Princess Kyra is 3!

My princess just turned 3! She is growing up too fast..I wish she could be my baby forever :p

She is your typical restless toddler, who loves to play princess, loves to ransack my make-up, clothes and shoes and put them on, and she loves dancing and singing. Her favourite is Hello Teacher, Hello Friend, a song which she learnt in school and she has been singing it endlessly, till I myself have memorised the lyrics!

So young yet so mentel!

Her favourite DVD is My 12 Dancing Princesses, and she can certainly twirl naturally like a ballerina...hmm..maybe I should consider sending her for ballet :)

Ever since she entered playgroup, her vocab and language have increased tremendously, and looking at her small frame, you would not believe that she can speak English relatively well, with complete sentences :) I love it when she says things such as What is this?, I want to do myself, What are you doing mama?, I love you mama :)

On the surface, she looks very soft-spoken, dainty and graceful....in reality, she can be loud, fierce and stubborn! Haha she has made her brother cry before with her 'catwoman' scratches and pinches. She is extremely biased towards me :) Always protecting me when she sees her ayah playfully bullying me. She does not allow her father and me to sit so close together and she will try to separate us when she see her father hugging or kissing me. It totally cracks us up when she scold her father, "Ayah! Don't disturb Mama! You naughty, go stand at the corner!" Haha!

She is really beautiful to me and I pray she will grow up to be even more beautiful, both inside and outside. Cos we all know beauty without brains is nothing.

Happy Birthday my princess!

She had a blast on her birthday, doing stuff she love instead of the usual big hoo-haa party.

Painting & drawingFun @Kids Explorer

Fun @CSC Bukit Batok

Playing with her new toys

Simple cake-cutting at homeCake-cutting at school
More pictures on Facebook!

Mind Games

My son's favourite phrase at the moment is "You are very selfish arh!".

Every evening when me and hubby come home, he will ask whether we have bought him anything. If we didn't have anything for him, he will use that phrase.

Or when we switch the TV channels and do not allow him to watch his favourite Playhouse Disney channel, he will use that phrase again. It is his way of getting us to sympathise and give in to him and what he wants.

I guess it is part of the terrible 4 & 5 stage, where the world must centre around them and they are to be prioritised in every way possible.

Of course I do not condone such behaviour and keep stressing to him that we need to share and take turns in everything that we do. And if mama and ayah come home every evening with a new toy or gift for him, we will go bankrupt one day!

Kids, as gullible as they are, are always quick to point out their peers' mistakes but not their own. Kyle will happily point out that his sister is selfish when she refuses to share her candy with him, but he forgets just a minute ago when he refuses to share his toy car with her.

My way of teaching them to share? Confiscate whatever they were quarelling about and only give it back once he/she agrees to play nice and share. They will scream and whine and cry, but I will only give in only when they tell me that they will share.

It works, because the next time it happens, they will themselves say to each other that if they are not sharing, mama will take your toy away! Kyle especially loves to use this tactic on his sister and Rae when they refuse to share with him something. He kinda observes the tactics I use and uses it back on the younger ones!

He also has a tendency to play other sorts of mind games nowadays. Each time I get angry with him, he will say, "Just now you say you do not like me anymore". Huh? When did I say that? Of course my heart will soften..I mean which mother would want her child to think that she doesn't love him anymore?

The older they get, the more smarter they become. (a little cunning also I might add).

Zzzzzzzz....

This is what we go through each night. My space is on the extreme right. I wake up with aching bones each morning.

They refuse to sleep away from us. Hmm...no privacy time for me & hubby!

But I would not have it any other way. Nothing better than snuggling up with my babies :)