Toky>> you know, my baby will throw up easily during feeding. But my helper yesterday asked my part-time to do the feeding for her while she could be released to do her own things. As a result, baby Jodie threw up almost half of the quantity she took. BTW, will you join the School sports day tomorrow?
Eve>> I'm fine and have been back to the office for two weeks already. We had been very busy in the office and I worked from 8 am to 10 pm :cry: For almost a week, I did not have the chance to carry baby Jodie. :-( Now that the event is over, I hope life will become beetter ?-( Baby Jodie is OK, with the only problem of taking milk. She prefers sleeping to eating. So she tends to fall asleep during feeding. As a consequence, she takes very little milk and will throw up very easily. She has dropped form a medium size baby to a small size baby already :-|
Hey, How's your Tiffany?
芸迪, yes, my Christmas holiday begins today. I plan not to take any work home and really enjoy my holiday.
Michelle, I seem that Jodie is like her sister who doesn’t enjoy eating. But I think it is good for baby to sleep more. Will Tiffany ask you to let her take care of her little sister, say feeding her?
My Tiffany is doing fine. I am thinking if I will let her study in another kindergarten next September. I haven’t made up my mind yet. After all, we still have a lot of time to think. I took her for a language test last week, the speech therapist said that her Chinese level was not up to standard (behind 6 months). It goes back to the question I discussed with you some time ago on the phone: Should we continue to use English with her? The speech therapist said that a lot of HK parents are doing that, hoping to have “double win”. But as a result, it may be “double loss”. What do you think of that?
I am going out for lunch with Tiffany now and will talk to you all again in the afternoon.
Eve,
I've discussed with daddy on using what kind of language to communicate with holman. For us, there are 2 live cases in front of us: one is Jaykan and the other is (Wayne) the son of my brother-in-law (2 months younger than Jaykan and also was an early borne child).
For Wayne, his mother talks to him in pure english and his father talks to him in pure chinese. He is taking care by Phillipino maid daily. He "spoke" very late. He knew the command early but won't / couldn't talk even 麻麻 or 爺爺 when he was almost 2. Now, he talks just so so in either english or chinese. I will say that his english is 50 marks and chinese is 40 marks for his age. (total is 90 marks out of 200)
For Jaykan, you know he talks so smart in chinese and now wendy begins to teach him english. I may say that his chinese is 90 marks and english is 20 marks for his age. (so total is 110 marks)
On the other hand, you knos, children develop language rapidly in the age of 2-6. So, if I were you, I will begin to teach Tiffany chinese frequently. The can manage both languages at the same time ga. Of course, you may select some days (let say sat. or sun.) talks to her in english. I think child in HK MUST learn chinese ga
The above is only my point of view. If you feel not acceptable, just disregard this :-P
Eve,
Holman's now very cute :-P He talks so much all the day long. But he just says "d d dad dad" most of the time. In this morning, I played "林慕德暢快學英文"- a bit like "phonics", he showed me "Ah~ Ah~" loudly :lol: :lol: He begins learn from the disk la~
yes, I can see Jaykan's language development is very good. Now, I try to speak more Cantonese with Tiffany. She has quite good reaction but I can see that sometimes, if she doesn't know how to express herself, she will choose the kind of language she feels comfortable with. Tiffany is very articulate but she lacks Cantonese vocabulary.
I would say Jaykan is an exception - exceptionally good in language and exceptionally good at expressing himself. But what Holmanma said is quite right in the case of my Tiffany too. She understood commands very early (at about 1 year ole) but she only started to talk when she was about 20 months old. Now she has joined the nursury (a Chinese one) for about 10 months, she is totally fluent in Cantonese. Her English ... sorry to say that she is only up to a Philippino maid level
Eve>>BTW, why did you bring Tiffany to a speech therapist for assessment? Is the speech therapist a private practice one? $$$?
wendy,
In fact, I don't know how many vocabularies Jaykan knows now As I seldom hear from Jaykan to speak english But I agree that you may have to speak to him more often (in pure english and full sentance) so that he can adopt the language asap
BTW, I think it's ok for Tiffany to express herself by either language as she feels comfortable. I think her "brain" is used to use english for thinking now.
xxl,
I think Wendy's method for guiding Jaykan to learn chinese is very good. It's one of the reason why Jaykan learnt so fast.
As I seldom hear from Jaykan to speak english 
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