Pictures taken at Maplewood Farm on Sept 3, 05

Picture taken at Chapters on Sept 5, 05

Naughty Faye

Faye loves to sing recently. So I teach her those popular western children songs as well as some classic chinese children songs. One of the songs, 小小 姑娘, is over 30 years old and was sang by Lok when he was as young as Faye. Lok's recording was digitalized and I spent some time mixed two recordings into one.

Click here to listen to Baby Lok and Faye singing the same song.

I'm also teaching Faye Chinese poems because she loves to repeat after me. But she gets easily distracted and it's difficult to get her to focus on finishing the whole poem.

Click here to listen to Faye learning Chinese poems

July 28, 2005

We went to visit Gloria and Ian's 3 months old baby girl, Amy, at Coquitlam. It's amazing watching the little baby. She looks so sweet and cute with her big round eyes. The little baby in my arms brought back a lot of old memories of Faye.

As usual, Faye was hiding behind me when we entered the house. But I think it's the tutles at their house that broke the ice. Faye seemed so excited just watching Ian fed the tutles. And she'll ask Gloria, or 舅公舅婆 to take her to see the tutles again and again. Basically, she made her request every 5 minutes. Faye also had a great time playing with 舅公 at the sun deck . I'm so glad to see her making new friends.

July 25, 2005

Faye talked a lot in the last two weeks. It's just so much fun talking to her. She's so eager to communicate verbally and she even found pleasure just talking all by herself. Sometimes she'll even "read" a book to her bear bear. 每次我們一講﹕"講故事好不好?" 她就會馬上答﹕"好!!" 顯得那麼興奮而積極。

她的一舉一動﹐一顰一笑在我眼中都是可愛的, 我常常要警惕自己不要隨便在她面前笑, 有時我們的笑對孩子來講就是一種鼓勵﹐笑得不當﹐就會埋下不良的種子, 將來她養成壞習慣﹐我可笑不出來了。 所以, 哇! 看她做出那麼多古怪表情, 可愛得要命﹐忍著! 忍著! 她老是把 “拖住” 手講成 “巴住”﹐不能笑﹐要改正; 雖然她把腳擱在桌子上的樣子好有趣, 不能笑﹐不能笑, 還要罵! 不過有時真的忍不了﹐只好背過身來偷笑......... 唉﹐遲早內傷...............

Pictures taken at home on July 23, 2005

July 23, 2005

Faye 兩歲了! I can't believe she's two already! 今天我回看過去兩年的相片, 心中感慨萬千, 也滿溢著驕傲。啊! 兩年了! As I sat down and tried to reflect on the past two years, I realized just how much love and joy she has brought to my life. 生活中的點點滴滴都讓我會心微笑, 當初那個小猴子一樣﹐哭得聲嘶力竭的小 baby 哪去了? 唉, 看著她健康成長, 再想想兩年前今天那十多個小時的痛苦, 有時又不免為自己那走樣的身材和漸多的白髮而悲秋.......啊......兩年了﹐當中的酸甜苦辣﹐還真不足外人道!

記得一個兒童心理學家說過﹐"You don't have to be a perfect mother. You just need to be a good enough mother". 這句話對我影響頗大。本人最大的缺點就是胸無大志, 最大的志願是做賢妻良母, 最大的渴望是擁有溫暖家庭。未生之前老是擔心自己不夠好, 但其實沒有人能做到樣樣完美, 在我能力範圍內的, 我一定努力做到最好。今天我憮心自問﹐ " Am I good enough for my child? " Well......... I think I did pretty good! 這口氣還真有點大言不慚﹐嘿嘿! 就今天﹐讓我驕傲自滿一下吧!

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