stories here

Eve....

A day before the day, I still had to work and went home like usual. Mostly, the students didn't come as it was the eve. Some had dinner with other relatives and some was lazy to come.

Ali picked me up and we went home together by motor. In the middle of the way, the rain had fallen heavily. I didn't bring any raincoat, so I just asked Ali to wear it. I could hide behind him as he faced the rain towardly.
All of us had a dinner together at home with Opa, Oma and my Bro. We put a big table in the living room and Oma had prepared some food there. At the same time, Fritz had fallen asleep. He didn't join the dinner.

Avoiding Fritz couldn't sleep till morning, I asked Fritz to wake up after the dinner time. I had bought some little fireworks and wanted to show him how to play with it. However, he refused to play it. He's little bit afraid with the fireworks. He didn't enjoy it. He preferred to go back to room and read some his magazine.

And the eve finished...

D'Day...

It's gonna be a tired day. Ali, I and Fritz had to come to 5 different places in one day.

Before we left, we did the ritual, Gong Xi to Opa, Oma and my Bro. Fritz refused to do it. He was sleepy I thought at that time. I mean the folded both hands and shake-shake-shake things. ^^

1st place was Popo's home at Pulo Mas.

We had to pick her and Pop's bro there before we went to the 2nd place. Surprisingly, Fritz still remembered the home and Popo. When we was there, he showed it to me the home and looked for Popo with a big calling as Popo was still in the upstair. Popo was quite happy seeing Fritz. He did the Gong Xi to her. *yeaaaah* (proud that I could show it)

Going to 2nd place, Poppa's Daddy's side family at Pramuka.

We've been there at 12 o'clock. Some relatives had been there and we did Gong Xi to them. Fritz was being carrying by Popo so I didn't see that he did the Gong Xi or not. That I just heard all about his appearance, how "bule" he is.

Fritz was playing with Erland, the same age boy. Both were playing together with the cars toys before Fritz felt asleep and refused to play again with that boy. At that time, Fritz was crying while Erland had tried to calm him by wiping his tears using the tissue. Actually it's because Erland insisted his will to ask Fritz playing with him again. So when Fritz refused it, he cried. It's a touchy moment I thought. Fritz was crying and Erland tried to say sorry by wiping his tears. *ooooooohhh*

After we had lunch together, I and Fritz went up to the 2nd floor and played with some cousins there. There were Melissa and Edwin, Elis and Erland and a boy who I didn't know the name. We played again with Erland. Finally, Fritz could play again with Erland. Though both didn't talk much each other, they did the socialize at least.

He loves to eat the Lapis Legit cake there, cheese version...yummy!!

Time to go to 3rd place, Momma's Daddy's side family at Kemayoran.

We arrived 2.30 PM. We were at the 2nd family left behind they expected. So when we arrived, we did the ritual, Gong Xi to everyone. First we went to Ma'oco, Opa's mom. She was quite old and looked so happy seeing Fritz. Fritz shook all of their hands to greet them. With a bag on his shoulder, they said that Fritz was so cute. *happy to hear that*

Actually Fritz has a friend to play with, Alvin. At that time, Alvin was so cranky. It's because her mom is pregnant so he became cranky, the usual behavior of the child who's feeling insecure of the other coming sibling.

Fritz just needed some time to be used with the environment before he walked here and there by himself. Some of the relatives got more attention to him and I was SOOOOO happy with it. Proud to be a mom at that time. hi hi hi hi....

After Fritz has taken a bath, we went to the other place.

4th place, Poppa's Mommy's side family at Taman Palem.

We took one-half hour to get there. Traffic jam! Pothai, Mommy's Mom, had waited for us as we were the last person expected.

After we arrived, the last bro of Popo had gone home already. It's been two year we didn't make it with his family. Poppa really wanted to meet him a lot.

So we just started to eat the food they had prepared. Fritz took lots of food and that's made one of his Opa (Popo's 2nd brother) amazed. He really wanted to eat everything and didn't choose any food, he said. *again...proud mom!!*

We didn't stay longer there as we had to move to the last place.

Moved to the 5th place, Opa Greg's house at Citra 5.

Opa Greg is Oma's brother in law. He lives alone there. This was the first time we went there to celebrate the Chinese New Year together. Again...we're the last person expected.

He has 3 children, a son and a twin sister. Three of them are getting married already. When we arrived, we just saw Om Tito and ii Ling2, ii Ina and Kimi. The rest of them had gone home already.

We stayed longer there. Fritz played along with Kimi. Both went here and there, went in and out from the room, of course without talking each other.....^^ socialize.....

Then, Fritz had fallen asleep. And we went home when the clock struck to 9.

What a tired day!!

The total of hongbao we sent were almost 40 and we received 30 hongbao. And it was almost balance the output with the input....he he he he he..... (n__n)

We supposed to be learned about Chinese New Year this week. As the printer has run out the ink, I couldn't print the pics. So we just filled the week by playing and playing. Not so much we did. Here there are:

ABC: coloring Nn


The last day of the week , we did the ABC's coloring. And it's time for letter N. He didn't so into it. I just helped him coloring it.

Math: Sticker #1

After finishing the 1st row of coloring the number 1 to 10, now I'm going to give him some activity according to the numbers. I'll ask him to paste some stickers related to the numbers.
Tracing Straight Lines



Practical Life
*Sorting the colors beads*


When doing this, he was able to do the first 2 things. He sorted the blue and yellow, as you saw in the pic. Then he decided to stop and just played along with the beads rather than did the sort. @(@

*Transferring using tweezer*


After he did the sorting, he asked me to get the tweezer for him. Then he continued his activity by doing this such of transferring using a tweezer. What a progress of him, now he is able to use the tweezer correctly though he needs a little bit power when using it. ^^

*Straw in the holes*

Yiheeeeaaa!!
*Dressing Frame: Big Buttons*


I made a dressing frame of big button for his practical life from flannel as it's so expensive one if I buy it from the supplier. When I gave it to him, he was so excited. But he still couldn't do it well by himself. He still needs my help when opening and closing it. Practice will help him be able to do it later! ^^

Learning Toys

*Dough*
Actually I asked him to play with dough, making something fun with it. The result, he chosed to cut the dough using knife. He's so into in cutting. One day he may become a chef...may be.....

*ABC small foam mat*

I really proud of him. In his almost 2 years, he is able to recognize some alphabet. When I gave these letters (a to f), he mostly put the letter by him and just need a little help from me. ^^


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