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I never wanted this to be a wordy blog.

And afterall, a picture says a thousand words.

But sometimes there are things which cannot be captured on photo/video, and there are things that happen so fast I cannot whipped out the camera on time, or she will do her now-famous squat pose and that moment will be lost.

Anyway, today is the end of one whole week which I took leave to take care of her, 8 whole days of 24x8 of KateKateKate.

I tried to make her take her afternoon nap, but all she wanted to do is to play.

Her "loolooloo (roll roll roll)" which is this new game which I will place my big bolster perpendicular to her body, and then roll it (controlling from the side where I was lying) from her torso to over her head, then roll down from over her head to her waist again.

And her rowing game which she will sit between my legs (me lying down on the bed again, lazy mommy!) back facing me, and then using her hands to move my thighs so that I will clench her between my legs and then release (good exercise for thigh muscle when I take over!) and she will roll her head from side to side to indicate that I must clench her between my thighs and then move from left to right so that her head and body will sway, as in she was in a boat. And we will sing "Row row row your boat, gently up the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream (of course most of what she sings is incomprehensible)".

And then she wanted me to 按摩 (one of her first words) her, that is, to give her a massage, which is something that we do almost everynight. And she only wanted it done one way, by using the 推拿 method of pinching the flesh at both sides of the spine from waist level to shoulder.

And her favorite 'wild' game, was 'rodeo', which the parent will lie on the back (lazy people's way again! haha!), bend the legs (wasn't this a pilate exercise for mommy with babies?) and then place her with her stomach on the lower half the leg, and then sing some song/music and jerk her wildy up and down, left and right. She can play 'rodeo' non-stop, even after my calves are aching.

And still, she refuses to sleep. And pull me towards the bedroom door (which was closed) to indicate that she wanted to open it.

So let her out to play again.

Then at 6pm+, I decided to bring her downstairs for some fresh air. We had been coped up at home for the past week, and it is driving me crazy (her too, for one day during the week, she put her doodle mat into my weekend bag, and then carry the bag and walked towards the main door, and then turned back to look at me to see if I understand her message that she wanted to go out).

She insisted on bringing her tricycle along (she called it 'the the the del', as I keep telling her 'legs/feet on THE PE-DELs'), and we crossed the road, where this big field is (now being segregated into 3 areas - big field, big cordoned off area for building small park, and hardcourt). She started sitting on the tricycle and I pushed the tricycle. We walked almost the whole perimeter of the big field before the smoke from the construction of the park made me decide to turn back.

On the way back, Kate suddenly said something like 'faster faster!' This is the first time I heard her say that, but I think she said 'faster faster' so I pushed faster, telling her 'faster faster!'. But I was, of course, not that fast, and she stopped the tricycle, and then got off, and started running away as fast as her little legs could carry her, saying 'faster faster!'. And I have to chase after her, calling out to her 'I never know you can say the word 'faster'!', and then this jogger that was slowing down in front of us turned back with a smile, amused. He must have think I am a crazy mommy.

Then as usual, as with my previous times with her when I bring her jogging/walking around the perimeter of the field, we stopped at the hardcourt and I rested while Kate entertained herself by climbing up and down the stairs and looking at the various groups of people playing basketball or badminton etc, or walking along the length of the top of the stairs and expecting me to go after her.

And it was quite an enjoyable short trip out with her, that I told myself that I must blog special moments like this, that cannot be captured on camera/video. And that I love my precious little girl, and I will be very sad when next time she grew up and prefers the company of her friends instead of her by-then old and grouchy mommy.