Nina went to see doctor Vienne today at Magallanes. She has skin irritation on her right cheek. Nina now weighed 15+ kg and her height is now 94cm. Back in January, she was 92cm.
Archive for March 2008
Nina started her summer class at the Little Gym today. Her mom sent me a text message at 10am this morning:
Nina pinter di sekolah mau ditinggal di gym and gak pake pampers
Her mom didn’t join her at the gym and she didn’t wear diaper either.
8 children in the class, some were from her previous class, called “Superbeast” and some were new. Nina seemed to enjoy her new class after spending some time sitting and observing her new friends and playing by herself at the gym. She joined them playing together after that.
During her previous school term, Nina never wanted to join her friends lining up before entering the classroom after the gym session. And today, her mom was surprised to see Nina lining up together with her friends while entering the classroom. Good improvement. 
She was cheerful when her mom picked her up. Nina proudly told her mom, “Nina pinter gak nangis”. And she also told her mom that she was able to tell her teacher when she wanted to go to the restroom. “Nina wee wee sama teacher”, she said.
Nina met her old friends from the previous class: Una, Kohsuke, Aaliya, Elki and she met some new ones, like Drew and Maria.
Nina asked me to play farm last night.
Nina: “Daddy, Nina wanna play farm”
And then she sang twinkle-twinkle little star, but she replaced all the words with only one word “please”.
Nina: “Please, please, please, please, please, please, please … please, please, please, please, please, please, please”
And then she asked me to say “Yes” by singing the same song too: “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes … yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes”
I was playing with Nina last night on the sofa and she suddenly asked to play Pok Ame Ame, an Indonesian’s children play. It goes like this :
- we face each other
- we both clap our hands once
- we use our right hands to do the hi-five thing
- we both clap our hands again
- we use our left hands now to do the hi-five
- repeat from no 2 above
and while doing this, we sing the song : Pok Ame Ame, Belalang Kupu-Kupu, Siang makan nasi, Kalau malam minum susu. I sang the song last night, but Nina could actually sing this song about a year ago but she sang it like this: Pok Ame Ame, Belalang Tupu-Tupu, Siang makan nasi, Kalau malam, mimi susu.
When I first taught her this about a year ago, she wasn’t able to do the clapping and hi-five things well yet. She wasn’t able to coordinate between using her right hand, left hand and do the clapping. She was always trying to use one hand only.
I video taped this while we were playing last night.
I just finished shower and walked out of the bedroom. Nina heard me walking out and started walking to the room. I decided to play and hid myself in the second bedroom. She went to our bedroom and kept calling “Daddy” and finally went out again to the living room to look for me.
Nina: “Daddy?”
Mommy: “Yah?” (her mommy was in the kitchen and thought Nina was calling her)
Nina: “Aku lagi calling Daddy”
Nina: “Mana Daddy?”
Mommy: “Daddy lagi mandi”
Nina turned around and finally saw me behind her and said :
Nina: “Daddy udah mandi”
And as expected, she said
Nina: “Nina wants to play farm”
referring to our usual play on the bed with her truck and the animal toys she has like the sheep, pig, elephant, kangaroo, monkey, etc .. as if she is in the farm.
We stopped by at Starbuck after playing with Nina at the Salcedo park this afternoon. She wanted her favourite, chocolate doughnut, but unfortunately they had no more. So, we got her double chocolate walnut brownie. I had iced caramel machiato and her mommy has iced coffee americano. Her mommy’s drink was too bitter for Nina. She looked at mine and thought it was milk because of the color. She had a sip and she liked it because of the caramel taste I believe. She kept asking for it and I had to drink faster as we didn’t want her to drink too much coffee.
Nina told me, “Daddy, you ride the shuttle bus. Wait for the driver.” She was referring to herself as the shuttle bus driver.
Nina commented just now “my goodness”, when her hands were dirty because of her painting ink. Don’t know where she learned that.
Nina asked for a banana and I gave her one and the conversation:
Daddy: “Can Daddy peel the banana for you?”.
Nina: “No, I peel”
Nina: “I can peel the banana”
Nina came and told me proudly just now, “Daddy, look …” and she showed me that she could bounce a ball just like those basketball players. She could bounce the ball for about 3 - 4 times before she lost it.
She then went to the kitchen to show her mommy her new skill. “Mommy, look …”
