Emily taught me a new funny song and she was singing it in the car. Here is how it goes, please sing along

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mummy call the doctor
And the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed….

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mummy call the doctor
And the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed….

Now on, if anyone jump on the bed, I will called them monkeys. :giggles: Any of your children sing this song to you?

Hubby wanted Emily to have a haircut because he finds her hair messy. I still think she looks prettier with her hair long. Anyway, I wanted to cut my hair so I brought her along. She loves going to the hair saloon with me. I must say she can sit very still throughout the cut.

Look below for the before and after shots. Emily was pretty please with her new hair style. She went around the house asking whether she is pretty or not. Another vain pot hor?

Before:                  After:

In the morning,

Daddy: Mummy, your gal doesn’t want to go to school. Please help to dress her up.
Mummy: Emily, why you don’t want to go to school.
Emily: I want to stay at home and watch cartoon.
Mummy: Don’t you want to show your teachers and friends your new hair style.
Emily: Want! Want! *suddenly she lit up and instantly changed her uniform*

As for me, after having long hair for many years, I decided to cut it short too. I cannot remember when was last time I had short hair. My hair almost touched my waist. Now it is real short.

Let’s see whose hair grows the fastest, Emily or mine?

Last month, my gal returned home with sweets every day. I was wondering who gave her the sweets.

Mummy: Who gave you sweets?
Emily: Teacher Chan and Teacher Wong.
Mummy: Why do they give you sweets?
Emily: Because I am a good gal.

It is not like the teachers. They might reward the children with sweets once in a while but not frequent. I know they frequently give stickers. I related it to the school principal and request that the teachers not to give my gal sweets so often.

Yesterday, the principal told me that she solved the sweet puzzle. She told me that it was Emily’s friend Farrah that gave her the sweets. The principal was puzzle at first because she knows her teacher would never give children sweets all the time. I apologized to her.

Mummy: Emily, Mrs Nxxx told me that your friend Farrah gave you the sweets.

Emily: Yes Farrah is my friend. She gave me sweets.

Mummy: Why you say teacher Chan and teacher Wong gave you the sweets? You say wrong already. *imitate her way of speaking*

Emily: I forgot mah.

Mummy: Ok. Tell your friend Farrah, cannot give you so many sweets. Later your teeth all spoiled. Like kor kor, no teeth. *Tim’s two front teeth dropped off*

Emily is allergic to certain coloring. She will developed phlegm and later wheezing. My hubby and I are always concerned about the junk food she eats. She cannot take M&M too. Maybe when she grows up, I hope she will be stronger.

Emily experienced her first stage fright. She was happily singing in church this morning. The Sunday school teacher told the children that whoever can memorize Philippians 3:14 will get a small gift. She practiced hard and could repeat it very well throughout the week. So did Tim.

The verse goes like this:

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”

She was all excited wanted to get the gift, she put up her hand and the teacher called her up to the front. She went up in front of the crowd and forgot what she wanted to say. She looked at the teacher blankly. The teacher asked her to sit down. She sat down. I saw her disappointed face and I can see her very nervous.

I cheered her up and she was back to normal. After the class was over, I talked to the teacher telling her that Emily was working hard to memorize the verse but she was too nervous. The teacher was nice and told her to say the verse. She could recite in front of the teacher and the teacher gave her the gift. She was very happy. By the way, Tim had his stage fright last few weeks too.

I have heard from many mothers that, after they wean their child from the bottle, the milk intake decreases. I would rather have my child maintain the milk intake and let her have the bottle. Milk helps them to build stronger bones and it has most of the nutrition they need. You may not see the effects now but when they grow old the bone density drop. You hear many elderly people have osteoporosis problem, right?

Calcium is not easily absorbed when you are an adult. Children body can absorb more efficiently compare to an adult. When children get enough calcium, the can start their adult lives with stronger bones

If you are thinking of weaning your child from bottle too early, think again. Emily still enjoyed her bottle and she been drinking 8-9oz at least twice a day. She can drink from the cup but she prefers the bottle. Other source of calcium is ice-ream, cheese, tofu, yogurt, beans, broccoli and anchovies.

I love seeing my children chatting with one another. Yes, I do ease drop on their conversation. They chat with one another during play time and their conversation can be very imaginative.

Emily has learned lots of words and she loves asking questions. She can yak yak yak and yak. When I am teaching Tim with his homework, my little gal will come around asking me questions and interrupt my teaching. I know she does that because she wants attention and of coz she wants to learn as well. Boys being boys have very short attention span and get distracted easily.

Yesterday, my gal turned around and told me this.

Emily: Mummy I can spell fish, see I colored the fish.
Mummy: *disturb her and sang her favorite song* 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I caught a fish alive….
Emily: Mummy I want want want…*disturbed*
Mummy: 6,7,8,9,10 I let it go again
Emily: Mummy, why you talk talk talk. You stop talking, I cannot listen. (She meant she cannot talk because my singing drown her thoughts)
Mummy: Sorry Sorry Sorry. *kept quiet*

*Mummy noted it down. When she becomes too chatty, I will used what she said to me* :giggles:

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One of the reasons when my children like to go to the supermarket is because of the food and drink sampling. They will cruise through the drink section and tried out very yogurt drink there is. One promoter kept pouring different flavors for them. Next they go on to try the ice-cream. They have tried noodles, corn flakes, biscuits, chocolates and what not.

Some promoters are very generous but there are some who ignore the customers when they see children. They only give to selected customers. Today there was one promoter who gave me a free 1 liter of fruit yogurt drink.

Talking about promoters, do ever get annoyed with those who constantly buzz in your ears, tell you how good their product bla bla bla non stop. Half the time, I do not understand what they say because they talk in hokkien. The best way to introduce your product is to provide customer with sample. If they like the sample, they will return to buy.

There was once, it was a clothing store, the promoter was afraid that I get lost. She followed me closely wherever I went. Next she started telling me the offers were and what colors it came with….bla bla bla again. I cannot even shop in peace. The offers were written in huge letters on the chart. I told her sweetly that I wanted to browse around by myself. She backed off a few minutes and later she was at it again. My steam engine kicked in and told her off. I told her that I can see the colors and I can read the offer. Please let me shop in peace. She was stunt and walked away. Hey if you see a shirt that says “Don’t follow me!”, let me know. I would want to own one.

Humor keeps my work stress away. In a way, I get fewer wrinkles. It really saves me a lot of money on wrinkle cream. If you want some free wrinkle cream, read this.

Today I was in a project tele-conference with a team of people. You know my name is pretty common and there was another member with the same first name as me.

Team Lead: Mxxxx
Mxxxx: Yes
Team Lead: I meant the other Mxxxx Lxxxx. Did I get that right?
Me: Yes or you can pronounced it Lxxxx as most American do.
……..
Team Lead: Mxxxx, bla bla bla. Opps.I meant Mxxxx Lxxxx.
Me: You can call me ML, easier for the team to differentiate us.
Mxxxx: And you can call me MT.

*Everyone burst out laughing* Guess which blogger laugh exceptionally loud?

Team Lead: No, we won’t want to call you empty.

I am still laughing while writing this. Sorry, I didn’t really mean to trick her in saying that. I really thought to help the team, they can use my initial instead. I didn’t even expect her to response. I hope she is not reading this.

The other day I was surfing the net and I found 2 talented and gifted 6 years old gals. The first one from UK, her name is Connie Talbot. She contested in the competition called Britain’s Got Talent and went into finals. She sang in front of a crowd without any fear. She sang beautifully and her pitch was perfect. Imagine Simon Cowell gave her thumbs up. Now she has her own debut album. She can sing difficult song like “I will always love you”. She is really gifted.

Next gal, she is a pianist, also a 6 year old named Emily Bear. She can compose songs within 10 minutes. Her creation was being used by a movie producer as a theme song. How cool is that?

I am sure there are many more talented and gifted children out there. I just wanted to share their talent with you.

How do you know your child’s birthday is coming? When he starts reminding you to buy his favorite toy and cake. It is part of motherhood to get what a child wants on his birthday. I was given a mission by Tim to hunt for his transformer toy called “Bumble Bee”. Last week, I thought I have completed the mission when I placed the order online.

Today, I found out that I ordered the wrong thing. Back to square 1. One other blogger is hunting down the same thing for her son. Her husband told her that it is difficult to get because limited edition. I found a couple but it is overpriced. I mean double the price.

One online store I found had stocks in March. Let’s hope the stock will come in. I thought I better update Tim.

Mummy: Hey Tim, the transformer bumblebee is no more in stock. Have to wait for uncle to make more.

Tim: Why no more?

Mummy: By the way, the one you selected can only sing and dance but cannot transform.

Tim: Huh? I want to transform. *look strangely at me*

Mummy: Then you have to wait.

Tim: You find for me yeah. *look a bit disappointed*

Mummy: Ok, I will do my best.

Tim: Ok.

If you know where I can find one of these for not more than RM50, let me know.