I know that people say that the first year is the best year to enjoy with your child, but I think I enjoy my time more with Nora now. We actually have conversations… even if sometimes I could only understand half of her sentences or mostly being told off by her!

Like this morning when I was dressing her. I got her top, leggings and panties out of her cupboard and said to her ‘Nora pakai seluar’, which was meant to mean ‘Nora put on your panties’. The word ‘seluar’ means trousers/pants but it’s also used as a short version for ‘seluar dalam’, which means panties.

So, when she heard me tell her that she said ‘No, Mama. Not seluar. Panties’ and then pointed to her leggings and said ‘Seluar’.

Well… That’s me being put right!

There was one night… in the middle of the night, she woke up and started calling for me. I was seriously tired and called out to her saying that I’ll be there in a minute which she piped back ‘OK’. A minute passed, I guess, and I did nothing, she started calling for me again with the ‘Where are you mother? You said you’d be here in a minute’ tone of voice. I had to get up as she will go on and on until I do something.

Sometimes, when I put her to bed, and after she recites her d’oa and I’ve read her bedtime stories, we’ll start chatting about things… Nan and Ucu in Malaysia, her friends at Nursery, what she was up to during the day… it’s nice…