Kieona's Portfolio Oct 2008

Our most recent photo-shoot in October 2008, after Kieona has completed her modelling course... enjoy...

Kieona's First Music Concert at Yamaha

It was an exciting day when Kieona went to perform for her first music concert for her class in Yamaha. It was a mini-concert with just the parents and the kids who are attending Mrs Jen's class, but nevertheless an enjoyable one. Initially Mommy was worried about whether she may freeze as she's never been the best keyboardist in class. Then again as mothers all do, I encouraged her as much as I could, had her well-rested and practised with her more frequently nearer the date.

Knowing her temperament, I had to dress her for her role and made sure she liked the clothes she wore and the way the hair was styled. Every little detail I could think of I did to maximise her potential. After that, I just told her to enjoy herself. (That's the only thing I can think of to tell her since I didn't want her to get stressed up. Even if it didn't go well, I will still be proud of her.)

With Daddy, Kierra and Maria also attending, Mommy wanted Kieona to feel proud of her performance. Perform she did. In fact, everyone thought she was very lively and Mrs Jen was surprised at her performance. Good job, Kieona! Your hard work paid off! Just like your gym coach Janelle said to you before - if you keep doing, you can only get better.

Kids preparing for singing

Kieona concentrating

Kids singing the song "Whales' Sneezes"

Check out Kieona's keyboard performance on Youtube.

Kieona - The Loving Big Sister

Kieona feeding Kierra breakfast

Need I say more? With kids like these, life is a wonder!

Assessment Books....

The kids assessment books.....

I definitely never imagined that I will be one of those parents who will end up buying such workbooks for my kids. But the truth be told, no matter how unhurried you are in your child's academic progress, there will come a time when you realize that your child is way behind his or her peers and you start to panic. So as you may all have guessed from the above picture, we have started putting together these study aids for Kieona and Kierra. Well, depends on how you look at it. It seems that Kieona is extremely interested in doing them, at least for now....

Kieona's Modelling Portfolio

If you have been reading about me talking about Kieona's modelling stunt, then you will know that we haven't signed up for her after her contract expired end of last year. Initially, it is because she was just under 4 yrs old and I didn't want to waste time and money doing the portfolio again without the opportunity for her to enrol in the catwalk course (for above 4yrs). Well, time passed so quickly and I decided to wait after after her 4 year old birthday since we are always either busy with Eugene and sometimes bringing the girls for their enrichments.

As everyone close may have known by now as well, Kieona and Kierra has kept asking for modelling. Kieona more so since she had been exposed before. The lazy mommy said we got to settle in first into our busy schedule..... ahhh... what an excuse as we've taken half a year and everything is still constantly changing.

Recently, some mother on one of the forums Mommy is subscribed to mentioned Impact's website and out of curiosity I went in to check, never once expecting to find Kieona's portfolio in there. As Daddy was hanging around, I just told him about how impressive looking the site was and that I never knew it existed actually. He asked if Kieona was in, and my reply was a curt, "How can it be lah? She's already stopped paying for the contract leh...". Since I was on their page of girl models Com cards, I clicked through some and surprise! There was a familiar picture we also had - it's Kieona! She looks realle lovely. Well, heck the schedules.... maybe we should just plan for a time to send both Kieona and Kierra down - to sign for modelling contracts again....

Check out http://www.impactmodels.com, mouse over the tab "girl" at the top of the site, click on the category "4-12". Scroll down to Kieona Lee.

Hurry, before it gets deleted before I manage to renew her contract.

I Found This in Her Nose!

It has been a disappointing way to end the weekend. Mommy is still troubled close to 1am on this day as she is really disturbed by what she dug out from Kieona's right nostril.

Since yesterday evening I noticed that Kieona had the sniffles, apart from the slight cough she had since early week. She was coughing a little more since Saturday around evening time as well, so Mommy didn't think very much about it, except that the cough may have gotten worse and now she's having a runny nose as well. Since she was busy with some work around bedtime, Mommy just told Daddy to feed Kieona some medicine for the runny nose as well before he went to bed. With the slight mucous at times while watching the television programme, Mommy didn't suspect anything wrong with Kieona at all.

Sunday night before bedtime, Mommy decided to ask if Kieona needed her mucous in her nose to be sucked out by Daddy with the help of the nasal aspirator with the sucking device. It didn't seem like that was much mucous, so Mommy asked if she could check Kieona's nose for dirt (which always happen to be blocking her nostrils so that she has bad sniffles). When I checked with a torchlight, I thought I saw something white in her right nostril. Mommy asked Daddy to take a look at it and Daddy said it's got to be "pee-sai". I thought it was wierd but since it was pretty deeply entrenched in the inner nostril, Mommy asked Kieona to try blowing it out. She tried but it didn't come out. Then, Mommy said she'll try to dig instead. And guess what when Mommy looked in? It was something white and while digging it out, there was blood spewing out of her nostril. Mommy thought a bone had come off and didn't know what to expect. Instinct told me to still get it out no matter.

When it was finally out, we saw what was in the picture below. Kieona must have stuck it inside her nostril and Mommy seriously didn't know where it came from, except that it must have been from some plastic pouches with zippers. Since I couldn't trace where she could have gotten it from, I woke the maid up and after some pondering, the maid said it could have been from yesterday at Nanyang Primary School. We had been there in the afternoon for a registration for P1 talk and the kids were at a child-minding session with Maria, where they were given colour pencils and pictures for colouring. This only meant one thing - that the zipper had been in her nostril since Saturday afternoon! My goodness! It was already there for more than 24 hours and it was a lucky thing we did get it out and the bleeding was not too shocking. Mommy shuddered at the thought if I did not have this instinct asking me to check.

This was the zipper which we found in Kieona's right nostril

Obviously she got a good scolding as this is not the first time she stuck something up in her nostril. She has put papers, tissue papers and some other small objects in her nose before and each time I had explained to her the dangers. Mommy really cannot figure out where she learnt this from and why she keeps doing it even after all the explanations. I am really at my wits end. Will this be the last time?

Pretty in Make-Up (7 June)

Mommy can't explain why the girls are so into having their faces made-up. Although Mommy is not big on putting stuff on her face for practicality reasons, the girls have always been fascinated whenever Mommy applies cosmetics and will insist to be done up as well. After having been forced to take a nap after Isaac's full moon celebration, the girls woke up feeling fresh and ready to slap colours on their faces. Mommy obliged since there was still time to dress up for Uncle Don and Auntie Zhen's wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel. Enjoy their make-up moments....

Kieona pursing her lips to even out the lip colour

Kierra's bedraggled look while having her eyes done

We Pierced Our Ears (17 May)

Kieona had been asking about ear-piercing for a little while now. She started asking Mommy if ear-piercing was painful and whether you need to have our ears pierced to wear earrings. Mommy said yes to both questions. She also asked if I liked to wear earrings. I said not really since I do not always change earrings. Then Kieona sent me a shocker, "Mommy, if you don't like to wear earrrings, then why are you wearing them?". Innocent enough as a question and very logical. Mommy said, "Well, I wear them because I do not want the holes to close". It took a few more days of asking it it was painful and how painful it was before Kieona completely stopped asking about it.

Since Mommy is not really very keen on letting Kieona and Kierra put on earrings at such a young age (cost and hygiene concerns), Mommy thought that that was the end of the saga and tread carefully in case I accidentally trigger it again. Apparently Kieona had not forgotton about it. A few days later while on the couch watching a television program, Kieona asked again.

Kieona: Mommy, if want to wear earrings must pierce ears first right?

Mommy: Yes, darling.

Kieona: It is a little bit painful right, Mommy?

Mommy: Yes, dear.

Kieona: It is not very painful, just a little bit painful right?

Mommy: Yes, Kieona. It is just a little bit painful.

Kieona: I like to wear earrings, Mommy.

Mommy: Ok.

Kieona: I think I want to pierce my ears. Can I?

Mommy: Erm, ok. (Mommy thinks - she's finally asked.) You may pierce your ears - it is really your choice. I have explained to you that it's going to hurt a little. But we've got to go to somewhere more established, like the one Mommy went to. And you must pierce the other side once you've pierced one side. If you feel the pain, you cannot say you don't want to pierce the other side ok?

Kieona: Ok. It's only a little bit painful right, not very painful right?

Mommy: Yes. (I don't believe in telling lies about such things with my kids, even though I'm not the most eager to let them have their ears pierced.)

Mommy asked Kierra whether she wanted to have her ears pierced too. She said no for the longest time, but on the day we went to B*Dazzle in Wisma Atria, she said she wanted it too. Even though there was some hemming and hawing at the shop, we decided to just let her have a go. Knowing Kierra, she will ask for it by the time we get home when she sees Kieona has earrings, if we do not let her do it then.

Kieona, with the pink studded earrings

Kierra, proud with the pink beauty on her ears

Our First Facial Masks (15 May)

Children are creatures of imitation.....

Mommy and Daddy have started getting back on taking better care of our facial skin by using masks a little more regularly. Being the vainpots Kieona and Kierra have always been, they also started asking for it. Mommy thought - no harm, especially since I can cut holes in those small paper pads that I buy and soak them in Diamond Water before putting on their tiny faces to absorb the moisture. Mommy's pretty sure maintenance has to start early for good skin to prevail when it matters. So there, the girls had their virgin facials that day!

Kieona and Kierra's first facials

Kieona the Architect

Did I ever mentioned about Kieona's love for building tall buildings with her Mega Blocks? Well, she sure does. She gets frustrated at times when she spends effort building one and it fell and cumble to pieces or when Kierra or Eugene destroys it, but she usually picks herself up enough to rebuild one that is taller and more stable.

Kieona built this, all by herself

Kieona the Supermodel

We sometimes get amused by the things our kids do, and sometimes they form their own ideas about what they want to do even if they have never quite been exposed to it. I know, because since a very young age, Kieona asked about modelling when Mommy didn't even know where she picked up the term "modelling". We signed her up for child modelling for a year when she was two, and didn't continue at the moment since there isn't really many jobs and Mommy's time is already so packed trying to bring them to and from enrichment classes. Modelling, Mommy feels, can take a backseat for a little while.


Kieona dear hasn't forgotten those days of primping and dressing up for the photo shoots though, and has recently started asking for modelling again. Just look at her professional-looking pose.

Pretty Kieona posing in front of the camera

Abstract Art

It's been a long road Daddy and Mommy have walked down the parenting path, and yet not once have we quite regretted spending time playing with the kids and watching them grow. The proud moments are when you walk away and focus on something else and when you get back, you see something that the child has done which is beyond your expectations.

Kieona just did. She put in some time and effort drawing up something on her drawing board, which completely blew our minds away. It was just curves, done up in a rather artistic way. She said it's a birthday cake and a birthday party. It does look like there's a cake if you look carefully. Abstract art, anyone?

Kieona's birthday cake

Shoes For Sale (31 March)

Dear Kieona has always been into shoes, and Mommy always saw her as a consumer, until recently. She started using blocks to make into "shoes". And high-heeled shoes, mind you. At first, Mommy thought she was just messing up, but it turned out that she actually made those "shoes" for "sale". How enterprising!

Bibik asked her how much a pair costs, and she said "twenty cents". We had a good laugh, and asked if we could have a pair at "ten cents". She said "ok". Mommy then explained to her the concept of money and how as a seller we should make sure that what we sell can cover the cost of "buying" it in. Well, Mommy is not sure if she gets it, but no matter. It's all done in good fun.

"Will you like to buy this pair of shoes?"