My First Visit to the Dentist Chapter 6

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   “Hello Dr. Phuong.” My mummy greeted.

   “Hello Mrs. Shee. How did you know about our clinic?” Dr. Phuong asked.

   “Oh… a friend of mine came here before. She recommended me to try. ” My mummy answered.

   “Oh really? That’s good.” Dr. Phuong replied. Dr. Phuong has a face of a grandfather, a kind-hearted and loving grandfather. He had a greyish white hair that matched really well with his white teeth. I guess it is a must to have nice teeth if you ever want to be a dentist.

   "Em… it is her first dental visit so she is a bit nervous.” Mummy told Dr. Phuong as she pointed at me.

   Oh.. what an embarrassing secret mummy…. Dr. Phuong smiled at me. His jaw didn’t really drop to the floor as I would have imagined. Well, it was not that embarrassing after all. But yeah, mum was right. He was handsome.

   “Oh.. no problem sweetheart.” Dr. Phuong said.

   As they were talking, the nurse in charge pushed me to the dentist chair. She was a Vietnamese and she didn’t speak good English. I couldn’t really understand what she said but I could understand from her body language that she wanted me to sit on the dentist chair. Mummy was still busy talking. I was nervous and I wanted to shout for “Help mummy!!!”

   Before I realised it, I was already on the dental chair and hooopsh…. I heard a sound of like the air being let out from a big balloon and I was being “pushed” up. Wow, that was awesome! I felt like I was the pilot getting ready to take off. The nurse put a piece of paper towel on my chest. She clipped the paper towel on one side and role a green wire over my neck and clipped on the other side of the paper towel. That was a DIY do-it-yourself bib. Awesomely easy. Isn’t?

   I was really nervous. At that very moment, I really wanted to escape. I recalled my mummy once told me she was nervous going to dentist too. She was even more nervous going for injection but somehow as we grow, we need to learn to control our nerves and they are controllable. So, I tried really hard to calm them down.

   “Shirley, it is OK. I just need to put on my glove then I take a look at your teeth. I am not going to do anything but just to look at your teeth. OK?” Dr. Phuong said.

   I could not find my voice. I just nodded. Tears came to my eyes but I controlled it from rolling down. I knew I could do it. Mummy said I just need to trust Dr. Phuong and everything would be fine.

   “Oh, you have such a nice teeth there. You must have been brushing your teeth.” Dr. Phuong said.

   I nodded with my mouth wide opened. I came to realise that it was not easy to nod with an open-mouth though.

   “OK, close your mouth a little while.” Dr. Phuong said as he passed me a mirror.

   “Can you see your teeth in the mirror?” Doctor asked. I nodded again.

   “Come over her Mrs. Shee so you can have a good look at her teeth. Let me explain to you.” Dr. Phuong said.

   “She has a few permanent teeth down here and up here as well. Because her gum is still a baby gum, therefore you will see that the teeth are quite “squeezy” down here. But, not to worry, wait for a few months for her gum to grow more.” Dr. Phuong said.

   “OK.” Mummy answered.

   "OK, Shirley. Close your mouth and say gee…You see her front teeth are not inline with the bottom teeth. This is because she has a habit of using her tongue to push her teeth.” Dr. Phuong continued.

   “Babies like doing that but usually they will stop after two and a half years old.” Doctor added. Really?

   “Shirley, you are seven years old already. I am sure you are not a baby anymore. Right?” Dr. Phuong said. I smiled a little.

   “Now, I will teach you how to exercise your tongue so that you will stop pushing the front teeth using your tongue.” Dr. Phuong continued.

   "Open your mouth a little and say ah…, then stick your tongue on the palace… yeah… higher a bit.. yeah… that is right. Then close up your teeth and say gee…. without moving your tongue. OK? Then, try to swallow.” Dr. Phuong said patiently as I did what he said.

   “Sometimes it will be difficult to swallow; perhaps you can give her a glass of water. She can swallow the water instead.” Doctor said.

   “OK, Shirley? Can you do again? Say Ah…. OK OK…. Stick your tongue… yes, very good. Then, say Gee…. OK, now swallow. Well done!” Dr. Phuong said as he nodded with a gentle smile.

   Dr. Phuong said that I needed to do this exercise 10 minutes a day for the next two months. He would see me again in two months time.

   “Shirley, do you like rabbits?” Doctor asked me as he showed me a rabbit face with two front teeth resting on his bottom lips. I smiled a little bit more. He looked really like a rabbit when he did that. A rather cute but elderly rabbit. Gee…

   “wek.. I tenk we ma lik abit but… we don’t want to look like one. Do we?” Dr. Phuong teased. I figured out after that what Dr. Phuong was trying to say ~ “well… I think we may like rabbit but…” I laughed.

   Yeah, mummy was right. Dr. Phuong was funny, handsome and really nice.

   You know, I still didn’t quite understand. How something as soft as my tongue could possibly pushed my teeth out? They are called permanent teeth, aren’t there? Permanent means something that cannot be moved or erased. If you had used permanent markers to write on a whiteboard, the writing would be permanently there and would not be able to move it or erase it.

   “It is because her gum is still a baby gum; therefore it is still not very strong.” Dr. Phuong told my mummy. Wow, Dr. Phuong was not only handsome, nice and funny, he was a mind-reader in fact.

   “Shirley, when you come for the next visit, I will see how well you have done. If it is necessary, we will fix an appliance to help you hold your teeth to the right position. If you practice well, then we will not need any appliance. OK?” Dr. Phuong said again.

   Dr. Phuong showed me and my mummy how an appliance looked like. Yuk! There were wires that looked like braces. It was ugly. Dr. Phuong said the appliance would help to pull my front teeth backward if I tried to push them forward with my tongue.

   “You need not wear it at school. You can wear it at home after school.” Dr. Phuong continued.

   I didn’t want that thing to be in my mouth. It looked like the fake teeth my grandpa was wearing except it had wires instead of white teeth on it.

   “Some children can use their tongue to fix and take out the appliance, without using their hands. It becomes their little toy.” Dr. Phuong said.

   Really? Well, it may not sound so bad if I really had to put it on. If it was for my own good, may be I could try. It was not painful after all.

   As I heard Dr. Phuong was talking to my mummy, my mind wondered. I didn’t know since when I started to relax lying on the soft dentist chair. I still heard Dr. Phuong saying something to me or may be to my mummy as if we still didn’t understand. But I wasn’t paying much attention. I was admiring myself in the mirror that Dr. Phuong gave me just now. It was a special mirror. It was a two sided mirror. One side was a normal mirror. The other side was a magnifying mirror. Wow, that was another awesome!

 

   “Dr. Phuong, Shirley has a few new teeth coming out but the old ones are still there. Is it necessary to pull them out to give way to the new ones?” I heard my mummy asked.

   “No, no. It is still early. Not until it becomes like that, we can let these teeth drop naturally. Keep wiggling it, Shirley, it will be fine.” Doctor answered as he pointed to my other permanent tooth that just grew out of my gum. I had been expert in tooth wiggling. So far, I had wiggled 6 teeth and I had 5 teeth in my secret box. You know why? Let me tell you.

   I lost one of my little teeth in school. It must have been a naughty tooth because it chose the wrong time to come off. I was having PE lesson on that day. As I was chasing after my opponent, I felt something rough in my tongue. Oh my god, something bad happened. I stopped running after my friend, instead I ran for the toilet. I took the tooth out from my mouth and washed it under the running water. I wanted to make sure that it was really clean so I could keep it in my secret box at home. When I was done washing it, I dropped the tooth onto a tissue and then only I realised that there was no tooth in between my fingers! The tooth was so little that I didn’t even know it slipped off my fingers. I didn’t know when it slipped off my fingers either!

   So, back to my first dental visit today, well. it was really nothing after all. It was not as embarrassing as I had imagined. There was no pain. And Dr. Phuong was not a monster dentist either. The visit in fact turned out to be AWESOME!

• I learned how to make a DIY do-it-yourself bib. That’s awesome No. 1.

• I knew how a pilot would have felt at the point of taking-off. That’s awesome No. 2.

• Dr. Phuong’s detective mirror was as cool as my detective pencil case. That’s awesome No. 3.

The only trouble now is, I have to wait for another ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo months before I can own the appliance. I wished really badly for the TIME MACHINE …….

   Don’t worry, the soon-to-be-my appliance will be mine soon. In the mean time, I will make myself busy with the detective pencil case.

   Oh, I almost forgot, I suppose to tell you the story about my teacher who did not agree that I was a PERFECT (= polite + obedient + hardworking + helpful + talented + well-mannered + confident + brave) young lady. I will tell you next time.

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My First Visit to the Dentist Chapter 5

   As I said before, I was a PERFECT young lady. I honoured what I said. I promised I won’t open the present and I kept my promise. Well, to tell you very frankly, I actually forgotten about the detective pencil case for a while. You know, it was not my present yet, it was just a soon-to-be-my present, so I didn’t really ask my brain to keep a record of it.

   "Shirley, tomorrow is Saturday. We are going to see Dr. Phuong.” Mummy reminded me on Friday night.

   “Don’t tell me mummy.” I said.

 

   “Well, you wanted the brave girl present. Isn’t it?” Mummy said.

   “Yeah, but just don’t tell me.” I said.

   Mummy understood. What I meant was just bring me there. I didn’t want to think about it and I certainly didn’t want the monster dentist to come after me in my dream tonight. I just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible.

   The next morning when I woked up, everything seem quite normal. Mummy prepared breakfast as usual. Daddy prepared to go to work. I had my breakfast as usual too, watching my favourite Tom & Jerry cartoon of course.

   As soon as I finished my breakfast, Mummy said: “OK, let’s get going. Dr. Phuong didn’t like patients who are late.”

   I opened daddy’s special cupboard wanted to take a good glimpse of the pencil case before I went to see Dr. Phuong. Daddy had a special cupboard in the living room. He didn’t like anybody to mess up his belongings so he would keep all his things (I meant things that he thought I was too young to handle) in the special cupboard. I knew he would keep the soon-to-be-my present in his special cupboard because that was the only “safe” place in the house, out of reach by a PERFECT young lady like me. But, I tell you a secret. I could reach it now because I have grown taller. Daddy didn’t notice actually. Gee….

   “You can pack it in your bag and bring it with you.” Mummy said.

   “I can?” I can’t believe what I heard.

   “Yes, it is a brave girl present. Isn’t it? It will make you brave. As soon as you finish seeing Dr. Phuong, you can open your present.” Mummy continued.

   Shortly after that, we arrived at the dental clinic. There were a few people waited at the reception area. I saw strangers with sour faces. The nurse at the registration counter was the only one who had smile on her face. Of course she was happy because she didn’t need to see dentist. She sees Dr. Phuong everyday.

   Mummy filled up a form while I was busy trying to control my heartbeat. It just went “pip pop pip pop pip pop pippop pippop pippop”. Mummy said that heartbeat of a normal people would be 60 to 80 a minute. It would not be good if it shoots up to 100. I started to worry if I would get heart attack for that.

   “OK, sweetheart. We are done. Let’s sit down there and wait.” Mummy said.

   “Mummy, can I see my pencil case?” I asked.

   “Go ahead.” Mummy answered without even thinking. I opened it and started to play with it. We were seating by the glass window. I saw two kids were playing jump rope at the pavement outside the glass window where we were sitting. They saw my detective pencil case. I could see how much they admired it. I was so proud that I made the right choice to come to the dentist at this very moment. As they were looking, I started to demonstrate how it worked. They eyes were wide opened, as wide as when I first saw this pencil case.

   “Shirley Shee.” I heard my name was being called. Mummy quickly ushered me to keep my case and followed the nurse to Dr. Phuong at Level 3. My heart went “pip pop pip pop pip pop pippop pippop pippop” again…..

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My First Visit to the Dentist Chapter 4

   “Shirley, dentist doesn’t give injection nowadays. There is a special kind of gel. Spread the gel on your gum, you won’t feel the pain when the dentist pulls the tooth out.” Daddy said.

   Another fairy tale I thought to myself. Nancy Krulik (she is one of my favourite authors of the century) said dentist would give an injection first!

   “I don’t want.” I said.

   “What about daddy buys you a brave girl present? Let’s go and get it now.” Daddy said. This was some kind of surprise to me. Just like the playing computer games in the middle of the night kind of surprise. Daddy never bought me presents for free. I have to either earned it myself or I really behaved very very well at home or on special occasions like my birthday, Christmas or something.

   Within fifteen minutes, we were in the departmental store. Daddy said that as soon as I finished seeing the dentist, I could own the present. We walked round the departmental store. My eyes were wide opened scanning each and every item on the shelf.

   I saw what I wanted. My best friend in old school, Terry, had one of those. It was a nice pencil case. It was not an ordinary pencil case. It was a PERFECT pencil case for a PERFECT young lady like me, Shirley Shee. The pencil case has many gadgets. With press of buttons, my pencils, ruler, eraser would jump out of the case. I could check the dates and temperature with my pencil case too.

   Daddy bought me the soon-to-be-my present. On the way home, I had the pencil case by my side, nicely wrapped in a see-through plastic bag. Daddy said that I could look at it and touch it for a while. After I seen the dentist, I could have it. As I was flipping the case, I saw something - a thin piece of plastic in between the case. Another hidden gadget I thought. When we arrived home, I decided to try my luck.

   “Mummy, may I open the pencil case for a short little little while?” I asked mummy.

   "You will get to open it after you see the dentist this coming Saturday.” Mummy replied.

   “I just want to see the gadget. Just one peek, OK Mummy?” I pleaded.

   “All right, just one peek. You promise to seal it back after just one peek, OK?” Mummy said. I knew Mummy was always nice to me. I knew I had to follow some ground rules but with mummy I could sometimes bend the rules a bit and straightened it back afterwards.

   I opened the plastic bag carefully so that I won’t break it. I needed to wrap it back as best as possible as if it had not been opened before. I tried to press the thin piece of plastic. Nothing jumped out of the case. Strange.

   “Look at the illustration inside the pencil case, Shirley.” Mummy said. Oh yeah, I must be too excited until I couldn’t even think straight.

   I managed to work it out. The thin piece of plastic was swung out. Wow, it was a magnifying glass! Wow, what a detective pencil case!

   I couldn’t wait until Saturday. Another three days, oh dear…I needed the TIME MACHINE badly…..

 

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My First Visit to the Dentist Chapter 3

   “Shirley, you need to see dentist otherwise your teeth will not grow nicely. Brian went to see dentist whenever he has a loose tooth. It is really nothing.” Mummy kept nagging behind my ears.

   “Mummy, I am not Brian. Brian is a boy and I am a girl.” I said.

   “Sweetheart, Dr. Phuong is very good with kids. Sammy’s first dental visit with Dr. Phuong was very pleasant as well.”

   Mummy added on. I didn’t want to pay attention to what mummy was saying.

   “You want to end up like Sammy when you turned 15 years old?” Mummy raised her voice a little bit.

   Sammy was my mummy’s best friend’s daughter. She was 15 years old. She didn’t like seeing dentist just like me. It was worst for her because she had to keep this embarrassing secret for 15 years (I only kept it until 7!). Now she wanted to go to dentist because she would be grown-up soon and she needed to look beautiful. She wanted to do colourful braces just like her best friend. Dr. Phuong said that she had 13 cavities to patch. Before she could do the braces, she needed to fix the cavities. In one month’s time, she had to visit Dr. Phuong four times just to patch all the cavities. Dr. Phuong said that she would need to do only one tooth every year if she had started seeing dentist when she was three. Yeah, I guess I would not want to end up like her. It wasn’t fun at all. it was just P.E.R.F.E.C.T.!

Painful x 13 times - 13 cavities to patch

Embarrassing x 15 times - she was 15 years old

Ridiculous - because Dr. Phuong’s jaw would drop to the floor!

Fantastic Imagination - I guess as we grew, our imagination grew too. There would have been scarier monster dentistsss for sure!

Entertaining x infinite times - a funny story passed on and on and on and … just like my mummy’s friend passed to my mummy, mummy passed to another mummy, another mummy passed to another mummy….. Soon, Sammy would be famous!

Cavity x 13 times - she had 13 cavities, didn’t she?

Total Disasters when all the above add up.

   To receive the honour of "First visit to dentist at the age of 15", you will have 13 cavities to patch, becoming famous for nothing, Dr. Phuong’s jaw dropped to the floor….

   I certainly did not want to be like Sammy. But I didn’t know how to be Brian either. I needed the TIME MACHINE badly…..

   I tried so many ways to convince myself to see dentist because I did not want to end up like the PERFECT Sammy! Unfortunately I just couldn’t find any.

   I flipped through all the records in my brain (my mummy said when we wanted to recall something but we couldn’t, it must be because our brain needed some time to flip through the thousands of pages of information in our brain. Sometimes it took us more than two days to find it or sometimes our brain just gave up looking for it!). I went to my little library (gee… my big book shelf actually) to do some research like my mummy. I read through all the dentist story books I had in my little library. I read them over and over again. I didn’t believe any of the fairy tales in them.

   As you know, to pull a tooth, the dentist would give you an injection. After the injection, the dentist would take a pliers or something to pull your tooth out. Ouch, just like that! Oh my god! That was the worst thing that could ever happen. I hated injection. I hated pliers. I hated loose tooth. I hated.. oh no… I needed the TIME MACHINE badly….. really badly…..

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My first visit to the Dentist Chapter 2

   The secret was ... emm... I should make it more difficult to guess...

Try to break the code to find out about my secret.

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r zn hvevm bvzih low mld zmw r szev mlg yvvm gl hvv zmb wvmgrhg!

   See, I told you, it was a very embarrassing secret. I could not share it even with my best friend. Only my mummy and daddy knew about it. I knew it was not normal for my age but you see, I am a PERFECT young lady; I didn’t have any tooth problem at all.


   I did have a few loose teeth. I wiggled them myself, cleaned them nicely and I kept them in my secret little box.

   You see, when we were sick, we would see doctor. Doctor would give us medicine and we would recover after taking the medicine. Have you ever seen doctors if you were not sick? You get what I mean, that was why I thought it was really not necessary. Unfortunately, one day……

“Shirley, how is your new tooth coming along?” daddy said.

   Come to think of it, I was asking for trouble myself. I was standing in front of the mirror doing funny faces (something I enjoyed doing during my free time, and daddy walked pass me. He saw my teeth in the mirror and that was why he asked. So to avoid trouble in the future, I am telling myself that next time, don’t ever do funny faces in the mirror when your daddy walked pass!


   Daddy flipped my upper lip, and then my lower lip, then he said:” Honey, I think she needs to see dentist. She has two permanent teeth coming but the milk teeth are blocking the way.” My daddy shouted to my mummy in the kitchen.
 
   It was like the whole world came down to my face. NOOOOOOooooooooo!! That night, I couldn’t sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw images of monster dentist chasing after me. My mummy was beside me telling me bedtime stories, patting my back as she used to do when I was three months old. She put my head on her soft chest hoping that I would doze off like before. All these didn’t seem to work at all.


   “Come sweetheart, let’s play Diner Dash!” Mummy said. I was so surprise because it was already over 12 midnight. I was never allowed to play computer games after 9pm. Today, my mummy allowed me to play computer games at 12 midnight! I played and played until my right hand was so tired clicking the mouse button.


   “Mummy, may I close my eyes to rest a while?” I said with a tired voice. Well, not only my hands were tired, actually my eyes were very sore too.


   “Sure, go lie down on the bed for a while. “ Mummy said.


   Before I knew it, it was the next day. I woke up in the morning, I still had that monster dentist in my head. I was expecting my daddy or mummy would ask me to go to dentist again. But surprisingly, nobody mentioned anything. I thought to myself: “Yes…. I am safe”. See, like I said it is really not necessary to see dentist after all.


   Several days passed, the monster dentist disappeared and I forgot about the dental visit all together. My mummy forgot about it too, I thought, until one day……


   “Shirley, I found a good dentist! Dr. Phuong is very good with kids. All my friends’ children go to him. He is funny, nice and handsome. My friend’s daughter, she is …..” Mummy was talking non-stop. This was what I meant sometimes my mummy’s request could be quite “overboard”!


   Finally I knew why nobody was talking about visiting the dentist during the past few days. Mummy needed time to do research. It took her 3 days 7 hours and 30 minutes to work on her research paper (I figured them out in a piece of paper by calculating time from the day daddy checked my teeth until this very moment).

   The whole world practically splashed all over me from head to toes. How I wished I had a that could bring me to one day after the dentist visit!

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My first Visit to the Dentist Chapter 1

    Hi, my name is Shirley Shee. I am 7 years old. My mummy always said that I am the best child among her other friends’ kids.

   My mummy also said that many of her friends so envy of her having me as daughter. Especially those with boys, naughty boys I mean. Every time they saw me, they would have the urge of having another baby, of course a baby girl as sweet as Shirley Shee, and that is ME!

   From young, my mummy said I have been very good girl, apart from when I was in her womb, I was kind of naughty as my mummy was saying. I liked to disturb her at 1.45 in the morning. She had to wake up in the middle of the night to sooth me to sleep again. Mum, I wasn’t naughty actually. As you knew, I was not able to speak at that age. I was just trying to tell her that I would be born at 1.45am. See, I was born at exactly 1.45am on the 12th of December.

   But, after I came out from her womb, my mummy said I was never a problem. Well, only the initial three months after I was born, I had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night. My mummy had to carry me and patted me on my back so that I would go back to sleep. As soon as I dozed off, well kind of, she would set me in my bed.

   As soon as I was in my bed, I started to cry again. Mummy had to pull me to her arms again and … over and over she had to do this until… She got so tired that she put me on her chest while she leaned on two pillows behind her back, then she would pat my back trying to catch some sleep at the same time.

   Sometimes mummy dozed off before I did. Even at that age, I knew it because when she dozed off, she stopped patting me. But, that was OK mummy, I understood. I loved her soft chest, not really the patting though. I couldn’t speak at that time, so I couldn’t tell her that.

   Mummy said that she needed to rest because she had to go to work the next day. She couldn’t be staying up all night to watch me. Well, mummy didn’t quite understand me. I didn’t do it on purpose actually.

   As you know, I was not able to speak at that age, so it was kind of hard for me to explain to her how bad the baby cot cushion was. It was very hard that I could feel how many wooden planks below the cushion. It made me so hot until I could feel my sweat building up behind my back and around my neck. How would I be able to, at the age of three months, to sleep on such a bed?

   So, I decided to express my thoughts through theeeesseee actionsssss. Anyway, my mummy said that was OK because she knew I missed her heartbeat and she was happy that I missed her even in my dream.

   Well, back to where we were, as my mummy was saying, she had never had any problems with me since I was three months old. I had no problem at all in school. All of my teachers except one (I will tell you the story later), said that I have been a very polite, obedient, hardworking, helpful, talented, well-mannered, confident and brave young lady. She has been very proud of me all the time. I knew it of course, because from her smile and her sparkling eyes, I could see them.

   I always tried my very best to do what mummy asked me to because I knew there were good stuff and there made me become a better person.

   Well, you know, like the grown-up said, we are humans, we made mistakes too. So, sometimes I could not help it when my mummy’s request was a bit “overboard”. I threw tantrums sometimes. But, I am sure everybody does.

   I saw my mummy threw tantrums to my daddy sometimes. My daddy did the same thing to her too, and sometimes to me as well. I forgave them. So, I would expect they would forgive me as well. Nevertheless, I promised myself I would try harder to make my mummy happy every time I upset her.

   Having been such a PERFECT (= polite + obedient + hardworking + helpful + talented + well-mannered + confident + brave) young lady, I had (I think) one little bad stuff. I won’t really say it was a very bad one, but I think it was more like a secret. An embarrassing secret that nobody (especially my beloved teachers and best friend, 2nd best friend, normal friends should ever know). The secret was…………. 

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A Special Birthday [不一样的生日] ~ 4/4

I like writing little stories for my girl. I shared my thoughts through these stories I wrote to her.

This story in particular... it started off with a project she has to do in school "Who Am I?"

In this project, she needed to put together all the photos on how she celebrated her birthdays since birth. She needed to write a few sentences about her birthdays. Obviously it was mummy's job as well. I started off searching for the relevant photos hoping to bring back some memories of the past. I must say that we didn't celebrate every birthday in a grand way.

As she was doing it, I noticed that she was kind of upset when it came to the "quiet birthdays".

I decided to write this story for her.

For ease of reading, I have split the story in four parts.
Please start from "A Special Birthday [不一样的生日] ~ 1/4".

Little Story for your child to read

"Hi children, please pass up your little birthday story. Let teacher see whose story is the most special one." Homeroom teacher said first thing in the morning.

Cheng passed up her little story happily. Everybody else in the class did too. Some even brought along their birthday gifts and photos.

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"Class, I have read through all the stories and they are very lovely. I have chosen one special one to share with all of you." Said the teacher.

My little Birthday Story

My birthdays were very simple. It was almost the same every
year. There was only a little cake and that's all. Neither a big surprise presents nor Barbie doll.
But, I enjoyed every moment of it because every year my daddy and mummy would make me a birthday cake. They learned to make different fruit cakes because I enjoyed both fruits and cakes. Most of all I love rainbow.
When I was one, my daddy and mummy made a strawberry cake for my birthday.
When I was two, my daddy and mummy made an orange cake for my birthday.
When I was three, my daddy and mummy made a banana cake for my birthday.
When I was four, my daddy and mummy made a green apple cake for my birthday.
When I was five, I had a blueberry cake for my birthday.
When I was six, they made me an indigo Hello Kitty (my favourite of character of all times) because there was no indigo colour fruits!
Now I am seven years old, my daddy and mummy will make me a purple grape cake.
They did give me a birthday present every year. I wish to thank my daddy and mummy for what they have done, this little birthday story is for them.

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给孩子自己读的小故事
“同学们，请你们把你们的生日小故事交给老师。让老师看看谁的生日最特别、最棒。”今天一早老师向全班同学说道。

真真很开心的交上了她的生日小故事。同学也交上了他们的小故事。有的同学还带了他们的生日礼物和相片给老师看。

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“同学们，老师已经看过了所有的生日小故事。老师选了一个很特别、又很棒的小故事。让老师读给你们听。

我的生日小故事

我的生日很简单 (jiǎn dān)，每一年的生日都是一模一样的。只有一个蛋糕，没有朋友送的大礼物，也没有Barbie 娃娃。


可是，我过得很开心。因为每一年的生日，爸爸和妈妈会给我做一个蛋糕。 爸爸和妈妈为了我的生日每一年都学做不一样的水果蛋糕，是因为我很喜欢吃水果，又喜欢吃蛋糕，也很喜欢彩虹 (cǎi hóng)。

当我一岁时，爸爸和妈妈送给我红草莓蛋糕。


当我两岁时，爸爸和妈妈送给我橙味蛋糕。

当我三岁时，爸爸和妈妈送给我香蕉蛋糕。

当我四岁时，爸爸和妈妈送给我青苹果蛋糕。

当我五岁时，爸爸和妈妈送给我蓝草莓蛋糕。

当我六岁时，因为找不到靛 (diàn) 色的水果，爸爸和妈妈送给我一个靛色的hello kitty (我最喜爱的卡通娃娃）蛋糕。

现在我七岁了，爸爸和妈妈会送给我紫色的葡萄蛋糕。
原来，爸爸和妈妈每一年都有送礼物给我。我要谢谢我的爸爸和妈妈，所以我要把这个生日小故事送给他们。

~~~ 真真写 ~~~

The world becomes much more beautiful if there is

LOVE and APPRECIATION in it.

如果有爱和感恩的心，这个世界会变得更美丽。

A Special Birthday [不一样的生日] ~ 3/4

Little Story for your child to read 给孩子自己读的小故事

"What are you making this year?" Cheng's daddy asked.

"Cheng turns 7 this year. I am going to make her a grape flavour cake, come, let's do together! Cheng's birthday is coming soon, I hope we can make a nice and delicious grape cake for her." Cheng's mummy said.

"It is already 12 midnight. You are always busy making cakes when it comes to her birthday, aren't you?" Daddy replied.

"Cheng likes to eat fruits and cakes. So, we will make a nice fruit cake for her every year."

"You made a nice Hello Kitty cake last year. Why don't you make the same one?" Daddy asked.

"We have been making rainbow cakes for Cheng all these years!" Mum replied happily.

Cheng's daddy and mummy were busy making cakes, mixing the flour, add in the eggs, sugar... and chatting away.

Cheng was awaken. Soon, she realised that every year her daddy and mummy would be busy in the middle of the night making birthday cakes for her. They were colourful cakes every year. They were rainbow cakes!



“今年你又做什么蛋糕给真真过生日？”真真的爸爸问道。





“真真今年七岁了。我给她做葡萄 蛋糕，我们一起来做吧！真真的生日快到了，希望可以做个好吃的葡萄蛋糕给她。”真真的妈妈说道。





“现在已经十二点了。你每一年到真真的生日，三更半夜 (sān gēng bàn yè) 就忙着做蛋糕。”





“真真喜欢吃蛋糕，又喜欢吃水果，所以我们就做一个好吃的水果蛋糕给她。”





“去年你做的hello kitty 蛋糕，也很好吃。为什么不再做？”





“从一岁到现在，我们给真真做的是彩虹蛋糕呀！”妈妈开心地说。





真真的爸爸和妈妈在厨房里边谈天、边做蛋糕。放面粉、鸡蛋、糖等等。





真真被爸爸和妈妈的声音吵醒了，真真才发现原来每一年的生日蛋糕是爸爸和妈妈三更半夜、很用心地给真真做的。而且 (ér qiě)，还是每一年都不一样，是彩虹蛋糕！

A Special Birthday [不一样的生日] ~ 2/4

Little Story for your child to read 给孩子自己读的小故事

Cheng thought it over and over, and she decided to write a very special birthday with plenty of presents to her teacher.

"Cheng, come and have dinner. Do your homework after dinner." Mummy was shouting from the kitchen.

Cheng kept writing and writing... until ah... she finished writing her story. She was happy because there were many guests came to her birthday party and she received plenty of presents until the whole house was turned into a toy shop!

Teacher would be happy to read my birthday story and it is going to be the best special birthday ever. Cheng thought to herself.

真真想了想，打算写一个很特别、又有很多礼物的生日会交给老师。




“真真，快来吃饭。吃完饭再做你的功课。”妈妈叫着。




真真写啊、写啊、终于写完了生日会的故事，她很开心，因为生日会很特别、有很多朋友带了很多的礼物来，把整个家变成了一间玩具店了。



真真想老师一定会说真真的生日会最特别、最棒了。

A Special Birthday [不一样的生日] ~ 1/4

Little Story for your child to read 给孩子自己读的小故事

"Children, how did you celebrate your birthday every year? Write them down." Said the homeroom teacher to all the students one day.

"you can write down what you get on your birthdays, how did you celebrate every birthday? Where did you have your birthdays? Who did you celebrate the birthdays with? Let's see whose birthday story is the best and the most special one."

After listening to what the teacher said, Cheng felt very sad because her birthdays were just and really nothing. Only a cake, and there was no present from anyone but a cake. Every year, her birthday was celebrated on their little round dining table at home. Daddy and mummy would sing her a birthday song, followed by Cheng would cut the cake. It has been the same thing over and over every year. What could Cheng write to please her teacher and her classmates?

Other children must have very special birthdays, vaca-birthday on a cruise, in nice restaurants, on boat. In addition, they would receive plenty of presents and gifts too! Games, Barbie dolls, remote control car, airplane and others. But, Cheng didn't have anything.

给孩子自己读的小故事

“同学们，你们每一年的生日是怎么过的，把它写下来。”老师对学生们说。

“你们可以写下每一个生日得到的生日礼物 (lǐ wù)，过了一个怎样的生日会，生日在那里过，和谁一起过生日。让我们看看谁的生日会最棒、最特别。”

真真听了老师的话，苦着脸儿在想 , 因为她每一年的生日，只有一个蛋糕。没有礼物，也没有什么特别的生日会。每一年的生日都在家里的小圆饭桌上过。爸爸和妈妈唱生日歌给她听，然后真真切蛋糕。

每一年就是这样过。真真不知道要写什么交给老师。

其他同学的生日一定很特别，去旅行过生日，在餐厅开生日会，在船上开生日会。

而且，会有很多礼物吧！有电动游戏机、Barbie 娃娃、电动汽车、玩具飞机 等等。可是真真一份礼物也没有。

新衣歌

Little Story for your child to read 给孩子自己读的小故事

新衣 (xīn yī)

新年到，穿新衣 。

生日会，穿新衣。

考第一，穿新衣。

开心时，穿新衣。

甜梦里，穿新衣。

买新衣，穿新衣。

旁边歌

Little Story for your child to read 给孩子自己读的小故事

旁边 (pángbiān)

妈妈呀, 缝衣服，妹妹呢, 坐旁边。

小明家, 院子大, 小河就在它旁边。

我坐巴士上学去，朋友坐在我旁边。

树下有只兔子在睡觉, 睡呀..睡呀..睡到老虎的旁边。

小伟的生日变成了吹泡泡日

给孩子自己读的小故事，


今天是小伟七岁的生日。小伟请了他的好朋友们来一起过生日。

生日当天，小伟的好朋友们很早就来到他的家。

小伟的妈妈正在厨房忙得不得了。

小伟的好朋友们看到了，放下手上的玩具，说道：“我们来帮助小伟的妈妈吧！”

小伟和他的好朋友们马上跑到厨房，帮助小伟的妈妈做事。

小伟的妈妈很高兴，说道：“谢谢你们。你们好乖哦！”

他们帮助小伟的妈妈把食物和水果放到桌子上，再把蛋糕也放在桌子上。

小伟的妈妈很高兴，说道：“谢谢你们帮助我。你们好乖哦！你们这么乖，我给你们玩吹泡泡吧！”

小伟和他的好朋友们很高兴因为小伟的妈妈给了他们每人一瓶泡泡。

他们玩得很开心。

你来吹，我来挡。看看谁的泡泡飞得高， 看看谁的泡泡飞得远。

玩着。。玩着。。大家都忘了今天是小伟的生日。

小伟喊着：“哇！你们怎么把我的生日变成了吹泡泡日呢！”


重复字：

好朋友 帮助 乖 吹 泡泡
hǎo péng yǒu bāngzhù gūai chūi pào pào

空中飞人的故事

给孩子自己读的小故事，

有一天，当我在操场上玩耍时，一个不小心，我摔了一个筋斗。

哇！我的背好痛啊！

老师马上帮我擦擦背，哇！

我的背不痛了！

回到家里，妈妈看了看我的背，说道：“哇！你的背怎么啦？”

我说道：“妈妈，今天我做了空中飞人因为我在操场上摔了一个筋斗！”

妈妈笑了笑说：”来吧！妈妈给你擦擦背吧！”

哇！我的背全好了！



重复字：

背 痛 擦 哇 摔 筋斗
bèi tòng cā wā shūai jīn dǒu