A bundle of joy: September 2010

Dear Elle,

You had your first sleepover ever at 3 years old, two days before you turned 40 months old. What a milestone! We had mentally prepared to pick you up in the middle of the night expecting you'd cry for us, miss us and want us to bring you home. During the night, mama checked the clock almost every 20 minutes wondering how you were doing. Well, it turned out the sleepover went too smoothly. Not only you didn't mention about us at all, you even asked Aunty Lin if you could stay there forever.

The next morning, Aunty Lin couldn't hold it longer to prompt you if you missed your parent. Your response was "Uh huh..". Just like that, and you walked away to play again. What a heartless baby you are! Not to mention when I came over to pick you up, you acted so surprise seeing mama showed up. It's hilarious to hear you calling me "Aunty leling" the way Mia does. When mama asked you why you did not miss me or call me, you said, "Because I'm too busy playing with Mia and I got too tired.". As we bid farewell, you said politely to Aunty Lin, "Thank you for being nice to me.".
It's funny to hear you calling yourself "Strong muscle". When you get tired, you sign "Strong muscle is tired. Strong muscle needs power.". When I complained about you always get on my nerve, you said, "Sometimes you get on my bubble nerve too!". One day mama asked you to go get your clothes for the bath, you ran out and then came back saying "CHANGE MY MIND!" and then undressed yourself first before going to get your clothes.

That day on the car ride home, you yelled at the sky, "You storm! You rain! Go away! Go back to your home, lay down and be quiet! Don't come to my school!" because the rain ruined your water day at school. Nowadays, your always complain "Boys are mean!". Even though if it's a girl who accidentally hit you and gave you a boo boo, you'd say it's a boy did it because boys are mean. When I asked you why you think boys are mean, you replied, "Because when the girls say yes, the boys say no and the boys chase after us and scare us."
Some of your new/favorite sayings are: "OK! OK!.. you can be on my team.", "Not Yet! I have one more question to ask mama!", "BUT MOM...! I have something to talk to you.", "Hmm, Hmm, Hmm.. Yummy, I'm loving it!", "Yippy! Yippy!", "Papa says, you need to do like this.", "What should I do next?".

One day you asked dada if you could do something and was astonished that dada gave you the green light of go ahead. You asked in disbelief, "You NOT say NO? You say YES??".

You yell "HOP ON ABOARD!" when we get on our bicycles to cruise around the neighbourhood. You love cycling on the bumpy sidewalk, rhyming "chuka chuka chu chu" along with the bumpy loud noises.

That day I saw you sitting on the toilet bowl and putting down the cover to your back. You smiled at me saying, "I'm a potty chair." The next time you did the same thing, you told me you're a clam.

One of your favorite game is to pretend flying on mama's legs like the wonder pets rescuing their animal friends. You'd sing along the wonder pet's song as you're flying around.

"Wonder pet wonder pet, we're on our way
to save our friends and save the world
we're not too big, we're not too tough
when we're together, we got the right stuff"

Love,
Mama