As you all know, I don’t really belong to the league of blogger mums who religiously update every moment of their children’s milestones. Not that I don’t think they are important, but I think they happen naturally with every child and the real moment of joy already exist in my memory, and nobody really cares when the baby rolls over.. However there will still be certain incidents and stuff I will still toot about. A good example would be Germaine’s street smarts and intelligence beyond the usual mugging.

Today she told me that she discovered a method of easy multiplication. Eg. for 40 x 3, she would not take the numbers as per se. She would first multiply 4 by 3 and then add the zero behind. Same goes for 400 x 30. Just multiply the single digits and then add the zeros behind. This, she discovered by herself by playing around with numbers. I am more impressed with this than any other display of memory prowess. Think kids sprouting chinese poetry and not even knowing what it means or the child reading but not understand anything.

Sometimes she also surprises me with her maturity in handling emotional matters. She can discern if someone is being overly friendly with ulterior motives or being genuinely friendly.

Not to claim credit for it, as these things are intangible and not teachable anyway. But I am proud of her.

She is only 9 and she can take care of her sister and even walk with her to school.. I am very proud of her.