Well, we had sort of settled into some sort of routine - woke up at 10, played for a while, coaxed jie to practise her piano, bathed and ate some cheese or biscuits to stave off hunger, then off to the bus stop to catch the bus...sigh...some days were really horrible, with lots of nagging and whining and petulant outbursts...praying for peaceful days...
tong sometimes experienced some ambivalence towards his jie jie. fiercely devoted on one hand...eh...and out to create trouble for her on the other...as wai po sagaciously put it, it would be very odd for the siblings not to fight at all, it was in the nature of kids...hmmm
well, you two were really adorable when you displayed the adoring side...tong would still lapse into moodiness in school at times, he seemed to really miss mama quite intensely. Once, he looked like he was going to burst into tears, mama gave him one last hug and he wormed into the lift, right into jie jie's open arms, who seemed to have felt his distress and was looking out for him...
we were having a very tumultuous period with tong...he was insanely whiny at times, he seemed to have totally regressed on some dark days, needing mama to do every thing for him, like taking off his shoes, feeding him, fetching things for him...
talked to aunt A about it and she was in the same straits with kayra...so we were wondering if it was the terrible 3s or a result from starting school too soon...hmmm...I meant...jie never seemed to have such intense episodes...I recalled jie to be incredibly mature when she was 2, you having being just born, jie would take her clothes to the laundry basket, watch tv quietly on her own outside in the living room in Maysprings, put away her empty bowl and bottle at the sink...she seemed to breeze through the toddlerhood years...
to be very fair, papa said tong tong actually behaved very well for his age and gender...ha...perhaps it was a function of being a boy? All those male hormones? Hmmm....
Here, jie woke up earlier so we had some alone time together and she was so pleased in this pretty toy that godma had given her. She even paired it with a fluffy white skirt and the blue hairband/necklace.
Jie did not like to eat the yolks, but if mama added a teeny bit of soya sauce, she would lap it all up..ha
Well, some other things that jie got up to...like giving ang baos to her dolls. hahha, she took the money from her Dora wallet, so the ang baos really had money..
she decorated her tee with the markers aunt CC gave her..ha
We had this friend called Shaun in N2. He really liked jie and would always grin widely when he spotted us. He lived a few bus stops down the road from us and we often bumped into them on the bus or saw them walking to the bus stop. The two of you liked to reach school earlier than him, I wondered where you got this competitive streak from...hmmm
Tong had this long bout of bad flu, very phlegmy cough so he could not attend Sunday school. Jie hopped merrily to class, while we sauntered to the food court with the boy for lunch. Got his and my favourite bubble tea. Tong loved his thomas tees so much, he was always wearing those same few ones. Even ah ma noticed, exclaiming that he wore the tops over and over...and somewhat shabby...SIGH. on this rare occasion, he felt cold so we could put another tee on him...
mama always wondered what homework you would bring home on Fridays in the orange communication bag...this week, it was Chinese New Year Food. Ha, we just grabbed whatever was available in ah ma's house though you did not fancy oranges.
You did like bak kwa.
and crackers. but we did not take a pic with the kuek bangkits. You had taken to decorating the worksheets with extra stuff to make them more attractive..ha
oh, one day, papa and mama were on the road and saw this pink bus with the word "Yutong", ha...tong did like pink...sensitive new age guy?
Parent-child bonding with jie
check out the little cutesy girl
we had to make rice dumpings
We could use moulds to make shaped rice balls and decorate them with seaweed, crabsticks and bak kwa
You said the rectangular ones were Baymax, you made two, the one with pork floss for tong. Then the other one was heart shaped with little bunnies. Tong was sick today and had to stay at home. Somehow, it affected you and you were moody for the day till we talked about it. You sobbed that you wanted to stay at home next time when tong skipped school too.
Good thing ah ma could come down to accompany tong, no one wanted wai po. SIGH. not that wai po minded, ha.
Xun was the first to start the show-and-tell...hmmm, very quietly done...not the usual confident and chatty self...but mama was still amused why you had the courage to volunteer to be the first...eh..mama and papa were never those sorts when we were schooling
ha, having fun with Minxuan...
On days we had piano, mama would explore the compound of T John;s house with tong while waiting with jie. T John bought new plants and trees, so Tong would go around finding flowers that had fallen for jie jie...ya...he really adored jie jie greatly...
sometimes, we would go to Hometeam NS at Bukit Batok so mama could prepare worksheets for lessons. You two loved to lounge about everywhere, anywhere which had cushy seats...mama remarked to papa, if only this was our living room...wow, how spacious, with a piano and a staircase...HAHA, well, we could work towards having such a luxurious house.
Parent-child bonding day with Tong
ya, mama arrived early and was marking worksheets on the bench and heard tong sobbing...apparently, he went to the playground with the n2 kids and started missing mama...good thing I was there so i could comfort him.
we made nian gao with potatoes and tapiocas.
cut them into shapes... stacked them together and fried them! Sweet and gluey...not too bad at all
Tong tried and liked the fried flour bits...ha he always liked junk food
what a delightful little chef. tong always declared that he never wanted to marry and wanted to stay with mama forever...I was just pondering when you would find it embarrassing for me to kiss you when we bide farewell...haha
mama got really mad at tong tong tonight. He was whining incessantly...he was so...cranky...peevish...cantankerous...whatever...He was plain irritating...so I whacked him really hard, once on the butt, so hard that my hand stung...
maybe he was feeling the sadness that mama no longer had milk in her neh neh poks. maybe he could not get used to going school and having less time for free play. maybe he was just very grieved that he could not be with mama for extended periods...SIGH...Jesus...give us the joy and strength we need to get through this period.
little tong tong, mama loves you so much. Cheer up, my baby.
Little xun xun, mama loves you so much. Shine, my little angel.
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