Ming Ming’s Friendship Band
小小宝贝 : Mommy Mommy! See what Sherry made for me??
姐姐 ：Maybe she likes you??
小小宝贝 ：Of course! Or else, why would she make the friendship band for me?!
Someone is very confident siah… 😅
小小宝贝’s First ePTM
The first ePTM (parent teacher meeting) ever since he started primary school. We didn’t have one last year due to covid.
“I can’t believe it! 弟弟‘s teachers said he’s such a well behaved boy in class, very quiet (huh!!!) not a social butterfly (huh!!), very focused and attentive blah blah blah. His Chinese teacher even said he’s the most responsible 小组长 and can be entrusted with everything. When I told them he made friends with the boy standing behind him while queueing for chicken rice, they were totally surprised!”
姐姐-“Erm Mummy, did you remember to write his name as your nick when you joined the zoom meeting?”
“Hmm… I forgot. I used my own name.” “Maybe they thought you were another student’s Mummy and they were not referring to him. 🤷🏻♀️”
“Good point there!! There were talking about his classmate and not him!”
弟弟-“I’m a very good boy in school ok!!! 😡”
“Then why are you so naughty at home? I’m going to send your home videos to your teachers so that they can see your true colours!!”
“Nooo….!!!! 😭” #evilmom #siginna #devilathomeangelinschool
That’s his art homework (surrealism – incorporate a vegetable or fruit into drawing). A cucumber boat.
Ming Ming’s Diary – I Don’t Want to Go to School
Super moody today…. 😩
Even the yummiest cookie tastes like 💩 without girls. What’s the meaning of life??
Wha..aaattt?! I’m overreacting?? Ok ok. Since I’m in a monk’s class, I’ll meditate to cool down. 🧘🏻♂️
Orhmm orhmm… where are the girls… orhmm orhmm… where girls… orhmm orhmm….
I haven’t been posting because I’ve been so so so depressed. Sigh….. 😞
Why?
Look at this 👇🏼
Depressing right??
What do you mean what’s wrong???
Look carefully (don’t blink!) 👇🏼
See the Problemo???
Nooo..?!
All the Mei meis are MISSING!!!
See!!! All boys in the class!!! Oh my Mei meis are gone! Oh Laura! Oh Taylor!!
Before the school holidays, my class was full of babes who milled around me for my attention and now…
Only boys!! I’m in an all boys class!! I’m in depression!! It’s what they call a monk’s class!!
Mama!! I want to change class! Or I’m going on STRIKE! No more going to school for me!!
Mama do you hear me???
Na ah! I’m not going to change my mind.
No school for me until you bring the girls back.
Meanwhile I’m going to homeschool myself. *reads my car car book*
And so… I went to school, to my monk’s class because Mama said the school fee has been paid and I must go to school, with or without girls in class.
Tough luck!
“Are you going to school to learn or to see girls?!” She asked.
I wanted to say “beo girls, of course!” But she looked so….
That I thought I’d better keep my big mouth shut….
Hey wait!! Who do we have here??? Looks like there’s a bit of rainbow 🌈 after the rain 🌧.
A Mei Mei! Someone up there must have heard my prayers.
Hey babe! My name’s Ming Ming. What’s yours? Can we be friends?
Awww owl, are you fine? Can I keep you for a pet?? *pats the owl lovingly.* what? Ok ok. Mustn’t get distracted. F.O.C.U.S.
Eating together at snack time.
Nom nom nom. Say, how do you find this class? Cool, right?? Will you stay? I can protect you. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I can even give you my biscuit 🍪! Nah!
Huh? What do you mean? I’m coming on too strongly? Scare her away? Ok ok. Chill chill!
It wouldn’t do if she leaves the class and I’m back to facing 7 monks. 😱 Kill me pulease!
Gosh! There are owls lying everywhere. I just rescued one from the floor.
Mommy, I’ve 2 Girlfriends!
It’s the favourite time of my day! After lights out, we have our little chit chat in the dark.
小小宝贝 ：Mommy! I’ve 2 girlfriends! ?? ??
宝贝口水妹：What?! I don’t even have a boyfriend and you have TWO girlfriends??
Me : Are you sure they are your girlfriends!?
小小宝贝：Yes! (He insisted) Both of them said they liked me! ☺️ And I like them too!
Me : Erm, Lezen and Clara?
小小宝贝 ：(giggled) Yes!
Me : Didn’t you say that Elijah (his bff) likes Lezen?
小小宝贝：Since I’ve 2 girlfriends, I can give him one. (So generous of him ??♀️)
宝贝口水妹：How can you give girlfriends away???
小小宝贝： Because Lezen told him that she liked him too! So I’ll give him Lezen and we can both have girlfriends.
宝贝口水妹：Do you know what’s a girlfriend??? Not just any girl who is your friend ok!!
小小宝贝：Of course I know! All the girls in my class like me, but I only like 2!
Gosh! I’ve a Casanova in the household… ?
A Seat Full of Puke ?
Too fast, too furious, it happened. Out of the blue, we heard a retching sound, then when I turned around, I could only gape in horror as brown gooey liquid gushed out, non stop, of 小小宝贝’s mouth.
“Don’t move! Don’t touch anything! Don’t touch the car!!! This is a nuclear disaster!!”
小小宝贝 sat in his vomit, stunned, with his hands held up in the air. It’s his maiden vomiting experience.
Hub was driving and asking, “what happened?!”
宝贝reacted the quickest, “Give Didi some tissue!!!”
(Side story : Seow told me that her student puked in the car and some fluid flew over her Dad, who was the driver and in shock, he swerved and almost caused an accident. So we had been extremely lucky that his wasn’t the explosive, fly everywhere kind. Or we may have to scrap the car!)
宝贝 : Haha! Remember the last time I vomited all over the stairs as I was going to my bedroom??
Images of the last puking incident appeared vividly in my mind. Yes. She threw up as she was going up the stairs to her room. It splashed everywhere at the stairwell, over the railings (you can imagine that the puke went to the lower floor as well) and I saw food lumps and stomach acid cascading down the stairs…. we spent the whole night cleaning 2 floors.
Me : Not funny ok!
When we got home, we unbuckled the whole car seat and lifted him along with it straight into the bathroom. Hub cleaned him up while I wiped the car down and left the windows down to air it…. ?
We stood and stared at the car seat, a few bowls worth of puke, a lot of undigested food and unknown (you don’t want to know) stuff pooled on it.
Me : Can still use or not? Throw away arh? But very expensive leh…
Hub : I’ll settle it!
Me : ? My hero!!! Cleaning up the aftermath of a nuclear warfare!
Somehow he managed it. The next time I saw the car seat it was dismantled and clean and drying at the balcony. We washed the covers a few times in the washing machine and it’s good as new.
We survived!
Meanwhile, 小小宝贝 is stricken with probably stomach flu.
This reminds me of another time, when he covered me with shit. ?
I’m sure every parent out there must have experienced some form of disaster originating from one of the orifices of their children’s. But we soldier on! ??
His Favourite (Everchanging) Colour!
Raised the same way, but yet so different…
During her early years, her favourite colour was green. Maybe it’s because some of our walls were green and we had lots of home decoration in that colour. And I dressed her in neutral colours and a pink or red once in a while. A few years ago, she declared that her favourite colours were pink and purple and they’ve remained since then. Sigh. There are just some things that can’t be changed. Why must little girls like pink?!
When he was very little (I mean when he was a wee babe, because he’s still very little now), he decided (yes, decided, no one could change his mind), that HIS favourite colour was PINK?!?!
He ursuped his sister’s pink hat and wore it everywhere he went, including at home….
One fine day, he announced that his favourite colour was “rainbow”. So he started the era of putting as many different colours possible in every of his art pieces.
A ? coloured “Yang Yang De Yi”.
His ultra colourful house.
Then came…
The Black Age…. he coloured his drawing in various colours, then painted over the colours in BLACK!! ??♀️
He insisted that black was THE colour and wanted to be dressed in black clothes!! All his paintings were in black! Don’t ask me why a 4 year old would choose black as his favourite colour…
Until yesterday.
小小宝贝 : Mommy, I love orange!
Me : Eh, isn’t black your current favourite colour??
小小宝贝 : No! It’s ORANGE! Mommy, do you know why I love orange?
Me : ??
小小宝贝 ： Your favourite colour is red! So mine is orange. Because that’s the closest colour to red!! BECAUSE WE ARE CLOSE!! Right, Mommy???
Awww…. *melting* ??
Displaced by Technology
The hub is on an overseas business trip (yes, again!) so I am the “Tchaikovsky” for the fortnight (next week, too!). I kind of like driving the kiddos to school. All of us are stuck with one another in the car, all strapped in, no distractions like toys and all.
小小宝贝 : I like Google Home so much! (gushing over the darn machine enthusiastically)
Me : (what the…?! Ah ah.. no swearing…) (in my most gentle mommy voice) Why is that so?
宝贝 : Di di talks to it all the time!
小小宝贝 : You were not at home. So I asked Google, “Why is the sky blue? Why is the sun yellow? Why are the clouds white?” And the Google was so smart!! She knows all the answers!
Me : So what did she tell you?
小小宝贝 : Oh I have forgotten.
Me : Do you want to know the answers? (finally my chance to impress my son!)
小小宝贝 ：It’s ok. I will go home and ask Google after school today. She is always there! I can always ask her! (Is he subtly trying to tell me something??!!)
I swear I’m going home to trash that gadget today!
#jealousofagadget #displacedbytechnology #ihategooglehome #machinesaretakingover #quitmyjobandstayathome #afteritrashgooglehome
My Little F1 Race Commentator
“Mommy! The Ferrari crashed first!” Then he launched an animatedly detailed account of how Ferrari crashed its team out of the race. “And Mercedes is the best!!! It was no 1 at the F1!”
Both his eyes lighted up as he described the entire F1 race as if he were present at the scene!
The mystery was… “But you slept at 730pm last night and went to school this morning. When did you watch the F1 race??”
Heck! I didn’t even watch the race myself! I’m not an F1 fan. I read the account of it this morning on the news though. And at 4 years old, he couldn’t have read that.
“Ohhh I didn’t watch it. I heard Ashton telling his friend.”
“Who’s Ashton???”
“He’s a K2 boy in the bus.”
“这么小就偷听人家讲话!” Popo remarked. (Translation : eavesdropping at such a young age! Grandma remarked.)
“NO! I didn’t!!! He said it very loudly! I was sitting in the first row and he was at the third!!” 小小宝贝 defended himself indignantly. ?
“You cannot say I 偷听! Say sorry to me!” ?
This reminds me that my little man is growing up. I need to check myself when I speak to other adults when he’s around. Sometimes he sounds awfully like me when he speaks…. all phrases must be G rating from now on. No more R rated phrases anymore.
Oh and I caught someone reading my blog on the phone during her 10 mins a day allowance. ? Must be careful of what I write here henceforth. ?
How do you Spell Stoopid?
小小宝贝 : Mummy, how do you spell the word ‘stupid’?
Me : You are not supposed to use that word on people. It’s rude. If I tell you how to spell it, you are going to write it everywhere. Unless you promise that you won’t do that.
小小宝贝 ran to the living room. Oh great! He’s going to play with his toy train. In the next second, I heard, “OK GOOGLE! How do you spell the word stupid??”
GOOGLE : S.T.U.P.I.D.
小小宝贝 : Thank you Google!
GOOGLE : You are welcome!
I swear the robots are going to take over Earth soon!!!
Sentosa KidZ Flea 2017 Part 1
I came across the Sentosa KidZ Flea 2 years back when I was doing research on flea market for children. However, we were always unavailable during the dates. This year, I made up my mind to participate in it! I checked with 宝贝 if she would be interested, well, of course she was! Ever since she was introduced to the concept of money when she started Primary 1, she’s now more aware of it. We currently measure prices in equivalence to her pocket money per day.
Sentosa KidZ Flea is an award winning event organised by Sentosa annually and it takes place during the March holidays. It is open to children (age 7-12 years old) for them to sell their handicraft, pre-loved items, new items or even to set up game stalls. It promotes the entrepreneurial spirit in a fun way! They even gave a briefing session to the children to guide them on what to do and also to warn us parents that it’s the “real world” out there. Anything, and everything could happen. So it’s up to us, parents, to decide how much we wanted to step in.
And so, I signed up for a store for 1 day (we decided not to be too ambitious on our first try) for the girls to try their hands at being mini bosses. After their briefing, the 2 老板娘s eagerly set down to conceptualise their stall and what to sell (with some inputs from their creative and helpful parents, us lah!).
And so, they brainstormed at a cafeteria.
They wrote down a list of possible names for their stall. They debated on whether to sell handmade bracelets and necklaces, pre loved toys or their paintings. In the end, they decided that they would sell cute stationery (think smiggle style) and pretty hair accessories. I overheard them saying, “if we can’t sell everything, then we can bring them home and use! yay!!” Duh…. (Priorities, Kids!!) Well, I couldn’t really fault them for their logic. Because if they liked the products enough to want to own them, then so would others..?? So they picked the products (that they liked… they squealed in excitement over the product pictures), debated over the pricing (based on the sale price at their school bookshops and Popular) and finalised the actual quantities they wanted to order.
Most importantly, they decided on who the bosses were. They have already recruited their little siblings to be their sales people and have worked out the wages.
They came up with their logistics list…
And…. their booth design! After lots of discussion, they finalised their uniforms on that day – Pink top (yes, that includes 小小宝贝) and leggings (they compromised on this and allowed 小小宝贝 to wear jeans).
What’s next? Wait for their goods to arrive, take stock and pack them nicely.
SO… If you are looking for activities during the March holidays…..
Do come down to Sentosa, Palawan Beach area on next Thursday 16 March 2-7pm. Come and patronise our booth! The girls (and boy) will be selling cute stationery and hair accessories at very affordable prices. And part of the proceeds will be donated to Charity! Look out for our little bosses dressed in pink tops and leggings (or jeans)!
Be there or BE SQUARE!
Cheers!