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.