Difficult = the Lai sisters

Summer

Bed time

Daddy: Bean, no more hold hands to sleep

Bean: But Daddy I want to hold hands, how about no need to hold hand when I am 4 years old?

Daddy: No, how about now when you are 3 years old

Bean: Daddy, When I am 20 years old, I don't need to hold hand and you can dream about holding my hand

Daddy playing PS3 on TV

Bean: Daddy, why are you always playing games? You have to stop playing now Daddy. I need to watch my DVD now.

Bean watching TV

Daddy: Bean, you are too close to the TV, get back a bit

Bean: But Daddy, the TV is too small, I need a bigger TV

Daddy: But if I buy a bigger TV then I don't have enough money to send you to school

Bean (eyes open wide with excitement): Really?!? Then Daddy I don't have to go to school and I can stay home and we watch TV together!!

Mika

At playgroup's painting session where Mika was using her fingers to draw on paper

Mika (complaining and wiggling): arrgggggghh!!!

Mummy: Why Mika? Painting is fun!

Mika: DIRTY!

Mika attacks Bean and Mummy saw what happened

Mummy: Mika! What are you doing?! Did you just hit ZheZhe?

Mika blank face

Mummy: Mika! Did you just hit ZheZhe?

Mika shakes her head

Bean: Yes she did!! She just hit me Mummy!! How about naughty corner for 20 minutes??

Mika pointing at the pair of pink shoes

Mika: Shoes , shoes (meaning put them on her)

Auntie Juliet: Oh Mika we can't wear that one cos we lost one shoe

Mika: (But) Nice!

Auntie Juliet: I know, how about you choose another pair?

Mika chooses the brown boots, puts them on for 5 mins and...

Mika (pointing at the shoe cabinet): Shoes, shoes (wanting to change another pair)

Juliet puts on a silver pair for her, and she cries and tried to take them off until everyone clips hands and tells her how nice they were, then she proudly walks off

Mika gives Juliet a shoe to put on

Mika: Shoes, shoes

Juliet: Oh Mika, no need to put shoes on now, you nap first and then when we go out we put these on

Mika (throws the shoe on the floor): ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Drama class may be?

I am always very dramatic about a lot of things, I love to make faces, do poses and just being silly! I think may be I should take up drama classes as well as my piano, art and ballet class. The 9 photos below were taken at a playdate at our place. (Side track: Look at all the princess dresses I have, and Mika also join the fun!) So do you think I am a natural born actress?

Happy Valentine's Day

This Valentine's Day was super special for us! Daddy came home with flowers for all of us! We were all in Mika's room reading a book before bed and Daddy surprised us by giving Mika and I a single rose each and a nice bunch of flowers for Mummy! Mummy was so touched saying that it is so nice that our first rose was from a man who will love us unconditionally forever.

Our flowers, but Mika didn't seem like she appreciated the rose.. but I like mine a lot!

She was more interested in Mummy's flowers which was almost her height

Daddy, the girls and their flowers

We love you Daddy, so many (Not Mummy's grammar problem, it's the way I say it)

Small man syndrome

I know I am small, and may be that is why I need to defend and protect myself, so I use the most primitive method- violence. I like to scratch, pinch and hit ZheZhe and Auntie Juliet, and sometimes Mummy, but I don't do that too much to Mummy cos she scolds me when I do that. What ZheZhe will do is just sit there and cry. I enjoy the reaction so I sometimes use other things to hit her too like my water bottle, shoes, telephone, CDs, just basically whatever I can find, as well as using my hands, oh, sometimes I bite her too... Now I need to do it less as Mummy puts me in the naughty corner when I do that, which is the corner behind ZheZhe's door in her room. Mummy puts me there for 1 minute cos I am 1 year old, but ZheZhe always asks Mummy to put me there for 20 minutes, and ZheZhe will run and get the large cushion and other things to block the door so I can't push it open. Now when Mummy catches me before my attack, she will say 'Do you want to go to naughty corner?' and I will walk over to ZheZhe's room and look at the door and point at the corner.

Besides that, I love to cover my eyes when Mummy asks me to look at her. It all started when I did something naughty and Mummy got down to my eye level and asked me to look at her and I covered my eyes with my hands, then she held my hands down and asked me to look at her but I shut my eyes hard and laughed. I thought I was pretty smart.

So what else do I do at 14 months?

-I love shoes, and I will raise my feet to have my shoes put on and run to the mirror and laugh

-I can say 'hot' when I touch something hot and say 'cold' when I touch something cold

-I can say 'Happy Birthday', and sing it

-I can associate words, like I can't say 'sofa' but I will point at the photo of a sofa and say 'sit down'

-I love to command 'DOWN' when I want to get down when being held

-I love to eat whatever ZheZhe is eating

-I love to walk with a smile to Mummy and give her hug and dig my face into her and make 'ohhhhh' sound

-I can do hand gestures to the song 'Twinkle star'

-I can do a lot more smart things but I think I better not brag!

I know what my features are, here is me when someone ask me 'Where's your nose?'. I make sure I stick it as far as my little finger allows it

Mummy asking 'Look at Mummy'

One of my favourite position, just like my ZheZhe when she was young

My twin

I love telephones. I have called Mummy a number of times already by pressing the buttons randomly, and of cos, not with this phone

Here is the video of me when Mummy asks me to look at her.

Here is the video of me singing 'Happy Birthday'

Happy Year of the Rabbit!

Kung Hei Fat Choy! We wish you all a very healthy, happy and delightful year of the Rabbit! We would have held Maxi for some photos but he wouldn't be too happy about that!

Happy New Year everyone! Kung Hei, Kung Hei!

For the New Year we wore our new clothes! And Yes I got many new clothes!! Yes! ME!!

And this one I shouted 'Don't want!' when Daddy put it on but then I loved it!

Blending in...

These are all new!!

More new clothes

Mummy loves this jacket

All dressed up to go out, just to book shop only

Singapore

It's been a long while since Mummy has updated our blog cos we were holidaying in Singapore! We had fun but it could have been better if it didn't rain as much as it did. Daddy and Mummy planned a lot of nice things and places to do and see, such as going to the Zoo, Universal Studio, Botanical Gardens, indoor Playground, book shops etc.

On our way there

On our second day we went to the Zoo where there is a children's area with pony rides, merry-go-round and super fun water park. But after we got the tickets it was raining so heavily that almost all we could see is the green raincoat that Mummy bought at the Zoo ripped open to cover our pram! And of cos, no water park nor any rides... the visit lasted may be 45 mins max... we managed to see a few monkeys, elephants and some penguins

the funnest part is being in the Zoo gift shop

Third day we were at the Universal Studio! 3 minutes after we got in it started to rain again!! We did the Madagascar Merry-Go-Round for about 6 times to wait for the storm to settle down and off we went doing other rides! Our double stroller got so wet from the rain despite the fact it was under a shelter! My favourite ride is the roller coaster!

This is my parent's way in escaping the queue for taking photos with the characters.... but we were just too busy looking at the Panda and not the camera!

Us trying to navigate and figuring out where to go next

We really love this double stroller! Mika who hates the pram loved sitting here with me!

Daddy had a lot of fun with us all over him all the time!

Since it was raining everyday, Mummy and Daddy decided to take us to the indoor playground Fidgets. Daddy and I went climbing the big girl's stuff straight away...

where Mika stayed at the below 2 area..

but not for too long until she also joined us at the big kids area

we were about 1 storey high here

and I met a boy where I had running competition with

The next day we went to the Science Centre, where we had a lot of fun pressing buttons, looking at fun things, and car rides!

Laa laa laaaaaaaa

Mika got daring and only wanted to be pushed around standing up as if she was driving a forklift, such a weird sight

Our hands

Even at our services apartment we found ways to have fun. I had a great time trying on mummy's new shoes where Mika had fun with the shoe box

Then we played bride and bridesmaid

On the second last day we went to Jacob Ballas children’s garden - the children section of the Botanical Gardens

We had lunch there, look at the lunch box!

We went on the bridge and then it started to rain!!!

Then after 10 mins we went in again after the rain stopped

Here are some photos Mummy took of us while we were enjoying our trip in Singapore