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Phone call by julesd

julesd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:47:29 +0000

Nora has a little plastic toy phone with Peppa Pig stickers on it. This was her quick fictional call to her mother this morning :- “Hello Momma? Are you there? I love you. Your monkey pajamas over there, Ok? Byeeeeeeeee’ … Continue reading →

Elephant in the room by julesd

julesd — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:33:40 +0000

‘Daddy, elephant stood on your socks’

‘Oh really?’

‘Yes daddy. Don’t do that again, elephant. Say sorry to Daddy!’

Peppa Pig by julesd

julesd — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:34:42 +0000

WARNING :-

Peppa Pig is like crack to 2 year old girls. Don’t let them start. It begins with “I want Peppa Pig” and progresses on to “One more and that is it” and then gets stuck in a loop. Any feeble attempt to distract child away from Peppa Pig ends in fits of bawling and the only way back is to bribe :- “Ok, we go to the shop AND THEN one more Peppa Pig”.

Behind the lens by julesd

julesd — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:35:52 +0000

Nora kept playing with many things, pretending they were cameras. She would point them at us and say ‘CHEESE’ and pretend to take a photo. So we thought, well heck… Why not eh? And gave her an simple old digital camera to play with. The following photos are taken by Nora with that camera, at the tender age of 2 years and 3 months.

Wake up by julesd

julesd — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:24:52 +0000

This morning I was woken by a little voice saying ‘wake up daddy, I want biscuit.’

When I opened my eyes, the tin was being thrust before me.

Scooter! by julesd

julesd — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:37:34 +0000

Nora seems to be much better on her scooter today. Now she has nearly got right to the end of our street.

Naughty corner. by julesd

julesd — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:53:08 +0000

Apparently, both cookie monster and snowman have been naughty. Nora has sent them both to the naughty corner until further notice. Ok? Ok?

Water Baby by yati

yati — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:25:37 +0000

Jules joined the gym today… Me? I joined a Leisure Centre. I think I will mostly be using the sauna. Such hard life.

The reason I’m going to try the Leisure Centre out is so I could take Nora to the pool. And today, we did just that. She was scared for the first few minutes and then she was splashing around. We were in the big pool instead of the kiddie pool as there was a swimming lesson going on.

Anyway, I will take her down to the pool on a weekly basis and I find out swimming lessons for her and for me.

When we were at Cornwall, Nora did go into the pool. But she only lasted a few minutes and she wanted out. I guess it’s because Mama wasn’t in there with her.

Proud Mother Syndrome V: Do’a by yati

yati — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:31:49 +0000

For about a month Nora insisted that I read the do’a book at bedtime. The book has pictures and I just explain to her what the pictures are about (‘look, he’s waking up’, ‘he’s going to bed’, ‘they are breaking their fast’, etc) and recited some of the do’a that goes with some of the pictures.

One of the do’a I kept repeating is the one to recite before you sleep.

She has now moved on to another book, a Malay pantun (rhyme) book called ‘Sayang’ but I still recite the sleep do’a before I read her the pantun.

Today, as I picked up the Sayang book and started to recite the do’a, Nora shush me and put a finger on my lips. She then settled down and recited the do’a all on her own! She did miss a word but that doesn’t matter… she tried really hard and I’m proud of her.

Egg Shopping by yati

yati — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:30:34 +0000

Nora was sitting by the window this morning. After a few minutes staring outside, she turned to me and said ‘shop’. I asked her what do we need to get from the shop. With no hesitation she said ‘egg’.

Hmmmm… wonder if she’s developing a love for egg just like me.

There was another incident when she wanted to go to the shop… and I told her we’re not going out. She kept asking if we ‘go shop?’ and I kept saying ‘no’ to her. She then changed her tactics and language…

‘Kedai?’ she asked.

I told her that she say it in any language, the answer is still ‘No’.