HELLO! haven quite posted for some time! Hows everyone???!
Welcome Shu! Jia you and hang in there. Do join in the parties .. they are really fun. Just to intro myself a bit. I am a FTWM with 2 kids, 1st is Jul 08 bb (no longer a bb!) and 2nd one is a Sep 10 bb (still very much one with just the 1st tooth coming out!!). Is not as artistic like PB or as hard working like the rest of the SAHMs

just a very normal working lady who is always trying to spend more time with my kids!
Ok back to topics...
Birthday parties, yes! BG sounds like a great idea!!! Enjoyed it thoroughly the last time.
errrmm Mich place sounds great too!! *hahaha we are inviting ourselves again

* Oh I dont mind craft parties too! But sorry ah, no ideas ... ...
Tantrums girl, I realise it is starting to pass a bit (or am I just too optimistic??!) YEs she does insist on some stuff and do get beaten occasionally (majority of the time, the cane is just to scare her) but is definitely much better than when she just turned 2 YO! Whenever she does something that upsets me, i will tell her, you do this, mummy is very upset and you are not my little helper anymore (she loves being labelled as the little helper) and i will take away a reward magnet that i have given her (which I promised, if she fill it up, she will get a cup of ice cream all by herself when we go out). then she will be super upset and will ask for forgiveness. And she will repeat after me ... saying everyone is upset. Hmm what I am now trying to do is to make sure she dun repeat what she does. Hopefully not.
Realise that she is using words which are pretty difficult. But she uses them correctly. Chinese words - 应该, 我以为..., 还有 and some others. I was pretty impressed. Or am I just easily impressed. haha
Update on mei mei: just turned 9MO and yes she has 1 tooth now (finally!) she is blabbering papapapapapapa and jie jie jie jie jie! xun gal is really happy when she hear mini xun say jie jie jie jie jie hahaha