So after our trip to Legoland…

It is now my turn to be covered in spots.

When Nora wears skirts, she likes to say that she’s a princess, even though we don’t encourage the ‘princess thinking’ but I thought I’d use it on her this time, asking her if she’s a princess to which she answered ‘yes’. So, I told her that princesses do not climb about on the sofas. She said OK. So I asked her what she wants to be, to which she answered:

‘FROGGIE!!’

Tell me… how am I supposed to stay angry with her when she comes up with such brilliant answers like that?

We then decided to go to Fara, a secondhand baby/toddler/kid stuff shop. I made a mistake of letting Nora out of her buggy. She was trying out every single toy and then pointed to a pair of black shoes to me. I told her that we’re just window shopping and not getting anything. I asked her to get in the buggy so we could leave and she threw the biggest tantrum ever!

That was the first time she threw a tantrum in public! I was at a loss! I seriously did not know what to do. I kept on trying to calm her down. Just kept on and on saying her name. In the end when she did calm down, and I agreed that she could walk and not get in the buggy but we are not getting that pair of black shoes. She walked out of the shop holding Liz’s hand as she was still upset with me.

But she was soon in her buggy again and all is well when we got back to our neighbourhood, especially when we stopped at Primark and I got her a new sun hat and sunglasses… not that we need them now as apparently the weather will return to the norm instead of the summer sun we had of late… but they will be handy for our trip to Malaysia

Anyway… Nate will be away for 2 weeks… so she won’t have her usual Friday playmate for the next two Fridays

But by that time, she had changed me mind and told me that Sam is her best friend And when we got home, she told me Daisy is her best friend but Daisy wasn’t at Nursery yesterday.

Hayley also told me that Joseph (another staff member) told her that Nora told him that she loves Nathaniel, which I thought was sweet. They do see each other almost every other Friday and play really well together.

But when I told Jules at dinner time, Jules said that ‘I say hello to that boy every time I see him. I think I need to have a few more words with him next time.’

For heaven’s sake! They’re only two and a half!

Oh… it’s a ticketed system and I think they give out 50 tickets. Maybe less but it does feel there must be at least 50 kids/toddlers/babies in there!

Anyway, this week as I needed to take Nora to the library as some of her books were due back, I didn’t have the energy to do that, go to the playgroup, and then swimming lessons… on top of doing household chores and cooking her meal. So, we dropped the playgroup.

When we get to the library, I return the book at the self service counter and Nora then put it on the trolley next to it. She then runs to the lift as she wants to make sure that she’s the one who press the button and we go to the kids section. She then picks her books to read at the library as I go through the shelves and choose the books to take home. I build my little pile and kept on looking.

After about half an hour at the kids section at the library, we’ll go back downstairs and again I go to the self service counter. I just count how many books I have and make sure that the same amount comes out on the screen. We then leave for home.

This time, after she had her lunch and we got ready for her afternoon nap, I took the books out from her library bag and we picked three books to read… that was when I noticed… there were two of the same books!!

Little madam must have added that book to my pile of books! Oh well… she seemed to like the book of ‘Scaredy Cat and Boo!’

I kept asking her if she fell and she said no. She said her nose doesn’t hurt… so I guess it was just a nose bleed. But she told me it’s red paint… the blood on a box.

She was sleeping in my room and there were big spot of blood all over the duvet cover!

I wasn’t even sure if we’d be able to have a swimming lesson if her nose starts bleeding again… but it was fine.

So it was swimming lesson, carrot cake at Cafe Nero, a wander around Primark… and her insisting we go to the perpustakaan (library) even though we went there this morning!

But we did have a pleasant detour… we stopped over at Maya’s. I didn’t expect her to be in as usually she’s at the childminder’s on Fridays and I wanted to talk to Lina (Maya’s mom) about Sunday… but she was home and Nora had a bit of playtime with her… which was nice

I’m hoping for a more relaxing day tomorrow…

Yes, Nathaniel and his mom turn left and we turn right to head home.

And I told Nora that we will head there too on Monday when we go to Nathaniel’s second birthday party… and Nora then started to sing ‘Happy Birthday Nora’

Not yet Nora… take your time… don’t grow up too quickly.

Yes, Nora does give all her concentration when she wants too.

As I was chatting to Nathaniel’s mom yesterday, Nora was sharing her raspberries with Nate. Liz commented that she’s such a bad mom for not having any treats for Nate. I replied, ‘You don’t need to bribe your child to get into the buggy!’

Yes, I’m having a hard time getting Nora to sit on her buggy. She wants to walk. That is good but it takes ages for her to walk all the way home. So, I usually have her juice or some snack in my bag to tempt her on to the buggy… doesn’t always work unfortunately and we’ll be having a little row on the way home.

And she’ll be crying until we reach our street, and that’s where I let her out so she can walk home and shout ‘sampai rumah’ when I open the door.

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.

While we were in Malaysia, I bought a head-to-toe wash and just hoped that she’ll be fine as I forgot to bring her stuff from here. The funny thing was, after a couple of days, her skin was nice and smooth… apart from the insect bites. She had no skin problems at all.

Neither did I.

Now we’re back… both of us are itching. Maybe it’s the water.