Papa Eric’s Blog

I brought Prisca to a clinic last Monday.

I was kind of tired and sleepy that night and suddenly a lady came out of the consultation room.

Prisca looked at her and then turned to me, “Aunty is FAT!”

I was shocked and entirely waken up by her remark…I don’t know whether that lady heard it or not as she left the clinic.

I quickly pulled Prisca nearer and told her, “Prisca, you cannot say people are fat in front of them. They will feel sad, understand. Next time when you see an uncle or auntie whom is fat, just whisper into Papa’s OK? Good girl.”

真的是 同言无忌哈哈…

I like this poem very much as quoted from the certificate :
“At the age of 3,
I went to Apple Tree,
And proudly graduated on 14th November 2008.

I cried,
I laughed,
I made friends,
I’ve grown,
See, that’s me!”

Prisca received her 1st “degree” certificate from her teacher. Ha-ha.

These are my gang of playgroup mates. Do you know any of them?

She is my good friend Crystal.

I guess Prisca will definitely miss all these wonderful art and crafts that she had did before.

Wonder Pets is another recommendation from me. It is about three cute, little pets staying in a playgroup and transforming into superheroes to save other pets when no one is around. These three pets (a hamster, turtle and duckling) look extremely vivid on the screen especially the turtle which you could see all those green “tattoos” strips on its shell ha-ha.

So this series of Nick JR basically focuses on the theme “teamwork” which is a very good way of letting the children to know that one needs to work in a team in order to complete a certain task. In the stories, there are certain portions that teaches logics and science in solving certain problem e.g. using a fulcrum to lift up an object and etc..

One thing I don’t quite like about Nick JR series is that they do not provide subtitles even in DVD format. Sometimes it is just too difficult to catch what they are saying or singing. Yes, another cute thing about this Wonder Pets series is that they love to sing rather then talk ha-ha…like in the olden day’s Mandarin show (唱山歌). I like their singing, its really sweet and in some ways quite funny too ha-ha.

Have you heard of Peppa Pig (from Nick JR)? The casing definitely looks unattractive at all even to the kids. And it is the simplest 2-D animation of kid’s DVD series I would say ha-ha. Frankly speaking, I once condemned this title. But recently, after watching several times with Prisca, I begin to like it. Maybe it is a good time for parents to explore and change their selection for kids’ animation series from “Barney” “Hi-5” and “Dora” to this group of pig’s family.

Inside this “Peppa Pig” series you will find 12 short stories; with every story’s duration of 5 to 10 mins. So every story will keep you real fresh. It is about a family of 4 pigs (Father, mother, Peppa and Peppa’s little brother, George) and their life. Every storylines are simple and heart warming related to family activities such as camping, gardening, playgroups etc. It also teaches children to be loving towards one another especially siblings, parents and grandparents.

I guess their laughter will too keep you and your child joyful for the whole day. Oink oink…haha.

“What’s that, Papa?” Prisca asked when she heard loud noises given out from a funeral ritual.

“It is a funeral. Remember Gong-gong’s funeral?” I replied.

“Gong-gong died?” she asked again. “Yes, he had passed away. Will never come back again,” I answered.

A question came out of me, “What if Papa dies and never come back again?”

She looked at me and said, “Mommy wills flashcard to you…”

I corrected her, “No, Mommy wills flashcard to ‘me’”.

She said again, “Mommy wills flashcard to me. Mommy wills sleep with me. Mommy wills play computer with me.”

“So will you feel sad if Papa dies,” I asked again.

“No” was the answered from her. OMG…I felt so sad all of a sudden, ha-ha.

“So will you miss me?” I double-confirmed with her.

“Yes, I will miss you,” she said. At least something filial coming out from her mouth ha-ha.

Stickers are children favorite. They like to paste in on wall, books, hands and faces.

Prisca has a new way of “enjoying” her stickers. She likes to pile up her stickers one after another to create a snowball stickers! Frankly speaking, we are quite heartache to see her “misuse” those stickers (although some are free); but we cannot stop her creativity ha-ha.