Recently Shee Yun volunteered to use a mug to drink her milk as opposed to using the milk bottle. I had attempted to convert her to using a mug before, but I didn't persist long enough for her to establish the habit. There was a metal mug especially assigned to her. Then suddenly she was the one who took the initiative to switch. So I asked her why the sudden change. She explained to me that by switching to using a mug, then Michelle and I would not need to wash so many bottles. In the past few days she has been helping or watching me wash milk bottles - scrubbing them with soap water, then rinsing them, then sterilising them using hot water, then assembling them. I was quite touched by her offer to switch to using mugs. It is very sweet of her.
Nowadays Chen Rui likes to eat rice. Every day after school she wants rice and tomato sauce for lunch, even on days she has art class and already has a lunch-snack at school. When I tell her I have cooked rice for her, she cheers, "Yay!". But she still doesn't want to eat any meat or vegetables with her rice. Only tomato sauce. She meticulously applies some tomato sauce to every single spoonful of rice using her fork.
Michelle has moved the small CD player to the children's room, so that they can listen to soothing music, learning music and Baroque music. They like it and often help themselves to it, playing songs they like. Sometimes if I play music on my PC (which I have only started doing recently, and then only occasionally), they compete with me by turning their volume up to drown out my music. They tend to like their music loud. I would dread it if this happens during their teenage years. Sometimes at dinner time when they watch TV and Michelle and I chat, they also like to turn up the TV volume to drown out our conversation. I think they find our conversation distracting or annoying. We sometimes have to tell them to turn down the volume.
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