Jia Yi lost his second and third tooth

Jia Yi lost his second tooth about a month ago. After the first experience, he now knows how to handle the tooth when it drops. Unfortunately, the tooth refused to fall on its own. So, daddy decided to help him.

They went into the toilet and daddy tried to shake the tooth off for him. It did not come out easily. Jia Yi was screaming in the toilet. Finally, the tooth came loose. He was so happy! He took his tooth, washed it and showed it to me. He was so proud of it that he decided to keep it on his own, under his favourite Power Ranger CD. Once in a while, he will take it out to look at it.

Jia Yi's third tooth started shaking about a few days ago. This time, with more experience, he decided that he did not want anyone to know about it. So, he kept it a secret. Until... I saw him eating an ice cream and was wondering why that tooth looks so out of place. I asked him to come forward and he refused. After questioning him, I realised that he kept it a secret because he was afraid of the pain. (His daddy will help him pulled it out if he knows about it.) True enough, his daddy found out!

He was sent to the toilet to have his tooth plucked out. Daddy asked him to open his mouth. "Pain" was his answer. They spent more than thirty minutes in the toilet, fighting.

"Come here!"
"No. It's very painful."
"Okay. I will not help you pull it out."
"I want."
"Then come. I will do it gently."
"Very PAIN!!! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!"

And this conversation can be overheard many times while I was outside waiting for them to get out.

In the end, daddy gave up. He came out of the toilet all wet, but with no tooth in his hand.

Jia Yi has won the battle.

Getting Jia Yi and Jia Ya to sleep

The 2 of them like to quarrel when I asked them to sleep. Jia Yi will start to complain that Jia Ya had disturbed his bed and Jia Ya will tell me that Jia Yi has taken her things.


When I turned off the lights, they are not able to see clearly, so they will not complain about the above. Instead, they will start touching each other and then start laughing. Slowly, it turns into tickling and then.... they will start running in the room, chasing after each other because someone had started it first.


This is how my mother make them sleep peacefully.





See, how alike they are... even their sleeping pose is silimiliar. And my mother has ease getting them to sleep.

Jia Yi and Jia Ya's Photos 1

These photographs were taken 2 weeks ago.
They look so loving.
You will not expect them to fight, right?

Jia Yi lost his first tooth

The first time when Jia Yi realised that his tooth was shaking, he was almost frightened to death. I told him that that was because he had eaten too much sweets and his tooth was going to drop. For that two days, he refused to eat any sweets, even when I offered to him.
He was so frightened that his tooth would drop off. To pacified him, I told him to keep the tooth if it dropped off while he was in school.
Two days later, I received a call from the childcare centre. The teacher had a fright because Jia Yi was crying non-stop in school, in the toilet and there was blood flowing from his mouth. The teacher thought that he had injured himself while he was in the toilet. They later found out that his tooth had fallen and he could not find his tooth. It had dropped into the basin!
He was so upset that day. When I went to pick him up after school, he refused to go home with me because he did not have his tooth with him. After spending a long time to explain to him that it was alright, he finally went home with me.
What a silly boy!

A Name for the Newborn

I was at my mother-in-law's place last weekend and she asked me if I had chosen a name for the baby. Before I could even answer her, she started her nagging...
"Don't choose names that are similiar to the elders in the family. That's rude! That xxx used the same character for the newborn and it just sounds like one of the auntie's name. Never think one! So rude, no respect!..." she was going on and on.
How to chose a Chinese character that is totally different from all those uncles and aunties? Mind you! My husband has 11 siblings and another 12 cousins. And they each has many sons and daughters. How would I be able to find a character that none of them have use? Unless I go for all those 'oh biang' names.
In fact, I have chosen the names for all my children right from the time I was pregnant with Jia Yi in 2002.
The first consideration was that it must be easy to spell. (My husband is very bad with English. It took him 6 months to spell my name right.)
The second consideration was that it must have values that my child must have.
That's how Jia Yi got his name. 'Jia' as in 'good' and 'Yi' as in 'perserverance'. And it is so easy to spell. Many thought that it means 'plus 1', because 'Jia' can also means 'plus' and 'Yi' means '1'.
When I was pregnant with Jia Ya. Many of my relatives were making fun of me. They were thinking that I will name her as 'Jia Er' as in 'plus 2'. 'Jia' means 'good' and 'Ya' means 'gracious'.
See how I have just changed the last letter of their names. In this way, my husband can remember faster.
Can you guess the name of the one in my womb now? I am going to name him/her... Jia Y?