The Blue Ranger: Ethan-25 months

04 July 2008

Disciplining a Drama King

2 years, 1 month, 1 week & 5 days old.....

When he misbehaves, we always have to resort to different ways to correct him. It normally starts with explanation as to why he cannot do it. Sometimes he listens to us and stop doing it but most often than not he will give us a stern 'NO!!' even though we told him in a nice way. When we asked him to say sorry, his answer is always 'NO SORREEEEEE!!'. I will ask him repeatedly until he says sorry. My last resort is to 'sayang' him first and ask again. Normally, when the situation soften he will say sorry. Very ego ler.....

Last Thursday, he was feeding himself on the highchair at home. After he got bored of that, he started to play with the rice. We told him to stop playing with the rice, at first nicely but when he chose to ignore us after repeated advices, we finally gave him a stern warning. The result......

He didn't cry out loud, just biting his upper lips, with tears rolling down. We ignored him totally, trying not to fall in to his latest trick. Both hubby and me giggled at certain points but tried to control ourselves. After about 5 minutes, he returned to his usual self again.

24 June 2008

Our Very Own Photobook

2 years, 1 month and 2 days old.....

After four months of designing, I finally managed to complete our very first photobook last Friday. I sent the file over for printing and made the payment on Friday itself. Before I sent, I called them up coz I saw on their website that they are giving free shipping to Malaysia and Singapore. Unfortunately, it's free for those who are using their latest version of software/ Mine was the old version coz I downloaded it sometime end 2007. Yeah, it took me that long to make up my mind that it's worth the money. I asked the guy if i could transfer my file to the new version of their software and he told me it's impossible. I need to redo the whole thing using the new software, which I told him no way! I'm not going to waste my four months of effort. Actually, the price difference is only about RM10 with the free shipping coz they have increased their prices.

In the end, I sent them the file and they delivered to my office on Thursday afternoon. I was so excited and satisfied with the result. The qualities of the print and papers are really good. I showed it to my colleagues and they all agreed with it.

The photobook is a present for Ethan's 2nd Birthday. I compiled his pictures from newborn up to his 2nd birthday. Designing it was not difficult as the software is user-friendly. The only downside of it is you cannot 'undo'. So, the safe way is to save the file everytime you make a change and if you are not happy with it or accidentally do something wrong, just 'refresh' the file. Pretty tedious.

Another very time consuming task is downloading all the digital scrap book images. The images/background provided in the software were very limited and I don't like them. However, they told me the new version is better now but I haven't seen them so I don't know.

I spent four months on it because I wasn't doing it all the time. When I'm dead with ideas, I left it for a few days before start working on it again. Another thing is, I practically doing book scrapping using the software. So, 40 pages, just imagine the work required.....and I'm not a 'pro-scrapper' like Nadia and Jazzmint.

A little insight to my photobook.....

The cover page.