{"id":20466,"date":"2014-05-14T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:06:17","slug":"kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/05\/14\/kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids @ 17mm, 25mm etc. \u2013 Part 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on another post of our children in the last fortnight. Another recent thing we&#8217;ve gradually realize of our new home is that the Tranquil World-facing bedrooms of our unit &#8211; which includes Hannah&#8217;s room &#8211; gets a seasonal blast of direct sunlight. We didn&#8217;t observe this earlier in the year at the time we collected our keys, but possibly also in good part that the weather has turned hot and humid again, their room gets a good toasting in the early to mid-afternoons every day. As a result, We&#8217;ve been looking closely at solar films and will have some notes to write on very soon.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still thankful that Peter sleeps soundly every night, but boy &#8211; can he make a royal din in the day time. It might be the effect of his room facing inwards against other neighboring blocks and how sound bounces around coupled also with his very healthy pair of lungs, but when he yells, we&#8217;re pretty sure everyone can hear it. Yep; he <em>yells<\/em> for attention, not merely cries for it! Hannah loves playing with him still, but when she&#8217;s busy with something else (like her art n&#8217; craft), our boy gets all moody and will holler when he&#8217;s left alone in his cot.<\/p>\n<p>Ling was sharing too the other morning that our girl has reported being occasionally called names by her friends in school. Nope we&#8217;re not going to step-in at the moment, since this is part of growing up and she doesn&#8217;t seem too bothered by it. But if that&#8217;s indeed happening, it doesn&#8217;t surprise us too much either &#8211; on account that Hannah is just a little bossy and has no compunctions telling other kids off when they engage in acts she believes are wrong. She has the makings of a a social butterfly for sure.<\/p>\n<p>And of late, she&#8217;s returned again to carrying sheets of stickers that she brings along with her when we&#8217;re out of home, and passes them out to other children that she walks past. &#8220;Mommy\/Daddy\/whoever&#8217;s nearer, can you cut this sticker out? I want to pass it to that \u59b9\u59b9 (little sister)!&#8221; In fact, we&#8217;ve had to reign her in a little one time when she wanted to run off to the other side of a Metro store to look for a girl that walked past her several minutes ago LOL.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20467\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5595-morning-play.jpg\" alt=\"The two kids at play at our new home on a weekend morning. \" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5595-morning-play.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5595-morning-play-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5595-morning-play-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two kids at play at our new home on a weekend morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20468\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5637-dinner-hougangave1.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah having fun with ice water and a straw. This was over dinner at a Malay-Muslim cafe @ Hougang Avenue 1. They whipped up wonderful Roti Johns (our Ang mo friend will be thrilled to hear that!).\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5637-dinner-hougangave1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5637-dinner-hougangave1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah having fun with ice water and a straw. This was over dinner at a Malay-Muslim cafe @ Hougang Avenue 1. They whipped up wonderful Roti Johns (our Ang mo friend will be thrilled to hear that!).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20470\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-old-town-white-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Peter's gonna be one year old very soon.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-old-town-white-coffee.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-old-town-white-coffee-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter&#8217;s gonna be one year old very soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20471\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-hannah-OL6A5667-new-noticeboard.jpg\" alt=\"Her new post-it notice board mounted in her room. Hopefully, no more loose pieces of all her drawings all over the house now.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-hannah-OL6A5667-new-noticeboard.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-hannah-OL6A5667-new-noticeboard-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her new post-it notice board mounted in her room. Hopefully, no more loose pieces of all her drawings all over the house now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on another post of our children in the last fortnight. Another recent thing we&#8217;ve gradually realize of our new home is that the Tranquil World-facing bedrooms of our unit &#8211; which includes Hannah&#8217;s room &#8211; gets a seasonal<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/05\/14\/kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-20\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Kids @ 17mm, 25mm etc. \u2013 Part 20<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,526],"tags":[515,545,542],"class_list":["post-20466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-blues","category-new-home","tag-minton","tag-17mm","tag-panasonic-25mm","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-526-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog-2014-children-OL6A5595-morning-play.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}