mommy's thoughts

Whenever we reached home, one of us would carry Kate to face the statue of the Goddess of Mercy to 'report'.

Nowadays, after watching too much Ninja Warrior and how the contestants run backward to gain momentum to scale the Crooked Wall, she will now run to the other end of the living room, and stand there and smile broadly, waiting for us to coax her. She will then run from that corner of the room into my arms for me to lift her up and carry her to 'report' to the Goddess of Mercy. Most of the times though, the coaxing will take very long, or she will just run halfway, then go back, or run abit, then stop, and wait for more coaxing, all the while smiling because she have so much fun in what was previously such a short and simple activity.

Hand washing also become a playful affair as she will refuse to dip her left hand to wash her hand in the basin of water, or will slap her hands on the surface on the water and wet the whole floor. Hand washing now takes at least 5 minutes instead of the usual 1 minute.

She no longer calls her bicycle de-de-de-DAL but called it "bike-tickle".

Kate has a painted butterfly cardboard cutout and now we use it to play almost everynight. I will say 'butterfly butterfly fly (bad grammer!) in the sky. Butterfly lands on ..." and she will either choose an item for the butterfly to land on. Or I will choose an item, and she will name it. Of course it does not start off like this. At the beginning I was the one choosing the item, and saying the name of the item (those items that she already know) but gradually she started to participate. And she called butterfly 'utter-ly'. And 2 days ago, she saw her first real butterfly at the heardcourt across the road.

Last but not least, she finally called me "mommy".

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Mommy use her old craft fabric to make a heart shape little pouch to put Kate's 护身符 as she lost the old one made by 婆婆.

Kate's playgroup's craft of the day was to make mother's day present and card.....

Inside the card..obviously that was not her handwriting nor palm print :P

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Kate now has a daily habit of surfing her blog at the end of every day using mommy's PC...

Mommy headache of course....

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Advance celebration of mother's day and 婆婆's birthday at Safra Toa Payoh.....

Kate and mommy and papa are late and the rest have started eating....


The children helping with decorating the birthday cake....

Janice 表姐 ,the bravest amongst them all, lighting the candles (why is yuan yuan 表哥 pinching his nose?)

The cake..its a Bob the Builder cos its selected by Yuan yuan 表哥

Kate singing the birthday song....

The children fighting to blow out the candles (where is the birthday 婆婆?)

Bob the Builder... note that the children had put the candles just right on Bob's eyes.....

Janice helping to cut the cake... she is 婆婆's favorite grandchild after all :P

Kate enjoying the cake....

The children playing what they call 'Poke the Builder', by stabbing the icing picture of Bob the Builder with their forks.

大姨姨 showing off the itemised bill like a 春联. We certainly eat alot of food that day.... :P

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One weekend morning, Kate woke up and go over to mommy's bed. Mommy quickly pull her up on the master bed and pat her to work... and then quickly go to Kate's room and get to work before carrying her back to her own room....

And when Kate woke up..she saw THIS!


p/s for those that still cannot figure out, its a set of space glow-in-the-dark wall decal bought from SMH BP....

The many ways to taste a cherry.. :P