Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Best Compliment

Kayrin has gotten very clingy and weepy these days, especially in the mornings when I'm about to go to work. It gets very exasperating but I've been happy to note that I've kept my patience.
There are rewards of having a kid, though. The sound of laughter from Kayrin as I play hide and seek with her, the squeals of surprise as I pounce on her all are priceless. Also, no one pays you the kind of compliment your kid does!
Yesterday evening, Kayrin was sitting on her bed, flipping through her big book of 20th Century Children's Book Treasury, when she stated her demand for the day.

Kayrin: I want a new mommy.
me: Oh, and where are you going to find one? What are you doing with her?
Kayrin: I want a new mommy who looks like you and don't go to work.

That was so touching. It tugs at my heart strings that this little yet-to-be-four kid already knows what it's like to miss mommy.
When you grow up, my little darling, you may understand mommy's predicament. Mommy gives us the lifestyle we have, with God's grace, of course. And hopefully I'm a better mommy because I go to work.

Mommy doesn't love you any less for going to work.

Friday, January 19, 2007

More Than Once

Date: Jan. 18, 2007
Venue: Home

After dropping her half dozen pillows at the foot of the stairs, just before bedtime, Kayrin sought assitance.

Kayrin: Help, mommy, I dropped all my babies.
Me: Oh boy. OK, let me pick them up for you. Why do you have so many babies?
Kayrin: Because I got married many times.

Me: Did you go to school today?
Kayrin: No.
Me: Who not?
Kayrin: Because I'm too young. Young kids don't need to go to school.

Friday, January 05, 2007

A Learned Kid

Thursday, Jan. 4: Kayrin's second day at Sri Waja kindergarten. And she's all of 35 months old today!

Before class...
Mommy: Let's go to kindy, shall we?
Kayrin: No, I don't need to learn anything.

After tricking her into accompanying mommy to get her Chinese name written for the teacher, she got into her uniform and went across the road to kindy.
After class:
Mommy: So, darling, what did you learn today?
Kayrin: I learned everything!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Back Then

And back in March 2003, this was how the little lady looked like, at less than two months old. Mommy's baby's all grown up and is a pre-schooler now..even mommy can't believe it!

Blowing the Candle

Nowadays, we celebrate birthdays in the bedroom! Well, the only place we're family on our own. This was daddy's birthday in July 2006.

Kindergarten

Kayrin started on her first day at kindy today. Wow, what a milestone. Daddy accompanied her to Sri Waja, across the road from home. Literally a stone's throw away.
All my plans of sending her to a kindergarten down the road, up the hill, round the corner came to nothing. Goes to show that we can plan but only God knows what will come to fruition.
How wonderful that my little baby is now a pre-schooler. Daddy said she started singing "A-B-C" the alphabet song and then got the whole class singing along with her. What a leader!

Little Boy Blue

Little boy blue
Come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow
The cow's in the corn

Where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep
He's under the haystack
Fast asleep

That nursery rhyme has been played continuously over a car journey, non-stop too, in the S40, and over and over again on the Bose Wave in the bedroom at bedtime on Kayrin's demand. She knows which track it is on the CD. Over the weekend, Shaw Feng skipped to Track 9 while driving, and the song `Rock a Bye Baby' came on. Kayrin promptly told daddy to "go back"a track. Sure stuns us that she knows where that track is on the CD. Ask her why she's so passionate about it, and her reply simply is: `It's my favourite.'
But, of course, my darling baby!

Kayrin and Cousin Ivan

Kayrin loves tagging after Ivan, and when on her own, will proudly declare that she has a cousin, and it's Cousin Ivan.
Ivan, on the other hand, seems to think a three-year old can be quite a pest if the three-year old persists in following him around!