Delaying Tactics

Shh, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.

These are some of my little tricks to delay doing things I do not wish like doing:

Put the wrong foot into the wrong shoe.

Well technically, I cannot be blamed, since I have yet to be introduced to the concept of left and right, hee hee.  

Talk to your favorite dolly and block out all other noises.

For more effect, hug her tightly and put up a sad/lost face if mommy's voice raises to another pitch.  

Take time to smell the flowers ...

OR 

Pretend to be a flower  

Do an Oliver Twist and ask for another cookie - come on, there must be like hundreds in those bottles, right?

 

Offer to clean the chairs at the restaurant. 

When better to apply the life skills learnt in school than real-life situations?

Become an intern at mommy's office.

Ahh, now I know why mommy's always at least 30 minutes late in picking me up from school - she's busy pretending to be me!   

Be scary.

A-coming papaaaaa ... (in my best Exorcist voice, and man, this I can really do)

Insist on saying good morning to ALL the fishies in the pond. 

Call them out loudly until they all come out from their hiding.  

Roll around on the ground if required.

And finally, if all else fails ...

Have a meltdown.

May risk being whisked off, but definitely worth the struggle!

Fun with the furry kind

It was a uneventful evening at the local mall and we were waiting for take-away dinner ...

Finally ...

Mommy: Okay, we are done. What do you want to do?

Me: Cat! Cat! Catttttt!

Mommy: Okay, we go see the cats, but only from the outside, okay? We don't want to be late for dinner. Promise?

When we reached the pet store ...

Me: Mommy, go in! Go in mommy!

Mommy: No, I told you we see cats from outside-

Me: Inside!!! (wriggling to break free)

Mommy: Okay, but we gotta be quick, okay? Promise? Promise? Raelene?

Peace to the fishies!

Owh ... Kik-ee bik my fing-gah ...

Me: Mouse, mommy!
Mommy: No, they are hamsters.
Me: Mouse! Mouse!!!!!! 

And what have we here .... the m-sters are available for petting! (shh)

Unfortunately, it was time to go ...

I had so much fun at the pet store!

Thank you kitties, dogs, m-sters, yabbits and fishies!

You sure made my evening!

xoxoxo

Miss Doolittle



Is pink the new black?

The first semester of kindy ended last week.

We had theme day, and this time the theme was no school uniform, yeay!

For those of you who knew mommy, you would probably recall that she simultaneously loves black and hates pink religiously.

And that if it had been all up to her, I would have been named Skylar or Aurora ,or Ryder or Zephyr if I was a boy.

As evidenced by these photographs, she has been imposing her color preference upon me on numerous occasions.

So naturally, when she showed me the new dress for theme day,

this was my reaction:

For what it's worth, the dress is actually fuchsia, but the damage is done and mommy has lost her battle to keep me wrapped in black hee hee.

Do I like or hate pink? We'll just have to wait and see about that :-)

It's all in the genes

Basic equation:
Papa + mommy = ME

Scientific fact :

A gene is the basic unit of heredity. Genes, which are made up of DNA, act as instructions to make the component molecules of the cell.

Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. Most genes are the same in all people, but a small number of genes (less than 1 percent of the total) are slightly different between people. Alleles are forms of the same gene with small differences in their sequence of DNA bases. These small differences contribute to each person’s individuality.

Source: http://wiki.medpedia.com/Genes


Real-life proof:


Event: Report Card Day
Venue: Kindy


Miss Adrina: Basically she is doing okay in school. She's fine.
Papa & mommy: (grin hopefully)
Miss Adrina: But, she can be a bit slow ...
Papa & mommy: (raised eyebrows)
Miss Adrina: No, not that kind of slow. Physically. She takes her time when we call her, and she takes 5 minutes to wash her hands ...
Papa: (turns to mommy) I know where that comes from.
Miss Adrina: Academically she is okay, and her retention is good. She knows her numbers, shapes and colors ...
Papa & mommy: (grinning again)
Miss Adrina: But she's not so into reading. She's more ...
Papa: Visual, that would be me hee hee.
Miss Adrina: Yes, try to do more reading activities, not so much TV or iPad ...
Papa & mommy: (nodding thoughfully)
Miss Adrina: But, her motor skills need to improve, like hopping and galloping. Oh, and she cannot catch ...
Papa: (turns to mommy) She's turning into you!

Mommy's lazy bones

Mommy's butterfingers?

Papa's preference for all things visual and numerical

 Will definitely need to work on those alleles thingy to stamp my individuality!

The Artist

This is Ms Raelene Sharp. She is an Australian painter.

According to her website, she has always been fascinated by the use of light in her works and 

"... the use of light is one of the most compelling qualities of a painting."

These are some of her beautiful works:

Source: www.raelenesharp.com

Meet me, Miss Round Rosy Cheeks.

Here are among my most celebrated artworks to date:

(These were produced circa Jan - Mar 2012 at kindy)

As you can tell, I do not limit my artistic expressions to any particular medium or subject.

I also like to experiment with vibrant colors and different materials so I could exploit the different sides of my abilities.

During my current semester of Apr - July 2012, I have produced, among others, these pieces:

Thank you to Miss Adrina and Miss Yann Ling for teaching me to have fun with art and colors!

Altough I am nowhere near the great talents of my namesake Ms Raelene Sharp (yet), I believe I am definitely more artistically inclined than mommy.

See what I mean?

Selamat Berpuasa!

That's how mommy would look when she cannot eat.

On behalf of my family, I would like to wish everyone a happy blessed Ramadhan.

I would still be demanding my milk, brekky, lunch, dinner and snacks on time, but I would try my best to minimize conflicts and confrontations.

This is because I would expect the adults in the house to be looking like this most of the time:

And having this in their heads:

And saying this over and over:

And doing this a lot:

And come dinner time they would turn to these:

Selamat menyambut Ramadhan al-Mubarak, love from me!