Yabado, Ichi Sa(Ya) and Gorjilla

these are the imaginary scary creatures that I came up with to prevent her from wanting to back to the living room when it is night-time. in a desperate attempt confine her in the bedroom one night, I blurted something like this, "you better not go to the living room cuz Yabado is just outside." she gave a blank look. so I told her it is something very scary. she stopped wanting to go out. this is actually not a good way as it will slowly diminish her sense of security. as days go by, she'll lose her confidence and self-worth. so I told myself I won't use that anymore.

BUT sometimes when you realise by doing or saying something that will let you achieve what you wanted, you will keep doing it. so when Lil Ariel refused to let Daddy Sam leave the room at night (if Daddy Sam is around, they will be playing instead of sleeping), I used the excuse that "Daddy needs to fight Yabado".

few nights ago, Lil Ariel had a bad dream and woke up crying. when she saw Daddy Sam beside her, she commanded him to go out and "fight Yabado". she probaby dreamt of Yabado - I wonder how it looks like in her dream. poor Daddy Sam had to hide under the blanket and I hugged Lil Ariel to sleep. when Yabado don't do the trick, Gorjilla (evolved from Godzilla) and Ichi Sa(sometimes become Ichi Ya when I forgotten is Sa) will step in to help. it is a bad habit to kick, I will try not to use that again. but I know I will still use it during desperate moments when she wants to go to the living room and look for her grandma. -_-

hello!! the lack of posts is due to the Mummy Celeste being
1) busy
2) lack of enthusiasm
3) stress (from everywhere)
4) lack of the necessary equipment
5) other 1001 reasons

Lil Ariel already showed her TERRIBLE TWO symptoms, e.g. insisting of getting what she want (at home and outside). even using other incentives to distract her did not help. it is so bad that even her ever-doting Daddy Sam lost his cool to yell at her a few times. when we're outside, she insisted running around in the crowded Marina Sq. she will just sat on the floor and cried, when we disallowed her. Mummy Celeste is an advocate of no-means-no logic, so Lil Ariel has never gotten her way most of the times.

after that, Mummy Celeste will try to reason out with her. she seemed to understand. an example of the conversation goes like this...

Mummy Celeste: do you know why was Mummy angry with you?
Lil Ariel: (nods her head) cos Aiel dole wan o ands. (translation: cuz Ariel dont want to hold hands.)
Mummy Celeste: yes, there are a lot of people. what if they knock onto you?
Lil Ariel: Aiel balls down. (translation: Ariel falls down.)
Mummy Celeste: that's right darling. Ariel falls down, how? (<- yeah this is a very bad English sentence structure.)
Lil Ariel: Aiel cry. (translation: Ariel cries)
Mummy Celeste: so what must you say?
Lil Ariel: tolly Mummy, tolly Daddy. (translation: sorry Mummy, sorry Daddy.)

anyway that day I asked her to pose for the camera..


is she aspiring to become a model?


haha... just to show off some dishes/bentos I made for her the past few weeks.

bought these Disney pasta from Da Paolo Gastronomia gourmet shop at Great World City. They have Mickey Mouse family and the Pooh family, colourful types and the plain types. Lil Ariel, to my (double) surprise, chose the plain Mickey Mouse one. I thought she will choose the colourful Pooh one.


finally got a chance to use the star-shaped rice mold.


shell pasta in tomato sauce. Lil Ariel don't quite like dry pasta. she prefers the soupy kind.


I spent nearly 20 minutes on the flowers and the unappreciative girl just dug out the hotdog and left the egg petals aside. in order not to let my effort gone to a waste, I ate them up.


she finished ALL of these. yay!!!

Ariel is 2 years old!

same as last year, we did not have a big bash. the reason being a lot of effort (and money) will be spent and yet she will not remember a thing. Daddy Sam and I decided that we will give her a bash next year consolidating the 1st and 2nd year.

however I did pack some goodie packs for her classmates on Friday. they sang Happy Birthday song to her. I think word Happy Birthday got inscribed onto her brain that when I reached home, she said Happy Birthday to me. -_-

although there wasn't any bash, we had a small family celebration on Sunday. we bought a real small mango cake from Bakerzin and her Mama made mee sua with eggs for her.

this is the real small cake

but she is still happy with the real small cake

waiting eagerly to chomp on the cake, which she did not finish eventually

if only she will open her mouth as big as this during her other meals...

she is getting really talkative nowadays. she will chatter non-stop even if we ignore her. 1/2 of the time we had to make her repeat so that we can catch what she wanted to say. and this girl is really patient enough to repeat until we finally catch it. however, there were a few times I'll just go, "Oh... I see..." when it is really impossible to decipher.

Bento #6 and Bento #7

did these quite some time ago. now then upload. whaha...




Lil Ariel's school gave the kids 2 easter each. they were placed inside this Bunny bag for them to bring home. her teacher said she coloured the bunny green. just a few strokes of green.

MIL said when she came home, she wolfed down the 2 easter quail eggs. so when I took the picture, the eggs were being digested.

Ariel is a filial daughter

Daddy Sam and I had a very minor argument on Saturday which left me feeling sad.

when Lil Ariel saw me on the verge on tearing, she frowned and said "Mummy, no..."

after that she hugged my head and said, "Ariel protect Mummy."

my heart melted at the very moment and I realised that all the sacrifices I made for are not sacrifices anymore.

I LOVE my little girl!!!