Emily knows that her birthday is coming. I told her she can go to the toys shop to select her present. We went to the toys shop a couple of times but she has not decided what she wants. One day she wants this and the next day she wants that. Gals, they can be very fickle minded. Her choices were a Barbie doll dancing set or a digital camera or a pool of balls or a doll house.

I quite like the idea of a digital camera toy that really takes digital pictures. She may become a little photographer. Fisher Price is selling it for RM200. Anyone know anywhere cheaper?

As for her celebration, she wants to have it with her school friends. She just has to wait for school re-opens. Guess what picture she wants on her cake? I hope she hasn’t changed her mind again.

Tim is due for his booster jab DT-Polio and I may want to start him on Hepatitis A. One day I was eating some clams and he wanted to have some.

Tim: Mummy, can I have some of this? What do you call this?
Mummy: Clams but you cannot eat this.
Tim: Why I cannot eat?
Mummy: You haven’t have Hepatitis A vaccination.
Tim: What is that?

So mummy starts her little story. The clams have small bad guys, like decepticons. You need the doctor to put some good strong guys in you like autobots. When you eat the clams, the bad guys go into your body. You will not get sick because the big strong good guys in your body will fight against bad guys! You will win and become healthy.

The vaccination is when the doctor put the good guys in you. Ok, the story is a little twisted but I guess he gets the idea. Now is a good time to administer the jab because it is school holidays. However we have to wait till we come back from Cameron Highlands. Anyone wants any cherry tomatoes?

Remember the teacher always says that in order for you to learn in a speedy manner or to grasp what you have been taught is to apply it in your daily activities. Emily uses a very creative way to put her learning in to practice. More so, she uses her body parts in the funniest way to get things done her way. Talk about creativity, she never runs dry.

Here is what she comes up with:

Mummy, my legs want to sleep, my legs cannot walk, please carry me.

Mummy, my tummy wants to sleep, tummy don’t want to eat rice already.

Mummy, my hands tired, my hands don’t want to do homework.

Mummy, my head wants to sleep, my head don’t want to eat.

Mummy, my tummy wants drink Vitagen.

Mummy, see my fingers want to open the fridge and get some sweets.

Mummy, my hands want to sleep already, my hands don’t want to brush teeth.

Mummy, my mouth wants to drink some ribena.

What does mummy say? Does your butt want to touch the cane? :giggles:

Today as I entered my study room to start working, I saw this on my notebook.

How touching! The cards are so well made. Thank you teachers of the tadika!

It shot me up to cloud 9. It just made my day and it makes me want to hug my children. However I woke up late and they already left for school. I had a late night conference. When they returned home, Timothy said there is something special in his bag. I took it out and have him read it to me. Emily was eager to read hers too. She even did her “I love you” fingers.

They made me so proud of them. I am enjoying this while I can. I know some day, there will be no more hand made cards coming.

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers around the world!

Let me share some of my parenthood sticky situations with you when I bring my 2 children out alone. These situations are quite challenging and with 2 anything can happen. I must say my mom did a great job because she brought 3 children to Singapore all by herself for a vacation. Either we are very obedient children or she has her way with us.

I was out shopping with my 2 children in Singapore while my hubby was attending training. I took my children to lunch. It is a nice place as it has some coloring materials for the children to occupy themselves. I ordered and the food came.

As I was about to eat, my little gal said, “Mummy I need to go to the toilet”. Now I cannot leave my son alone in the restaurant, neither can I leave the restaurant without paying. Worst is I haven’t even eat yet. I can’t ask my gal to hold her urine. She may pee on the chair.

I called the waiter telling him I need to take my children to the toilet, please can you keep the table for us. It was nice of the waiter to keep the table for us and allowed us to leave the place without paying. :good:

I was out shopping, yeah again. I went to Tesco with my children alone. I almost done 80% of the shopping with a trolley filled with groceries. Tim said “mummy I need to go to the toilet”. Sigh.

I had to park the trolley by a secret place so that no one will put back my groceries and quickly bring him to the toilet. Imagine me running with my 2 children to the toilet and back.

Mummy was enjoying some quietness in the jamban (aka toilet). It ended when Emily knock on the door. She called out, “Mummy I want to use the toilet”. Mummy said, “Please use the other toilets”. We have 3 toilets in the house and she can pick any that was not in used. Emily said, “I want to use this one, faster my mm mm wants to come out”. :roll eyes:

Mummy had to finish the job and quickly flushed so that her princess can use it. Sigh

I was driving home with my children. Both of them were playing at the back seat and having fun. After a while, world war II suddenly started at the back. There was some snatching, crying, screaming, name calling…you name it, it was happening. I had to stop by the side of the road to calm both of them down. I got one of them to sit in front with me so that I can continued the journey in peace

I was in a land far away and enjoying myself on a scrumptious expensive dinner. There were shark fins, big huge abalones, fresh oyster, lobster and king crabs. I was about to taste the tasty lobster. As I was about to put in my mouth, I heard. Mummy….mummy…

I ignored the voice but continue to put the sweet smelling lobster meat in my mouth. The voice called out louder and louder, my lobster disappeared. It was dark, Emily looked at me and I opened my eyes. Emily said “I want to go to the toilet”. I had to bring her to the toilet. There goes my virtual expensive dinner. :wall:

Vien you got it spot on with the ice-cream cones. How did you guess it? I will send you some but I wonder can it get through to US customs. I will try 😉 .

Yeap those ice-cream cones are for my children to blow bubbles with. It has a bubble stick that dip into the soap water and my children can filled the air with bubbles. They even soap my car with it. Imagine this, halfway driving my hubby try to clean the soap stain off the windscreen, he sprayed water and turned on the wipers. Next minute the entire windscreen was covered with soap.

He had to stop by the petrol station and wash the windscreen. My children were giggling from the mess they make to the car. Children, not sure to scold them or to laugh with them.

What did we do on Labor Day? We went on a ferry ride across the main land. Here is one fun thing that we, Penanites can do during our free time with our family. It was a fast ride as the ferry went like a speed boat.

Tim and Emily were pretty excited when they heard we are going for a ferry ride. Anyway, anything that is done outside of the house, pretty much excite them. We drove on to the ferry and went up to the upper deck for a nice view. Tim was excited and went up the steep stairs. Halfway up, he felt frightened as he look down. He was screaming “mummy” all the way up. Yeap, the steep stairway is not very children friendly. Tim was reluctant to go down by himself. Daddy had piggy back them all the way down. Tough, if I were there with them alone.

The view was a little hazy but the weather was not that hot. We got a nice breeze and a great view. Emily was enjoying her Cheezels with Tim at the upper deck. It was a good ride.

Total Cost the Ride: A pack of Cheezels and the ride is free.

By the way, the ferry was not very well maintained. I saw a lot of rusty areas on the ferry. I couldn’t find any life jackets anywhere too. It is just danger waiting to happen. If disaster happens, then the govt will look at the problem. If you ever go on a ferry, take some floats with you.

We have our own swimming pool in our home. It is the cheapest swimming pool because there is no maintenance cost and no cleaning required. Oh, I don’t need to waste breath blowing it up or deflating it as well. I should have gotten the six feet wide pool, this one I have look small.

My children are crazy over water play. They can spend an hour in there. They are very excited each time papa takes out the swimming pool. Emily will go and get toys to put inside the pool. I will add some bubble bath that produces lots of bubble foam to make it more interesting. I got a few bottles from bath&body and it is all natural products. It is very good for their skin too. Emily would say “It smells good”.

Guess what is the most difficult thing from this water play? Trying to get them out of the pool. :wall: Anyway the children have fun and I don’t have to spend money. Good deal eh??!!

Guess which of the 2 children I have always tell tales? Both actually do. When one did wrong, the other one will run to me and tell what naughty things the other one did. Constantly I will get reporting from them. They are always hoping that I will scold the other one. Fortunately I don’t have more than 2 else I need more ears.

Here is what I get day in day out.

Emily: Kor kor push me and I hurt my finger.

Tim: Emily naughty or, take my toys and spoil it

Emily: Kor kor didn’t do homework.

Tim: Emily didn’t drink milk.

Emily: Kor kor draw on uncle table and uncle scold. Uncle said to Tim, “You got money to pay for the table”

Tim: Emily didn’t listen to papa.

Emily: Kor kor eat all my grapes, no more for me.

…..life goes on….

Mummy: Who are your friends in school?

Tim: *thinking*

Emily: Jin Ren, Hogan, Farah, Marcus and Je Yee. Today Jin Ren, Hogan, Marcus didn’t come. Farah and Je Yee are here.

Another day….

Mummy: Did you finish your homework?

Emily: Mummy I don’t have homework. I finished in school. I fast fast do and show teacher. Teacher gave me sticker.

Another day…

Mummy: What did you eat in school today?

Tim: Sausage.

Emily: I eat sausage. Hogan made my sausage fall on the floor. He knocked it down. I told teacher. Teacher gave me another plate. Then I bite the sausage, it broke into 2. I ngap ngap ngap (aka munch munch munch) and finished. *showing actions*

Emily loves to tell me story even when it is a yes and no answer. She will go on and on about what she did, what she eat, how she eat, etc…

When she is not crying, she can be fun to play with. I hope she will loose her silly “me attitude”. What’s the silly “me attitude? Whenever she wants something and she doesn’t get, she will cry. Sounds familiar?