My week

Haven't been updating. Everytime I try to log into the computer, I get so sleepy. What's happening to me? And then my blogs are all backdated; the childrens' blogs are un-touched. Hmm... I had better update their blogs more diligently.

Tuesday - 21st
I took my "snowballed for many years annual leave" on this day to do facial. I haven't been to my beautician for ??? okay I shan't think about it, it should be some time last year. Athena did seem happy for a moment coz' mummy is not 'drilling' her grammar on this day. You think I was kind?? I never let my children off. She was given more pages of assessment books to do, Aricia was given homeworks as well.
Brought them home, then I left. It's freedom!!! Feels good to be pampered. Today's treatment is one of my 2 FOC treatments for buying the facial products - the $800++ products. Expensive! I'm using this range SkinScience now.
I have these skin tags and milia and dunno what nots (if only it's so easy for me to strike lottery) and was thinking of using Dr Secrets which I heard costs $500+ then my beautician introduced me to this and that it doesn't contains hydroquinone which she says Dr Secrets does. When it comes to face, I'm the easily ke-tok kind. Anyway I tried and yes - there's slight improvement although I may need to do some 'dian liao'. Not like my face is made of gold or I'm banking on my looks (what looks??) for my job, I may reconsider the 'dian liao' - which costs $300 per treatment and says I need 2. $$$ flyyyyyyyy

Found the SSC children table (finally!) and immediately bought one set. They had a display set which looks a little 'destroyed' and kept telling me no more left until someone took one set from the office. Apparently someone had ordered it but didn't come to collect after all the phonecalls so they sold it to me. Yay! There's a matching chair too! It's cushioned and I have to pay separately. In total : less than $50 for 2 items. Happy! I placed an order for another full set which they said they'd try to see if other outlets have it. Ehh........have space in the house or not? Buy first; think later.

Children were elated and started fighting for the table. In these pics, che-che is sitting on the SSC chair
Which is why I thought it'll be good to have 2 sets. I know there's giving wrong information afterall they're suppose to learn to share. But then the lil' one always fights; screams; cries and che-che gives in to her too often already. I always see that disappointment in che-che's face. Anyway, I thought 2 sets will be nice if I can put them in the spare room and make it their study table and I have a big whiteboard behind me; I put on glasses and act like SuperNanny. Presto! I'm a teacher. Ahem... I'm still dreaming to convert that room. So why the hesistance? Coz' I need space to put all the study materials which obviously I don't unless I rip off the wardrobe and change it into cabinets. (and then where to put the yet to pass-on to mei-mei's clothes?)
No wonder one of my friend ever said, it's no use designing your house to your dream house until the children are older. I thought I could save the money by having a study table in the children's room so next time we don't have to do the build-in. Then mei-mei came along. Luckily she's still small enough to sleep in the baby cot.

Wednesday - 22nd
OMG! I was so tired that I overslept in the car!! Normally during the 1-hr campout, I'd be trying to do a portion of my preparation of stuffs for children. Today, I did and I was so sleepy. I set the alarm clock and thought I'd close my eyes for 15 mins.
I woke up startled and stared at the clock in the car. It says 2.00. I heaved a sigh of relief and told myself I still have some time before I pick Athena. Then I jumped, OMG! I'm usually home at 2pm. Maybe I was getting a little carbon monoxide poisoning already?? I quickly drove off and I kept thinking "cham lah, cham lah must go into General Office to pick her up liao. She must be crying.. she must be ...."
When I drove to the gate, I saw that Dora-looking girl staring at me and picking up her schoolbag from the floor. Heng ah... she didn't cry but she did ask me "mummy, you're very late today." in a calm manner. She surprised me, I thought she'd cry. But then like I said, she always surprises me. Once I had to bring the two of them to the clinic. I did the registration and then told them to stay in the clinic to wait for me coz' I need to find a proper parking lot as I had parked illegally on the roadside. I went back about less than 10 mins and just as I was about to go in, she came out holding her mei-mei's hands and started crying. Huh? That was the time I didn't expect her to cry.
Anyway, I did apologize to her and told myself it should never happen again. Since I've lost some time I didn't let Athena do her Maths at home. I brought the two of them to the room with the table/chair, minus the whiteboard (coz' haven't bought whiteboard) and tried to do Aricia's home session. Just didn't have the feel of a study room - yah! with a bed there; a sofabed; toys in the stacked drawers. You think it looks/feels like a study room?
They fought over the chair; they fought over who's going to sit in the middle; they fought over 'my legs hitting the side legs of the table.' They fought over >> almost everything. Then somehow during the session, Aricia kept asking che-che to help push her seat in. Honestly, I don't know what's wrong with my girl. In MMI, Ros', Shichida she keeps asking teacher/me to push her in. And there's no way we could push her in further she still keeps telling us to help us, makes noise. I was angry............ so you think it's a good idea to have a study room? Supposedly they have a table each, they'd start fighting over "I'm not in the middle, I cannot see etc..." Endless fights! Better solution, no tables at all. And so the next few days I resumed back my usual good fengshui spot where they can't fight over anything, they sit on the floor; I sit on the floor. So what to do with the table?

This time, che-che again asked me to teach in her class. And then asked me to give her the answers first before asking the class so that she knows how to answer if I ask her. Oh no, no way am I going to make it easy for her if I do teach (which is very unlikely too)

Thursday - 23rd
Been practising hard. All the memory stuffs are getting me confused coz' we gotta practise both Shichida's and Ros's. There's a Brain Olympics in Shichida some time in June for the 3 year-olds. Suppose to put 40 cards in sequence in 3 mins. Eh... I don't know if she's able to do it. She's good in messing the cards up in less than 3 mins. And she simply refuses to touch the cards, only reciting out the key words for me. All the memorising for 2 schools, + my work for her is leaving me totally drained.

I wait for Athena in Berries now (tired from shuttling around), I bring some work for Aricia to do. After that P and Aunty S comes back from their shopping and we chat. It's really nice talking to P and Aunty S (Berries). F once told me that all the time she meets unfriendly mothers when she brings her children for any class. I think I'm really lucky, I meet alot of nice friendly mothers. Hmm.. I wonder whatever happened to me swearing to be a mega-bitch and not talk to anyone. Hee!
Athena hasn't hugged my legs or cried - thank God! Now she has a good friend there, A, who's from IJ Counsel. They play in the playground after class.

This day, one of their classmate's sister (P2) asked them for their help to find her younger sister, who's in her class. Aunty S and myself put a stop to it coz' we wouldn't want to end up finding them instead. Instead, the 2 of them tried to find their friend in their own ways. They climbed to the top of the slide, Athena told A "okay, you look this side; I look that side." Hands on their forehead trying to look far "Elizabeth... cannot find her. Can you see her?" I found it funny. Then they whispered amongst themselves "you sit behind me, we go down slide together." As they were sliding down, the both of them shouted "ELIZABETH......." Yah, they "were" looking for her. Haha!

Today, che-che told me that she has to bring newspaper to school the next day to sell. She can get $250, $1 and dunno what she was mumbling about for that small little 2 stacks of papers. I explained that it wouldn't cost that much coz' the garung guni woman only pay us a few cents for our huge stack of papers. And that girl kept insisting that she will get that huge amount of money. And in her innocence, she quipped "I bring alot of newspapers to school to sell. Then papa don't have to work so hard." Aww.........so sweet...

Friday - 24th
I didn't want to bake, I'm so tired I just want to rot in one corner and stare into empty space. But my girl was so happy and kept telling me "25th, my birthday" I can't do fanciful cakes like Mel did for her girl & boy. So inspired by her and I wonder how she managed all even without a helper. I have helper and can't find the time to really sit down for a long time to decorate my cakes. My block of cheese will expire next week so decided to try Japanese Cheesecake. Athena do eat cheesecakes but she don't eat cheese. ??!!??!!
I'm lazy to decorate, okay truth is I don't have much patience like Mel. I have 2 kids who will keep interrupting me; the helper will be busy to bring them away from me. Finding excuses? Yah, maybe I should just lock myself up in one room next time and totally ignore their studies. (very hard leh!)
I like the browning part, has that chao-tar taste. Then I die faster from cancer.

Saturday - 25th
Was thinking probably chocolate ganache is a very lazy style of decorating. Chocolate + cheese taste ?? Then she reminded me about Ariel. Sigh.........there goes my hope of relaxing

I then remembered the leftover buttercream I have in the freezer from the Easter Cuppies batch. Not much left to cover the whole cake and I wouldn't want to re-whip another batch only to have leftovers again.

Guess what? It's only sufficient for me to do this. I tried to cover the backing but can't even cover half of her hair. The only thing I can do is to pray - pray that it won't break when I transfer over to the cake
My prayers didn't work. Ariel was broken to pieces even without Ursula's spell. Argh! Anyway considering this is a lazy job.. I don't have high expectation. But I must admit I like the blue eyes which I managed to colour in nicely.
Itchy hand, bor-liao me (dunno what I was thinking) tried to put macaroons on it. In the end, the cake looked really funny. Heck lah! When you're only an amateur, no patience and not that highly creative all you can do is a 'dump rubbish' job
Afternoon we headed to Tampines 1. Interesting shops but can't really shop with the man and the kids around. Plus the crowds gave me headache. Must wait for at least another month for the crowds to tone down, by then it'll be school holidays.

My lil' one posing for me. I like this shot - notice the way she stands. Macam like model like that. Kekeke!

This girl is getting the idea that her mad mother loves to snap photos. Smiles for me. Must treasure this moment coz' few years down the road she wouldn't even bother to smile for me.

In Manpuku

Portion is really small, quite pricey. Not worth it! Neither of them is full. Anyway, it was like a snack for them at 4+pm

We then proceeded to mom's place for dinner. We had the cake thereafter.

Worrying too much?

Am I worrying too much? I seem to worry about everything with regards to my children. Too over-protective?
So many questions but no answer.

Scenerio 1
Two mondays ago she met her schoolmate at R's place. After playing together the girl sat down to do her work. Athena sat down in a distance resting.
A while later the girl called Athena back and showed off all her many pens in her pencil case. It was really alot!! - all in different colours. Athena stood there looking with her puppy-looking eyes, head cocked a little to one side and her lips pouted a little.
I observed her.... then the girl (in a very authoritative voice) told her "okay, nothing to show already." Athena went back to her place to sit down.

The thoughts that went through my mind :

1. My girl is being bullied. In this case she obediently followed the girl's instructions and sat down. It's like she's been called only when needed and then discarded aside when not needed. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it... but if it happens once it can happen again. Subsequently, I worry if she's being hurt emotionally or she's too young to even understand it.

2. My girl is pitiful. She is probably envious of the girl's possession of multi-coloured pens and I should be buying her more pens than that girl (that's wrong message sent across to her then) but .... maybe I'm too free (free meh?) to read too much into it. But then again, you should really see her expression - very pitiful looking.
I was worried she'd feel sad (then again, she's always sad when I scold her. Meaning she'll feel more sad in my home then whatever sad thing that happens outside) and so I asked her later in the car. She said she didn't feel anything, I then explained that if she felt envious of her friend she should be thinking how fortunate she is to have so many things. Different people have different likings, maybe to that girl she loves pens so her mother keeps buying. I know my girl loves stickers so I try to buy her stickers (though I hate her sticking stickers around the house/things) Damn weird mother I am. And she is indeed one real lucky child to have so many things; to travel to so many countries (though other kids may travel more than her) and oh boy! she's spoilt by the mother. Really!

What can I do? I think as a 30++ ah-soh, she thinks the world as a 7 yr-old. She don't think the world is that complicated. I think I'm the one who's complicated!!

Scenerio 2
A classmate used her pen to draw on her blue pinafore. I freaked out when I saw that long pen mark. Argh! I probe her if she did rebel or complain to teacher. She said no. Meaning = she simply sat there and let her friend drew on her pinafore. What the ?? Was that girl sitting next to her? No, she came from another table while the Chinese lesson was going on.
Point is 1. my girl is a god target for bullies. Ask her to fight for her rights, that timid girl wouldn't dare to do it. She might decline and say "no" to her friends but after some time she can't do anything and .... that is something I should be grateful for - her chin-chye-ness (which makes caring for her easy last time)

I worry she has no friends
I worry she is being taken advantage of
I worry she can't judge what is good/wrong
I worry, I worry, I worry

Green Tea Swiss Roll

Wanted to bake a cake for Aricia's birth-month celebration.

Chose the healthier Green Tea. Thought swiss roll must be easy since I did much better than my Home Econs teacher. I shouldn't have such high ego. Kekeke!
Turned out a major flop! Cake a little hard, had problem (obviously) rolling it and then ----- became this. 失败!失败! Must try again.

Green tea sandwich, anyone?

By then it was late, I was real tired to re-bake another cake + insufficient time to decorate. Hmm......shall bake for Athena next week. Poor mei-mei.

On the other hand, my bread turned out really well a few days ago. Notice the difference between the bottom pic & the top?? Coz' I forgot to "paint it with egg" and simply pop into the oven. Kekeke!

Short outing

Brought the children to send hubby off at the airport.

A week ago, I couldn't fulfill their wishes in going to the viewing gallery.
Today, I armed myself with the spare camera (haven't found the time to collect the camera).

I wonder why they like to go to viewing gallery when they're running about all the time. And when I tell them "look, an airplane's taking off." They stop, look, jump, scream just for the sake of doing it. Once out of sight they start running around again. ???

Photos :

Treasures

Too tired to write, pictures will do the talking.

Thanks to my family who surprised us with more アンパンマン things. And mom bought one bento accessory for me, which I was really happy coz' that's what I had wanted. (and thank goodness I held back confirming my shopping cart and decided to wait till they return)
It's アンパンマン power!
1st row : furo cloth, furikake bottle
2nd row : shampoo, snacks
(these are the 'out of my list' items

the children posing for me.

My lil' bunny

Baking

I haven't baked Athena's favourite Pandan cake for a very very long time.

And I'm really nervous. My first 2 tries were edible but needs alot of improvement. And as a baking newbie I simply couldn't deduce what went wrong with my bakes, only using my assumptions.

Chiffon cakes may seem easy but I read from somewhere that it may be hard to do. And I thought that statement is true coz' all my other pound cakes, butter cakes, cheese cakes etc..turn out okay even if it's my first try.

But after some other bakings and certain rationales learnt, I did realise my probable fault for chiffon cake.

Here, my girl waits for her cake. She was extremely happy. Cakes turn out okay, except for the second rung.
You can guess that I used the Hello Kitty and Pooh bakeware as well. But peeling it off the silicone bakeware has to be done cautiously. My impatience has caused a scar in HK's face.
I'm really nervous you know. Not that I'm being tested by some sous chef or what but... if I fail this time I'm really a big failure.
I peeled the cupcake liner and nervously break it into half. Wow! The texture is definitely what I see in chiffon cakes. Oh man! this is really chiffon cake!!! 成功!!! Happy like crazy.
The lucky children saying "yes, I want 2 cakes" made me really happy. Hubby don't like cakes so my faithful 'customers' are my 2 children (who still thinks I bake the best cake in the world.) and KZ.

Easter Eggs Hunt

I guess the hunt would have been more fun with 3 kids turning my living room area upside down (I'm not comfortable in turning the whole house upside down) but ... Iggy's in Japan. *jealous*

Nonetheless my kids had fun. Aricia seems to know what to do this year, but rather slow. But it's still better than what she did last year.Think next year she'll do better. The che-che, who's rather 贪心, was running around. Ultimately the one who stayed so cool in one spot was lucky to have alot of eggs. This year, I've printed some activities and bought one packet of 4 magnetic foam crafts to give out. In exchange they have to give me their eggs or do something for me. Or sometimes they do get bonus by getting extra eggs. It's all in the thrill.

Athena, although had the least eggs, received alot of activities. She was so happy and even more elated when she realised she won a special gift from me. I didn't have the time to buy so gave her $2 to buy whatever she wanted. She chose 2 sheets of Hello Kitty stickers when we were out after that.

Photos :

prepared the night before the "hunt" Bought some extra (elephant, smiley etc..) chocolates at the airport the previous day when we went to pick hubby up

the hiding spots. Hmm..........quite boring. Like you know where I'll be hiding the eggs

the hunt

Athena's loot

Aricia's loot

apparently Aricia had to stand on one feet for 10 seconds which she so gamely took up the challenge. Her next task was to give daddy a BIG KISS - how easy is that?

eating their chocolates. Umm.. one chocolate each

Excited over the foam craft. Both of them started doing it

Not enough, so paiseh

Ai yoh...never felt so paiseh as I did today.

I asked Athena who she gave the 5 treats to. I gave her 6 in total, 1 for her FT who has a young child. And then she told me "I gave all to Mdm XX, she gave every table 1. My first response was "why did you give it to her? There were only 3 eggs inside and there are 4-5 people in each table, it's not enough to go around the table." "I dunno mummy.."

But she did say, "I give my friends, then other friends come and ask me. How?" So I suggested that next time maybe I shan't include her classmate in for anything if I were to be fair. She kept quiet. So she probably did something a little right by passing it to her teacher and telling her one is for her. If I had anticipated what she'd do, I'll pack in more in each treat bag.

Easter treats

The treats
This year I found Laica Ovetti in Candy Empire when Richard & Irene was on a visit in Singapore (that means it's stocked up since early March). I jumped for joy coz' I remember eating Laica chocolates somewhere during my flying years and it was one of the must try chocolates (in my opinion) and really thank God for Candy Empire, I didn't have to travel far to Europe to get my daily doses of sinful chocolates. *fat*
It's a real big pack with very cute foils on it , so I bought only one thinking it might be sufficient. 4-5 per kid should be sufficient. It's rather costly I must admit but I feel it's price equate to taste. To make you drool further, it's Nocciola which is hazelnut and it has some cereal bits inside. Yums! Ooh...........

And so started dividing and oops! not enough to go around, I didn't have the chance to go down to Candy Empire to get another pack. So I had to get the normal Cadbury chocolates and mix them in the little treat containers. In the end, I could only give out 3 eggs to each children (little compared to last year). I gave Aricia's friends 2 Cadburys and 1 Laica + one chick. And Athena's friends 2 Laicas and 1 Cadbury + 1 chick. Packed in a little cupcake cup (one cup was rather flimsy so I was not environment friendly by putting 2 cups) with the grass thing. Was rather disappointed that I couldn't find the edible kind as I did last year. Tagged and tied a short ribbon to it. The children loved the chicks and kept playing with them until I had to stop them.

Difficult to please Athena. She kept asking me why I had to pack for all of Aricia's classmates and I can only give her a few to distribute for her class. Well, 30 is alot of children and I'm going to go crazy packing so many. Moreover I'm not sure if her school allows such things to be given out.
In the end, I only gave to Aricia's MMI classmates + some extras for teachers' children; Athena's JXC and school friends. Had to axe out Berries', Ros's and Shichida's - unfortunately!
cheep cheep
For Aricia's friends
For Athena's friends
The cupcakes
I made some mini cupcakes too for the children in Aricia's class.
Baking, pound cake, was done on Tuesday and rather fast too, since I did mainly all the mini mini cupcakes and can put in 24 at one go. Goash! I thought the size I had is mini cupcake but it's the next smaller size. I finish mine fast - one mouthful. So made alot of extras. The buttercream was prepared the same night after the kids were in bed.
Decorations were done on Wednesday night. Sigh........very simple, can't do much coz' I have no talent. Dunno why I'm still so thick-skinned to show these here.

These big ones are for the teachers

For the children, the spare ones that can't fit into the caddy

Some plain ones were packed in too.

The presented set for the children. The wordings took me over 3 days to complete - reason being I only had one set of this pattern set and I have to do triple/double of certain letters. But I'm pleased with my (ahem) horrible skills of piping. Still need to practise on the 'grass'

Good thing for this caddy I bought quite some time back
I arrived the school with all the cuppies still in good condition. Phew! *wipe perspiration*

Hope the kids enjoyed them.

"We Were The Reason"

A few days ago when I was packing the small little treats for the children, I started singing.

I had no idea what prompted me to sing. I remember singing this song in my school choir when I was Sec 1. I can't remember all the words and found the lyrics that same night.

As little children
We would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys
We knew we'd find
But we never realized
A baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We were the reason
That He gave His life
We were the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by
We learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves
And what that means
On a dark and cloudy day
A man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

I've finally found the reason for living
It's in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do every word that I say
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

He is my reason to live

Can someone enlighten me, is this a Christmas song or for Holy Week??

Haven't been writing

haven't been writing coz' I've been busy. Ehh.........since when I'm free anyway?

I'm getting so frustrated with #$%^ Starhub!! I've subscribed to another educational site and the page is not loaded properly. So whenever I can, I will have to go over to mom's place to use brother's computer to print out things - and it's loads of them.
It has been giving me too much problems, all those house calls don't seem to help. Of course I've heard of people telling me Starhub sucks, so I really kudos to myself for my patience & enduring all these nonsense.
I even have problem logging into the Athena's school hol's homework webpage. Guess that's like the ultimum for me.

The only worry is whether I can maintain my email address using a different server. I have almost everything linked to email, worst than moving house where you start updating your mailing address for whatever nots.
Anyway, I can't seem to check my emails via my Outlook Express (must ask my English teacher cum Computer expert cum kick me down the stairs sister for help - haha! Must always raise this up coz' my sister owes me alot for making me a little mentally retarded. Hee!) and have been logging into imail to retrieve email so I suppose I'm still able to maintain my email address????

3rd April - Friday
I asked KZ to help me bring Aricia home this day. I like the arrangement coz' I managed to print a whole lot of things at mom's place without any interruptions - leaving house halfway to pick Aricia up and then shuttling to and fro. I started printing from 8.30am all the way to 3.40pm. Woah! Poor printer!! It never had to work so hard under my brother's care.
And it was a leisurely day for half a day.
After picking Athena up and things I had to do with them is another story. *catching breathes*

The days that followed, I made myself even busier by packing stuffs for the children. Hmm... mom says "why do all these useless things?" Hubby will probably shake his head for 'wasting money again!' I don't know leh........I find the joy in making children happy. So despite my 'very busy, no time to R&R', I'd still want to do. Yah! Maybe I'm really crazy. Maybe I'm Santa Claus in my previous life, maybe it's a calling for me to volunteer in orphanage? Maybe.......ai yoh can't even handle my 2 kids how to handle others? Took me almost 3 hours to pack and I'm really exhausted. Pack what? That's another blog entry.

Side track to my conversation with Athena earlier in the day, she told me there's an Aunty (her classmate's mother) who comes to school quite regularly to teach. And she asked me to teach her class. To be a teacher aide that is. I'd really love to but as it is I'm fussing around for more time, let alone to volunteer my "already not enough" time?? She asks,"so when you're free?" "Hmm... mummy will be free when the two of you are not schooling I guess." I guess children likes the idea of seeing their mummy in the school??

Top 3 position??
I overheard hubby talking to her the other day,"If you do well in your exams, I'll bring you to Japan end of the year." I scream over his unfairness. "I don't care! She don't so well, you bring me and Aricia."
When I was in school, my mother lied to me for many years. And now, I have to go through this cycle again?? I'm studying for my exams at the end of the year? I'm taking my PSLE in 6 years time - must be one condemn student. 30+ taking PSLE. But don't you agree that parents are taking exams together with their kids?
As the kan-cheong mother, I gave her a more specific requirement from me. She gets a kitchen set from me if she comes back with the Top 3 position in class. Hard to get? I don't know, she's smart but I wouldn't know how she ranks in her class. Plus she's very careless too -which she may lose some precious marks. I shouldn't be writing this down, then everyone will be asking me how she scored at the end of the year and many years to come.
Okay, the funny thing is when I told her my expectation. She obediently nodded her head. Mother happy right? Then she asked,"mummy, what is top 3?" *slap head* how to get top 3 like that?!?!?!
The next day she asked me,"mummy I get Number 1 is okay?"
Me :"Of course, I'd be very happy if you're the first in class."
A : "Orrrr.......so I am 1,2 or 3 I get a kitchen set?"
Me : "Yes"
A : "Then if I'm number 4 leh?"
Me : "You get an empty box."
(she pouted her lips and a few seconds later she laughed)

What's she fussing about?
I found one of Athena's 'fussing about over dunno what' very hilarious! Tuesdays are reserved for English where I'll teach her some grammar and then she goes to do her assessment books. She was writing some things into her "Grammar Book" and then she started complaining.
"I don't like to do grammar. I hate to do grammar. I don't like to do grammar, I hate grammar! I have to do grammar in school, at home I have to do grammar." I explained to her the importance of learning grammar, yet again she continued to complain. And while complaining, she was writing. I couldn't be bothered to talk sense into her coz' nothing would go in her brain at this juncture. *bewildered*

5th April - Sunday
KZ requested for an off day a week ago. She wants to go church, she mentioned to me about Pastor Prince before. However she wanted to bring Athena along with her, dare not go alone. I allowed her.
She came back telling me how that greedy girl of mine opened her eyes widely when 'breads' were passed. Small cups of purple coloured drink was passed around too. That girl popped it into her mouth before everyone else. And when KZ explained to her that's the blood, she replied "No! that's Ribena." LOL

Excited!
Can't wait, can't wait for brother to come back with childrens' loots. Meanwhile online shopping is on a standstill until I see what I need to top up. Now I know why hubby is delaying the time to go Japan. He knows the wife is going to make him broke. Hahaha!

Aricia - studio

Pictures came in last night. Happy happy *dancing*

Ps . rest of my blog entries will come later. Late again!

It's a bird, it's an ...

Witnessed at first hand, two innocent toddlers who made the cutest remarks.

Changing Iggy's diapers, with Iggy stripped. Aricia tilts her head (bending forward)to see his little bird-bird and said....
"Ay........elephant...(pointing)
Iggy looks down at his own bird-bird and said,"No.......hippo."

You can imagine the loud laughters coming from mom n myself.

*This is her second time looking at Iggy's private part, first time she was so curious. Her remark was "hee hee..so funny." But then -this gives me an impression that my girl is 'cheeko'