New start at poppets

Tetsushi's sickness is getting better. He still coughs sometimes. He can sleep much better than last week. However, he still cann't play alone by himself. He picks up books and we have to read for him all the time. From yesterday, he started to stay at Poppets. He cried a lot in the morning when Papa droped him because he wanted to go the Teenees. He is not used to stay there at the moment even he has been transfered for few times during the last few weeks. Maybe he will take few weeks to get used to stay there.

Yesterday, Tetsushi couldn't be found when Papa went to pick him up. The reason was that he was feeding a rubbit at Pre-school with a chinese teacher. Nobody knew he was there. Teachers' communication was not clear enough. However, he was so happy to feed the rubbit.

Mother group meeting

I went to "Music Class" today with a friend without Tekkun at Hillcrest Church. There were so many children and mums. Most of them were Asian (Chinese) mothers. It was the first time for me to go there. I met some mothers I have already knew them before. It was good to talk with them. Everybody had morning tea together in the hall.

Today's weather was strange. Suddenly heavy rain came and stopped so many time. But at the moment (late afternoon), it is very warm. It looks like spring will come soon. Maybe the coldest weather is already gone.

Baby Countdown Counter

Our second baby is due 16 January 2010. I set the counter on the right hand pane. It shows 181 days to go as today.

Also we found a very good midwife, who's got over 30 years experience of child delivery in many countries. Hopefully this time we will have a better child birth.

From PAPA

Tetsushi Spreading Germs

Tetsushi got cold from Creche, and he stared terrible runy nose and couging. First mama got cold from him, but she can't have any medicine because of little one in her tommy.

AT Sunday night, he couldn't sleep well, and he woke up Mama and Papa every hour, and yelled 'あっち行く、あっち行く' (Iwant to go there). He wanted to go to the lounge to play and wacth Anpanman. It's 1 o'clock in the morning! He had medicine, but didn't work. Mama was down, and to let her sleep quietly, Papa and baby went to the lounge and slept there... (We used sofa bed). His breathing became funny too. And we started using Ventolin and it looks like it worked well (he doesn't have asthma though).

Now it's Tuesday, and Papa got cold, and his throat is painful. When he's sick, he has always mucus. It's aweful. But now Tetushi is better. When he's sick, all families are sick... Good greif!

Mama is still sick... and papa having a throat candy. Poor parents.
By Papa

Close your eyes (Video)

Enjoy watching this video!

Don't know! = Don't! No!

Tetsushi speaks Japanese when he talks with PAPA, and Chinese with MAMA. These days, thanks to long hours at Creche, he learned lots of English words. One of words he speaks very often is 'Don't know' - it should be a shorter form of 'I don't know', but for him, it means 'I hate it! (キッライ). When reading his baby bird book, at the point a naughty black crow appears, he starts shouting 'Don't know! Don't know!' Where does he mean 'I hate you!' by that?
... don't know...
By PAPA

Tekkun is a good helper.

From a shoe shelf, Tetsushi can take shoes for PAPA and MAMA now. He also likes helping cleaning. When I clean up the kichen floor, he takes a dust pan with him to pick up rubbish and then dump it to the rubbish bin. Although he can't put all rubbishes he picked up into the bin, he is very happy to do it (we have to clean up later...).
This is the photo in China I took.

His Favourite book

As a great reader, Tetsushi has many favourite picture books. We always borrow from Education Library of the University. The most recent favourite is "Molly and the Night Monster"

Molly wakes up at mdnight and she hears a sound from downstairs... and what comes?
He loves the word 'まっくら (all dark)' and when reading, he keep saying it's all dark, it's all dark, and he loves seeing different animals at every pages, and most of all, the last cuddle with mummy. It's a nice book, but I read this book a few times a day... That's what Tetsushi does. He just stciks to one book or one toy and plays with it all day. By PAPA

我们解放了.

我家的HOMESTAY 女孩终于搬走了.虽然她只在这住了短短的2周不过我觉得我和老公都身心疲惫.每天都想给她做什么好吃的让她开心.可是她也好象没什么反应. 她是属于在家从没做过事情的孩子,已经19岁了,但是一点生活常识和为人出事的经验都不知道. 我们尽力去教她, 就象父母一样,可是她也不知道感激.也好象不是很听的进去. 现在的孩子都被宠坏了.所以通过这件事, 我们下定决心一定要从小培养教育TETSUSHI独立,让他做力所能及的事情. 否则以后他什么都不会.我们就要急死了. 到了那个时候再教, 就全晚了.

Scanned!

We went to Ultrasound Scanning on Monday, and we saw our second baby. The baby is only 6.67 cm tall. Here is the photo. Can you guess which is the head? To date the baby is perfectly normal. I hope the baby grows bigger and bigger, and we can meet in January 2010.
From Papa

Updated! by PAPA

I added more interesting Gadgets - try 'translation' if you don't understand English words in this site (I have many international readers here). Flickr Slideshow is nice, isn't it? I will add more photos so you can see Tetsushi's interesting photos.

Also, new video at My Flickr - Baiyo, Baiyo.... You will laugh if you know Mandarin Chinese.

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From PAPA

Tekkun is a good boy.

Tekkun is quite close to me these days. He can let me wash his hands, change clothes and read books. He also says MAMA a lot more than ever. He is a mature boy now. However, his toilet training is not in progress. He is going to Poppet group from the end of this month. He went there one hour yesterday. Tetsushi's creche's teacher said he enjoyed staying there and watching a gold fish happily. There are no Chinese teachers in that group. He is going to lose his favourite Chinese teacher -Michelle soon.

Tetsushi's favourite saying

These days Tetsushi speaks quite meaningful words. He instantly copies Papa and Mama's words, but definitely he has some favourites. When playing he always says - おもしろいなあ(It's fun!), and it's very cute.

He still wakes up at 6:00 a.m. every morning regularly, and watch ANPANMAN for 30 minutes.　His recent favourite is Naganegiman (Spring Onion Man), and when he says, ネギー！, he laughs too much, and when Baikinman attachs innocent people (tries to steal food), he says キッライ、キ・ラーイ（I hate you!). Anyway, Anmanpan is still his favourite hero.

NZ is too wet these days. Instead it's getting warmer (and more humid).

From Papa