New Home

If you haven't heard already, we have finally bought our first asset (hopefully) a few months ago. It is now under renovation and the move-in date have been fixed to 6 February.

Whenever we make trips to the site, Sophie keeps herself busy by volunteering to take measurements. And in case you are wondering, no, she is not a PCK (a popular Singaporean TV character who is a contractor) in the making...she doesn't actually know how to do it properly.

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains

After I hit the last note in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star during Sophie's bedtime one night, she turned around and said "Mamma, it's not "lil". Only Little Einsteins say that!", referring to the American accent spoken in the pre-school programme.

"It's li-TT-le, Mamma!"

Amused, embarrassed and proud.

Yes, I have been making tiny bits of effort to teach her the difference between American and British pronounciation. She knows it should be "war-Ter" and "dahnce" instead of "war-Ner" or "daynce". Now I'm proud to say that she even knows how to extrapolate it to other words.

Children are amazing.

At the Zoo with Friends

All set for the zoo!My best friend when it comes to mischief and play
At the Kidzworld wet play area

Here we go again, Josh!

KFC and the zoo are synonymous (even in Malaysia, isn't it?)

We spent a morning out at the Singapore Zoo with Aunty Su-En and Josh, and Amelie who tagged along. The main target was the new Kidzworld water play area. Sophie had a blast dashing about getting drenched with her Baba. Was in an extremely anti-social mood, though, and refused to play with Josh or Amelie.

Concert

Two days after arriving back in Singapore after a 2-week recovery period in KL from chicken pox, Sophie caught a gastric flu. She threw up 7 times in one day, and lost probably 1kg in the process. Everything she ate, she threw out.

Fortunately for us, Popo was around so she fussed over her till she was better the next day to perform at her nursery's year-end concert.

A picture with Popo before the show

The finale

Partner-in-crime, Hera

Platform Gap

Sophie pointed at her shirt during dinner today, and asked, "What is this?".

I answered, "G-A-P. GAP".

She mumbled under her breath, "...platform gap...".

Eyebrows raised, I asked, "And where would you find this platform gap?", thinking I must have heard it wrong.

"At the train. The M-R-T".

Bear in mind that we take her onto the MRT only occasionally, usually relying on buses or taxis. I checked with her Baba to make sure he hasn't been talking to her about platform gaps recently. I don't know if this is the normal standard for 3-year olds, or that I just have low expectations of her, but I'm suitably impressed. :D

Chicken Pox

Sophie caught the chicken pox last weekend from god-knows-where. Faced with the unthinkable prospect of taking a week off work each, we immediately activated the grandparents. Nai Nai and Yeye drove down from KL in record time (3.5 hours) and promptly whisked Sophie off our arms and back to KL.

It's a good thing that she's getting it so young. I remember being stuck at home for a week when I was twelve, and then crying when I was sent home from school for another week because the spots were still visible. Guess it is still less embarrasing than being sent home from work as YL did when he got it at a ripe old age of 25,....as a doctor.

Interestingly, instead of becoming the pariah that I expected, her germs are very much in demand by other parents wanting their own kids to catch it. Anyways YL confirmed that 4 of his friends' kids caught the pox even after their vaccination, so I suppose getting it au naturale is the still the best.

Sophie, spread the good things around...