4 years old – what does that mean?

Posted on January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

My dear God. I began this post on T2's birthday last year in August and till now have not posted it. Haha. My darling princess turned 4 on the 1st of August 2013. What does that mean? Wait. Firstly, can I just point out how hideous this outfit.......click to learn what next.

Leaving Kids to be BORED

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

My kids play the iPad almost every day. Their iPad time is determined by my mood. From a very young age, I had instilled a minimal technology rule and made sure that they never came to me with the dreaded phrase that I can not stand - Mama,.......click to learn what next.

T2 and her Chanel Bag

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

My daughter is listening in to too many of my conversations especially when I am in a fluffy mood on cloud 9 dreaming of Chanel and such that she too wanted her own Chanel bag. She's already 'chupped' my Chanel bags, OK??? She asked me rather politely, "Mama,.......click to learn what next.

T2’s little mind

Posted on January 22, 2014January 22, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

Today, I brought little T2 along with me to see the handsome osteopath. Slurp. It's good that she comes along just so I don't rape him. Anyway, we left home at 9am with me in a stressed condition as I did not want to be late (and of.......click to learn what next.

Ikea Raskog Trolley

Posted on January 13, 2014January 13, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

We recently went out to Ikea to buy 2 Ikea Raskog Trolleys throwing us back by about RM500. Why? Well, as T1 is now at home and doing her school work from home, she has been messy with her books leaving them all over the place but when.......click to learn what next.

My girls music lessons

Posted on January 13, 2014February 1, 2015 by Mamapumpkin

As both my girls are now at home full time (woe is me!!!), I am now their new piano teacher because they were not liking the old piano/violin teacher. Perhaps she was not inspiring enough for them? They need someone who can make them laugh, someone who can.......click to learn what next.

Parenting Gone Wrong

Posted on January 2, 2014January 2, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

After seeing this image on Facebook one day, I rounded up the girl for a lesson in gratitude. There's nothing like seeing imagery for lessons, and better still if the kids could be there real life as proven by my bringing T1 to Myanmar to see for herself.......click to learn what next.

T2’s Birthday – 4 years old

Posted on August 8, 2013August 8, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A friend asked me the other day if I had brought T2 out to celebrate her birthday and for the life of me, I couldn't even remember!!! But surely I must have, right? So I said, yeah sure.....we did. And then she asked if we.......click to learn what next.

Language fun in the car

Posted on July 15, 2013July 18, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

T2 is almost 4 and is really good at her Bahasa because she communicates with our helper in getting her needs met. She has this game where she unknowingly expands her Malay vocabulary by asking us what everything under the sun is in Malay. She looks outside the.......click to learn what next.

My baby is almost 4

Posted on July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

My little T2, still as little and tiny as ever, my baby girl, will be 4 in exactly a month. Shit. That's 30 days, which means I need to get my act together to organise some birthday do for her. She has never had one but now that.......click to learn what next.

Child Labour for a Good Cause

Posted on June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Working for what you want My girls are incredibly spoilt. They're not bad girls and in fact they're very good girls by far, but they're highly pampered and get things very easily. They can adapt to unfavourable situations yet if they can milk it, they will. Thus I've.......click to learn what next.

Kidzania for Young Children

Posted on May 2, 2013April 30, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I think I've been to Kidzania close to 10 times now but always for T1 as she just loves making money and performing all those work activities. Last weekend however, T2 got o participate on her own and I was so proud of her when she walked into.......click to learn what next.

T2’s First Sports Day

Posted on April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I remember all those arguments that I'd had with the Hubs about sending his precious super tiny T2 to school. He always felt she was too tiny and was protective about people pushing her into the drain (LOLOL!!!) and I always felt I just wanted her OUT of.......click to learn what next.

Conversation with Kids

Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Because I am such an extremely busy woman, most of my quality time with the kids is spent in the car whilst I am their driver. T1 on her observation on the election flags: T1: Mommy, the trees are PAS, the sky is BN and the best is.......click to learn what next.

Chinese New Year

Posted on March 21, 2013March 21, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I probably should have posted this up during the Chinese New Year but I was way busy then. Here's a glimpse of my two monkeys in this year's Cheong Sam anyway...... Look at how demure and sweet T2 poses and smiles. One would never guess the spicy chilli.......click to learn what next.

Reinforcing The Positive

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Reinforcing the Positive Last weekend, I had to bring Tia to the smelly wet market and when she first got there and saw the state of the ground, she asked to be carried immediately. Now how was I going to do my marketing whilst carrying her? No way!.......click to learn what next.

Making their own juice

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

We're into juicing a lot these days having freshly squeezed or blended juice at least 3 times every week. On top of that, we have fruit for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Needless to say, our average juice bill is about RM200 per week. T1 is usually in charge.......click to learn what next.

Panty Shopping

Posted on October 14, 2012October 14, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Out of T1's 8 years of life, we've never had a problem buying her panties to wear ever since she was potty trained at 2 years old. She was a good size and we bought her panties from Australia because we used to go annually then. She wore.......click to learn what next.

Kids are lazy eaters

Posted on September 26, 2012September 24, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Well, my T2 is. She loves soups and soft foods because she doesn't have to chew! She just turned three years old so what do you expect? At three, they're too busy to do anything else except PLAY!!! Go to the toilet for a wee? Forget it. Eat?.......click to learn what next.

Church Chairs

Posted on September 24, 2012November 20, 2018 by Mamapumpkin

How many of you actually bring toddlers or young children to Church? I don't because it's too much hassle and pain. I reckon God will understand. But when one of our family members got married recently, we had no choice but to bring our little minx. It was.......click to learn what next.

Kids Manicure

Posted on August 23, 2012July 28, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

On T2's birthday this year, she got a kids manicure by non other than Uncle Ben's girlfriend. Yes, he has a new girlfriend and she is gorgeous both IN and OUT. I'm always hesitant about toddlers or even kids in general having make up and manicures because really,.......click to learn what next.

T2’s dressing up phase

Posted on August 21, 2012July 28, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Let me tell you about T2's dressing up phase. She goes through 4 dresses a day on some days, some days she will insist on wearing a sweater (like below, or one of her other sweaters) with socks despite sweating like a dog, some days she insists on.......click to learn what next.

Simple Pleasures for Kids

Posted on August 20, 2012July 28, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

T2 relishes in the simple pleasures for kids......like playing with grass. Who needs toys, right? Simple pleasures for kids, it's as simple as introducing them to the daun semalu, that shy plant that closes upon touch. Unfortunately, for a kid who appreciates the simple pleasures for kids, she.......click to learn what next.

3 Year Old Haircut

Posted on August 17, 2012July 28, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Getting a 3 year old haircut is not easy so we tend to just avoid it but last week, we finally cut the back of T2's hair. She was not happy. Where do you go to get a 3 year old haircut? We tend to do it around.......click to learn what next.

Bedtime Rituals for an almost 3 year old

Posted on August 6, 2012July 26, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Bedtime rituals for an almost 3 year old, that would be T2. I'm sure many of you will relate. I've always had problems with both girls for their bedtime rituals. With T1, she had to sleep with me holding my hand, smelling it (at one point I wondered.......click to learn what next.

T2’s Birthday Party

Posted on August 1, 2012July 28, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

This year, I was planning to host a birthday party for T2 since for her first and second birthday, we only had home birthdays but when I spoke to her about it, she said she didn't want one! She said that if she had one, she only wants.......click to learn what next.

Happy Birthday, T2!!!

Posted on July 31, 2012July 25, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Time has flown by and T2 is 3 today!!! Wasn't it just yesterday when we had T1's 5th birthday bash and T2 was that little tiny monkey at her party? T2 has come a long, long way. From a baby who was diagnosed as Failure to Thrive and.......click to learn what next.

Foul language from my toddler

Posted on July 23, 2012July 16, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

We're not exactly Saints in this household so to hear the Hubs say the F word and Shut Up and Asshole and Stupid and Idiot etc etc etc is not uncommon. I have been warning him to mind his foul mouth but it falls on deaf ears as.......click to learn what next.

Watching The Dark Knight 2012 with T2

Posted on July 22, 2012July 22, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

We've had it with watching a movie with T2. Today we watched The Dark Knight 2012. When we brought her to watch The Avengers several months ago, it was her first movie ever and she managed to sit through the entire movie. When we came out of it,.......click to learn what next.

Young Explorer’s Kids Gym at 1 Mont Kiara

Posted on July 21, 2012June 27, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Recently we discovered a great place for toddlers to spend an afternoon running around and burning up lots of energy for a few hours and that was at the Young Explorer's Kid's Gym at 1 Mont Kirar Mall in Mont Kiara. I've been there a few times for.......click to learn what next.