Papa Eric’s Blog

Prisca saw some “Kok-koks” (big brothers) demonstrating the skill of solving the Rubik’s cube at “supersonic” speed at the Toy ‘R’ Us and was so impressed by them.

She grabbed a cube and looked at me, “I want?”

Prisca has seldom asks for any toys before so I think she must be “in love” with this colourful cube. I bought her this cube at $9.95 (which is quite expensive; those imitations cost around $5 each selling in the market ha-ha).

This Rubik’s cube was once very popular in the 80s and now it seems to be re-surfacing once again.

You could see that everyone was playing with these cubes in the street at that “80s era”; and now my girl is twisting and turning one of these cubes too. Time really flies, we are getting old…so sad.

We happened to pass-by the Central shopping centre and got to see the setting up of the lantern displays beside the river.

I saw this “funny-looking-animal” lantern and tested my girl,” Prisca! See, this is a Cat.”

Prisca looked at me and replied, “No, it is a lion!”.

OMG. Even a 3 years old kid can tell that it is not a “dog” ha-ha.

Saw this interesting pram display set at Great World City during a late night window shopping. Its poster caught my immediate attention and I decided to stop for a few minutes to take a closer look.

The greatest and most touching moment in life when you have a child is when he or she says “Papa, I love you so much!” and give you a gentle, sweet little kiss on your cheek.

This is a very priceless sentence as the little one really ‘endorsed’ your love, care and time being spent together with her.

If your child says that to you too “Congratulation!”

Mommy has borrowed few other titles from the library for little Prisca. They are “Dora the Explorer” and “Blue’s Room”.

It is really good to know that the library keeps updating and importing new DVDs for the children. Very good job!

Read about Dora’s adventures from the books long time ago but we have never watched its DVD right until now. It is a 2D style of animation but the contents are good and educational. It is full of reasoning and analytical stuffs (just like the Mickey Mouse’s Clubhouse). One downside of this movie is that it does not have any subtitle; this is bad as some Spanish are incorporated inside the series and we have to guess its meaning.

“Blue’s Room” on the other hand is quite dull but some educational and analytical elements are within. It is basically a puppet show embedded inside a story tale. I personally prefer “The Wheel on the Bus” which is livelier as a puppet series.

“Papa, I want nine sweets. Pink sweets. Can you buy it for me?”

Yes, letting your child eating sweet things may be a “taboo” or straight “NO” to some parents I guessed.

I heard that some children have not taste any ice-cream or sweets before; even when they have reached an age of 4 years old ++ (in Singapore)! That is really a deprived childhood to me.

I think eating sweet things moderately are alright for kids provided you must ensure that they brush their teeth daily.

Yes, do remember not to feed them sweet things 1 hour or so before meal time as these sweet things will fill up their small stomach and lower their appetite for food; other than that should be ok I guessed.

These are the “pebbles” Prisca pointed to me. She also created lots of “carrots” for the rabbit too with the playdough.

Look how serious she is; she looks like an advisor planning for some kind of strategies or formulation attack in a battle yeah? Ha-ha.

Frankly speaking, I don’t quite like this kind of “soft” toy as it dirtied my floor with those tiny pieces of “cow dung”. =(

But these kinds of playdoughs are essentially important to a child’s creativity and imagination. So I have to bear with it.

But parents please take note: buy those proper types of playdoughs for your kid. Those ‘plasticine’ (cannot remember how to spell it) types we used in our olden school days are not that safe for the child I heard. And beware of some imitation brands too! Take care.

After several months of searching and waiting, when Mommy is just about to give up any hope in borrowing this Little Einsteins “Race for Space” series in the library – miracle happens ha-ha.

Mommy showed Prisca this DVD last night and our little princess looked at it and gave out a smile. She opened up the casing and starts to spin the disc; smiling to herself during spinning.

Disney’s Little Einsteins is one of Prisca’s favourite DVD movies. She (or rather we ha-ha) learnt a lot of musical knowledge from this series. We learnt about different musical instruments; some famous composer’s music and lyrics; and also different countries’ icons or structures.

Tempos terms like ‘adagio’, ‘moderato’, ‘allegro’ and ‘presto’ were aliens to us initially; but after watching the complete series of Little Einsteins together they seemed to become our daily languages ha-ha. For example, when I pushed the stroller slowly (adagio), she will ask me to go for ‘allegro’ (fast).

So parents who seldom watch children DVDs together with your kid may consider sacrifice some time for them. Laugh and enjoy the process of watching DVDs together; your child may bond to you better.

P.S. Why the title “Mission Completion”? It is a slogan in Little Einsteins whereby Leo (leader of the team) will say after each mission completion. ;P