She brought home her 1st naughty rhyme

Cut the queue, barbeque Go toilet and eat tissue! 1. She learned it from the older ballet girls. 2. I don’t know this rhyme! Boy, is she getting big and am I getting old or what?

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Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

1. I finished the 1st draft of my dissertation. 2. We fired our maid. 3. I spent half a year juggling trying to be a good mother, to get on with writing the 2nd draft of my dissertation, to make sure there’s dinner on the table and clean dishes to serve them in every night, [...]

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4th Birthday (Part IV)

Her belated princess party was on a Saturday. We started the morning by going for Kindermusik, followed by roti prata lunch at Tanglin Mall as usual, then collecting the birthday cake at Takashimaya, before heading back home for her very late afternoon nap. While she slept, Mr Fluffy Hubby and I turned the place into [...]

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4th Birthday (Part III)

It poured cats and dogs on the morning of her birthday party in school. I decided to wait it out because there was no way I was going to be able to carry her plus 20 something party packs from the car into the school without getting them soggy. Half an hour before the start [...]

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4th Birthday (Part II)

The shopping mall opposite our place was giving little girls princess makeovers over the June school holidays. Spend $80 with a maximum of 3 receipts in a day to be primped into a princess. The first weekend we chanced upon the princess makeovers, Mr Fluffy Hubby and I snorted. We went on and on about [...]

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4th Birthday (Part I)

Poor girl was dreadfully sick a few days before her birthday. She was better on the day itself, but we had already cancelled her party. She celebrated with her fluffy friends instead. They had a lavish ice-cream treat, followed by an elaborate cake ceremony in the morning. We took her out for a pizza lunch. [...]

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What is it they say about having kids and feeling your mortality?

We were going to be late for class. I grabbed her, sat her on the side of my hip and thumped down 6 flights of stairs. She shrieked with laughter. I raced towards the opposite building, slid open the door and… stared at the flight of stairs. But only for a split second, before quickly [...]

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And they say I swear like a sailor

When she was still learning to talk, she yelled STOPPPIIIITT! whenever she got annoyed with somebody. It was barely intelligible but the tone was unmistakable. People whom she screamed at used to turn to me to ask, what was that?! And I always wondered whether to tell them the truth. That she had just sworn [...]

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My greatest competition

After being scolded for the umpteenth time that day, she turned around and asked me: But why is Dora’s mummy not like that? (Photo credit) I’m going to ban Dora AND HER MUMMY from our home!

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The world is a rainbow

After colouring these, she asked: Mummy, why is our house white? I swear, I caught an unmistakable glint in her eyes.

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