Little girl of prayer

Candra's been into 'praying' recently. :P

She often requests that I pray for her papa and didi especially.

She communicates her request by signing the word "pray", followed by saying either "papa" or "didi".

She's just such a sweet darling... though I do feel jealous that she prays for papa and didi more than for mama haha!

She's been such a reminder to me of the importance of prayer.

Yes.. we should be praying continually... talking to God about everything.. nothing is too small in His eyes.

And I just want to thank God for answering my prayer just now.... my prayer that Candra would let me brush her little teeth properly :)

Day 5 without helper :)

My domestic helper returned to her hometown for a week last friday.. :)

Just before she left, I was a little anxious.. wondering whether I would be able to cope on my own.

Thankfully, I have been enjoying myself quite a bit. Of course, I am grateful for all the help that's coming from my elder sis who's taking some leave from work to babysit Candra while I go back to office for some half days... and today, I had the help of my mother-in-law.

The cooking, washing, cleaning etc. can be tough at times because of my big tummy.. but I do find myself enjoying that, surprisingly.. haha.. :) And of course, hubby has been a great help!

Well...I am not too sure when the decision to stay at home will be made.. but I guess it will happen at some point.. :) And I am glad the experience these few days has been rather positive.....haha!

My beautiful girl

Candra's a sweet little darling :) I want to blog about her at this phase of her life before she moves on to yet another phase.

She's learnt gratefulness in that she signs "Thank you" voluntarily now :) In the past, we had to prompt her all the time, as part of the training process... nowadays, we find her signing that to people voluntarily. That's so encouraging, we feel.

Apart from her "Thank you"s, Candra has also learnt the concept of "Sharing". We taught her how to sign share and started out teaching her to share her food, toys etc. with others. These days, when we talk to her about her little brother who is arriving soon, she will sign "Share" and point to my tummy.. cos we have been telling her that she will need to share her food and toys with him :) But of course, she's learnt the concept so well that when she sees us with food, she will point to us and sign "Share" too..hehehe... And more often than not, we will feel obligated to share some with her to set some good example. :P

I love those times when she just voluntarily hugs my tummy and kisses her baby brother. Sometimes, she does that first thing in the morning when I pick her up from her baby cot (before even calling me or saying hi to me)...Oh, what a lovely sister. She's learnt that 'didi' is a baby..so she points to my tummy whenever she sees a little baby. Sometimes, when she's eating or drinking her milk, she would offer her food/milk to my tummy, for her little brother.... and I got to pretend to feed him too :P We hope she will really grow to love her brother when he arrives...

Although she's also been asserting herself and expressing anger more lately... guess that's part of the discovery of self....we still enjoy her tremendously and are ever so encouraged that she's kind at heart.

During dinner just now, she decided to play the "Praying game" I think :p It first started out with me saying, "Candra, let's pray for daddy who is having his Greek exam". After the 1st prayer, she just kept prompting me to do it again and again and again. I think we ended up praying for daddy about 5 to 6 times. After that, she decided to pray for her little brother instead. And again, we prayed for him maybe 3 to 4 times cos she just kept wanting to do that. The amazing thing was, I felt 'didi' kick inside me when we prayed for him. :) Though that to Candra might have been a small game, deep in my heart, I prayed that she will grow to love praying to God... praying all the time...many many times, for many many people :p.

I love to see how God's forming character in her.. even at such a young age and it's my prayer that she will grow up to become a young lady with a beautiful heart.

The miracle involving 2 labrador retrievers :)

We experienced a miracle from God and we thought we should this testimony. It's a story about 2 lost labrador retrievers :)

Last friday, my sister (who is a super big dog lover by the way) found 2 labrador retrievers around their estate.. basically, they were somewhat lost.

Well, my sis, being a dog lover couldn't have left them unattended so she brought them home, to join our other dog Farnia!

We prayed to God to help us locate their owners. My sis tried to contact the SPCA and AVA, put up posters around the estate, go around asking neighbours whether they had seen the dogs etc... but to no avail.

Then I told my sis, "Jie, I have got a huge feeling that these dogs come from pretty far away, that's why there hasn't been any activity from their owners in our estate."

Traits of the 2 dogs:

1. Super cute

2. Super friendly

3. Look like brothers cos they took really good care of each other, taking turns to have their food and drinks, moving around everywhere together

4. Can't separate them (sis brought one out to find their owners and the other one FREAKED OUT!)

5. One's slightly bigger than the other and darker coloured than the other

6. Wore chains and not collars

Well...Till Sunday, we had no news whatsoever. We were contemplating putting up the dogs for adoption at some point (which would mean separating them probably), or keeping them at home permanently.

One monday morning, while Candra and I were having her usual devotion time, the topic was on prayers and her learning lesson was that God hears and answers prayers. So well, we prayed again, "God, please help the doggies find them papa and mama!"

GUESS WHAT! On monday afternoon, my sis called and said, "WE FOUND THE OWNERS!"

And I was wondering how.... you know how?

My sis decided on sunday night to put up on her facebook that she found 2 labradors... amazingly, an acquaintance who had my sis on her facebook replied and said that she had a friend who just recently posted that she lost her 2 labradors!!!!!BINGO! So that's how my sis managed to get in touch with the owners.

Checked with them the traits of the dogs.. and yup, all matched.. especially the part where they said, "they are brothers who grew up together and cannot be separated at all cost!"

And well.. I was right, they came from far away! HOLLAND ROAD.. travelled all the way to Farrer and then to Coronation.... that's how they got lost.

I was like "WOW! GOD IS AMAZING!"

First of all, He answered our prayers.. secondly, it just shows that He cares for the doggies and had everything planned out when He knew they were going to get lost.

If the dogs weren't found by my sister, they may not find their original home cos the link with owners was established through a friend of my sis.

Basically, God knew these 2 naughty dogs were running out.. and planned that they be found by my sis, who would then locate the owners through FACEBOOK!!!!

God really cares...doesn't He?

And I shared this story with Candra to remind her that God really hears and answers our prayers :)