Fun : Visiting Higuain...

Fritz was so amazed when he saw this baby. He is one of Mom's best friend's son. He just born on 11 August. He looked so cute and looked like Fritz before. Mom was really missed the moment when Fritz was still baby. The time flies really fast.....

Traditional Food : Rujak

The most favorite Indonesian food....rujak!!

It's very easy to make. Prepare some fruits, usually we use the colorful and crunchy one such as bengkoang, pineapple, papaya, unripe mango [so sour] etc. We cut it into small pieces and dip it on the sauce. The sauce itself was made from palm sugar and nuts. We crush it together using stone mortar and pestle. We can add some chilies to make it spicy.....

For Fritz, I just made the simple one from his favorite fruits; apple and pear. He cut it by himself using a plastic knife and eagerly dipped it on the sauce. "yummy" ^^

Race Games for Independence day

Every Independence day, Indonesia always have some race games in every around our neighborhood. Many kinds of race games are held to celebrate our Independence day.

As Fritz was too small to follow some games, I maintain some games for Fritz that suit for him.

Eating Krupuk race

I tied a rope and tied the krupuk to be eaten by Fritz and Uncle. It's a small part of krupuk actually. Fritz was so excited to join this game. He asked more and more the krupuk to be tied.

The rules of this game actually don't allow the player to hold the krupuk by their hands. They have to put the hands on their backs. The fact, Fritz was too excited and preferred to grab it by his little hands. Again...again, Momma......^^

Marble race

This was an easy game actually, just move the marbles from one place to other place by using a spoon. Fritz wasn't enjoyed so much. He's got frustrated when the marble felt down.

Overall, it's a nice race we had!! ^^

Traditional Toys : Playing Karet

Playing Karet

This game used to be famous in Primary kids. They always played with their friends and sometimes they brought it to school to be played with their friends in the recess time.

Nowadays, I've never seen kids playing with it anymore as they're too busy with the school things. The worst part when the technology era came around year 2000. Everyone are too busy with their gadgets and forgets already with this stuff.

Karet or rubber....the easiest item can be seen everywhere. They hooked one rubber with other rubbers to make a long rope. Then it can be played with 3 or more person with some rules and I forgot already the rules. ^^

It's a very exciting toy every....

Playing Congklak

Congklak is also a traditional toy from Indonesia. I bought this toy for Fritz when we went to Popo's house. We bought it on traditional market for only cost 8000 rupiahs.

Fritz still couldn't understand how to play it, so he just tried to fill the holes with the beads. He's so exciting playing with it. It's also a nice game ever though we just play with two person.

Fun : Taman Mini Indonesia Indah {TMII}

"Tantangan 30 Hari Klub Oase" ~ Independence Day Theme

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Pre-Nursery : Letter Mm

Fritz is currently 28 months 2 weeks

Alphabet : Mm

Theme : Small Mammals

Picture
He showed lots of refusal. He took lots of time while making it. He didn't excited....

ABC

We started the week with letter M for Mouse.

First, like usual, we made the letter M with dough. He still wasn't able to roll the dough by himself but he love poking it.

Then, we continued by tracing the letter M. He did it nicely and tried to join the lines.

After that, I asked him to color the objects that related with letter M. There were Mouse, Monkey, Moon and Mitten. He showed some refusal. He didn't want to color it though I've persuaded him. -__-'

However, he loved the tracing lines. He willingly made it without any refusal.

The last one was coloring the big Mouse and again he refused to color it. He just colored it little here and little there...soooo fussy!!! @__@

So we ended the lesson after that.....


Activity
*Matching the Mice*

I've got this material from A Heart for Home....

He liked this activity. He wanted to paste it all by himself! ^^


Then we continued with the material from 1+1+1....it was just 3 parts of Mouse and he had to paste the upper with lower M by looking at the shadow pictures. He also made it nicely...

*Matching Mice Footprints*

It' a new activity for him. He has to match the mice footprints. He's so eager doing it and also so excited....^^

*Mouse Puzzle*
New activity for him and he loves this puzzle so much........^^

He made all by himself!!

Cooking

He made his own breakfast, choco peanut bread. He applied the peanut butter by himself and mostly he ate itself than he applied it on the bread....-__-' He also liked to put the chocolate sprinkles by himself and again, he tried to eat it and I must to stop him doing that....^^


Nothing to do this Saturday morning......so we decided to make Pudding. We poured the water, add the jelly powder and some sugar on the pan. He stirred it first before I turned on the stove. While he's waiting, I asked him to put some colorful jelly into the jelly place.

Something bad happened....when I poured the hot jelly into the place, the some colorful jelly melted!! uuuuuhhhh.....what kind of my stupidity!!!! ~__~

Art

After he finished with the Nuts and Bolts, he asked me to do stamping with those. I prepared blue, red and yellow paints and a paper. He felt free to stamp and was so excited. ^^

Practical Life

I tried a new activity for Fritz but he didn't so into in it. I prepared 4 different shape and color of nuts and bolts. I asked him to match to the correct one. He just made the blue one then he refused to continue the rest.



New activity again for Fritz. I asked him to play with the locks. He has to find the key then open the locks. I think, he's not ready for it. Besides the locks are so big and heavy, he also even couldn't find the right key to open and lil bit confuse how to unlock it.


Then, he preferred to apply the key to the keyhole. He loves this so much. He did it again and again.....^^

Miscellaneous

Suddenly it's black out when we're still on doing his work. As we didn't do anything, he followed Oma to upstairs. He insisted to "help" Oma cleaning up the storage.

We've found lots of hidden treasure from the past. Oma still kept so many Uncle's toys when he's still young. Fritz was so excited that he got lots of toys from it. He even tried to help Oma washing the treasures. ^^


The black out took times and we didn't have anything to do. He couldn't sleep as it's so hot. He couldn't play too as it's dark.

So, I decided to ask him out and we asked Oma to follow with us. We went to Hypermart. Like usual, he's so excited going there.

After we took some walks, suddenly, he held my hand and asked me to buy fried rice for him in its food court. Oooow....he's getting hungry, I thought. Then, I bought him a plate of fried rice and he insisted to eat it by himself. ^^ {the plate even looked bigger than his face!! LOL}

Fun

This weekend, we spent the day in Popo's house to follow a Chinese tradition. Together with great-grandmother [pothai], we arrived at Popo's house around 1 o'clock in the noon. There's Popo's little brother with his family. He has 3 children and they're Fritz's uncles and aunty....^^
Fritz was so happy playing with them....


more story here...

Fun : To Popo's House

This weekend, we spent the day in Popo's house to follow a Chinese tradition. Together with great-grandmother [pothai], we arrived at Popo's house around 1 o'clock in the noon. There's Popo's little brother with his family. He has 3 children and they're Fritz's uncles and aunty....^^
Fritz was so happy playing with them....


more story here...

Cooking : Making Pudding

Nothing to do this Saturday morning......so we decided to make Pudding. We poured the water, add the jelly powder and some sugar on the pan. He stirred it first before I turned on the stove. While he's waiting, I asked him to put some colorful jelly into the jelly place.

Something bad happened....when I poured the hot jelly into the place, the some colorful jelly melted!! uuuuuhhhh.....what kind of my stupidity!!!! ~__~

Cooking : Choco Peanut Bread

He made his own breakfast, choco peanut bread. He applied the peanut butter by himself and mostly he ate itself than he applied it on the bread....-__-' He also liked to put the chocolate sprinkles by himself and again, he tried to eat it and I must to stop him doing that....^^

Practical Life : Lock and Key

New activity again for Fritz. I asked him to play with the locks. He has to find the key then open the locks. I think, he's not ready for it. Besides the locks are so big and heavy, he also even couldn't find the right key to open and lil bit confuse how to unlock it.


Then, he preferred to apply the key to the keyhole. He loves this so much. He did it again and again.....^^

Art : Free painting using Bolts

After he finished with the Nuts and Bolts, he asked me to do stamping with those. I prepared blue, red and yellow paints and a paper. He felt free to stamp and was so excited. ^^

Practical Life : Nuts and Bolts

I tried a new activity for Fritz but he didn't so into in it. I prepared 4 different shape and color of nuts and bolts. I asked him to match to the correct one. He just made the blue one then he refused to continue the rest.

Activity : Mouse Puzzle

New activity for him and he loves this puzzle so much........^^

He made all by himself!!

Activity : Matching Mice' Footprints

It' a new activity for him. He has to match the mice footprints. He's so eager doing it and also so excited....^^

Miscellaneous : Eating in Hypermart

The black out took times and we didn't have anything to do. He couldn't sleep as it's so hot. He couldn't play too as it's dark.

So, I decided to ask him out and we asked Oma to follow with us. We went to Hypermart. Like usual, he's so excited going there.

After we took some walks, suddenly, he held my hand and asked me to buy fried rice for him in its food court. Oooow....he's getting hungry, I thought. Then, I bought him a plate of fried rice and he insisted to eat it by himself. ^^ {the plate even looked bigger than his face!! LOL}

Miscellaneous : Clean up the Storage

Suddenly it's black out when we're still on doing his work. As we didn't do anything, he followed Oma to upstairs. He insisted to "help" Oma cleaning up the storage.

We've found lots of hidden treasure from the past. Oma still kept so many Uncle's toys when he's still young. Fritz was so excited that he got lots of toys from it. He even tried to help Oma washing the treasures. ^^

Pictures : Small Mammals

He showed lots of refusal. He took lots of time while making it. He didn't excited....

Activity : Matching the Mouse

I've got this material from A Heart for Home....

He liked this activity. He wanted to paste it all by himself! ^^


Then we continued with the material from 1+1+1....it was just 3 parts of Mouse and he had to paste the upper with lower M by looking at the shadow pictures. He also made it nicely...

ABC : Letter Mm

We started the week with letter M for Mouse.

First, like usual, we made the letter M with dough. He still wasn't able to roll the dough by himself but he love poking it.

Then, we continued by tracing the letter M. He did it nicely and tried to join the lines.

After that, I asked him to color the objects that related with letter M. There were Mouse, Monkey, Moon and Mitten. He showed some refusal. He didn't want to color it though I've persuaded him. -__-'

However, he loved the tracing lines. He willingly made it without any refusal.

The last one was coloring the big Mouse and again he refused to color it. He just colored it little here and little there...soooo fussy!!! @__@

So we ended the lesson after that.....

Pre-Nursery : Letter Ll

Fritz is currently 28 months

I joined with Klub Oase to follow their 30 days challenge to keep our kids busy. I was so excited to make some scrapbook to record our kiddos' activity though sometimes it took times a lot to make it. However, I was full excitement to fulfill the challenge daily. There's no one getting win or lose, it's purely just a challenge without any prizes. Just need some creativity of moms to make the kiddos busy days by days.....and there's lots of idea came out through it....yaaaayyyy!!!!

Alphabet : Ll

Theme : Nature

Picture
He loved it so much, matching the pictures. He made it all by himself! ^^

ABC

That morning, I just need not more than 15 minutes to complete all 6 activities in a row.

We did the dough first. He's trying to make the letter L from it. He applied it into the paper.

Then, he traced the letter L by himself and it looked not really nicely... ^^ I tried to help him by asking him to follow the pattern.

We continued to color the letter L's objects. There were Leaf, Lion, Lemon and Lamp. He asked me, "What is it, Momma?" [pointed the picture] every time he colored the objects. In the 3rd and 4th objects, he asked me to hold his hands while he's doing the coloring...-__-'

Next, he traced the lines very nicely though he started from the bottom to up....^^

Finally, the last one.....he pasted the objects related. He loved the Lollipop one...^0^

Actually, he already got bored already in the 2nd activities. I persuaded him again and again and thankfully he did all successfully...^^

And, after he went round and round...here and there....he sat down again in his chair and asked me to color the Leaf.

Sometimes, I really need extra patience to face his mood in studying. Sometimes, he shows his eagerness and happy to do all the activities. And, sometimes I have to face his rejection too....

*Matching Leaves*


He got a little bit confusing to paste the pic with the shadow as the shadow was too soft. I printed it soft mode. ^^ Like usual, he did it well and still love this activity.

Color
While doing it, he's a little bit cranky and refused to color it. Thankfully, it just took a few seconds and he continued his coloring.

Craft
We bought the eyes first in the morning before we did the craft project. We made a lion from Letter L. I made the Uppercase of Letter L with yellow construction paper. Then, Fritz pasted the mouth, eye, ear and 5 legs. All of them were made from orange construction paper. The hair was from white wool yarn. Fritz just made a little bit of Lion's hair as it's sticky enough for him. So, I was doing the last touch....@__@....

We took some leaves on the way home from buying some things for craft project that day. He put all these leaves inside the black plastic.

I helped him doing this craft as the leaves were too difficult to paste.


I love this lollipop.....because mostly I did this craft. I made the circles in the lollipop and Fritz paste the blue blinks though he didn't do all.....

Fine Motor
I've got this printable from Child Care Land site. They provides so many free printable for preschoolers. I printed this leaf dough sheet to practice Fritz's fine motor skill. He had to make a ball from dough then he must to put it on the circle inside the leaf. So far, he's good in pasting the dough and he completed it without any grumpy. However, he still needs more practice in making the ball.


I was so happy seeing this picture. He made his first face drawings! It's actually very coincidence. He asked me a paper to draw after we've done with the worksheet. I made few drawings for him. Then, I asked him to make a face. A big circle....2 eyes.....a nose.....and a smile. He made it all by himself!!!!!

Workbook

He learnt #2...count the object, trace the number {asked me to hold his hands when doing the tracing} and color the objects.

Cooking

Every morning, I have to face my blank idea for breakfast. Sometimes, I have to ask Fritz what he wants for eat that morning. [lazy mom v-__-v]

That morning, he asked to make Pancake. So, I thought it's a great idea. I asked him to help me as usual. Though I didn't ask him, he's willingly helped me by going to the kitchen and asked this and that. ^^

He's whisking the egg and fresh milk. Then, mixing it to the flour. He insisted to do it.

While, I was starting to make it, he pulled his chair and put it right in front of the stove. Looking out the pan!

Thankfully, he cleaned up his pancake and continued with fried rice right after that.....*gosh*

Besides pancake, he loves Pizza Bread so much. He likes to apply the tomato sauce and cheese. Sometimes, after he applies the cheese, he licks the spoon for the cheese left. He loves the sensation of this pizza. Crunchy....little bit sour...combine with little bit salty from the cheese....yummmmmmy!!!! ^0^

Practical Life
He's getting neatly in cutting with scissors. I was so happy to find this printable from 1+1+1 blog. He's so proud of his work!! ^^

He was so happy when I gave this activity. He loves to pour the water though he hates swimming so much....@__@.....

I filled the jar {big blue bottle} half water then he's completely able to pour to the both of glass with less spilled water. He did it again and again. It took more than half an hour he played with it. In the end, I added him spoon and sponge to play with. He pretended making coffee, then he washed it with the sponge. ^^


Related with our letter this week, luckily, I have this lion for lacing. With little help from me, he successfully made it. He's taking so seriously while doing it. ^^


He insisted to crack the egg by himself. He took the egg and knocked it on the edge of the table then he cracked it. Yes, he did it!! After few minutes, his face showed a disgusting expression as his fingers were getting sticky because of the egg. HAHAHAHaHAHAHaHA.....

Miscellaneous
It's a beautiful sunny day. I wanna make a macaroni schotel but I was lack of milk. I decided to go to the nearby market with Fritz by feet. With shoes and a Cars hat, we walked. Very bad that I couldn't get the milk. So we went to the next destination. We wanted to buy some things related to our letter craft project. After we've done, we went home. During our went home journey, we picked some leaves for our crafts. It's very nice walk with Fritz. ^^


He always feels afraid swimming or playing with water. He really doesn't like it so much. I ever try to persuade him, still he refused to get inside the pool. I think he's got traumatic but I couldn't remember when it was.

So in the Saturday morning, when the garage was car-less {no car inside}, I bravely put his tub there and asked him to play with the water. Can u guess what happen next? He still refused to get inside his own tub. -__-'' fiuuuuuh.....

He sat next to it and played with the water. Few minutes after that, I asked him to sit down on the floor and made him wet by pouring some water on him. He of course got mad and cried. He screamed out that he didn't like it. But...he continued his activity....hahahhahaa.....getting use to with it, finally.

He enjoyed his playing water time almost an hour before I bathed him with warm water......^^

Fun

Fritz was having fun with Kimi in Opa Greg's house to celebrate Uncle Tito's b'day blast. He enjoyed his time playing with Kimi. Both of them with less talking were running here and there, made us giggling with their acts and funny innocent faces.

Kimi is a chubby boy with weight 17,5 kg. He loves to eat lots....and easily to chomp his food.... When he ran, everybody was laughing because of his tummy. Hihihihihi.......

Fritz learnt something. He now is able to go down and up the sliding path by himself. He's the one who never gets brave to do it alone. He always asks someone to hold his hand. When he's able to do it, he went down and up again and again......and never got bored.....