Every Saturday morning, Amabel has to attend her 'I Can Read' enrichment class. Before the class starts, we will stay in the centre's library for them to read story books.



Amabel can read pretty well without very much help now but she is not yet a fluent reader. She can recognizes most of the words she encounters, and deciphers occasional words she does not recognize; we can see her moving her mouth while reading, trying to translate the written word to spoken word before being able to understand what she is reading. However, she can read a number of books independently and discuss the plot and characters.

I think she will take a while more to be no longer mouthing while reading and speed up of her reading gradually increases. With 'I Can Read', it will definitely help speed up the progress.

What I have to teach her...






As for Aisleyne, she knows the phonic sound of most letters, can recognize all letters but still has a little difficulties in writing out all letters (needs help with letter G, K, N and R) and can say out words that beginning with the letter for most letters. She is one that is very impatience when come to reading, writing and basically everything she do, hence is really a big headache for us, as I think it will greatly affect her learning progress. :(

Now she's still unable to read and I'm planning to enroll her in 'I can read' soon.
Haha here a video of her trying to read in her own way, her own story lol~

More on Aisleyne... she got me real angry yesterday while having her dinner. She took really long to eat her meal despite me kept telling her to speed up when I caught her a number of time idling and playing with the things on her dining table rather than holding on to her spoon and fork. I told her she had used up her chances and that I have to cane to punish her.



She cried for more than half an hour non-stop... nope I didn't went up to pamper her... that's not me! Till she got so tired that she fell a sleep at the naughty corner. Well, today she ate very fast, though I still need to warn her a few times.


Wake her up and bathe her, giving me a super PITY face still

Made her a cup of warm milk before putting her to bed

Yes, I started her sister with cup for milk feed as she turned 4. So now that Aisleyne turned 4, of cos she is on cup feed too. Just that for weekday morning milk feed, most of the time she is still on bottle; I have problem waking her up for milk as she is still asleep. Bottlefeed will be so much easier as she can drink milk while partially sleeping. If you don't understand what I mean ->




For both my gals, I let them try learning to brush their own teeth when they are 3. They are still doing it now and I will alway do a thorough and gentle brush for them after they brushed. Going to bring both for another routine dental check again.


Their bedtime, here Aisleyne posing after we had awhile of bedtime chat lol~ and as usual a 'Goodnight' & kiss n bear hug



Woke up for their breakfast
this morning....her  morning milk feed and a bar of cheese.

Labels: Aisleyne, Amabel, bedtime, Educate, Milk, My Gallery, routine, Schedule

Shoo the girls to bed immediate after they have their teeth brushed after their last warm milk feed.

Get them to lie on the bed and stay quiet in the room themselves with the light off and be asleep. Should know, not very possible 😩 unless they are very tired. So most of the time will end up hearing them talking and making noise in the room. I will need to go into the bedroom a few times with cane, to check on them and stop them from talking and making noise again. The most one chances given, get caught again I will start slashing with cane. If again, then I will need to separate them to different room to sleep. For younger girl, Aisleyne, if she is sleeping alone, we will need to on the dim light for her so she won't get frighten being alone.


2 months back, I bought a proper double deck bed for them, Amabel is sleeping on the upper and Aisleyne on the lower. We spent 3hrs+ fixing everything but looking at how happy and excited they are with their new bed, that's all that we want.



They used to sleep together on a floor mattress in their own room. It's either me or hus will sleep with them which is by then they're also asleep. We will lay a mattress beside their bed.

One of us has to sleep with them in case in the middle of the night they need us, cause sometime they will wake up,
- to pee. For both, day time they are able to go toilet themselves w/o assist. For night, they need us to help to switch on the light for them.
- complaining hot
- cause feeling thirsty, wanting to drink water.

Some days, they will still sleep together with us in the master room


A bedtime rules and routine are really important for a kid. I just hope I have the ability to get everything done early and able to get them ready to bed even much earlier.

Tonight, Amabel is sleeping in the master room with Hus where Aisleyne with me in the girls' room.


I got to set alarm and get into bed now. Night~

Labels: bedtime, house rules