Line 'em Up!

Mothers always know when their kids are up to something... when it gets toooo quiet.

Usually, when Jeddy's out of sight and I don't hear any sound from him for one minute, he's up to no good. Somewhere.

So far, he's been caught red-handed throwing my toothbrush into the toilet bowl (urghh!) and scribbling all over the air purifier with a green marker, just to name a couple.

And Jeddy boy is not the type who'd feign innocence too. When discovered, he makes a run for it, complete with big cheeky grin. *shake head*

This evening, I had to go Jeddy-searching again... and well, surprise surprise! It was merely his OCB kicking in and he just had to line up his favourite bedtime story books, back cover facing up!

Gotcha!


















Posing with his work























Left-right-left-right-left-right























For once, I didn't have to fish things out of the toilet bowl or make him go wiping up with a cloth.

Phew!

:)
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Goofy Fan

See what's tickling Jeddy Boy...



And by the time this video was taken, Jeddy would have repeated the synchronization at least 8 times!

;D
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Jed and the Beanstalks

Planted 5 kidney beans a couple of weeks ago to show Jeddy boy how plants grow. And my, did they grow!

After a week, the fastest growing bean measured 20 cm tall while the shortest was a mere 3 cm (after taking its own sweet time to sprout). Somehow that just reminded me of the way children grow too -- some faster, some slower, but they all get there eventually. :)

Was a great opportunity for Jeddy to learn how to water the beanstalks and watch them grow day by day. And kidney bean plants are waaaaay more fun than green bean/red bean plants.

There's only so much these beanstalks can grow on a thin bed of cotton and plain water. Well, I'm not about to fry these in a wok with chopped garlic, so the time has come to hand the plants over to Jeddy boy. *Yikes*

He treated the plants with kindness and stroked the leaves really gently... at first. But boys will be boys, and the rough play began to set in before you could even finish saying "kidney beans".

Stroke stroke























Tweak Tweak























Pluck Pluck























Ending up as roundabout shrubbery on Jeddy's town. *sigh*














































Do try growing kidney beans for your toddlers and be fascinated together with them.

Enjoy!

;)

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Doodle Doodle

Went to Ikea for a box of chalks (had enough of markers and Jeddy leaving marks everywhere!) for the little one to doodle with. Thought it might be good to let him try out different drawing materials. :)

And so he doodled... and also dropped all the chalks I gave him onto the floor, breaking most of them. Poor Jeddy just sat there among the broken chalks and muttered "huai, huai, huai...." to himself, while trying to attach the broken pieces together. :P
[For the clueless, 'huai' means broken/spoiled in mandarin.]


Doodle Doodle... Jeddy uses his left hand a lot, so maybe he'll be a left-hander like me!






















Flashing his melt-mummy smiles at just the right moment!






















Mummy melts into a puddle.






















Revealing his true true colours as Jeddy the little monster!























*shudder*

;)

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Bible Cover - A Little Handmade Goodness

Sis requested for a fabric cover for her bible the other day... and I couldn't wait to get started!

I threw together some cotton and linen fabric, pretty cotton lace and one of my handcarved rubber stamps.

Abracadabra!

And here's how it turned out. :)
























The interior


















Sis' bible all cozy and snuggly in its new cover.























That sure was fun!

Yay! :)

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Stab Stab

Don't worry, I meant stabbing pieces of apple. ;)

One valuable lesson I've learnt is that there's no point in teaching your toddler something when he's not ready for it. I tried getting Jeddy boy to use a fork and spoon almost half a year ago and failed utterly. So back into the drawer those kiddy forks and spoons went.

Last month, I decided it's time to try it again, after reading that at 19 months, toddlers are supposed to know how to use either the fork or the spoon.

I dug out his kiddy fork, chopped up an apple, and proceeded to teach him how to stab the apples. Next was to help him aim the fork into his mouth, something that we adults take for granted, but in fact is very tricky for first-timers. Because he was ready this time, and eager to learn, self-feeding with a fork was accomplished in one lesson.

Reminder to self: When he's ready, he's ready.

Here are some pictures of self-feeding-Jeddy. Plus another thing that he loves to do now: feeding others. ;)

Stab stab































































One stab too many.























Aaahhh!





















Um!





















Hello? Did you forget something?





















Riiiight.....


















:)

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Jeddy Meets Rommy No. 2

My hands were feeling itchy one afternoon. So Rommy No. 2 was born at the dining table while Jeddy boy was napping. It was really easy and fun to make. Plus Rommy's head actually bobs! Ahh... such is the ingenuity of the Japanese.

Jeddy boy went off to a good start with Rommy boy. He was just as amused as I was with the bobbing head. Anyway, I wanted to teach him how to be gentle and handle fragile items with care. He did and gingerly stroke Rommy, carried him around gently with his chubby hands... for a grand total of 20 minutes.

Well, all I can say is that Rommy is now without his head. ;P

So here are the short-lived happy moments of Jeddy and Rommy...

What's this?














































Sitting quietly together with Rommy.


















Rommy: "Don't crush me! Don't crush me!"


















The next Rommy I make is sooo just gonna sit at my desk, far far out of reach of Jeddy boy. ;)

Oh, do try to make a Rommy for yourself too! The link is provided above. Remember to use thick paper and strong glue!

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OCB

Gosh! Is Jeddy boy showing signs of obsessive-compulsive-behaviour?! ;)

Lately, he's been arranging his toy cars... everywhere! Along the walls, edge of the tables, around books, you name it. And after he's pleased with the 'formation', he'll proceed to 'disperse' them with gusto. Hmmm......

Arrange arrange. (And I was particularly amazed at how neat this was!)


















Disperse disperse.


















Arrange some more.


















Disperse some more.


















*puzzled*

:)

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Jeddy And His Wooden Puzzles

Jeddy surprised us one night when he put all the pieces of his wooden puzzle in their right places. And I'm pretty certain he hasn't been secretly practising either.

Just to make sure it wasn't all a fluke, we put him through a puzzle marathon. And we're pleased to announce... it's not a fluke!

*confetti*

Well I don't care if kiddos his age (20 months) are supposed to be pros at these kind of things already, but Hubs and I did a little victory dance for him. ;D

*another round of confetti*

Here's Jeddy on his third round with this puzzle. We had to be sure, don't we? ;P















































Jeddy completing his puzzle. We threw in a little trick for him at the end and he almost fell for it!

Enjoy!




Wowes! ;D

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Giant Ball Ball

We brought out the gym ball and Jeddy Boy was terrified of it! ;D

Too bad we ran out of camera memory at the crucial moment. Well, let's just say this went on for a while.

Sorry Jeddy Boy... Tee hee hee...



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