T1 LOVES entertaining….

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

My girl LOVES attention. She loves performing and she'll make it to Hollywood if her parents gave her their blessings. She's determined enough and can find her way there. Alas, she is tone deaf. She loves singing though! But at six, the tunes are still slightly off. My.......click to learn what next.

Designing Fashion for Models

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

For T1's birthday, one of the presents she received was this fashion designing book from Australia that she has not put down since. She has spent hours on end drawing and colouring and being more and more creative each day with her designs. She even designed a diving.......click to learn what next.

Children inheriting our genes

Posted on September 23, 2010September 20, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

It's fascinating how each of us have little bits of our parents and then sometimes, even our grandparents. Looks aside, I was observing my baby T2 the other day and thought, oh my God, she is so like me. I didn't tell anyone though although now I'm sharing.......click to learn what next.

The girl in denial

Posted on September 21, 2010September 21, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Whilst revising her idioms a few months back (yes, I remember because I wrote it down!), T1 asked if her butt was as smooth as a baby's bottom. She always has to compete with her baby sister and wants to be equal if not better. At everything! I.......click to learn what next.

Chocolate Mousse Cake

Posted on September 15, 2010September 15, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

One day, whilst we were out on our cake eating spree, we ordered a few cakes as usual to share and one of them was for a function. When setting up the cake eventually, I asked what cake they'd ordered and one of them said it was a.......click to learn what next.

Happy Birthday, T1!!! You are SIX!!!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

What can I say-what can I say-what can I say??? My firstborn turned SIX this week. Holy moly! SIX? Are you sure???? Gosh! That's like her reaching University, for me. I think I'm going to go into tears now. My dearest T1 has officially stopped being a preschooler........click to learn what next.

Playing in their Makeshift Play House

Posted on September 11, 2010September 8, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

You know how little girls always dream of having one of those life size play houses? The ones made of plastic by Step Two or ?ELC costing up to a thousand Ringgit or more, depending? Like this one? This one costs about 3k. Yup. And I'd get it.......click to learn what next.

Getting sick before traveling

Posted on September 9, 2010September 8, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

My daughter, T1, always always gets sick before travel. I'm not sure why. We are due to travel again and lo and behold, she has come down with a fever. At this rate, she will just be sent back by immigration what with strict H1N1 quarantine rules and.......click to learn what next.

Simple pleasures of a 5 year old

Posted on September 8, 2010September 2, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Most kids love water. Both mine certainly do. If I want to make any of my daughters happy, I just need to give them water. The source of keeping life. Nature's strongest power force. There are so many ways to play with water....... How many ways can you.......click to learn what next.

Dealing with emotional children

Posted on September 6, 2010September 2, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

For the last 5 years, I'd spent my entire self nurturing and raising my first born, T1, from the word go. I'd talked to her since birth, spent hours toiling in the kitchen so she could have the best spread of baby food, sent her to what was.......click to learn what next.

1st week at school

Posted on September 5, 2010August 31, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Guess what happened on T1's 1st week at school? Someone did a poo-poo in their pants. No, it wasn't my girl, but bless the poor child who did................. I'm very proud of my girl that she has learned how to be tactful (most of the time!) so when.......click to learn what next.

Creativity in Children

Posted on September 2, 2010August 31, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Recently, T1 had a best friend down from London whom we met a few times to play. People automatically assume that when you are a child of a designer, you naturally inherit your parents genes and are talented in creating stuff. It is a myth. First of all,.......click to learn what next.

Ben 10 girl

Posted on August 30, 2010August 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

If you knew my girl, you'd know that feminine she is not. She prefers all things boys and cannot stand being in a ballerina tutu, flings Barbies out of windows and would cook High School Musical if she could. She reads Ben 10 books (apart from Enid Blyton).......click to learn what next.

Swimming Class at School

Posted on August 28, 2010August 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

These pictures below were taken when T1 had first started school this year and I was the ever anxious Mom who had to be at school to check exactly how they conducted their swimming classes and to make sure my 5 year old could actually handle getting changed.......click to learn what next.

Snippets of T1

Posted on August 27, 2010August 27, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Whilst I was complaining to the Hubs that my Blackberry batteries don't seem to last very long, and that I needed to find a Blackberry car phone battery charger, T1 decided to add to the conversation: Because I bet it's made in China. Everything that is made in.......click to learn what next.

Homework in Style

Posted on August 22, 2010August 22, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Oops. It IS kind of messy back there. Shoo! Shoo! Darn it! Those clothes back there? On our red couch? They just won't go away. What the hell are they? Who knows!!! Who cares!!! Ever since we stopped having a helper, we stopped sweating the small stuff. Like.......click to learn what next.

New School Shoes Already???

Posted on August 17, 2010August 17, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

But the year isn't even up yet! Dang! At the beginning of the year, we bought T1 a super cheap pair of school shoes which lasted all of 3 weeks. The moment we washed it, it shrunk and she could no longer fit her big feet into them........click to learn what next.

Doctor or Rapper?

Posted on August 15, 2010August 15, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

At the very beginning, T1 said she wanted to be a vet, an animal doctor, because she loved animals. Then when I became pregnant with T2 and she began following me to see my gynae, she decided that she wanted to be a paediatrician with T2 as the.......click to learn what next.

Sisterly Love…..

Posted on August 13, 2010August 12, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

I must say, I have never witnessed a stronger sisterly bond than these two and I'm not meaning to boast my pride but only that I've not been around many young sisters obviously! T1 adores baby T2 to no end and will read, play and entertain her sister.......click to learn what next.

Revising for mid-term exams

Posted on August 13, 2010August 13, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Wow! Can you believe it? She's not even SIX and she has to revise??? Well, if she wants to stay ahead with her peers and keep her marks above 95% then yes, she certainly has to revise! Having said that, we only revised Bahasa last semester and she.......click to learn what next.

The low down on T1’s sentimental stash

Posted on August 12, 2010August 12, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Further to the drama about T1's collection of soft toys, I now present to you what we did and how the story ended. T1's bears are like shoes to me. But as much as I love my shoes, I had to bite the bullet (PAINFUL!!! Have you ever.......click to learn what next.

What would your kid have done?

Posted on August 11, 2010August 9, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

A couple of weeks ago, T1 was with her best friend playing and they were collecting balls from one of those machines where you have to pay RM1 for a rubber ball. I don't know why but they seemed to love those balls. Balls, balls, balls!!! I should.......click to learn what next.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder….

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Why is my dearest drama queen crying??? Take a guess. Okay. Three guesses. . . . It is because...... She is having major problems coming to terms with the fact that I want to GIVE AWAY TO CHARITY her collection of soft toys that is only collecting dust.......click to learn what next.

T1 wants to be T2

Posted on August 9, 2010August 9, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Lately, because T2 is starting to be REALLY cute by imitating us and by having her own cute gestures and communication skills, everyone around us have been paying her a lot of attention. It is hard not to notice her when she is just SO CUTE!!! For this,.......click to learn what next.

Guess who has a new IPAD?

Posted on August 9, 2010August 9, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Oh, gosh. How I wish????? But it's not me!!! For the longest time, I keep hearing of iphones, ipads, ipods etc but because we are not Apple users, I had no idea what an ipad looked like nor what it was. And well, I really didn't care. But.......click to learn what next.

Piggy Back Rides on Babies

Posted on August 9, 2010August 2, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

When T2 was younger, T1 would smother her and play with her by putting toys on her like a horsey. They are as different as night and day, my 2 girls. T1 is highly excitable, always screaming and dancing whereas T2 is cool as a cucumber, until she.......click to learn what next.

We miss Tok-Tok

Posted on August 7, 2010January 14, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

We miss Tok-Tok tremendously these days as he is wearing way too many hats without being compensated and why should one work so hard just to get pittance?! Work for free? That's what he does. And yet, he can hardly decline all the work that he is asked.......click to learn what next.

Samseng genes runneth in thy family

Posted on July 29, 2010July 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

This is how T1 does her homework. No amount of telling off will change anything.

Helping in the kitchen

Posted on July 28, 2010July 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Wherever I can, I'd make use of the kids for some free child labour. It certainly gets things going faster, never mind about the mess. The Hubs will take care of that! Yesterday, I got T1 to peel a whole bunch of French Beans and T2, of course.......click to learn what next.

Imagination Nation

Posted on July 27, 2010July 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Another of T1's sketches.... There is a fruit river below, a juice blender for pureeing (I assume that would be for T2, haha), a lollipop orchard (she wishes!), flower friends on the top left, and an enclosure of some sort top right with various animals in them. Errr......the.......click to learn what next.