Quips II

Feeling a little under the weather today, I complained during dinner to YL that I felt fat. It's just one of those days, you know. After dinner, we stopped by a shoe shop to buy a pair of shoes for Sophie. He didn't help matters when he grumbled and fussed that I took too long to decide on a pair. I positively fumed for the rest of the evening.

Upon arriving home, he wisely left me to huff and puff, and to bury myself in the papers while he carted Sophie off to her shower. I overheard him instructing her to tell Mamma "the shoes are sooo beautiful" later.

A few minutes later, the two appeared in front of me with sheepish grins and chimed together, "Wow, Mamma...you are so thin!". I wasn't amused.

YL then grabbed the new pair of shoes and shoved it in front of Sophie's face to remind her of her next line. She looked at them, a lightbulb lit up in her head, she looked up, flashed a smile and said, "Wow...the shoes are so thin, Mamma!"

Scenes in Singapore

Feeding Baba
A walk along the tiny stretch of beach that is Sentosa

Strolling through the National Museum of Singapore

A dip in the wading pool in Vivocity (it's a shopping mall)

A dip in another sort of pool at the National Museum of Singapore

HFMD restrictions over!

Over the last few months, Singapore experienced its highest incidents of the Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD). Sophie's nursery have been off-limits to parents since early April because they had 2 cases there. Sophie herself was a victim of the paranoia when she was not allowed to attend nursery for a week because of the tiny faint blister on the palm of her hand (probably due to too much time at the monkey bars).

Long story short, yesterday the nursery finally lifted its restrictions because they have been free of cases for more than 2 weeks. They organised a lunch for parents and I finally got to see what she's been up to in school.

Lunch of fried rice

Playing in the closet

Naptime

Poster girl

Masterpiece: Worm

Introducing my Yi Cheong

My Yiyi (aunt) decided that Keon Kor Kor (brother) has been a good enough boy for the last 5 years so she promoted him to become Yi Cheong (Chinese title for aunt's husband) last weekend.

Look at how happy they are...

Little Monkey

Sophie is a regular at the monkey bars at the playground near our house.

Quips

1. YL usually takes Sophie to the toilet before we turn in for the night to avoid her wetting her bed in the middle of the night. She would be groggy with sleep by that time, eyes closed and body limp.

Once, YL switched on the toilet lights and Sophie protested immediately, "Aaaa...switch off the lights! It's too sunny!"


2. Yiyi was trying to take a photo of Sophie with her new iPhone, and the whole family coerced her to look up from her toys in her hands to pose for the camera.

"Look at the camera, look at the camera!" She looked everywhere except the camera, fidgeted with her hands and squirmed around.

"Look at the camera, look at the camera, look at the camera, Sophie!"

"But it's a phone!"


3. To be continued...She's bugging me to change into my uniform to go to school now and later she will put me to nap...