Kids Wear The Darnest Stuff To Sleep

Alycia has this idiosyncrasy of wearing her hooded Peter Pan sweater to sleep on some nights. She always complains that her bedroom is not cold enough, albeit the air cond and fan are turned on. Yet this silly girl will don on her sweater, with the hood covering her head despite the temperature being 33-36 degrees Celcius outside, haih.... sor lui hahahaha! A few nights ago, I saw her sleeping with a pair of socks and the weather these few days have been frigging hot.... so hot that I have to shower 4-6 times a day!

Kids Nap The Darnest Ways

I really don't know what Alycia was thinking - wearing a hooded sweater to bed one night. For someone who can't stand heat, she wore this thick sweater to bed, with a blanky covering her body too! I think she loves this Disney Peter Pan sweater too much!

Kids Nap The Darnest Ways

Kids are really versatile - they can sleep anywhere in any position and they have auto-balancing skill too, so that when they sleep in the wierdest position, they would not fall off the chair or the couch.

Kids Sleep The Wierdest Ways

We were out last Saturday afternoon to send Sherilyn to her ballet school and thereafter to the organic shop and lightings shop. It was a hot and sunny afternoon, a weather that would make anyone feel weary and tired. When we reached home, Alycia quietly went into her room without a word, which was very unlike her. I was busy with Baby. When I called out to Alycia later, there was no answer and I knew she must've dozed off. She took me by surprise when I found her lying on the floor face down, hah! I think she was so frazzled that she plopped on the floor in her room and dozed off right away.... and there were 2 surfing boards beneath her!

My Little Miss Vain Pot

We were at the Japanese Restaurant @ PJ Hilton last week to celebrate my birthday. As we were going into the restaurant, Alycia stopped me and said "mummy, take my picture here". Gosh, isn't she vain and she's only 4 years old? Well, can't blame her coz mummy is just as vain!

It's Only A Dream Dear

Just a moment ago, Alycia who was having her nap on the mattress on the floor jumped up and said in a panick tone "mummy, I forgot to brush teeth and wash hair!" I knew she was having a dream but I played along with her and said "wash hair to go where?" Alycia who still had a panick look on her face kept saying "forgot to wash hair, forgot to brush teeth!" I then told her that she's just having a dream and she appeared more calm and now she's gone back to nap. That was really funny.

Alycia's Old Pictures

Was looking through the old pictures on my computer and saw these pictures of Alycia which I think are really cute. Alycia was a very chubby and big baby as compared to Sherilyn. Too bad I had misplaced the thumbdrive containing the digital pictures of Alycia taken when she was a newborn, otherwise I can post them in the blog for keepsakes.

This was taken when Alycia was 16 months old at our outing at Kids' Oasis at Bangsar Shopping Complex.

This was taken when Alycia was around 26 months. She was a hardcore pacifier sucker then and she needed 2 pacifiers to be able to fall asleep. It was on the advice of the speech therapist that I weaned her off when she was around 30 months old.

What A Pose

Several days ago, hubby bought an Evan Almighty DVD for the gals. I normally won't allow the gals to watch long movies but since this movie is a rendition of the modern Noah's Ark, I'd allowed the gals to watch. One of Alycia's favorite stories is also Noah's Ark.

The gals were hooked to Evan Almighty. They loved watching the scores of animals lined up in twos clambering up the ark and the great flood coming. This picture was taken when Alycia watched Evan Almighty.... she was all wrapped up with the movie and was obviously oblivious that mummy had taken a pot shot of her... what a pose!

What's It With The Nappies?

I don't know what's it with the nappies that Alycia and Sherilyn would go crazy over them. The white cloth nappies are one of their favourite 'toys' and they can think of all sorts of ways to play with the nappies from wrapping their soft toys with it like a baby, wiping the floor and table with it, drapping it round their shoulders like supergirl and today, Alycia draped it round her head and pretended to be 'white riding hood'. When I tried to pull the nappy off her head before she went for her afternoon nap, she refused to let me touch it and cried for a while as I had untied and messed up the hood. So I had to drap the nappy back and secure it tightly to pacify her before quietly removing it when she's soundly asleep. Siau or not you say?

I Can Buy 10 More Canes

This is a back-scratcher which I use to threaten the gals when they are naughty. Nope, I did NOT hit them till it's broken but my 2 brats hated this cane so much till they found a way of destroying it.

When I saw that the back-scratcher was broken, I said this to the gals "you think you both can get away, mummy can buy 10 more canes from the pasar malam tomorrow". Do I sound like an abusive mother?

I only have my smart genes to blame coz when i was younger, my elder brother and I always hid the cane and feather duster too ..... LOL!

I Want To Bathe With Mummy!!

Alycia and I have been taking our baths together for the last 3 days and she is enjoying every moment of it. That's the only time she gets to spend time alone with mummy without her lil' sister and she gets my FULL attention and TLC.

Today, I had taken my bath early in the morning when I returned from my morning jog as I was really sweaty and sticky. When it was time to bathe Alycia later mid morning, Alycia demanded to bathe with me, not me bathing her but she wants the both of us having our baths together. She kept screaming "mummy i want to bathe with you, you take off your clothes, take off your pants, next time you don't bathe first, you bathe together with me." She was really upset that she didn't get to spend her time alone with mummy and was wailing, rolling and kicking on the floor for more than half an hour. Aiyoh.... i tell you, i was angry yet felt bad, a mixture of feelings. I've really gotten myself into trouble now as I know she will for the next few days demand to have her baths together with me.

Alycia Loves Seeing The Doctor

I found out today the real reason why Alycia always pretends to be sick. It's no other reason than food again. After Alycia had recovered from cough recently, it's Sher's turn now and she's got quite a bit of phlegm that irritates her throat and causes her to puke easily. I didn't get to sleep the whole of last night coz the minute Sher coughed, I'd get startled and then I'd worry that she would puke. Today, we brought Sher to the paed's office to get some medicine. If we go to this paed's office located at Sri Petaling, daddy would surely bring us to Overseas Restaurant located a few doors away from the clinic to eat dim sum after seeing the paed.
As daddy made a turn into the road leading to the paed's office, Alycia excitedly said "daddy, i want to eat dim sum". My maid and I laughed coz for the past few days, she's been pretending to cough whenever she hears her sister coughs and she'd say "mummy, i m sick, i want to see the doctor". But mummy knows she's just pretending as she wanted attention from me too. Today, I found out that her real reason is she wants to eat dim sum from Overseas Restaurant!

Why Did Alycia Do That?

Yesterday, Alycia did something that's unimaginable and absolutely gross. After she had finished her milk before her afternoon nap, she went to drink water from her cup. She then picked her nose, dug out some 'gold' and flicked it into Sherilyn's cup of water. I did not see her doing that but after her mischievous act, she ran to me feeling guilty yet thinks it's funny and said "mummy, I put my nose poop into Kay Yi's water". I was fuming mad and asked why she did that. She just giggled and brushed the incident aside and took it with a pinch of salt. This is not the fist time she had done something so mischievous. She had previously done something similar like putting her 'gold nugget' into her her sister's mouth. I just don't understand why she had done something so gross and naughty as she absolutely knows that it is not right to do.

Little Ah Sow

Alycia has caught the 'toy-obsession bug' from her lil' sis. All of a sudden, Alycia has developed an obsession with this Disney plastic bag that my mil brought back from Hong Kong weeks ago. Inside the plastic bag are her toy food, some Pooh Bear cards and some Lego blocks. Each night, she would bring with her this plastic bag filled with toys noisily clattering as she goes upstairs to her room and in the morning, she would carry the shabby plastic bag down, just like a little 'ah sow' (meaning middle-aged frumpy woman in cantonese) going to the market. Don't you think she looks ridiculous?

Switching Places

3 days ago, Alycia and Sherilyn decided they wanted to switch places during dinner time. Alycia had wanted to sit on her sister's high chair, use her bowl and insisted to eat cereal whilst Sherilyn agreed to sit on her cheh cheh's booster seat, use cheh cheh's bowl and eat her dinner without blending them.

I knew Alycia hates cereal and would never eat them (she never liked cereal when she was a baby) but I made her some cereal anyway to satisfy her whimps and fancies and also to prevent a meltdown during dinner. As I'd expected, the moment my maid put a small spoonful of cereal into her mouth, she spat it out, eyes turned watery and eeyweeeookkk....... wanted to puke, as seen in the picture below.


After trying hard to suppress herself from puking while choking and trying to cough out the remnance of the cereal from her throat, she finally ppppppuuuuuuuked out her dinner..... eeeeeshhh...... made me want to puke too.


Sherilyn was instead happily sitting on cheh cheh's seat and eating her unblended food, though she spat out some meat..... and then finished off cheh cheh's cereal.


There's never a dull moment when you have 2 brats!

Kids Say The Darnest Things

At times my gals say the darnest things that make me laugh really hard. Here are some of the funny things that they had said:

Scene 1
Before I go to the bathroom to have a quick scrub every night, I will put on a VCD for my gals to watch and I'd tell them before I turn on the tv that they have to promise not to cry when I turn off the tv when I am out from the bathroom.

Last night, Alycia said this to me as I entered the bathroom "mummy, you bathe slowly ar, very very slowly ar, don't come out so fast k?"

Scene 2
A few days ago as I was shopping at the frozen food section of a mini market, Sherilyn poked her finger on a raw chicken on display. I then reprimanded her by saying "cannot touch Sherilyn, it's dirty"
Minutes later, a boy of around 5-6 years of age came to the frozen food section and also tried to touch the raw chicken.
Sherilyn who saw the boy touching the raw chicken then wagged her left fore finger at the boy whilst resting another hand on her waist, scolded the boy by saying "hannot touch".
The boy quickly retreated his hand from the raw chicken but minutes later tried to touch the raw chicken again. Sherilyn who had her eyes fixated on the boy again warned the boy "i said hannot touch, itsh dirty" as she wagged her little forefinger.
I couldn't help bursting into laughter. My little baby can really immitate me so well.

Scene 3
Alycia's new favourite sentence when she's upset with me : "I just cannot believe it, I just cannot believe you are doing this to me mummy"

Scene 4
Whenever I whack Sherilyn for being naughty, Alycia would say "you cannot beat Kay Yi mummy. She will be sad. Don't beat her, stop it"

Scene 5
Daddy put on a video of Alycia when she was a baby for the gals to watch. Alycia got so emotional and sentimental that she cried and said "I want to go inside the tv and be a baby again". This went on for days until one morning, her sister Sherilyn said this to her "dun cry A-lisha, hannot go inshide tv, jood jirl (good girl) k. Sayang A-lisha" and then hugged her cheh cheh.

Alycia Wins My Heart

Last nite, Sherilyn dropped a hard box of zig-saw puzzle onto my foot when I reprimanded her for taking it out from my drawer. Sherilyn has a habit of putting the pieces of puzzles into her mouth and throwing them everywhere and shoving them under my king-size bed and under my mattres and eventually losing them.

One side of the sharp-edged box landed on one of my toes and as I yelped out in pain, Alycia who was in her room playing dashed into my room and asked me what had happened. I told her that her mui mui had dropped a box on mummy's foot and mummy is now in pain. As she saw me winced in pain, she darted back to her room and brought back a piece of mega block and pretended that it was a first-aid tape dispenser and started to put the imaginary plaster on my toe. When I saw Alycia pulling out the imaginary tape with the block, I just burst out laughing and asked her what she's doing. Alycia then said "don't move mummy, let me put plaster for you first".

I was really touched by Alycia's concern and wittines in handling first-aid situations like this. Alycia then said "don't be sad mummy" and wah.... her words and actions were like water dousing off a raging fire in my heart. I gave her a big hug and kiss and said "thank you Alycia. mummy loves you" and wow... I can see Alycia's face beeming with pride as her self-esteem inflates and her love tank filled to the brim with mummy's love and hug.

It has been a long time anyone had touched me so deeply and made me laughed this hard. Sometimes, Alycia can really win and melt the coldest of heart.


The sharp edge of this hard box landed on my toe.



Alycia put plaster (band-aid) on mummy's toe and sayang mummy's injured toe.

Alycia In Her Tight Pyjamas

Alycia and Sherilyn have always been vain pots and they are very picky over what they wear. Whenever my maid and I choose something for them to wear from their outing dress to simple clothes to be worn at home, they almost never accept our choice of selection but instead, both of them will pull a chair to the cupboard, climb up and pick up an outfit of their choice. Well, I have no one to blame for my gals' vanity as their mummy is just as vain, if not vainer :grin:

Last night as my maid and I were getting the gals ready for bed, Alycia handpicked an old Mothercare onesie pyjamas that she had worn when she was 12 - 18 months. I told her that the pjs is way too small for her and that she has grown so tall now that she cannot fit into the pjs but my vain pot insisted she wants to wear it. Not wanting Alycia to burst into a fit of rage as would have expected if her demand is not met, we gave in to her request but my maid could not button up the pjs. Her body was so stiff in the pathetically worn out tiny Mothercare pjs and she could barely bend her legs. As I was raring to go down to complete my Blogitive paid posts, I just took a pair of scissors and snipped off the bottom part of the pjs where the feet are and this is how Alycia looked in that ridiculous pjs :

Sometimes Only Her Kakak Understands Her

At times, only my maid Suliah comprehends Alycia's and Sherilyn's baby talks. We were having dinner a few days ago and one of the dishes was an omelette. Alycia the greedy pig was chewing with a whole mouthful of omelette when she muffled something like this :

Alycia : I .... (as she munches her food) muck egg.....

Me : You have stomach-ache? Do you want to go poo poo?

Alycia : Shakes her head. I (munch munch munch her food) muck egg.

Me : Hiyah... you must have eaten too much dim sum for lunch. I told you not to eat too much, now you have stomach-ache. Come, let's go to the toilet and poo poo.

Alycia : I want (munch, munch, munch) ..... muck egg.

My maid who was observing us noticed Alycia pointing to the omelette dish then said "oh, Alycia kata I want somemore egg"

Then all three of us burst out laughing.